Your best revenge /karma story

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i want to say that I don't believe in karma due to my faith tradition but I know that sometimes God can exact terribly apt punishment.

I grew up with a verbally abusive, violent and truly frightening alcoholic father. I spent an entire childhood listening to him rant and criticize me, sober or drunk. He'd routinely scream at me or almost as punishing, refuse to speak to me, often for days at a time.

He was an academic - known professionally for his oratory and public speaking skills and was considered to be brilliant.

My father very slowly lost his ability to speak fluently at age 70. He had to retire. Still continued to drink, but developed a stammer, then a stutter. Then declined further and could utter only one or two words, yes or no. Then, he'd get those words mixed up.

Finally, he was completely mute. Silent. He was literally speechless for almost 8 years until he died a prolonged death.

Holy shit that’s some poetic justice.

[Anonymous]

Years ago I became CEO of a small struggling business and the company's lead banker made my life a true living hell. Five years later I was running a much bigger and profitable company and he called and he wanted "in" on a very big financing deal we were doing. I told our CFO to screw him. It felt so good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a very rural high school where there was a very small population of minorities. In our senior English class a classmate asked another classmate who was also senior class president (her parents had money/dad an attorney ) how the trip to the U Maryland went (the physics class to visit the school earlier in the week). She replied there were too many *** there (using a racial slur). A few years later I found out from my brother that (who was classmates with her brother) that her dad found her mom banging the 18 year old pool boy (who happened to be a minority). *itch had it coming.

Was her dad a bitch who had it coming, too? He is the one who was cheated on.

[Anonymous]

I was engaged and the guy (mid 40’s) cheated on me with his 21 year old intern. We broke up, I was devastated. His company found out he was sleeping with the intern and his boss (a woman) thought he was disgusting and fired him. He had to move out of state to find a new job.

[Anonymous]

Oh forgot to mention the best part!! Ex who cheated with the intern? The intern cheated on him (with someone her own age) and now he’s alone.

[Anonymous]

My serious college boyfriend (not just a FWB, we were together for 2.5 years) cheated on me senior year. It was extremely embarrassing for me and all our extended friend group could talk about. Ex and his new girl got engaged, nice wedding a year after graduation, moved to a bigger city, he got a good job, she went to grad school and then started working as well. And then she cheated on him. And they got divorced ... and he had to move back to the small town where he was from originally because she apparently f*cked him in the divorce settlement (not sure how, they didn’t have kids, but he did come from a solidly UMC if not upper income family) and he lost a ton of money. Toooooo bad!

[Anonymous]

Ousted-in-recent-memory GW Law dean is a serious jerkface who caused many, many staff to leave. He fired some, some left, and he was known for favoring young, female staff members and putting them in positions of power they more than anyone said they were not ready for. Anyway. Facutly very quickly got sick of his shit and banded together to overthrow him. They didn't get him fired (he's still technically on the faculty), but they got him removed as dean and cornered off to another part of the university where he only had one staff member under him. It was all over Above the Law, student paper, etc. His ego took a major hit, and exactly no one spoke up for him when the faculty ouster was happening.

[Anonymous]

When I went back to work after having kids I took a low paying job at a highly dysfunctional small nonprofit part-time (didn’t know it was dysfunctional when I started). Boss was crazy, always got on my case for not doing questionable things she wanted me to do, told people I cried (I didn’t), had me work with another crazy guy who was awful, said she didn’t think I could do more than pt because I was a mom. I got fed up so I applied for a better job somewhere and I got it! No more craziness, benefits now, better pay, and nice coworkers.

[Anonymous]

I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

[Anonymous]

Had a "mom friend" from the preschool where we both sent out kids.
We were friendly and the kids played. She was always trying to one up me, especially about our kids, even at three years old, always comparing them. Always acting far superior because her kid took piano lessons and they had a piano at their house. Her kid specialized in a sport at a young age. Her kid played chess competitively. Her kid spent summers in another country to be bilingual. She of course, sent her kid to a fancy private while my kid went public all through K-12 and just followed her interests.
I am super low key, non materialistic, maybe to a fault which probably annoyed her. I just didn't play her game, so we lost contact.
They ended up at the same college.
I can't help but do the math of all those years of private school, lessons, etc. to end up in the same place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had a "mom friend" from the preschool where we both sent out kids.
We were friendly and the kids played. She was always trying to one up me, especially about our kids, even at three years old, always comparing them. Always acting far superior because her kid took piano lessons and they had a piano at their house. Her kid specialized in a sport at a young age. Her kid played chess competitively. Her kid spent summers in another country to be bilingual. She of course, sent her kid to a fancy private while my kid went public all through K-12 and just followed her interests.
I am super low key, non materialistic, maybe to a fault which probably annoyed her. I just didn't play her game, so we lost contact.
They ended up at the same college.
I can't help but do the math of all those years of private school, lessons, etc. to end up in the same place.

And? I ended up at the same place as some of my more "groomed" peers, but I still couldn't speak French, play the violin, swim at a collegiate level, etc., etc. Going to the same place is great and all, but it's not everything. I am not a "Tiger Mom" or anything, I just don't see how you see this as a victory?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year, and now after reading this thread I'm wondering what I did to deserve it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter what slight you think you have endured. Getting pleasure out of someone else’s misfortune, misery to death makes you a horrible person. Beware your own karma.

I bet you’re fun at parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Had a "mom friend" from the preschool where we both sent out kids.
We were friendly and the kids played. She was always trying to one up me, especially about our kids, even at three years old, always comparing them. Always acting far superior because her kid took piano lessons and they had a piano at their house. Her kid specialized in a sport at a young age. Her kid played chess competitively. Her kid spent summers in another country to be bilingual. She of course, sent her kid to a fancy private while my kid went public all through K-12 and just followed her interests.
I am super low key, non materialistic, maybe to a fault which probably annoyed her. I just didn't play her game, so we lost contact.
They ended up at the same college.
I can't help but do the math of all those years of private school, lessons, etc. to end up in the same place.

And? I ended up at the same place as some of my more "groomed" peers, but I still couldn't speak French, play the violin, swim at a collegiate level, etc., etc. Going to the same place is great and all, but it's not everything. I am not a "Tiger Mom" or anything, I just don't see how you see this as a victory?

NP and I think I understand PP. I was a partier, a slacker and a very average high school student. I applied to a small, private college out of state that had a party school reputation. My younger, competitive, all honors and gifted-tracked sister followed me to the same college. Didn't get in anywhere else!

So, in the above PPs example, willing to bet that the highly competitive, materialistic mom fully expected that her privileged and pampered child would end up at Harvard/Yale/MIT/insert big name U here and not where regular, average, subpar child would be accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've seen karma come back and bite people in the ass in unspeakable ways. I can't believe what I am seeing, and almost can't bear to watch what is unfolding in front of me. I've seen it often enough that I no longer worry too much when somebody does me wrong: I know it will come back to them eventually.

I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease last year, and now after reading this thread I'm wondering what I did to deserve it?

Your mileage may vary. That's not how this works.