Is this fair?
@lafredricktaylor (256)
United States
June 20, 2012 3:30pm CST
Say you have a friend that is down and out and needs a little help with their financial situation. There car goes to the shop to get a new transmission put in it right. They say it will take about a week to get fixed. Well you have three vehicles and there is only one of you, so all of them are not being used anyway. So you being the friend that you are, you let them know that they can use one of your cars until they get it fixed. You have two old school cars that you REALLY love and they are paid off, and they are really the two you use anyway. But you have a brand new pick up that you pay a car note on, that you dont drive much. So you offer this friend to use your truck. Only thing about it, just dont wreck it, make sure its on full when you bring it back, and DONT let your girlfriend drive my car. She and I didnt get along very well. So a week turn into a month and a month turned into 6 months. Your still the coolest friend and dont say anything, This person even uses your car and goes to another state. The only good thing about the situation is that the three things I asked to happen, are actually happening. At least that is what i thought. Now I get a call informing me that my car is at the store, being driven by non other than this person who is not on my TO DO LIST..if you know what i mean. So i call my friend and ask where my truck is. He pauses for a min and says..(we gunna call her Robert!) Robert went to the store, she will be right back. I said thats cool...but i thought i asked you not to let her drive my car, she has a car, why she in mine. He couldnt give me a good enough reason for it, so i asked him to bring my car home. He said ok and hung up. Well about an hour later he drove up..brought my keys..and walked out the house. Didnt say anything..and neither did I..He proceeded to walk home..(which he lived about 5 miles away) I didnt go to take him home because i wasnt mad or anything i jus wanted my truck..but he was upset for some reason and walked out..so do you think i was wrong or was i a fool for too long anyway?
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7 responses
@PhillyDreamer (3039)
• United States
20 Jun 12
You're friend imposed on your friendship enough by keeping the vehicle so long. If he couldn't respect your rules or even thank you for letting him use the truck then he wasnt a very good friend at all.
@PhillyDreamer (3039)
• United States
21 Jun 12
At least you got your truck back in one piece. Now the lesson is, you never loan out the nice new expensive vehicle. You lend out the old junker which has no air conditioning and makes the loudest noise possible. People will most likely make sure they get their car fixed quickly to avoid driving the junker lol.
@Lauraleigh99 (4718)
• United States
20 Jun 12
SOunds like your friend took total advantage of you and your kindness. You had every right to give him a list of rules because it was your vehicle. You are more patient than I am because I would have called him after 2 or 3 weeks and said what the hell is going on your car should be fixed by now? But it sounds like your friend needs to grow up. he takes advantage of you and then proceeds to leave your house mad. He should have been saying thank you and explaining why he kept the car so long and broke all the rules you gave him
@lafredricktaylor (256)
• United States
20 Jun 12
It was just a lessoned learned. But its more to this guy than just the car tho.
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
20 Jun 12
I think you were completely right to take the car back and maybe he's upset about it, but he should realize that you had a set of rules for him to follow, he broke them, and he'd kept your car waaaay longer than the week it was supposed to take for him to get his own car back. If anything, you didn't assert yourself soon enough.
@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
21 Jun 12
Hi friend, sad to hear about your friends activity, why he did this kind of thing? any way he gave your car key to you in the proper time as per your wish, be happy with it and forget about this issue
@Lmfisher666 (820)
• United States
20 Jun 12
I think that was too long in the first place, and if he didn't want to give it back, shouldn't have broke the rules. He was just taking you for a ride, getting everything he could out of you.
@lafredricktaylor (256)
• United States
20 Jun 12
thats wat i said..but thats not the worst that he did...but thats a totally different discussion.
@midnightdreams (25)
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20 Jun 12
no offense to your friend but you gave him enough time and rules to follow and he broke it. if I was in your situation i would do the same thing. if his still mad the only thing i would say is you should talk to him about the situation, like how you didnt mean no harm, or if anything offended him that was not your intention. just be open and ask him to do the same for the sake of friendship.
@meumeu25 (917)
• United Arab Emirates
20 Jun 12
well he should have been responsible enough to follow what you asked him, and 6 months is way too long to borrow and use something. Given that he was upset, it isnt still right that after the help he got, he just give the truck back w/o a single thank you.
