Whether some of us believe in it or not, coincidences or not, we think karma is real! And it’s so satisfying to watch it happen: either bad people getting what they deserve, or good people being rewarded, it feels heavenly. Take a break and dive into the experiences of real instant karma experiences.
1. Instant Satisfaction
I was stopped at a red light waiting to turn right. I couldn't see if there was any traffic coming because of how the intersection was set up and the bus was in the left turn lane so I was just waiting for a green.
The person behind me clearly wanted me to turn because she was honking, yelling, and giving me the finger. After a couple of seconds, she decided to drive around me and was immediately T-boned.
mopedophile
2. Let Him Have His Punishment
My ex-wife messed around and got pregnant by some other guy. I took my son and moved out and he moved in with her. I stepped back, did nothing vindictive at all, and just let the two of them wreck each others' lives.
They were so thorough about it, that I wound up feeling bad for them. It wasn't quite instant but it was something that took care of itself. I never did anything to move it along.
[deleted]
3. I Was Right
I tried to explain to my company how they were breaking the law with one of their procedures. They didn't listen and said somebody up the line would have caught it. Later, illegally fired me whilst I was on FMLA leave.
I was, statistically at least, their best employee at my position out of 500 people. They got fined 250K for the violation I brought up several times. I'm still unemployed but I go hiking all day and love my life. I have enough saved up to last me until I do find work. Screw them.
NewAlt
4. Well Deserved
My stepdad is a driving instructor, I went to get my license pretty late (22), and one day he was giving me a lesson and we were going over one of the possible courses that the test takes.
While we're driving down a street in the suburbs a guy is tailgating the hell out of me... a really gangster-looking guy, who looked pretty much exactly like Scumbag Steve now that I think about it… sideways hat and all.
Every time I come to a stop sign I do a full stop, obviously, and he throws his hands in the air and yells stuff. It's starting to stress me out, but my stepdad says "Don't worry about it, watch this."
As we're going down the street he says "OK, now in about 50 feet I want you to start slowing down a little bit and right when you are in front of that school zone, pull over to the right".
So I do it, right after I pull over, the guy who is right pissed at me now takes off like a bullet. About 5 seconds later, a cop steps out from behind a tree and waves him over for going probably double the speed limit in a school zone. We laughed. Hard.
ZombiGrinder
5. They Can’t Replace Me
I was working a job where I was doing 90 hours a week but only getting paid for 40-45. Boss blew up on me over the phone, so I quit at effective end of the day. I finished up all of my work and he tried to sweet-talk me into staying, but I held strong.
Turns out he had to work 18 hours a day for the next two weeks trying to find a replacement.
Ihmhi
6. Be Careful With Your Words
I was working with this complete witch at the sandwich shop where I work. She was 17, I was 18. I was telling a coworker about how my boyfriend had proposed to me, and witch face came up behind me and said "I bet he only proposed because he got you pregnant".
It caused me to burst into tears because I'd also just recently found out that there was only a 2% chance that I could have kids, and I was still very sensitive about it.
After coming out of the supply room (I went in there to cry), I asked her to come out the back door with me, so I could have a word with her. I didn't want customers to hear us, because we likely would have ended up yelling.
Anyway, I told her to keep her nose in her own business and blah blah blah. She decided to slap me, pretty hard, too. I didn't hit her back, because we were directly in front of a camera. So, I went inside and called my boss.
He had seen it on the live feed at home and had recorded it. He was already on his way. He came in and dragged her out the back and fired her. Last I heard, she was unemployed, pregnant, and stuck with some deadbeat scumbag.
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7. She Was Surely Not Expecting That
This witch who bullies me because I'm a bit of an outcast in my high school, said to me (today), "The only reason why you are here is because your grandma was a w**re who gave birth to a w**re mother!". My grandmother passed away yesterday.
The principal overheard her (the principal and I are good friends and knew about my grandmother's passing) and now she can't walk on graduation.
