Have you ever regretted lending something?

corner of hells

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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

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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

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😂 😂

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.

Wheelbarrow- came back scratched leading to rust and caked on dried cement

SuperBowserWorld

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Similar

Super Mario Galaxy, Wii .

Probably the best game ever.

Lent it out. Got it back all scratched. Any of which could make the game fail.

jack of all

Nearly 20 years ago I loaned some drawing equipment to a work colleague. It was relatively expensive, specialist stuff that I'd had since college days. Anyway after about 2 weeks the stuff hadn't been returned and my (much better paid) colleague was avoiding me. I enquired after it to be told she'd given it to someone else and she wasn't responsible for it! I put her right on that front and hounded her until it was returned, and it was, in short order! I rarely loan stuff now, except to a one guy I trust who's like-minded and loans stuff to me as he knows I'll mind it and return it promptly. I think it's a general rule that the kind of people who regularly borrow stuff often have nothing worth loaning themselves.

NiceFella

When I was 10 I was going away on holidays and a friend asked could he borrow my Super Nintendo for the week. The people pleaser I was seemed ok with it.........until when I brought it over and set it up. I turn my back for 5 secs and his not so bright younger brother pulls the game cartridge out mid game and then jams a Sega mega drive game in and flips the switch on. I made up that my mother told me I couldn't under any circumstances lend out the super Nintendo. (She couldn't care less).

In my first part time job a rough enough but "nice guy" asked for 20 quid and I said he seemed ok and gave him the lend. Said he'd pay back next pay day. Worked the same shift as him and he never ever brought it up again. Same nice demeanor, but he knew I wouldn't harass him as he had a bit of a mean streak in him. I'd say he could make a profession out of picking people to ask money out of.

Some of my own best friends have let me down in that regard in certain situations. I hate to fall out over money so I just don't lend money.

Brid Hegarty

@NiceFella In my first part time job a rough enough but "nice guy" asked for 20 quid and I said he seemed ok and gave him the lend. Said he'd pay back next pay day. Worked the same shift as him and he never ever brought it up again. Same nice demeanor, but he knew I wouldn't harass him as he had a bit of a mean streak in him. I'd say he could make a profession out of picking people to ask money out of.

Ah you could've at least asked him, even if you knew he'd never give it.

rob316

Money to a "friend" to help them. Never ever again

Brid Hegarty

@JupiterKid 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. 😥🤬

Gee, did he drop out maybe. I bet at some point in time you must have wondered if he'd been keeping his head low around campus for all those years just as part of some plan to annoy you?

derb12

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The earrings thing sounds fishy. I’ve lost many (of my own) earrings over the years but I’ve never lost both. I still have a little box of my single earrings in case the other half ever reappears!

if someone borrowed a pair of earrings and lost them both I’d be very suspicious.

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119388803#Comment_119388803

Oh sorry I should have said, she just lost the one earring

Nigel Fairservice

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His wife was lovely. I worked with his daughter about 20 years later, long after both our families had left the old housing estate and she was lovely as well. Don't know where they got him.