Car Park and Karmic Effect

Call it karma, cause and effect, yin and yang, sow and reap… life always seems to balance it out for you in a perfect way. Sometimes this balancing act take days, months or years, sometimes it takes several births. Recently hubby and I have experienced something trivial yet funny which amazed me as to how accurate the law of karma is.

We had just finished a seminar (delivered by hubby and I was there helping) and went back to the car park to get our car. As we gave the warden our parking ticket at the exit gate, I heard the guy said: 'Thirty two dollars please!'

'What?' hubby asked.

'Thirty two dollars please!' The warden repeated. 'There is a sign at the entrance. It says eight dollars per hour. I had to explain to two other people a minute ago. Like you, they didn’t read the sign either.' He added.

Eight dollars per hour! This was unheard of! In this country we had never paid more than $4 per hour on parking. This includes Auckland. I wondered what city can justify charging such a high parking fee. While I was in Sydney last year I noticed they charged $6 per hour in CBD and I thought that was hilarious.

Hubby didn’t seem to believe him. He quickly jumped out of the car and ran to the entrance to read the sign. A few seconds later he came back. This time he didn’t argue and handed over our bank card to the guy. Apparently the coinage in the car was not enough for our parking fee this time. I noticed that he was reasonably charming and cool in handling this situation. Some people would just moan, whine, complain or abuse.

Yet his fury surfaced as we drove away. He was angry not just because we felt ripped off. He was more concerned about his clients who came to this seminar and he told them to park their cars in this particular car park which means all the attendees had been ripped off as well. He felt sorry for his clients as although the seminar was free his clients would have paid a small fortune ($16 or $24) for the seminar on parking fee. Granted, it was not a big sum of money for him or the clients; yet it’s often the surprises that set people off.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, even at times we can’t accept it. Sitting in the car I thought about this incident and wondered if it, too, happened in a perfect way. Suddenly everything became clear.

I remembered that hubby mentioned to me about a parking fine he received recently for exceeding the time limit. While he was quite willing to pay the fine of $16, he noticed that the number plate on the ticket was incorrect - they had put another car’s number plate on his ticket! As a result, he didn’t pay the fine knowing that he could get away with it. I laughed out loud when I heard about this story and thought it was funny that some poor bastard would probably be pursued and he would have no clue as to why he was fined!

Did hubby really get away with his parking fine?

Not at all! He paid exactly the same amount back - $16; just a few days later, in a different way (if we had parked our car in any other car park we would have paid $16 max.)

Never expect to get away with anything! Our life, the whole universe is governed by its natural laws. For every action/deed/event/cause, there is always an equivalent balancing action/deed/event/effect. When undesirable things happen to us, don’t question why, and don’t judge, fight or resist; accept everything and just wait, as the answer will manifest to you when you least expect it. Believe it or not, everything happens to us and to this world is perfect, fair and in complete justice regardless you agree or not!