you reap what you sow

So I'm sitting in the Chinese consulate in NY today, holding my little ticket waiting for the number printed on it to be flashed across the big grid above, when suddenly -- my number gets called! I'm up at window 3! I jump up and run towards the window...only to be intercepted by an uptight euro bitch who cuts in front of me and turns to throw me a careless smirk. I suppress my indignation and tell her, in as calm a voice (as a person who has just waited for 1.5 hours elbow-to-elbow with every sweating college-aged China-bound kid in NY) as I can muster, 'Excuse me, I believe it's my turn since my number was called.' She pretends not to hear me the first two times, and on the third just turns and goes 'too bad'.

Well, turns out she filled out the wrong forms and didn't get a number so she had to go all the way to the back of the Consulate to get the right forms, fill them out, and get a ticket. As she walked past me (after being scolded by the clerk for having the wrong forms), I turned to her and said, triumphantly, 'That's karma.'

Thank god for universal harmony and all that.