# Instant karma!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instant-karma/233173>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 8, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instant-karma/233173 "2004-03-08T20:21:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![spittingkitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@spittingkitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spittingkitten)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instant-karma/233173/1 "2004-03-08T20:21:35Z")

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“Instant karma’s gonna get you  
Gonna knock you right on the head”

I just realized that my most perfect example of instant karma is so literal to that line that it’s not even funny. Well, yeah…it is. 😃

I’m about 16 at the time. My best friend and I were walking to the park one day after school, like we usually did. We’re walkin, we’re talkin, and _BAM_! She just walks headfirst into the pole of a bus stop sign . ( Was it always there? we couldn’t decide. ) Anyhow, I laughed my silly ass off for _quite_ awhile. She, on the other hand, was hurt and rather annoyed that I thought she was a complete and total moron.

_The_ very next day, same time, same Karmic channel, we’re walkin to the park again.

Guess who walks into that _very_ same pole?

Sigh. Really, what are the odds?! And for the record, I totally didn’t learn my lesson. I know I would still relish the hell out of a similar situation, were one to arise. Tee hee.

I know you guys got some doozies of your own…c’mon!