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[scotty_1987]

well last night a chap came up to the house looking for a lend of a wheel brace because his tire had gone pop! i thought nothing of this and as i am a nice person!lol i gave him it....he said ill be back in five mins...he never came back i was pretty disheartened. my bro said that not everyone is as nice as me i take it i should have told him where to go now!

[TAR]

Nah, don't stop being nice, just be more careful. Next time only lend a tool if you go with it.

[scotty_1987]

@tar i will still be nice but will use your good advice there man,cheers


@rob1380 i think he might have been a bit of an idiot because apparantley his car was 5 mins from mines so i think he just robbed it....

[MaxAndPaddy]

Sad it makes you lose faith in people a bit. I'd like to think you'l get another knock on the door and it returned with an explanation but doubt it

[Daviewonder]

You should learn from this. Next time someone asks to borrow a wheel brace, smash it round there head

[Frank the Tank]

Is your brace gold plated because that is a random/cheap thing to steal.

[Mini-Mad-Craig]

That tool stole your tool!

[scotty_1987]

thanks lads for the sympathies and mini-mad-craig,i lol'd at yer comment...
@frank,man i have no clue haha bit random ye ( a bit off topic but i take yer a celtic fan so cmon' the hoops!)

[Frank the Tank]

It's never off topic talking about the bhoys.

[scotty_1987]

whey hey hail hail hahah!

[the_r_sole]

[E.L.M.O]

Thats a real sad thing. You leant it in all good faith. Its times like this that I really hope Karma does exist! That way you will hopefully be rewarded for helping someone in need and he will get punished for being such a dam right theif /lazy git! (who knows, he may have had every intention of returning it but after changing his wheel just thought, "I cant be bothered" (not that this justifies it at all, and its just as bad as stealing it, but its another suggestion on why he may have done what he did)

[midridge2]

many years ago a friend of mine with a mini van asked if he could borrow my battery charger as he had a duff battery and could not afford a new one, 2 weeks later i asked for it back as i had a battery to charge up. he said he had lent it to another friend of his, i went to his friends house to ask him for it back, he had lent it out to another of his friends, again i went to this friends house to ask for it back, he got very annoyed as he was on charging his battery and did not want to leave it half charged, so i said ok and would come back the next day to collect it, guess what? he lent it out to some one else so another journey to go and collect it. i never lent the first friend another thing after that.

[E.L.M.O]

many years ago a friend of mine with a mini van asked if he could borrow my battery charger as he had a duff battery and could not afford a new one, 2 weeks later i asked for it back as i had a battery to charge up. he said he had lent it to another friend of his, i went to his friends house to ask him for it back, he had lent it out to another of his friends, again i went to this friends house to ask for it back, he got very annoyed as he was on charging his battery and did not want to leave it half charged, so i said ok and would come back the next day to collect it, guess what? he lent it out to some one else so another journey to go and collect it. i never lent the first friend another thing after that.

I would have told the first friend that he had to go get it and if he didnt, he owes me a new one. If he didnt have it back within 24 hours then he is giving me a battery charger whether is be my one or a new one.

My biggest issue is lending things out and then forgetting who I leant it too!!! Ive done it so many times. I leant out a whole roof box to someone once and never got it back, when I needed it I tried to remember who had it, but I couldnt for the life of me remember. Its so fustrating!

Im always there to help out a friend and will go to extream lenghs to help out, or lend something to someone. But I get really annoyed and fustrated when that friendship is abused. Which it almost always is. And what also gets to me is when you have gone out of your way to help someone, and when you need a hand with something suddenly everyones busy!!!