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8. It’s My Time To Shine
I worked at a Kmart in high school. It was a small store, so I worked everything, electronics, stocking, cashier. You name it, I did it. I asked a woman and her son, about 12 or 13 if they needed help finding anything as I was out on the floor, and the kid immediately started yelling at me for annoying him. I ignore it and go about my business.
Right after that, I get called to checkouts. As I'm working there, here comes the pair. The kid has gone all out back in the electronics area, with some EA sports titles and a GTA game.
I'm checking them out when the age prompt comes up for the M-rated game. I decide to take a chance. I flip the game over and inform the mother that "This game has been rated M for the following reasons" and read the list off the back of the case.
There is an awkward silence, then she angrily informs me that the son said it was only a little violent. The kid wasn't able to get anything that day.
AMathmagician
9. Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover
I was flying cross-country on a space-available ticket and ended up having a layover in Chicago. I was walking around trying to find a restaurant close to my hotel and I passed this dude on the street, begging for some money to buy something to eat.
Now I'm used to seeing people with a cardboard sign or whatnot, but actually approaching people was pretty new to me. I thought to myself, "Man, this guy is probably just looking for substances or booze money and I'm going to call his bluff".
So I walk up to him and say, "Tell you what: I won't give you any money, but I'm on my way to get a bite to eat and if you want, you can come with me and I'll get you whatever you want". I was feeling pretty cocky and figured he would turn me down with some excuse.
"Absolutely!" I...was not expecting this. So he picks up his stuff and starts walking with me and we settle on some Ruby Tuesday or Applebees'ish place. He says he can't decide between a big steak or ribs, and I wave him off with my hand and tell him I have no problem buying him both.
As we eat, he pulls out the biggest knife I've ever seen in person (I'm talking, like, Crocodile Dundee crap. He puts it on the table and says to me, "I can't tell you how damn hungry I was.
Everybody was passing me on the street, some of them would glare or ignore me, some would talk crap or toss in their two cents because I just wanted substances or booze. I told myself “The next sucker who had something clever to say to me was getting cut." I was frozen.
The conversation eventually moved on and we both finished our dinners, and I talked him into dessert. In the process, I told him I was extremely interested in his knife and was in the market for one, and I offered him 250 bucks for his. He was ecstatic and sold it to me.
I just figured that dude really didn't need a knife on him like that, and he could use the money. I gave it to a cop and said I found it on the street. Maybe some life was saved, who knows. Life taught me a few lessons that night: 1) Don't judge, people aren't always who you think they are. 2) Be nice.
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10. Screw The Rules
My little sister's friend was being a real witch to me; following me around, mocking everything I said, making rude commentary on everything I did.
I told her she shouldn't do things like that to someone older than her because it could have dire consequences. Anyhow, they conned me into playing hide and seek with them and the rules were to STAY IN THE HOUSE.
I searched high and low for that little kid and couldn't find her anywhere. My sister had no clue either, and neither of us heard the doors open, so we didn't think she could be out there. Turns out the kid decided to say SCREW THE RULES and go outside.
Well... she hid in the back of my mom's truck. It has a camper shell that can be locked from the outside. I guess someone saw it open and locked it while the kid was hiding inside. She ended up pissing her pants.
I volunteered to unlock it and I took my sweet time, staring at her with this crap-eating grin. It was great.
andianopolis
11. Still Paying Me
As the low man on the totem pole, I got to do all of the grunt labor and random tasks that required working on weekends and such... as a master engineer working in a 9-5 job... being paid less than a pizza delivery driver.
Then my boss decided that I no longer got to comp time (leave early or whatever to get back some of the time spent working on weekends) because I was salaried and "it was part of the job."
So, when I quit to go get my PhD, they realized that I hadn't used any vacation time. The ultra penny pincher had to write me a check for two extra months' worth of pay as I walked out the door.
Pizzadude
12. Quitting For Better
I was targeted for firing. It had nothing to do with my performance and everything to do with my manager's manager who took a disliking to me. I walked the line of perfection for about a month until I found another job. I handed in my 2 weeks' notice.
