karma in the bank

I made cupcakes for one of the attorney’s birthday.  HOMEMADE.  A labor of vanilla-cake flavored love, topped with your choice of chocolate or vanilla frosting..  Because that’s the type of person I am.  A cupcake maker. 

I used my still young eyes to see a block away and determine what time it was for an old lady who needed the time.  She said of I was sweet. 

I gave the Seattle’s Best barista a whole dollar! for tip this morning, even though I only got a decaf drip coffee that cost $1.75.  Just cause. 

Then I got hit on by a very nice guy in the coffee shop.  I wasn’t mean to him either, which I usually am.  Like a compliment is really an insult.  Nope, I was pleasant.  And SMILED. 

I’m going out for a very late happy hour with the ladies, even though I want to be in bed or sitting on the couch.  Because I’m nice and they deserve to be graced with my presence occasionally.  That’s the type of person I am.  A presence gracer.

I’m putting karma in the bank today.  I don’t know if I really believe in karma.  The Man tells me I have bad elevator karma.  If karma’s real, then yes, I do.  Does karma only work for physical things?  Like if I kick a homeless person (I would never do that, I’m not violent), I expect karma.  But what if I think about kicking a homeless person?  ‘Cause I think mean thoughts a lot.  Like on Wednesday, I went to get a Starbucks and the man-barista gave me lip, saying “Is that all?  Do you want anything else?”  Like my decaf drip with heavy cream is a burden for him.  So I nod and smile and think to myself “YES that’s all.  Now take your trifling butt back to the coffee maker and EARN your $5.15 an hour.  ‘Cause you ain’t getting tipped.  You’re paid to make my coffee, not be a jack-ass.”  Thoughts like that pretty much happens a couple dozen times a day.  But, I also kind of expect everyone to be doing the same thing to me.  So is there mental karma?  I might be in mental karma debt.  I’m putting karma in the bank just in case.  I don’t want a karma ass-kicking one day.