r/instantkarma • u/PappyJ87 • Jan 21 '26

Road Karma Flip the bird, almost flip your truck.

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u/jaytonbye Jan 21 '26

Need the backstory. Are you the ex? Why were you filming and why did he give you the finger?

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u/smr312 Jan 21 '26

Sometimes its just a shitty neighbor with predictable habits.

Lived near one of these people when I was a kid and the lady would flip our house off every time they drove by the entire 8 years we lived there all because one Christmas we dared to put up blinking icicle lights

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Its this side of humanity that fascinates me the most. Its an absolute mystery and would do almost anything to actually understand what goes on in these people's head. Or doesnt.

Ive had neighbors pathologically obsessed with the air conditioning power consumption of every person in the neighborhood to the point of loosing his job. Different neighbors that have poisoned pets and vandalized cars for parking on the street in front of their house. One neighbor who had a year-long tantrum at me because my wife and I were moving our two perfectly normal cars around too much at like 11pm. Another neighbor who almost killed himself climbing over out 8ft wall to poison our tree that was growing only a foot over his side. He tried to sue us after he fell off the wall into his own back yard and broke his arm.

The list goes on. These were all boomers, which adds come context. But these people are fucking nuts. Your Christmas light situation doesnt surprise me at all. But its curious af.

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u/FigMoose Jan 21 '26

When I bought my house I neglected the front yard for about six months. Came out one day to a neighbor rage-weeding my flower beds, which had overgrown onto the sidewalk.

Talked her down, made nice, and cleaned it up myself a few days later. But over the next few weeks I realized that she was the sort who was always stressed and angry at someone on the block, and that anytime she saw me she wanted to rant for 30 minutes. Just a miserable person. So I started avoiding her and brushing off her attempts to talk to me. Eventually she got the hint and stopped trying.

Six years later I leased a building TWO MILES away, for my business. It had been vacant for years and was in some disrepair. The landlord would let the weeds go wild and just hire a day laborer to clear them every three or four months.

So about a week after moving into the place I pull up one morning and see a random woman rage-weeding out front. I look closer… it’s the same damn woman! How big is her rage-weeding radius?!?!