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.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119370104#Comment_119370104

I've a feeling there could be more to this story.

chooseusername

Polonius got it right .

chooseusername

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119370104#Comment_119370104

She was the one who got you sacked!

NedsNotDead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119370160#Comment_119370160

Please don't encourage them

bad2thebone

I remember my dad used to lend tools to a neighbor, or my mum hairdryer or something they'd always come back broke, chipped or put back together looking different.

They were quite poor, used to borrow milk and sugar too, they were very nice people, simple folks. And mum and dad are quite well off so they couldn't cause ruckuses or deny them help.

My dad used to say they'd break iron, but on the other hand the man of the house would fix our bicycles, lawnmowers and be helpful in other ways and wouldn't take a penny so it worked out well.

Apart from getting back a warped iron one time, my dad couldn't figure out how they warped the iron. We still laugh about it.

messrs

He lent the Airfryer to the neighbours about 2 years ago - dont think its coming back now.

Got stung by few different people over the years for lending money - wont do it any more

Dvd's/CD's back in the day

mondeo

Lended some rechargeable batteries to a school mate years ago and he wouldn't give them back, laughed in my face and said tough I'm keeping them. This started a chain reaction and as an adult today I am very reluctant to lend anyone anything.

bad2thebone

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119371088#Comment_119371088

Yeah I used to always buy first edition albums with the paper cover's, music for the gilted generation by the prodigy had a limited edition sleeve, and the razors edge by acdc, Metallica black album, Carl Cox fact all gone forever.... after that I stopped lending music.

Grayson

I have plenty of friends who owe me money. I'm not too pushed about it. I earn a lot more than them at the moment.

About 20 years ago, I lent a violin to a friend in college who was really into trad music. He was going to use it for one night for a session he was attending. The next few times I saw him he had forgotten about it. This was in may. Summer holidays came around and he didn't come back the next year. It was pre mobile phones and social media, i didn't have a contact number for him. I kept telling friends that we had in common when they saw him to tell him I wanted it back but I never saw it again.

I was just stupid and trusted someone I shouldn't. I still miss the violin.

corner of hells

My wife's sister borrowed a step ladder a few years ago , had it for a while.

When we went looking for it back , herself and her husband insisted it belonged to them and refused to give it back.

Time passed and I got text one day asking if I would replace an outside light after they were burgled, me being an electrician. Unfortunately, I hadn't got a step ladder.

My sister in law rang when I didn't answer her text , I explained I had no step ladder as it had been robbed on me.

She did offer to let me use her step ladder but I explained I just wouldn't feel safe on a ladder that wasn't mine.

Once lent my little brother the use of my 72 plymouth duster .He ended up totaling it showing off,still miffed about it.

Strumms

A guitar, I’d been friends with this individual for about four years, went to a party in theirs, foolishly lent them said guitar as I was probably too pissed to get it home…a few days later they go incognito on social media and phone apps… found a fortnight later they lost their job, hot footed it back to Bristol where they were from, owed their rent so ripped me off for a 600 euro guitar and whatever the rent was…. Thought of the incident last year, looked them up and they can be seen on Twitter.. with my guitar.

One thing I always remember was that they were a nice enough dude, fun to be around but always shall we say extremely weird regarding money.

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119374173#Comment_119374173

No way? Tell me more please. How did it end. Surely they came clean?

Brid Hegarty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375370#Comment_119375370

Couldn't you contact him on twitter, or put up a cheeky post for others to see?

Nigel Fairservice

My Dad loaned a next door neighbour a spare television in the early 80s. The estate was a new build so most people were only recently married or had young families and were finding their feet. My Dad told the neighbour to hold on to it til he got sorted with his own one. About 2 years later my Dad's own TV packed in so asked the neighbour for his spare TV back. The neighbour was an electrician for the ESB. He cut the power lead off the TV and left it at our front door. What a scumbag!

GavPJ

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119369921#Comment_119369921

😂 😂

GavPJ

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119376718#Comment_119376718

What a cn ut!!!

JupiterKid

Lent a few things in my time including CDs (got them back badly scratched) small amounts of money (sometimes got it back, sometimes not) and these days I rarely lend anything unless it is to a very close friend I know I can trust.

Way back in my coilege undergrad days in the 1990s, I lent a guy I befriended in 2nd year all of my Geography course lecture notes for that year as he was repeating the year and told me that he'd photocopy them and give them back to me ASAP. Never saw them - or him - again. 😥🤬

You live and learn - my late mum used to say the old adage "neither a borrower nor a lender be."

I find that the sort of people who look to borrow things all the time are also the very ones not to be trusted with your (or anyone's) property. You also tend to find that those who borrow things a lot never lend anything themselves.

When it comes to the thorny issue of lending family or close friends money - only prepare to lend in the expectation that you will not get it back and can afford to take the loss.

ZX7R

Had a cassio digital watch it could tell the time in every time zone.

This was nearly 30 years ago it was cutting edge for then.

Lent it a friend at the time never saw it again.

magick

Gave a friend a lend of Resident Evil on the PS One. He gave it back to me a month later and the CD looked like a cat attacked it, game was unplayable.