Comments on: As the holidays approach…you’d better guard your kneecaps

By: chuck

chuck — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:32:12 +0000

I have a friend that I always seem to owe money for this and that, (such as her driving me a couple blocks to whatever, or eating a cheap dinner at her house to hang out) while I constantly treat her out to dinner and drove her miles upon miles wasting away entire weekends just so she can get errands done, and I’ve never asked for any of it back. I’m getting tired of being her friend, and friends with all other people who feel the need to calculate to the penny how much each person owes for dinner including tax and tips for every single meal.

And she’s been known to overcharge too. She’ll charge you for all the ingredients of a cooked meal even though she probably only used 20% of the ingredients, and keeps all the leftovers to eat later. God I hate folks like that.

By: RBX

RBX — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:32:05 +0000

My mother did this to my brother once, where they went out to lunch, and she paid. I guess she expected my brother to pay her back. Mind you, my parents are more than comfortable, financially speaking, and my brother was a law student at the time (read: poor, nevermind the fact that my mom spends money like it’s going out of style). I think it was literally $7 or $8, and finally my brother gave up and wrote her a check, the memo line of which read “STOP NAGGING ME.”

He got a phone call from my dad saying they were too embarrassed to cash the check and that he needed to apologize to my mom, who was literally crying over it.

The upside is that my dad tore up the check and told them both to forget the whole thing. (Despite the fact that his hard work is the reason for their financial status, my dad would never take me to lunch and then expect reimbursement, even now that I’m well into adulthood.)

By: sydney

sydney — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:41:36 +0000

If I owed this person $5.50 I’d write them a check for $2.75 and let them know I’d be paying in installments.

By: ed gein

ed gein — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:27:46 +0000

HAHAH.

By: Splint Chesthair

Splint Chesthair — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:25:19 +0000

No this is lame. You can’t beg someone for the money you willingly lent them. If you’re going to lend it, you give them a firm date of when you need it back by. If they don’t pay it back, consider it a fee for cutting an asshole out of your life for good.

If you don’t like that situation, don’t lend money.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:11:10 +0000

Yeah, but I think part of the method in the madness had to do with screwing me out of a few hundred krone!

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:04:03 +0000

Insanity helps!

By: Somethingtosay

Somethingtosay — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:47:24 +0000

Fair enough, people often never pay back money even when you ask 50 times (when they PROMISED), and it gets sickening. I can see doing it this way, it’s completely understandable. Basically: Don’t give me anything for Xmas, just MY MONEY BACK. Thanks.

By: Madrias

Madrias — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:47:09 +0000

I remember Dad wrote a check to one of his buddies who was nagging him over 80 cents. He stated “I wanted to see if he’d actually cash it.”

By: Madrias

Madrias — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:38:31 +0000

How the hell do you come up with these good jokes so fast?

By: Madrias

Madrias — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:21:26 +0000

I agree with Splint: I make it very clear when loaning friends gas money that I want it paid back when you can do so. I’ve also loaned to a friend who was $20 short for his brother’s B-day gift, and told him it was a gift, so no need to pay back.

I keep track, though, to make sure that if you’ve got an outstanding loan, you don’t get any more cash till I’m repaid.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:27:56 +0000

We write cheques in the UK.
We sometimes send people to gaol too!

By: park rose

park rose — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:45:41 +0000

Though this be madness, CB, yet there is method in’t.

By: Splint Chesthair

Splint Chesthair — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:08:57 +0000

Don’t lend money you aren’t prepared to lose. That’s the rule. If you’re disobeying this rule, you have no one to blame but yourself.