Have you ever regretted lending something?

Brid Hegarty

Have you ever regretted lending something? Something like your pen, or your car maybe?

One time in school I was a lovely company pen that was actually my dad's. My friend borrowed it for a few seconds, and within that time he bent back the clip on part of it enough to permanently changed. It was no longer parallel with the barrel part of the pen. He then said "oh look you can now have fun bouncing it against the edge of the desk like this". I think I gave him a dig, but I'd like to go back in time and give several more.

NedsNotDead

Have you ever regretted clicking on a thread after you realised it was started by the OP

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119367468#Comment_119367468

After? It's not a whole lot different from the title?

NickNickleby

Dang, thread's over an hour old and no one has said "the wife".

Ok. The wife.

But the OP is more interested in things, so here's a couple...

Vacuum cleaner and pressure cooker. Vac came back not working, pressure cooker came back buckled. Same person. Never loaned them anything else after that.

Donald Trump

I once loaned a Cavan man the steam off my pi$$.

Would have had to take him to the small claims court to get it back

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119367539#Comment_119367539

Ok. The wife.

Well to be fair, all the lads on the local Junior B team had a great afternoon

gary550

my time to clicking on this thread

NickNickleby

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119367554#Comment_119367554

Till she came home and caught us.

GavPJ

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058255444/have-you-ever-regretted-lending-something

2 fishing rods and all my fishing tackle when I was about 14 to a friend.

Never saw it again. I'm 46 now and it still bugs me.

I'm with his ex wife near 10 years now and going to get engaged soon.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368402#Comment_119368402

Fair swap

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119367546#Comment_119367546

🤣🤣🤣

Pissy Missy

The most beautiful pair of earrings, raging when my friend lost them 😢 and lending money to people I probably shouldn't have

Everlong1

Loaned books and CDs to a (then) girlfriend. Relationship crashed and burned. Awkwardness ensues as items are negotiated over.

GavPJ

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368520#Comment_119368520

Lending someone money is the best way to get someone to stop talking

to you. Great investment at times. 😎

Juran

Jacket to my cousin when I was around 20 yrs, never saw it again. I often think of that coat when I see them, 30 years later !

Music cassettes and VHS video tapes during school and college years, it really annoyed me that I never got them back.

Cassrole dish to a relative about 5 years ago when I brought a cooked dish as a gift, never got the dish back!

I make a point of returning everything a person lends me, as It really annoys me when people don't do the same.

bad2thebone

Books, lots of books.

PokeHerKing

You ever have somebody, borrow your $hit, keep it for so long, you had to borrow it back?

o1s1n

Syndicate Wars on the Playstation 1, gave my cousin a lend of it around 1998 never saw it again. Still bugs me!

Dr Turk Turkelton

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368454#Comment_119368454

Was it fcuk. Fishing gear is far more valuable than a wife.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368600#Comment_119368600

Teach a man to fish... no need of wife

🤣🤣🤣

Ray Palmer

I had a friend in school and he would ask to borrow things all the time. Then I realised he never lent anything to me or any one. It was next to impossible to get him to return. Called to house knowing he wasn't there and told his mam he had a school book of mine so she let me go to his room. I just took everything of mine and other. He never said anything about it but nobody ever lent him anything again and eventually cut out of the group

ejmaztec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368600#Comment_119368600

My brother in law loaned his fishing gear to his alcoholic grandfather, who then sold it for cash and went on the beer. The grandfather would probably have sold his wife as well had she not been dead.

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368551#Comment_119368551

Very true, harder when it's family and you never gave a lend to begin with but I digress

laoisgem

A donkey kong when I was in primary school, never got it back. Devastated 😫

BaywatchHQ

When I was a teen Gaelic Games Football game out on PS2, I was getting it for Christmas but I persuaded my mother to give it to me early. My brother's 22 year old friend then lent it, he must have had it for over a week. Why would someone lend a popular game from a 13 year old on the school holidays.

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368781#Comment_119368781

You mean your brother's 22 yr old friend borrowed it??

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119368402#Comment_119368402

You gave him two rods are are currently giving his ex missus the rod?

pgj2015

no because I only lend books. I never lend money, I just say I don't have it if asked. 99% of people who ask to borrow money wont ever give it back. it doesn't matter if they borrow 100 euro or 100,000 euro, its all the same to them.

2Mad2BeMad

Lent my mates father 500e, thought of him as family and he was badly stuck, long story short that was in February 2020, still waiting for it back.

Never lent anyone money again.

Lesson learned

Furze99

Ladder, came back alright but bent. Trestles - never saw them again.

Brid Hegarty

Oh I must confess that I did in fact borrow a 5er from someone once when I was badly stuck. She was assistant manager of the store I worked in. The next day I was in I didn’t have it for her and was really annoyed with myself. I was going to give it to her but the next day after that I was fired by the main managers. So I never got the chance to give it to her! I’d nearly have went in especially but I know she’d wouldn’t have accepted.