Karma

[Way2slow]

In the boat site, I posted I'm a firm believer in karma and a couple have reacted to that post.  

Some examples of why I'm a firm believer.  

A few months back, I posted how I was trying to help the neighbor's daughter and rebuild her 90hp Mercury on her pontoon boat, and all it was going to cost her was what the parts cost.  Ended up the block was destroyed and she didn't have the money to repair the motor.  A marina she first took it to told her they would only give her $1,200 for it, jokingly I said I would give $1,500.  A moth later, she tells me she will take the $1,500.  The boat is easily worth $5,000 as it sat.  

At the first of the month a friend of mine that does a lot of work on Mercs and so some others called me about an OMC that was kicking his butt.  Rather than try trouble shooting it over the phone, I just drove the 60 miles to his shop and helped him with his problem.  I mentioned to him I was still looking for an I3, 90 block.  Just happened a friend of his had just tried to give him one to get it out of his shed.  We went to his friends and I came home with a good block for that motor and a rod I needed and only cost me the time and gas I used to go help him.  So, now for less than $500 I will have a $3,000 motor to go back on that pontoon boat.  I see this same boat in no better shape than this one, which is in good shape, listing for $9,000-$13,000.

Last spring a widowed friend of my wife home air conditioner went out.  Where we live, they were going to charge her $300 just to come look at it.  Naturally my wife tells her, Keith can check it for you.  Ends up being the main control board.  I was able to get it wholesale for $131 versus almost $500 off the enet.  About a month later, she asked if could look at her Gravely Zero Turn mower her husband had just bought new before he died and it had been sitting for three years.  I told her it could run a couple hundred dollars for a new battery and parts fix it.  She said I could just have it for $500 if I had a need for it, she was just getting it so she could sell it.   I told her it was worth way more than that, but she said she had rather me have it. 

If that ain't good karma, I don't know what is.

One point of bad karma.  Many years ago, when my son was about 16, we went to a junkyard to get a part I needed.  Driving back out, I saw a door mirror laying on the ground that looked very much like one I needed.  I stopped and just pitched it over in the back of truck,  and didn't mention it as I paid and left.  A moth later, I get a call my son has just been arrested for shop lifting an amp.   To add fuel to the fire, he was in the BX on base and it was a $500 amp,  That made it a felony and a federal court case.  I thanked the judge for not going for the felony, putting him on probation and sealing his record as long as there were  no other problems with him.  That one has haunted me ever since.

[TnRiver46]

Good stuff! I had a boat stolen back about 2008. A few months later my best pal calls, his dad basically taught me how to fish and helped raise me.  He says “don’t freak out or take this the wrong way, but my dad bought you a boat!” Wow. So  at first I’m thinking no way I can accept this. I sought advice from trusted folks and they said accept the gift, the person giving it wanted you to have it so allow him that joy. So that’s the only reason I have a decent boat to this day! My buddies always say “you must be livin right with all the luck you have.” I’m not so sure about that but I always strive to treat other humans as best I can. What goes around comes around! 

[Columbia Craw]

I dated a girl named Karma in high school.  Nothing good ever came of it.

[throttleplate]

23 hours ago, Columbia Craw said:

I dated a girl named Karma in high school.  Nothing good ever came of it.

i dated a girl while stationed in california, i told her i was from north dakota, she asked me where is north dakota, i said below canada, she asked me where is canada. Her name wasnt karma.

[Bankbeater]

There's a lot of truth in the old saying "give someone enough rope and they'll hang themselves".  I've seen it happen a lot over the years.