Post by zendancer on Jul 18, 2010 6:19:22 GMT -5
Now, that's funny! Yuk yuk. I had never noticed karma points. What are they and how are they acquired? Most important, how do I get rid of them? I prefer not to accumulate karma. Here's a funny story about karma:
I once built a home for a former Navy Captain who lived in another state. After the closing took place, he packed up and starting driving toward his new home. In the meantime, one of the workmen doing some finish work on the home used the bathroom, flushed the toilet, and left. Unbeknownst to him (or anyone else) toilet paper prevented the flush from occurring, the toilet overflowed, and the first floor of the home, containing hardwood floors, was flooded. The tissue finally dissolved, flushed through the pipe, and the toilet reset itself. A few hours later, a landscaper looked through a window into the home, saw a lake, and called me. We rushed to the project and began removing the water. We were mystified about what had happened because there were no leaks in the plumbing.
I had to call the Captain, who was on the road with the moving van, and give him the bad news. He was not a happy camper. When he got to town, he had to move into a motel while the damages were repaired and the floors were refinished. I finally figured out what had happened after talking to the guy who had used the toilet. What really added to the Captain's anger was the fact that his homeowner's insurance had to pay for the repairs because closing had already occurred and our builder's risk policy had been terminated. He never liked or trusted me after that.
Two years later, I built a home beside the fellow on an adjacent lot. Subsequently, there was a big rainstorm on an uphill road behind both lots, and some water came down the hill and flowed onto his property (no real damage, but he was a landscape fanatic and didn't like water showing up unannounced). He didn't realize that the water came through an old drainage swale and thought (because I was a bad guy) that we had purposefully directed the water toward him. He called me up and angrily demanded that I immediately come look at his yard and meet with him.
I'm pretty laid back until someone demands that I do something, and then I can get testy. What he said on the phone to me totally pissed me off. Instead of complying with his demand, I sent him a letter. Among other things, I wrote, "I'm not in the Navy and I don't serve on your ship!" I explained that the drainage swale was an existing swale that we had not altered, and in so many other words I said "scr*w you!"
When I lost my temper and got cute with my letter writing, I really created some karma. Until then, I don't think I had an enemy anywhere, but after that, I had at least one! Aftwards, God showed me her sense of humor every week. Until this happened, I never saw the guy anywhere in town, but afterwards, I ran into him everywhere! No matter where I went, there he was. He even joined the Rotary Club I was in, and despite having 150 members, I would come around a corner of the restaurant for a meeting and run smack into him face to face again and again. It happened so often that we both finally began to smile at the irony of it. I thought, "Okay, God. I get it. Self-righteous anger does not pay!"
Later, I had a chance to do the guy a favor, for no reason at all, and I was able to repair the damage, but whew, what a lesson. Now, how do I get rid of these points? LOL
I once built a home for a former Navy Captain who lived in another state. After the closing took place, he packed up and starting driving toward his new home. In the meantime, one of the workmen doing some finish work on the home used the bathroom, flushed the toilet, and left. Unbeknownst to him (or anyone else) toilet paper prevented the flush from occurring, the toilet overflowed, and the first floor of the home, containing hardwood floors, was flooded. The tissue finally dissolved, flushed through the pipe, and the toilet reset itself. A few hours later, a landscaper looked through a window into the home, saw a lake, and called me. We rushed to the project and began removing the water. We were mystified about what had happened because there were no leaks in the plumbing.
I had to call the Captain, who was on the road with the moving van, and give him the bad news. He was not a happy camper. When he got to town, he had to move into a motel while the damages were repaired and the floors were refinished. I finally figured out what had happened after talking to the guy who had used the toilet. What really added to the Captain's anger was the fact that his homeowner's insurance had to pay for the repairs because closing had already occurred and our builder's risk policy had been terminated. He never liked or trusted me after that.
Two years later, I built a home beside the fellow on an adjacent lot. Subsequently, there was a big rainstorm on an uphill road behind both lots, and some water came down the hill and flowed onto his property (no real damage, but he was a landscape fanatic and didn't like water showing up unannounced). He didn't realize that the water came through an old drainage swale and thought (because I was a bad guy) that we had purposefully directed the water toward him. He called me up and angrily demanded that I immediately come look at his yard and meet with him.
I'm pretty laid back until someone demands that I do something, and then I can get testy. What he said on the phone to me totally pissed me off. Instead of complying with his demand, I sent him a letter. Among other things, I wrote, "I'm not in the Navy and I don't serve on your ship!" I explained that the drainage swale was an existing swale that we had not altered, and in so many other words I said "scr*w you!"
When I lost my temper and got cute with my letter writing, I really created some karma. Until then, I don't think I had an enemy anywhere, but after that, I had at least one! Aftwards, God showed me her sense of humor every week. Until this happened, I never saw the guy anywhere in town, but afterwards, I ran into him everywhere! No matter where I went, there he was. He even joined the Rotary Club I was in, and despite having 150 members, I would come around a corner of the restaurant for a meeting and run smack into him face to face again and again. It happened so often that we both finally began to smile at the irony of it. I thought, "Okay, God. I get it. Self-righteous anger does not pay!"
Later, I had a chance to do the guy a favor, for no reason at all, and I was able to repair the damage, but whew, what a lesson. Now, how do I get rid of these points? LOL