People who borrow things and don't give them back are the worst.

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Hey GAF story time.

When I was about 15 one of my friends found themselves in a bit of a dilemma they had just gotten Final Fantasy VIII after months of waiting and was super hyped to play it.

Unfortunately not long after he got it his PSX died, it was an out of warranty repair which would be costly. His birthday was months away, same deal for Christmas.

According to his brother and him there was no way they could convince their parents to replace it or pay for the repair, meaning he would have to wait until Christmas or his birthday to finally finish Final Fantasy VIII.

As luck would have it is had just gotten a Dreamcast that year so my PS1 was getting a lot less use at the time, so I agreed to loan him my Playstation on the condition I got it back as soon as he beat Final Fantasy VIII. So I bring it round to his place the next time I am there. He's super grateful and promises to bring it back soon.

A few weeks later I ask if he's done with Final Fantasy VIII yet, he says he is nearly done. About a month later I ask again he says he did beat the game but begs me to let him keep it a little while longer as the only other console he has is his old SNES. I agree to two more weeks.

After this he starts avoiding me at school and barely talking to me for nearly two months. Finally I decide enough is enough I show up at his house to get my Playstation back. He isn't in so I explain to his parents what happened. His dad says he will handle it, next day he shows up at my house with my Playstation.

After his dad leaves he whines about getting his parents involved. I tell him straight up if he had gave it back when he said he would then he would have been off the hook a long time ago.

I eventually found out he has done this with other friends and has a habit for this. After this I made a point of not loaning him anything ever again.
 
I had pre-ordered Uncharted 4 for $60, and it's normally $80+ in Canada. I'd be out of town when it came out, so instead of letting it go to waste, I found a friend who wanted the game anyway and figured I'd save him $20.

Months later no payment, and I figured I wouldn't get the money, so I told him "Hey instead of paying me back, how about you just give me the game and we'll call it even". He said yeah sure, but has made no effort to get it back to me. I figured it was a great deal, basically paid for him to have the game free for months.

Gonna have to say next weekend that I'm just coming by to pick it up.

edit: Also lent most of my snes games to a neighbor when I was a kid. Next thing I know he moved, didn't tell me and took my games with him. Still salty about that one.
 
whitehawk said:
I had pre-ordered Uncharted 4 for $60, and it's normally $80+ in Canada. I'd be out of town when it came out, so instead of letting it go to waste, I found a friend who wanted the game anyway and figured I'd save him $20.

Months later no payment, and I figured I wouldn't get the money, so I told him "Hey instead of paying me back, how about you just give me the game and we'll call it even". He said yeah sure, but has made no effort to get it back to me. I figured it was a great deal, basically paid for him to have the game free for months.

Gonna have to say next weekend that I'm just coming by to pick it up.

edit: Also lent most of my snes games to a neighbor when I was a kid. Next thing I know he moved, didn't tell me and took my games with him. Still salty about that one.
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That sucks about the guy moving. Basically stole your stuff.
 
I did this a long time ago in Elementary. I was maybe 7? He let me borrow a bunch of DBZ TCG cards and then my parents switched my school all of a sudden and I didn't get a chance to give them back. I still have the cards stashed away in a box.
 
In high school, a friend (not even a super close one) begged me to borrow my nes GBA so for a vacation. I let him, and he was really awkward about giving it back. Eventually months passed, and I got him to admit he gave it to his sister and it'd be awkward to get it back Noe, but he would.

Never saw it again. Should have talked to his parents, but I was a Weiner. Still salty about it ten years later.

I never borrow anything anymore with the exception of three dudes I see on a weekly basis. Even then, its rare. Last time one of em had my copy of bloodborne for almost a year. /shakes fist
 
I have several albums that I borrowed from someone I worked with, he or I left (I can't remember) and I saw him in the street and asked for his postal address to send them to him. He said "No, don't worry about it, we'll meet in town some time and you can give me them then". A decade later...
 
I let a friend borrow my copy of FFVII back in high school. I wouldn't get it back from him for a year after pestering him over and over, turns out his cousin stole it from him and tried to pawn it off, when I finally got it back the front cover was cracked and the discs scratched. Never again.
 
People who break the things they borrow are even worse.

My friend (let's call him A) let my other friend (let's call him C) borrow a bong and he broke it after a month. Friend A wasn't too mad since it was a cheap bong but he told Friend C not break his shit.

Another friend (and let's call him B) let Friend C borrow an expensive ass bong and he broke it after a couple months as well. Not sure how Friend B feels about it but I'm sure he's not too happy.

Then, for some reason Friend A let's Friend C borrow another bong, this time it's more expensive than the first one but Friend C said he promised he won't break it. Fucking breaks it.

Don't know why we're still friends with him since he also doesn't pay people back unless you keep bringing it up. A girl I was talking to gave him shit for breaking so much of other people's stuff and he told her to get out and not talk like that to him in his house (actually a friend's house he was staying at). She stopped talking to me afterwards because I'm friends with the asshole.

We don't hang out anymore and we don't let him borrow anything. But if we did, we wouldn't without an insurance fee.

I actually let Friend A borrow my PS4 sometimes since I get no use out of it (I've got talk-about-games-but-don't-actually-play-them-itus). He returns it whenever I ask and he even bought a new controller for me since the first one crapped out. I might just let him keep it if I get a Pro.
 
just never lend people things. treat it as a gift. if you are okay just gifting that item to a friend or family member then do it knowing it doesn't matter if it ever gets returned, if not then simply refuse.
 
RIP about 20 asian films (Oldboy, New World etc etc) lent to my friend. The guy has issues with returning stuff.
 
When I was young I lent a friend some gameboy games.

I kept asking for them back and eventually he gave me half of them back and said he couldn't find the rest.

My dad spoke to his dad and it turned out he'd sold the other games.

He's now in prison.
 
I was in a long-term relationship in college during which I borrowed a lot of books and returned them afterwards, including the one I still had after we had broken up. I lent one book to her one time, and never got it back. I'm still bitter.
 
I lent my friend MGSV last September, and the Uncharted Collection and a Vita this past April. I've messaged him a lot about getting it back and its always a "Yeah for sure!" but it never happens.
 
About a decade a go my brother lent KotOR 1 and 2, my favorite games on the Xbox, to one of his friends. He moved to Atlanta like a week later and never returned them. I wasn't able to play those games again til recently where I got them on steam.
 
Elitist1945 said:
I lent my friend MGSV last September, and the Uncharted Collection and a Vita this past April. I've messaged him a lot about getting it back and its always a "Yeah for sure!" but it never happens.
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So you lent him a game in September and he never gave him back after six months and then you think the best course of action is to lent him another game and a handheld?

I never lent anything unless I am getting something in exchange.
 
Last year a friend from 6th grade I hadn't seen in like 10 years asked me for my address on facebook and brought me a Nirvana CD he borrowed from me ages ago. He said he found is while packing up his shit because he is moving out.

I thought I should do the same and went through my gaming collection and found a GBA game I remembered borrowing from someone. Messaged the person on facebook for their address... lives in Malaysia now... "sorry texted the wrong person" xD
I feel morally bankrupt now.
 
This is why I don't trust people enough to allow them borrowing my stuff.

They often forget to bring it back, or worse, they just don't feel like it.
 
Anticol said:
So you lent him a game in September and he never gave him back after six months and then you think the best course of action is to lent him another game and a handheld?

I never lent anything unless I am getting something in exchange.
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Yeah I honestly forgot I even lent him the game in September so that'd be my fault lol
 
Still missing my Order of the Phoenix hardcover I lent to my friend's gf in hs and my GC that was lent to another friend -_-'
 
I used to borrow movies to people. Family, friends. Many times I would never get them back because they would lose them, or have them so long they would forget or I would forget who I lend them to.

So glad my library is digital now. I just give people I trust, family, access to the library. Anybody else that asks, I'm like nope sorry, I'm all digital.
 
I don't loan shit out to people. I don't care how badly you want to watch some obscure out of print movie I own, you can watch it at my place or not at all.
 
Shit, this thread reminded me that a friend of mine has had my copy of Demon's Souls for like six months now. I should ask him about that.
 
i had a coworker lend me bayonetta 2. i had it for a few weeks and during that time i had started to pack my house to move. The game vanished completely, i have no idea where it is. i bought him a new sealed copy off ebay, but felt like shit that i lost his copy.

Its the only time ive ever misplaced a game in my life. When i move and unpack, i hope to find it someplace.
 
My brother lent a cousin my copy of Resi 5 never gave it back and my brother never made an effort to get it back and then we moved across the US. I always give him shit when we talk about Resident Evil.
 
Yep, one of my cousins never returned my Mass Effect 1 copy (one of the last retail games I bought). I'm glad his marriage failed :D
 
I lent a co-worker my bluray copy of the Lego Movie and never got it back. It pisses me off because I told her a week later that I bought it for my then 1 year old son to watch when he got older, i.e. I wanted it back. Fast forward 6 months and I ask her about it, she looks for it, and then comes back and tells me she lost it. She apologized but never offered to replace it.

Truthworthy people don't act like that. If it had been me I would pay to replace it.
 
Resident Evil 2, the Jill disc.
Need for speed III
GTA III
Devil May Cry 3

Zelda 1 returned to me but dudes mom wrote his name on it in black sharpie...
 
I have a spoon I borrowed from a guy that lived on the same floor as me in the dorm. Its a red spoon with Coca Cola logo on the handle. I still use it and I still feel bad.


This was 10 years ago.
 
I learned as a kid not to let anyone borrow my things. They either get lost, damaged/broken, or you have to fight with them to get your property back.
 
It is super annoying when you're actively trying to get it back and they still find a way to not give it back to you.

I have accidentally done it before too. That feeling when you're moving and suddenly realize you still have a book/movie/video game that you borrowed from somebody years ago is pretty shitty.

I'd be interested to hear from some girls and women in this thread. Borrowing/stealing each others clothes is super common from what I've seen over the years.
 
Lent my dvd of Lucio Fulci's ZOMBI to an acquaintance who lived across the hall from me when I was in the Navy, never got it back. Such BS.

Most recently, lent 'Batman: The Long Halloween' and 'The Killing Joke' to a former corworker, who lives like 20 yards from me in my apartment complex, I see him all the time, still haven't got it back.

The fuck.

Plus, lent a bunch of games to a coworker in college, never got them all back. What's most annoying is that I had a disc copy of Siren: New Translation (Blood Curse) and I never got it back. I already had the PSN version but the disc copy has a few uncensored scenes.
 
Hah, I lent friends money and never gotten it back. The bigger sums they always pay, in due time but the little ones at €100-200 always seem to be forgotten. I never lend anyone cash anymore. When I think about it it's only my nieces but that can be called donations towards their future. Yes they never pay back but as long as they stay in school and get that degree I can ignore the issue that I'm a sucker.
 
I take a picture of the person holding the item they are borrowing (especially books!) - helps me remember who has what. I delete it when it's returned.
 
My brother had mostly gotten out of handheld gaming and wanted to relive the glory days of the Gameboy era, so I lent him my Gameboy Pocket along with Pokemon Yellow and Link's Awakening. After a while I just kind of forgot I about it.

Six years later he randomly returns them, saying he found them in his closet.

At least I got them back. Eventually.
 
I've been guilty of doing this when I was a kid.

One of my friends from grade school let me borrow his copy of A Link to the Past.

I never gave it back.

Now, to be fair, he did sell his SNES stuff a few years later, and he doesn't really seem to be into video games now. I, on the other hand, still have that copy, in addition to hundreds of other games in my collection.
 
MrNelson said:
I've been guilty of doing this when I was a kid.

One of my friends from grade school let me borrow his copy of A Link to the Past.

I never gave it back.

Now, to be fair, he did sell his SNES stuff a few years later, and he doesn't really seem to be into video games now. I, on the other hand, still have that copy, in addition to hundreds of other games in my collection.
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All stolen?
 
Faustek said:
All stolen?
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That's the only instance
 
I've had it happen too many times now that I just stress out about it too much if I loan anything out.

What can be even worse is when you loan out and it comes back in unusable condition. Had this happen to my ENTIRE Gamecube collection save like 3 games. Bummed me the hell out for sure.

Last thing I remember loaning out though was Silent Hill 2 my junior year of high school. I knew I was gonna stress out but I somewhat trusted the guy. I got it back the next day. Guy said it was sooo boring.. I was relieved to get it back much quicker than expected but what the hell?!?
 
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