It might be the curmudgeon in me, but I tend to get aggravated when I ride the TTC and people are over the top boisterous in their conversations. Yes, public transportation, free speech, I get it….but I get aggravated mainly because it’s the things people say that has me shaking my head, hand to forehead.
This man was sitting in the back and his friend got on, and she said to him, “You’ll never guess what I just did!? I picked up a dropped wallet and handed it in to the TTC collector at the station”
That put a smile on my face.
Her friend called her an idiot.
“Did you take the cash before giving it in? You should have cleaned out the wallet at the very least! – you deserve something for doing that.”
If I didn’t think this guy was an idiot after that comment, this sealed the deal. He proceeded to brag about stealing peoples’ wallets when they set it down at TTC ticket booths and he would grab the wallet, run away, take the cash and hand in the wallet at the next station.
And all in the while, the conversation moves on, and the d-bag (yes, I’m resorting to name calling… BUT COME ON!) keeps talking…”I haven’t won the lottery in 27 years! I keep playing my numbers and I’ve never won.”
I WONDER WHY? Maybe the fact that you steal money from people’s wallets!? And it’s really sickening when you think about it. In order to justify or to clear his conscience of how awful a thing like that to do is, is to hand the cash free wallet to “authorities” and get a pat on the back from it to deem it ok again.
NO! NOT COOL. The word “asshole” popped in my head immediately. Then, karma. And then I thought of the phrase insult, “Karma is a bitch”
Why the bad rap? Karma isn’t a bitch. Karma gives it to you straight up. Do something good, something good happens to you. You do something bad, and something bad happens to you. It’s a matter of consequences of your actions…it’s not karma’s fault! Stop calling karma the b-word!
I don’t think it’s just karma this applies to. I mean, everything is a results of a course of actions taken. Whether it be negative, positive, or neutral, energy pulses through our daily lives and I truly believe everything is linked to whatever a person decides to put in that day, that minute, that second…your entire life! And that is what dictates the good, the bad and the ugly.
So I plead to those who use the phrase “karma is a bitch” to take a look in the mirror to see who the real bitch is. OH SNAP!
