"Instant Karma's gonna get you".  Remember that song?  Well, I don't know about the 'instant' part but I definitely have reason to believe in Karma and how it can get you.  Here's why:

Some time back there was an incident where someone driving a white van hit our pup, Luna and they didn't even stop to see if she was okay.  (I wrote about this earlier in my journal.)  We didn't know it at the time but it so happens that there WAS a witness to this and they noted the tag number as well as getting a good description of the guy who committed the hit & run.  It was our next-door neighbor's father who often came with his wife to visit!

Now, when we dropped off a note for him to contact us about settling up on the vet's bill (I thought it was fair enough to request reimbursement without us notifying the sheriff's office) the only thing we got was a big runaround and the lies that he didn't know anything about it.  Rather than alienate our neighbor (some big gal, new to the area, with several young, screaming kids, often appearing drunk as a skunk - reminds me of someone straight off the Jerry Springer stage) or start a war, my husband wanted me to drop the issue, saying that this dude will one day reap what he sows.

Last week there was a lot of people gathering next door.  A LOT!  People that I've never seen before kept coming up our dead-end street, stopping to head up the driveway to the usually empty house on the property.  I watched curiously, thinking that this was some big family reunion or something.  As the cars suddenly started to line up and head out down the road I realized that this was not a party but a funeral procession!    The man who hit our Luna pup had recently had a heart attack and was no more.

If *THAT* ain't a case of Karma, I don't know what is!

Kind of makes one think, eh?