Charrlie_S
Well-Known Member
How about a neighbor that wants to borrow a tool, but wants me to bring it over to his house. And it doesn't come back till I go to get it.
Exactly who every child needs both a mom and a dad...they need the harsh and the fluffy
It is not your responsibility. You did not loan the tool to the Creep, you loaned it to your "buddy". It is his responsibility to return the tool you loaned him. $150 is cheap to find out your "buddy" is just using you and is a thief. Treat him accordingly. As for you going to the Creeps house, you should never put yourself or anyone else at risk. It is never worth it. Safety first, always.
Similar story, dude moved 3 states away.Also posted on facebook:
Never lend your tools out !!!!!!
I had a "buddy" who needed to borrow a cam bearing tool. So I loaned it like an idiot and turns out he didn't need it for himself but his buddy who I don't know and needed it for a mustang of some sort.
So he takes my cam bearing tool and leaves it at his buddies place in a shady part of town, who is the one who actually needed it. He never brought it back, so 2 months later I go to get it back and my former "buddy" says he doesn't have it and told where his buddy lives who used it and told me that I have to go get it myself.
So I go to this other guy's house who has it who I don't know.
I tell him that it is mine and my "buddy" told me to come get it.
The guy who used it tells me to "F%c^ off, BiT&%" .....so I get the door slammed n my face and my cam bearing tool is long gone.
Luckily it was a cheap Chinkese tool that I found at a pawn shop a few years ago for cheap because I had to weld the end and it was missing some parts when I got it. So it could have been worse.
So to not let dumb things get me down .......I got over it and ordered a new Lisle 18000
Its in the mail but when it gets here, I am never lending it or any other tool out ever again. (I am going to get hostile if anyone asks) This is a much better tool anyways so remember, turn those lemons in life into sweet lemonade and buy nice tools, and don't forget to NEVER lend them out.
Mopar or no car Brothers and Sisters
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///////////////////////////////////////////////////I grew up w/ the harsh , it dam sure affected me !
Yep. I rarely let tools go off my property and when they do, I go with them...and I come home with them. A few times of me hovering over them while they use the borrowed tool and then taking it home with me seems to always discourage them from asking again.People who have old cars should have tools. Period. End of story. If I ever need something and I don't have it, I buy it. The only exceptions are very expensive items such as things I hire out done. For anything I do myself, I make the tool purchase. If someone wants to borrow something of mine, they can, but they have to stay right here in my shop and use it.
My brother bought a car trailer and his buddies kept him so busy hauling stuff he sold it. Now we have another one we keep hid out, my dad bought it and we fixed it up to our liking, it stays at his place. I have a good friend with a towing service and I usually just hire his rollback to move my stuff.Wow you guys did a number on kicking up a very old thread but the moral still holds true.
I have been asked about lending out my trailer a few times in the last couple summers. Of course it was NO. LOL