NEVER EVER loan to neighbors
 

I learned this years ago when I loaned a $500 pressure washer to the guy across the street at the old house and the damn thing had a cracked high pressure snout the next time I used it.


So Saturday my neighbor across the street shows up on my front doorstep...They know I got some nice pop-up tents I used at a big party we had a few weeks ago. Got asked to borrow for a party yesterday....talk about being put on the spot :(

So me being the nice guy I bring one over later in the day. I set it up for him....and specifically told him NOT to leave it out in heavy rains as it will buckle the top canvas and destroy it...I JUST fixed it a few weeks ago from when it collapsed on a jobsite two years ago. I got lucky and was able to find the manufacturer. Got all the replacement parts.

Yep you guessed it...I look out the door this am and across the street is a pile of crap that used to be my tent. Freekin $200 tent and the guys a ninny and leaves it out yesterday.

MY bad.
NEVER AGAIN.

Fool me once shame on you...I think you know the rest :grins:

-spence

EZ-UP??? make him buy you a new one- sams club 100 bucks. I have 4

They never ask anymore.. I tell them I have one rule, I go with it, and stay with it, till they're done.... They don't ask no more :D

i don't talk to my neighbors and they don't talk to me. seems to help avoid these types of situations.

Don't worry......sounds like you're about to get a brand new tent from your neighbor....... :laugha:

Whenever I borrow anything I make sure I promise full replacement if I break, damage or destroy the item. There really isn't any excuse for not taking care of something that isn't yours.

Paul, that 704 always did sound like a windchime didn't it? :laugha:

-spence

I'm the same way.

Scott, can I borrow your boat next weekend?

i made sure
 

i have no neighbors except for one...and they dont ask.

ok so now it's sitting in a big pile of twisted crap at the top of his driveway. Guy hasn't said nuthin yet. He leaves for Iraq on Thursday....we'll see what happens.

Some neighbor!

i'd ask him for a check.

Neighbors suck......... :poke:


:nailem:

thats spooky
 

generating that kind of bad karma just before leaving to Iraq can only result in one thing.

one time
 

i left a bunch of nice stuff with a neighbor for safe keeping to make sure it didnt get stolen while i travelled east...who said "no problem" and the S.O.B.
had a yard sale and sold it all. You "think" you know people...but you rarely do.

Sorry about the tent!!

I loaned my mower to my neighbor. He ran over the pull cord, put it back in my garage, didnt close the door, cats pissed over everything (strollers, bikes, etc.

Sumbitch never even said anything or offered to fix anything. I'd really like to throttle him, but what good will that do? He'll still be an irresponsible a$$ and I would be the hothead who flipped over a broken pull cord.

Some people are just (your favorite curse here)...

Being the good guy it seems you always get screwed. When I sold my old boat to a distant friend he asked me if the stands came with it. I said no but you can take 2 till you get your own. Those things last a lifetime and aren't cheap. Well, never seen them since, it has been about 2 years now.

You hate to be the bad guy and say no but in the end your the onw who gets shortchanged, it s*cks.

I had a neighbor that borrowed an axe from me. About a year later I needed it back. Being the politically correct guy I am, I never asked for it back but instead asked him if he had one I could borrow thinking he'd remember and give mine back. Wouldn't you know it he gave me the axe but asked for it back a few weeks later. He honeslty thought it belonged to him!

Lesson learned.

Sorry-o....no habla enlase' el' neighbor-o'! :rolleyes:

That same rule can also be applied to coworkers.And what make lending to coworkers worse is you have to see these guys everyday.

Which reminds me, I lent someone on this board a 704......