That was victory number one. I stole about a half-dozen of their employees and got them hired into my new company, that was victory number 2 (yes, sometimes being in a right-to-work state works for the little guy, non-compete clauses are almost completely unenforceable).
I'd like to think that victory number 3 was the 30 or 40 employees they lost in the following year, but I can't claim direct responsibility for that. The thing is, when you have employees with high-demand skills like software engineering, you best treat them right.
magicmuds
13. Reaching Back To Me
I was working for a certain snack food kitchen when it first came to my state. I was their primary "producer" meaning my 8-hour shift every night made about 80% of the product for the stores the next day, and it was usually just me that was making the product, and sending it down the other end for a team to decorate and pack.
I was the one person who would take whatever shift they gave me, and always did the shift that had all the work, the "no time to chat" shift. The shift before me without fail screwed around and made my shift a nightmare.
I called management out on it, saying that if I left a shift without cleaning my equipment, or making the yeast brews ready for them to start, I'd be sent packing.
The shift manager just laughed at me and tried to blame me for the yeast brews, which were meant to be running for 4hrs before my shift started, but I had to make myself straight away. I refused to take the crap. She decided that what I really wanted was a week or two without shifts. Effective the next night.
I went home and typed up my notice of resignation, addressed to the full manager, saying I couldn't work for such an incompetent shift manager, and that I needed to work for a place that is willing to give me the commitment to shifts and pay that I was originally promised there.
Less than two weeks later, I got a call "Our production line has completely died. You're the only one who knows how to fix it. Can't pay you cash, but can give you a few dozen of the product for it".
I enjoyed those few dozen Krispy Kremes good. A couple of months later, I saw they've gone into administration. All stores closed, and now only selling out of fuel stations. I know I didn't directly have a part in that, but felt good.
anacche
14. Problem Solved
I worked for a small lottery parlor chain for the better part of a year back around 2008. It was a single-employee operation, so I worked a 10-hour shift with no breaks or lunch. All in all, it wasn't a bad job and had good tips.
One day, out of the blue, the region manager calls me into the store and tells me that I'm suspended. No warning whatsoever. I asked her why, and she flat-out told me that I was frightening away the patrons because of my sexuality (gay).
The next day, she called me to say that I was no longer needed. I tried for a lawsuit, but it was a “he said she said” kinda thing. Flash forward to last month.
I get a call from a lawyer asking me if I want to take part in a class action lawsuit against this company for discrimination and unfair wage compensation practices. I told them my story and now I'm a class representative for the case. I'm so ready for this court case.
SiberianTora
15. What A Delightful View
When I was a kid, I was the youngest of all the kids on my block. The other kids (including my sister) would have fun tormenting me. They would try and exclude me from things on the basis of "you have to be X years old to do it."
The worst of them was Marcus, who would always be a complete jerk. One day Marcus and I, along with some of the other kids, went to a nearby school to ride around on our scooters (oh yeah).
Marcus convinced me that to be "cool" I had to jump down a flight of 5 stairs. I succeeded but broke my scooter in the process.
As the kids rode off, laughing at me for not being able to join them, Marcus' front wheel caught in a crack in the concrete. He FLEW over the handlebars straight into a flagpole. I nearly died laughing. I broke my scooter; he broke his face.
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16. Regretting Everything
My friend Collin and I were playing Mario Kart once and I kart-slammed him in the last corner and won. He pulls his arm back and punches me as hard as he can in the arm.
The karma part: His hand bounced off my arm and made him hit himself in the eye with full force. Bout knocked himself unconscious.
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17. Begging For My Help
I was working 60-hour weeks, including being on-call 24/7 on weekends, for 12k/year. One night, I was at work alone until about 11 PM, and finally decided "screw it." I locked up, threw my keys through the mail slot, wrote a resignation email, and turned my phone off.
I woke up late the next morning to like 10 calls, texts, and emails from my (now-ex) boss begging me to come back, so I leisurely went back to pack up my stuff and give him a list of everything he still owed me (he was so cheap he made me pay for supplies on my own dime and expense it at the end of the month).
A couple of months later, after my remaining coworkers had full-on nervous breakdowns from sharing my workload and left the state for other jobs, he was down to one employee and had to move from his office to an awesome location.
(In an industry and city where image is EVERYTHING) to one of those sketchy office parks like 30 miles north where most of the companies are the ones that sell makeup or knives door-to-door.
kranzmonkey
18. Pure Satisfaction
I worked selling shoes for 2 years on a weekend-only basis during school at a national chain. Never offered a raise, never offered to open the store, never given any recognition.
When I asked for some more responsibilities, I was told I was unimportant, as two new outside managers were coming in. One managed a section of Petsmart, and the other had no prior experience. I put in my two weeks' notice.
Both people came in on my last day, so I showed them everything I learned and all the small quirks of the inventory that we had. Both quit within a week, and the store closed within 4 months.
VulturE
19. Never Doing That Again
I go to New York City about once a year to visit family. While there I always crave the "Grandma's Sicilian" pizza, and the best slice in the city is served near my cousin's place.
Well, it's New York, and naturally, the joint is crowded as hell. Across from the register you can grab drinks and paying for them basically comes down to the honor system as well as the size of your confidence (the cashier can see you take a drink, but 90% of the time is occupied with a customer).
I've never really stolen before, but my cousin just nonchalantly took a drink and nobody said a word! I do love me some Peach Snapple so I got greedy and took two of them. I paid for the food and we were on our way out. I was on a (admittedly silly) adrenaline rush.
Did I mention my craving for the pizza was so large that I got an entire pizza instead of just one or two slices? Yep, an entire pie for myself. So as we are walking back to the subway station, I trip on the curb and fall. I land on the pizza with my stomach, covering my clothes in the sauce.
Both Snapples shatter and the glass lodges itself in knuckles, palms, and legs. The brand new $60 jeans I purchased the day before at Express got ripped by the glass and stained by my blood. Despite cleaning the wounds properly, the ones on my hand became infected that night. Suffice it to say I haven't stolen since.
alexisaacs
20. He Paid Even More Than That
I was trying to sell my apple-seed biodiesel processor. One guy came by who seemed genuinely interested. He said he would pay me $100 to give a demonstration of the whole process.
Apparently, he was some big shot with a garage and a fleet of heavy equipment. I demoed the first 90% of the process and explained the rest. Days.. weeks go by and I haven't seen my $100 or the guy.
I found out he had tried to make his own processor.. and failed epicly. He ruined 2 very expensive dump trucks. They are still sitting behind his house.
[deleted]
21. Figure It Out
I worked for a company that moved out over the weekend, cuz they were locking us out that Monday. Yep, no movers. Moved into a new office, and being an internet company, the internet needed to work. Ever tried to get someone out on a weekend from the phone company, the provider for our T-1.
Got everything hooked up, and gosh, no internet. So he called me in on Sunday to talk to tech support. I'm a family man, and we had a very nice dinner planned.
But no, work was more important to my boss. Told him ok, but he'd need to meet me at the office. I did the tech support call, and still no boss. Called him again, and told him I really needed him in the office.
I handed him my key, and the list of passwords to the server, wrapped in my resignation letter. Told him I had a family, and being pulled away from Easter Sunday dinner to talk to tech support to only have them confirm what I'd told him Friday and Saturday was the last straw.
I told him that I was sure he could find another Java/PHP/Linux admin on short notice, or he could figure it out himself.
Llyran
22. Problem Solved
This kid used to mess with me while we all waited for class to start in middle school. He'd grab at my stuff (particularly the trumpet I played for this class), make fun of me, etc. We were all bored so it must've been to kill time.
