RECORD STORE TALES #1193: Do you believe in Car-ma?

For a couple years now, the neighbour across the hall has been messing with my side view mirror.  As if to make a statement about parking too close to his car, he likes to push my side view mirror inwards.  Sometimes I would be driving to work in the morning, not realizing I didn’t have the use of my passenger side view mirror.  It was infuriating.  In our Condo Facebook group, I kindly and then more aggressively requested that whoever was messing with my car, to stop.

There’s a cardinal rule I was raised with and stayed true though adulthood:  you don’t touch somebody else’s car.  You just don’t.

I’ve never seen this guy actually flip my mirror in, but I have seen him touch my car on purpose before.  There is a general consensus that he’s the guy doing it, since he parks on that side of my car.

I’ve considered being vindictive before, and fucking with his side view mirrors right back, but that wouldn’t be winning, would it?  It would be hypocritical as to the cardinal rule of not touching other people’s cars.

Fortunately, karma was in my corner.  This was the hood of his car on June 10 2025.  Nature took its course for me!  Sometimes you gotta chalk it up as a win.