rorywquin
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- Your Mercedes
- An old B-Class.
My stepson is on my blacklist.
He borrowed a dehumidifier to dry out some plaster he'd had done. I'd used it twice. The dog chewed the power lead (apparently) so he threw it away. Took 8 months to get the truth from him. If he'd fessed up at the time I'd have just fitted a new power lead. Never offered to replace it or pay for it.
He also borrowed a set of 4 expensive Oztent camping chairs (Blobcat will be familiar with these I'm sure). Of the 4 3 came back quickly. The 4th took over a year to come back.
If he asks now I either don't have what he wants or someone else has borrowed it.
We gave some friends the keys to our French house for a week (for free). When they left they left food scraps in the kitchen and their kids had knocked a hole through the plasterboard in the kitchen when playing with a rocking chair. They did apologise for the wall but it was a very dismissive apology.
Another friend borrowed it for three weeks (he was actually my ex-boss) and was completely the opposite. He not only arranged and paid for our cleaner to go after they left but also replaced the BBQ gas bottle, left 6 bottles of wine and a bottle of champagne in the house for us for our next visit. On top of that he sent us a hamper of wine and food to our UK home as well!
OzTent is good gear (I had a gazebo).
The ex-boss is like me - I'll return it better than I got it - I hate users. We had a holiday place in Turkey (Bodrum) and soon realised who wanted free holidays and who were friends.......