Anyway, I had enough of his crap. So I swung the case for my trumpet at his head. I didn't think I hit him that hard, but I heard later he went into his class crying.
They made us go into some kind of mediation thing but it was too late, I got my revenge, and he didn't want to live it down. So we basically never talked to each other again.
SWEGEN4LYFE
23. Backfired
At my last job, I had a new senior manager hired to run my division and our sister division. After working with him for 6 months, I had reached my breaking point.
He would call at 5:01 to see if I was still there; he would email me at 1 AM (I had a company Blackberry) asking for amendments to his morning meetings presentations regarding my division; he would ask my receptionist to take notes regarding the ongoings in my office (3 of us shared an office, he was down the hall).
He was the worst boss I've ever worked for, but the job market was tight and this paid the bills. The final straw came when I returned from a week off.
He approached me and asked why I was quitting (I hadn't submitted notice, nor notified anyone I was). I told him I wasn't and that he'd be the first to know if I did. He called me a liar and walked away.
I sent him an email that afternoon tendering my resignation with 3 weeks' notice. In my exit interview, I told the HR team EVERYTHING, and I mean everything, about the crap he pulled. 4 weeks later he was fired, along with my receptionist.
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24. Let Her Have It
I worked at a shoe store a while back. When I applied I really wanted to be a sales associate, but the manager told me she only had room for a stock guy for the time being, and then she could transfer me to sales when she had an opening.
Being a stock guy in a shoe store in a mall sucked, you have to stack the shoes way high up on rolling racks in a complicated alphabetical numeric sequence based on style, color, and size.
When new shipments come in, you have to shift all the shoes on ALL the racks over, just enough so you have space for the new styles. It takes a ridiculous amount of planning, foresight, and even physical endurance to climb up ladders with big boxes of boots and stack them in order all day long.
Anyway, I inquired a few times as to how that sales position looked since I had seen a few salespeople quit after I started work. She kept saying "No, sorry, no room for a new sales guy yet."
One particularly rough afternoon while I was working, she actually came back into the stock room to INTERVIEW a new candidate for a sales position. RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
So I climbed down from the rolling racks, put the boxes away, and said "I thought you didn't have room for a sales associate right now. I quit, let this girl do stock."
onizuka23
25. Busted!
Pulling up in an empty left-turn lane at a 4-way intersection during morning rush hour traffic at a red light, some douche in an SUV in the 'going straight' lane decides to veer left and execute a 3-point turn and turn around.
I slammed on my brakes, avoided the collision, and mouthed some choice words at him while he gave me a dumb blank look.
However, two seconds later, an unmarked car pulled out of the straight lane behind me and did the same turn maneuver, flashing blue lights. This is the first time I've ever had a cop in the right place in a traffic-douche situation. It was great.
TurnerJ5
26. Time To Leave
When I was fresh out of high school and living with my buddy Brett, we wound up living month-to-month without a lease at a low-middle-end apartment complex.
The rent wasn't too bad, but me and Brett were 19 and had many more priorities other than rent and bills. So we got a co-worker of Brett's to move in with us.
Long story short, the guy turned out to be a total jerk. After a couple of months of putting up with his sh*t, we had a huge fight where he punched a hole in the wall and broke my computer.
So the next morning, as soon as the apartment complex office opened, me and my buddy Brett went down and signed a lease for the apartment, becoming the only two legal occupants.
Then we called the cops and had them kick the jerk out for trespass. Cops woke the jerk and his skanky girlfriend up out of a sound sleep to tell them they had to leave.
volstedgridban
27. Smiling Through His Pain
One day I was being tailgated by some jackass in a giant pickup truck. I slowed down when I came to a fairly well-known speed trap in my town. The guy then guns his engine and speeds around me, honking as he goes, I see him take the curve and lose him behind some trees.
As I make it around the curve I see the flashing lights, and sure enough, the guy was being pulled over. I was sure to flash him a big smile and wave as I drove past him.
Tijuanatim
28. Doing It On My Own
I worked in a company for almost 9 years. I busted my butt, barely ever called in sick. It was a smaller business, but I became great at what I did so much to the fact that I basically became the face of the business.
4 years in, I watched as the previous owners sold the business to new owners. These new people promptly decided that they only needed to work 4 days a week and basically sat on their butts while I did all the work and made all the connections. I was watching the business start to crumble slowly after 4 years.
What did I do? I decided I was going to start my own business. I spent the better part of 8 months creating all the marketing materials, securing a lease for a building, crossing all my I's, and dotting all my T's.
After I was ready I gave my notice of resignation. 2 weeks later I was out of that job and walked out the door and opened the doors to my new business.
My new business is now massively successful, it's grown from 2 employees up to 7 employees and we are still growing more every day. Every day I know I made the right decision.
Many people have found and followed ME in the new business which has been very rewarding. It wasn't instant Karma, and I didn't do it out of spite. But I did it because I wanted to create something great the way I envisioned it.
totallytemporaryuser
29. Work On Your Attitude
I was dating this awful girl for a while because, you know, I was stupid. She had a temper and was always flying off the handle. One of those people who is never happy. Complaints about everything. We had a fight that morning about her irrational temper.
Later that day I called her to tell her I had to work late. She freaked out and punched the wall as soon as our conversation ended. Turns out she punched a part of the wall that was solid behind the drywall and shattered her hand. She was promptly dumped.
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30. I Won!
I was out for dinner with my then-fiancee (now wife) and her dad, my (now) father-in-law. He's a bit of a jerk to her, he got divorced and re-married, loves those kids more than my wife, gives her sh*t over too many things, etc. Etc.
So we're at the end of dinner, father-in-law offers to pay for the meal. Ok, that's nice. My wife asks to get her leftovers boxed and she'll take them home.
He starts with "Well, you'll just leave them in the fridge, then they'll just get thrown out, blah blah". I tell him "Listen, it's not your fridge, leave her alone". (she and I live together at this point).
He gets all mad, "Don't tell me how to raise my daughter!". I reply "Then don't speak to my fiancee that way!". He literally throws the bill & folder thing at me and says "Fine! You pay then." and storms out.
Ok, now everyone is pissed. I am, my fiancee is saying "Why did you have to start something??" etc. So I pay the bill and I'm just waiting for the receipt. Like we're waiting 10 minutes here, what the hell is going on?
Tensions are rising, her dad is waiting outside, just building up steam and ready to blow once we get out there. I ask the waiter, "Can I just get our bill and go?" "Oh no sir, you have to wait for the manager".
Turns out they have a contest running where "Every bill is a winner". Normally you'll win a free drink, or appetizer with your next meal. Well, we won the motherflipping grand prize, a trip for 4 to Florida.
Whoever pays gets the prize. Well, guess what? I paid because you stormed out like a scumbag. Karma’s a witch.
[deleted]
31. I Got It Anyway
One time, I was at a fast foodg drive-thru and since I am a vegetarian I politely requested a cheeseburger deal minus the meat along with fries. I believe it was 1.99 for the burger deal of the day, and the manager told me I had to pay 3.99 because that is technically a veggie burger.
However, I was still not getting a veggie patty. So, I told him that I would just take the fries, and to please forget the burger. But, the other staff had already put it in my take-out bag so I got it anyway! And since I didn't pay for it, it was extra good.
coley16
32. Put It On My Bill
3 days ago, I went into a liquor store to buy a bag of ice. I put the bag on the checkout counter and waited while the very large black woman (white male here) in front of me completed her purchase. This reminded her that she also needed a bag of ice.
"Here...take this one," I said and grabbed another bag. "Is that all you're buying?" she asked me. "Yes." She looked at me and said, "You're done....bye-bye", and before I could figure out what the hell she meant she turned to the clerk and said, "Put his ice on my bill."
agreeswithfishpal
33. Wanting Me Back
I was an ASM at a Gamestop a while back, while I got fired I was happy with it and my boss was pissed. Basically, I was the youngest ASM in the state and ran my store.
Our District manager knew this because my store was also his office, on top of that my store manager would brag to my DM that I ran the store for him. I hated my SM he didn't do sh*t and popped pills all day while I caught the flak for his sh*t.
So after I get fired, the man starts stressing out (he has a history of health issues) due to the stress, has a seizure, and quits. For the next 6 months, he's calling me asking if I could work under him at these oddball jobs he's found.
DetectiveArc
34. Seeing The Magic Happen
Once when I was a kid, I was on a ferry traveling between some islands in Canada (the thousand islands I think? I'm not sure if that was a joke the guide made or if she was serious).
There's a guy on the deck smoking a cigar and being loud, rude, and surly to everyone including me and my friend. Later on, I saw him cursing in front of a soda machine that ate his dollar.
bacon_butter
35. Caught In 4K
A couple of years ago, a friend and I were going to a concert and the traffic was beyond snarled. There was only one entrance into the location and it was mucking up the traffic as you had to turn across a busy intersection.
My friend thought that she could make it across, but someone coming from the other direction cut her off and made it so she was stopped at the intersection.
Cue some amazing douchebag going from the light and screaming up to about an inch from the passenger side door. I really thought that he was going to hit us.
He was screaming and flashing the finger and looked like he was going to get out of his car. My friend is freaking out and trying to inch her way into the stadium parking lot.
Luckily, a cop had just wheeled up in time to see the douche pull his stunt. He flashed his lights and angrily got out of his car and started yelling at the guy.
As we finally got out of the intersection, he was writing him a ticket that included something to the effect of reckless driving (for going about ten feet). It made the night for us.
CowTownRebel
36. Gotcha
It was the last day of school in 6th grade and I had gotten an award for "most improved" (meaning, at first, I had really bad grades and ended the year with really good grades).
I was walking towards my bus while looking at the award, and all of a sudden this douchebag who had bullied me the entire school year runs up to me and swipes the award, and runs off.
I tried to chase after him, but he was much, much faster than me. I chase him around to the front of the school, and just as we're passing the front doors, the teacher who gave me said award is walking out of them.
He knew this kid bullied me, and saw me chasing him, him holding my award, and the teacher BOLTS after this kid, and then proceeds to tackle him to the pavement and restrain him.
And yes, he was allowed to do that, because we were in special ed, and the teachers had the right to exercise a certain level of force to restrain kids if they were being some sort of problem. I got my award back, and the kid got suspended at the start of the next school year.
FFandMMfan
37. He’s Gonna Have A Great Time Paying That
My ex-husband installed a key logger on my computer before moving out. When busted in court, he claimed he had implied permission because he could have figured out my passwords anyway.
And he wished he didn't have to read them because of all the hurtful things I said about him. The judge fined him 500 bucks an email, ordered him to reimburse me for a new laptop, and told him if it ever happened again he'd spend a day in jail per email.
In the six months that he'd been reading my email, I'd sent almost 2000 emails on that machine. It was gorgeous.
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38. You’re Not Special
When I moved West after school, I was driving through Pennsylvania in my little Fiat Spider without snow tires or chains on a freeway that was covered in snow. There were two pairs of ruts in both lanes with exposed, dry pavement.
Most of us were poking along at like 40mph in the right lane (except when going uphill forced you to get into the left to get around the slower trucks, which basically for me meant a controlled slide).
Along comes some a*shat in a white BMW flying past us all at like 70mph and I remember shuddering when I thought about him losing control which would have effectively killed me.
Well, karma got him about 3 minutes later - he DID lose control and luckily no one was in the right lane so a pair of tracks from his wheels veered over the shoulder, down the embankment, and into a drift at the bottom where the as*hole sat with stream rising off his car.
Cinemaphreak
39. I Was Right
True story about my father who was a chemist: He predicted a new process they were using in the huge chemical factory where he worked was going to cause an explosion. He was repeatedly ignored.
So he got his boss to let him change labs to another part of the plant facing away from the building concerned and in the basement. One afternoon he heard this huge whooshing noise in the lab's ventilation system. He put on his hat and walked home, without looking back.
Barney21
40. Never Rush
In Hobart, there was a disaster where a big ship hit a bridge pillar, back in 1975, and a section of the bridge collapsed. This is at 9:27, so it's pitch black. This guy just manages to brake in time to avoid going off the bridge.
He gets out of his car. He runs back, trying to stop oncoming traffic, and the guy behind, thinking that he's in too much of a rush to help out, swerves around the car, and goes straight down into the water.
squibble
41. There’s No One To Blame, Besides… You
I worked at a bar once and had a douchebag (big surprise), one day he was chewing some girl out for some stupid thing she had missed (I say stupid in that it was tiny and stupid and didn't make sense that she had to do it), and as he does he pulls the fast rack out of its fixture.
The fast rack is an overhead rack for specialty glasses (martini glasses, champagne flutes, wine glasses, etc...). Everything shatters when it hits the bar, and all the shattered glass goes straight into the ice well.
I remember this day clearly because the look on his face was one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
He literally just looked at everyone around straight in the face with this look of pure rage, trying to figure out how to blame them for what had just happened.
Then, after around two seconds, he realized that there was nobody who could possibly be blamed other than him, and he had to choke down the righteous rage he had already built up. It was hilarious.
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42. Sweet Karma
I was working for DQ during my first year of high school and every week the manager would switch shifts around without telling anyone, so you didn't know if you were working that day or not.
But my biggest piss-off was when I went on a family vacation for a week, the very instant I got off the plane, apparently, I had to be at work, to which I declined. The following day the manager called me to say someone couldn't come in and that I had to take their shift.
I declined saying I had to finish an assignment and I couldn't work it. The next time I was "Scheduled" to work, I walked in the door where the manager met me and told me I was fired for missing shifts.
2 months after that, the district manager called my house asking me why I wasn't working, I told him what happened to which he begged me to come back, but I already had a new job (which is no better). A week after the call he fired the store manager. Karma's sweet
86ktgrosset
43. Getting Extra
I put in good work at a software company for over a year and a half with no raises. Asked for a raise, and got put on the ropes under an improvement plan (the precursor to firing). Passed the improvement plan easily.
But then 3 months later, I found a new job that offered me a 25% raise on what I was currently making. Naturally, I handed in my 2 weeks' notice to my current boss.
He counter-offered me the 25% raise plus a chance to work on any team I wanted within the company. I still turned that down. HR stopped me from working once they found out that I was leaving for a competing company... but I still got paid for the 2 weeks. Essentially forced paid vacation.
He was not happy about that considering I was somewhat in the middle of coding up a multimillion-dollar deal. Long story short: It was incredibly satisfying to have a boss who refused my raise request, suddenly backpedaled, and tried to keep me there with a bigger raise plus extra incentives.
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44. Where Are You Rushing?
We were driving to Tulsa, OK from Alabama in 2004 for Christmas. During the trip, it started to snow...a lot. Now my spouse learned to drive in snow, so he was following the rules, driving cautiously, and not being an idiot.
However, there were a lot of people that apparently missed that. My favorite was the guy in the SUV who decided he had a big old car and was going to get past that idiot driving slowly in the icy snow.
He gunned around us, attempting to hit 60 mph...which he did, immediately before spinning a 360 off the road and getting stuck in the ditch. We stopped counting cars in the ditch when we hit the mid 100's.
kendiara
45. You’re On Your Own Now
I dated a girl for over a year and gave her basically everything and was completely loyal. Everything was fine and dandy and couldn't be happier until I found out she had a one-nighter with some guy.
I later found out she was pregnant with his kid. It was awesome to get rid of her and even better knowing she was stuck with some random guy's kid.
creamytea