Where oh where is my rake?

[Bethieboo]

I loaned my only rake out last year to a neighbor and I never got it back. At the time it did not seem like a big deal. Thing is they have moved away and they took my rake with them!

 

[Gabi]

That's rude. I did that with a shovel once, my mom told me to loan it to the neighbor when I was a kid, the day they moved, I went back over and took it back, I'm not sure they planned on ever returning it.

 

[Twinkle]

Bethieboo that is a shame. I tend to keep a shelf in the house for things I have borrowed from people but it is harder with outside items. If you can ever find out where they went you could call round and say the rake is fitted with a tracking device!

 

[RobertBrown]

My neighbor asked once if she could borrow my weedeater.
I said "no, but I'll be happy to come over and give you a hand with your yard work". She never asked me to borrow anything again.

 

[Tombstonebilly]

I had the same problem with my tools so I painted them with a bright orange and pink:ashamed: eveytime they looked at it they knew that it was mine :laughing: and I knew it was mine when I saw it :wink: most of the people stopped asking cause they didnt like the color:drink::drink:

 

[exotion]

I say no....... and I don't borrow tools if I need a tool I don't have I go buy it.

 

[sgmgarden]

Oh my! You try to help people out and thats what happens.

 

[possum]

I just say I do not borrow tools. I had an uncle that would say none of his tools would work anywhere but on his place.

 

[Bison]

I say no....... and I don't borrow tools if I need a tool I don't have I go buy it.

exactly.:thumbsup:

I had an uncle, after he borrowed the same thing twice he claimed it as his own and would not "lend" it back.

 

[chobbs1957]

I am not above borrowing something when I need to, and do not mind letting someone I trust borrow something from me.

At a business I ran many years ago, we once borrowed a skid steer loader from a Mennonite dairyman customer. We used it about two hours. We carried back to him after pressure washing it spit clean (got all the manure and mud off it), filled it up with diesel fuel and hydraulic oil as well. He said he hoped we needed again soon, or the next time it needed hydraulic oil, washing, and was low on fuel at the same time he'd bring it to us to use a couple of hours!

I learned a lot from that episode, plus got a much needed task accomplished. I have had similar things happen to me since when I have let friends use something of mine, and have done something like that myself. I've borrowed a lawnmower before, and before returning cleaned it up and filled it up with gas. The borrowed from and the borrower get a blessing from such habits.