Lending kit out

dfk41

A friend of mine came to see me in November 2021 and liked the tamper stand I had

So much so, that he asked to borrow it so he could have one made. He brought it back to me this morning with another

So now I have 2! Have you ever lent items, only to receive them back a considerable amount of time later!

DavecUK

dfk41 I’ve lent many things, only to never get them back.

Gagaryn

Just before I left school I had a part-time job is Safeway supermarket.

I lent a guy I worked with a Billy Bragg album. Despite reminders for a a few months he kept forgetting to bring it back. This was back in 1984. I left Safeway in 1985 - got a proper job and never saw him again.

Until I bumped into him in a pub at the end of 2019 - don’t know how he recognised me, I was 17 the last time he saw me and was now in my early fifties. I had no idea who he was until he greeted me with “I’ve been meaning to get that Billy Bragg album back to you…” Still haven’t got the album back but he did get me a pint.

If I remember correctly the album was £2.99 and the pint was a fiver so, as a Scotsman, I was happy with that outcome. :-)

Ernie1

I lent a friend my first ‘proper’ acoustic guitar and moved to London shortly after. I got it back recently, almost 20-odd years later and as well as being nostalgic, the aging has made it sound better than ever!

MediumRoastSteam

This made me think…

I’ve lent things and people were very careful of them, and gave back in the same condition when it was lent to them.

But there were horror stories to: I’ve lent DVDs and never got them back. Even asked them years later, and the response was “I haven’t watched it yet!” 🤣

I lent a CD to someone and when I went to visit, found it being used as a coaster…

I lent a CD to someone and, 20 years later, the person contacts me saying still has my CD and asked if I wanted it back, or money back. I kindly told the person to keep it!

I don’t know…. I find this all strange and somewhat inconsiderate. When I was at school, where a very young MediumRoastSteam was starting off in life, the teacher said: “we look after our things well, but we should look after things which don’t belong to us as If they were ours, if not better”. That never left me. When people lend me stuff, I make sure it’s well looked after and that I give it back as promised.

JahLaza

MediumRoastSteam fir whatever reason I behave the same!! Over the years I’ve been let down many times too. I remember an early example when I was about sixteen a next door neighbour asked if he could borrow a motor cycle helmet that my dad was keeping for something because this neighbour had started college and ‘might’ be getting a lift on a motor cycle to class. My dad, knowing this guy, was apprehensive but said ‘ok you can have it but I need it back’ when my dad asked me to ask for it back this guy said he never borrowed it!! Most other stuff I loaned either didn’t come back or came back in bits. So, when I started collecting music I decided I will never loan out any cd or vinyl. If I like the person I’ll make them a copy!! People generally don’t care about your stuff