Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Karma Police


I think some people can get away with bad behavior and never pay the price.

Me.....I have Instant Karma....

In fact the Karma Police sit on my shoulder and write me a ticket the minute I offend.

Take for example what I did that was not so nice yesterday.

It was the day after Columbus Day, and I had to go to the post office to mail off some herbs for my customers. The parking lot of course was full, and people seemed to be a bit on the assertive side.

I finally found a parking space, but in order to get into that spot, I had to back up, angle half way in, and let other cars pass me so that I could finish getting into the space. While I was waiting for cars to pass, this one guy tries to pull into MY parking space, oblivious to my obvious ownership of the space....Errrrrr

Five times I had to tell him that I was parking here... and finally I had to actually get out of the car, and yell at the guy, while not being very pleasant; "Whats wrong with you, can't you see that I am parking here?"

This guy acted acted as if he did not hear me, then I had to repeat it AGAIN (I know he did hear me, he was trying to annoy me)....Thats when I said to him; "Don't be an idiot"

ZZZZZZZet Instant Karma immediately strikes me for my offense.

I then finish parking, while muttering under my breath what an idiot that guy was, and not really paying attention to my own parking job.

I go into the post office for only about five minutes and then I return to the car.

When I come out of the post office, standing by my car, there is this very irritate looking guy, and I mean VERY irritated....I walked cautiously up to him and asked "Is there a problem?"...and he answered;

"Yeah, there's a problem, ya wanna come over and see?"

My radar was up and I knew I had an issue here to contend with......I then said "No"....because I had no idea what he wanted, was he a rapist or something?....Then he says;

"What kinda idiot are you anyway, you fucking Idiot.....Come here and look at what you did.."

This verbal abuse went on for a solid minute. He was yelling at me as I walked around the car and I saw what had made this guy so mad at me. I could see that I had done a very poor job of parking and had positioned my car in too close to his so that he could not enter his driver side door!


As I was surveying what I had done, he managed to call me an idiot no less then five times. I of course profusely apologized over and over....and all I could think about when this was happening was;

What an IDIOT I can be.

I think my spiritual dog blog lesson here today is that I shall never call anyone an idiot again.

I have to remember that my special Police are always there to immediately cite me when I offend the laws of Karma, and it is small incidents like this that serve as my reminder that "what comes around goes around" double fast for me.

1 comment:

BetteJo said...

This is one of those 'yeah, but ..' situations. The guy trying to get into your parking space knew what he was doing. The other guy was berating you for a mistake. A careless mistake. Yeah, annoying for him - but he didn't have to stand there and wait for you just so he could yell at you! I'm sorry, but I think HE was an idiot too! I've had it happen to me - not be able to get in my door - and I have called the driver of that car a moron (my personal favorite) and a few more choice words I'm sure - WHILE I was climbing in the other side and sliding over to the driver's seat. Hanging around just to yell at you was a power move. Jerk. :) Have a better day.