"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...

> This same woman cam by last week wanting to know if we had any good books
> she
> could borrow. I told her that most of the good books I get are borrowed
> from
> the library. She told me that she can't borrow from the library because
> she owes
> it too much money for overdue fines and lost <?> books. Then she proceeded
> to
> tell me that when she borrows a good book she gets possessive and wants
> to keep
> it. And she wanted me to loan her books?? Fat chance.

How very strange! I'd stay away from her. I have a friend who would borrow
books,
almost reference type books, by the time she *evenually* got around to
returning it,
it would look as if it's been rattling around the back of her station wagon
for months.
Grrr, that really bugs me. I must say, the few things I've lent to anyone
in this group
have been returned in pristine condition.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:

>
> > the library. She told me that she can't borrow from the library because she
> owes
> > it too much money for overdue fines and lost <?> books. Then she proceeded
> > to tell me that when she borrows a good book she gets possessive and wants
> > to keep it. And she wanted me to loan her books?? Fat chance.
>
> How very strange! I'd stay away from her. I have a friend who would borrow
> books, almost reference type books, by the time she *evenually* got around to
> returning it, it would look as if it's been rattling around the back of her
> station wagon
> for months. Grrr, that really bugs me. I must say, the few things I've lent
> to anyone
> in this group have been returned in pristine condition.

Believe me. I avoid her. People like her make number display worthwhile. She is
a friend of my wife, not my friend. She was lucky when she called two weeks ago
to ask if she could borrow a car to get to work. Neither of her two cars would
start. We were in the midst of a heck of a snow storm and I wasn't planning on
going anywhere. We needed both cars in the morning because my wife goes to
church and I go to my riding lesson. My wife made arrangements to go and get her
and to be dropped off at the house, and then her friend came back here at
midnight to drop off the car and get a ride back home. She called the next day
to ask to borrow the car again, and again two days later. Bad luck for her that
she got me instead of my wife because I said no.

Now she is bad mouthing the mechanic I recommend last summer when her car
battery went dead. She had to get a new battery and was also told that she
needed an alternator. She blames him for the poor battery and doesn't understand
that they don't recharge if the alternator isn't working. She won't come up with
the money for a new one. I realize that she probably can't afford it, but we
have two cars because we live in the country and there is no public transit. I
don't pay to maintain two vehicles so that I can provide her with the means to
get to work.