FYI, that's not the one I currently have on Ebay :hee:

Please don't check :hidin:

-spence

I was in my neighbors garage once and saw my shovel. I said.."hey!! thats my shovel!" He said, no it isn't I have had that shovel for years!... I said I know its been missing for years, that is mine :angel: ! He said, How do you know it is your shovel? I said because it has my last name burned into the handle. Oh...I guess it it yours. Here. :hs:

I hate loaning tools, esp power tools to anyone. You need it you buy it yourself. I also have a trashed power washer that needs to be rebuilt as well because of a loaner.

had a former friend
 

steal my shovel...so i went over to his place and took it back after finding it laying in the back of his pick up truck...then i busted him over it... hard...
the next day however ....happened to be his birthday ...so to make ammends for slamming him on the theft so venimously, i bought him a new shovel for his birthday. he was all happy then..........

but then 6 months later after breaking his new shovel he stole my shovel again....

some people definately just aren't worth the effort and will never "get it".:af:

Fences make good neighbors.

i loaned a neighbor the wife once. but he sent her right back :spidey:

Nice Mike....nice

How in hell do you run over the pull cord?? :faga:

I did it too to my own mower though :whackin:
it came out of the clip thingie and was draggin on the ground and I didnt know it.....zinngggg off it went...then I tried to fix it...those springs s*ck..

People
 

Y'all are way to nice.

Yeah, that sucks. I learned that lesson in a similar way. No I live by these words.... "Neither a borrower nor a lender be!"

I NEVER borrow anything...that has become one of my hardfast rules. I learned this the hard way, whenever I borrowed something it broke, no matter how careful I was.

A few years ago my father-in-law was on me to use his ridding mower to suck-up and bag the leaves in my yard instead of raking. I told him that I would rather rake, but he insisted and my wife suggested that I use the mower, so I gave in. My father-in-law instructed me to take the bag off and chop the leaves up, then put the bag back on to pick up the leaves on the second pass.

All was going well as I chopped the leaves up until I notice a burning smell.... I looked back at the engine and leaves had blown up onto the exhaust and had caught fire! :doh:

I quickly stopped the mower, and as I swung my leg around to get off, my boot hit and snapped off the key in the ignition :doh:

I could not shut the engine (that was filled with burning leaves) down... I ripped my sweatshirt off and beat the fire out, then when it was safe I pulled the spark plug wire.

Thankfully the damage was not too bad and we were able to save the mower.

This is one of the reasons that I do not borrow stuff.

Chris

ChrisH :wavey:

I know you did not intend the story this way (given that we're in Grumpydom) but that is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time

I have this mental image of that scene and I'm LMFAO :hihi:

You gonna be around the Ditch on the 24th? a group from the other site is going to be around the Scussett Pier - drop by :buds:

Hey G2 how are you doing? Well I hope.

I'm going to try and get there on the 24th, just have to see what my son's hockey schedule is. I'm glad my story got ya to laugh, my wife says that these things just happen to me :doh:

Chris

Well let's just say I and dumb, I lent my "new" nabor my 150ft cord and hedger almost 4 weeks ago. He stopped over to watch me paint my house the other day. He was talking to my wife in the driveway when I said that I needed my 150 ft cord back. Not a word from him and now it's 3 days later :(
Nothing yet.

VB

Doin one of those gratis type jobs fo me unk.just moved to the hood.wants to borro my truck his wifie's at the beach.i think to myself this guy's from NY they treat there car's like bumper cars.i say OK(dumbass)I was parkin 2 houses away because there's this tree that hangs into the street.he had seen me unload the truck from there i guess he got it. well nope look at the truck there's a nice long gauge down the side like someone keyed it.i keep my truck in good condition its 5 yrs old w/130k an people ask me all the time if it's new.I don't think it will buff out.thanks unkle Mikie. aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrr

neighbors
 

I help everyone everytime they ask, I NEVER SAY NO. I,ve been keeping my boat in front of my house for a qwik get away after work instead of storing it fifteen miles away. My neighbor across the street asks when I'm going to store it before someone is going to complain because I park it on the street I told him I have the same right as anyone else to park on the street. The trailer is registered until the end of Novemeber. He got mad because his visitors cant park in front of his house. There is enough room for the fire department and large trucks. Yes I have loaned tools to this neighbor and yes he forgets it's mine. I told my son to take him off my XMAS card list.

wanna know what really sucks?
 

it really sucks when the neighbors don't go in your garage and 'borrow' a shovel, but when they go into your parents bedroom while you're away fishing and grab every bit of jewelry in sight, including an heirloom engagement ring. :splat:
than, it sucks more when they get out of jail via a plea in 6 months. :yak5: :bo:
but it rocks when they get evicted :jump1: