"Favors" that bite
I found i always pulled the short stick helping neighbors using my shop to fix their own,missing tools,using supplies(bolts,nuts ,welding rods etc)without replacing them.Only "favors" in return where the use of pieces of equipment that i had to fix first before it could be used.:rolleyes5:
Cats somehow dont like my cute little mices,they want processed food.When I tell them no,go catch mice,they bugger off to the neighbors:rolleyes5:
:iagree: I've been burned too many times, by freinds and relatives; tools that walk away, some borrowed and never returned, some just stolen.
I may help someone with a progect, but I take my toys home after play.
I don't loan anything anymore unless they leave me something I feel is of more or equal value (to me).
I don't care about offending any little feelings if I don't want to loan my tools. Grow up. We're not little kids any more, and it's taken YEARS to get what I have now. When I need it, I should have it, not a handwritten note in its place.
Maybe I'm too old. I'm tired of having to replace things I already owned. I can't afford it any more. My father in law put up with the family thieves, saying about the missing tools; "they aren't stolen, they just changed owners."
Too nice for me.
There's a passage in the bible about lending that I finally got;
Don't lend something unless you can give it away. If you can, and it comes back to you, it's like a bonus. If it doesn't come back, it was a gift.
As far as the cats, we keep plenty of them around; out of 5, one may be a good mouser. The rest are lazy slobs crapping and pissing on anything. I prefer dogs. They appreciate me.:thumbsup:
