The Most Satisfying Instant Karma Moments
We all have to watch people do bad things and get away with it every single day. All we can do is hope that karma will even out in the end—but if we're VERY lucky, we get to see karma work its magic instantly, and there's nothing more satisfying.
1. Just Stop
My neighbor followed me down my driveway to yell at me for not coming to a complete stop at the stop sign. I apologized politely, even though I knew he was being petty as we live on the end of a quiet street.
He then proceeded to yell and curse at me as he backed out of my driveway but as karma would have it, he backed into my tree.
He dented the whole side of his car and ripped his mirror off. He then proceeded to fly off down the road and didn’t break for the stop sign.
2. Against The Rules
I was playing volleyball with a group of my friends a few years back. One of the guys who is just an acquaintance of mine was known for being unreasonably angry. Throughout the whole game, he was a total meanie to everyone, yelling and screaming.
He wouldn’t stop citing the rules and blaming everyone for breaking them.
Eventually, we all had enough so we just unanimously kept egging him on and acting dumb on purpose to fluster him. At one point he gets so mad that he got on both his knees and started screaming. And that's where karma flew in...literally. While he's throwing a fit, this lone pigeon swoops by and takes a dump on his face. The rest of us laughed about it for weeks
3. A False Start
A guy was stopped at a red light in the middle of a very busy intersection in a very busy part of my city. This was in the middle of summer so there were a lot of people around. This guy has a very fancy BMW and clearly thinks he’s super cool.
He blasts his music really loudly and starts revving the engine as he waits for the light to change.
The light turns green and he does the whole tire-screeching thing except something doesn’t go as planned. There’s a strange sort of crunching sound and then a loud bang. This guy has to pull over to the side of the road in front of all the people he was trying to impress. Lots of laughs were heard from the people around.
4. What Goes Around, Comes Around
A few months ago, I was on vacation in San Francisco. Late at night after a potluck and drinks, my friend drove me to a metro station near her house and gave me directions to take the train back to my hotel.
I walked in, paid my fare, and went underground only to find out I'd just missed the last train by a matter of mere minutes.
Fortunately, my friend was awesome and gave me bus directions back, but there was another person who'd missed the same train, and he was in a far worse situation than mine.
He was pretty out of it, carrying massive bags of groceries, and was trying to get back home. He also had no way to call an Uber. Feeling bad, I offered to call him an Uber.
I told him he could pay me back what he could. He only had $3, but so be it, I wasn't going to turn him down. We chatted awhile until his ride came, he went off on his merry, inebriated way, and I went to catch my bus.
Except when I got on, I realized it was a bus from the other transit company, and so my current fare wasn't transferable.
I'd have to pay again. I realized I had no dollar bills left in my wallet. I spent it all on that useless metro fare. Panicking, I reached into my back pocket where I keep small change, well knowing I didn't have enough for the $2.50 fare.
And that's when I felt the $3 that guy gave me. It was such a beautiful feeling. I think we were mutual guardian angels that night.
