WTF! Do you all go down the grocery aisles thinking, Nope, I got better things to do with my money…I’ll just borrow this stuff from the neighbour. I mean, I can understand running out of something and being in a bind, but I swear you plan to shop at my place. Milk, eggs, butter, sugar, flour, pepper, ketchup, tea, mayo, bread, vegetables and toilet paper (this is the worst)…these are staples, yet without fail, you’re calling over or your kids are knocking on my door every other day for at least one of these. If you can’t afford to buy it, then I certainly can’t afford to give it away! (BTW, I know you send your kids so that saying NO is harder.)
And medical supplies…holy shit! It’s too the point that your kids don’t even go to you when they’re hurt…they immediately come running to my door to be treated. And Tylenol! I rarely take a pill, but somehow I’ve gone through a bottle of 200! WTF!
You borrow the lawn mower. You borrow tools. You borrow rides. You borrow money. You even borrow my freakin’ kids to babysit for you.
But here’s the thing: ‘borrowing’ means that you return it or you pay it back. What all of you are doing is called bumming.
So, although I won’t turn your kids away when they need medical care, as far as everything else goes:
The neighbourhood ‘store’ is no longer open for business.
—Bummed Out
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
Next time just smile sweetly and say, sorry, I can’t help you. This broad is using you and she fucking well knows it. Don’t be this bitch’s doormat. I’m sure she’ll find another sucker in no time.
I hate when they borrow the toilet plunger. First, that’s something you just don’t want to lend. Then, by the time you realize that they haven’t returned it, you really need it, and they aren’t home. And, when they do finally do pass it back to you, it’s all covered in dried shit and toilet paper.
How does that old saying go “neither a lender nor a borrower be” – translation, tell the moocher and her kids no.
Move to the country…the closest house is half a klick away from me. By the time you walk over to my place, you’ve shit your pants ! 😉
She’s laughing at you. Just say NO regardless of who comes to the door.
Can I borrow your car?
I had a neighbour just like this. He was originally going to a private college and flunked out halfway through the very first semester and would spend his money on booze, pot and video games.
Then he started selling pot (while collecting EI) and still couldn’t get toilet paper, condiments, etc. He could afford a new skateboard deck, shoes and hats though. He was also several hundred dollars behind in back-rent – but still had time to state that he was “ballin’ out of control”.
The final straw came when he volunteered my apartment for a part for him and his friends! He and two/three others came up to my place, knocked on the door and told me, “Turn on the AC! We’re watching the game here!” Ironically, they tried to make me out to be the asshole when I got upset but calmly said, “There’s no fucking party here!”
I don’t feel too bad in retrospect filing two or three noise complaints against him.
this so reminds me of someone that lived in the apt. across from me. forever borrowing shit,reason,no cash just now.but then they would take off to the country or out somewhere just about all the time. smokes were the worst. like i can afford your habit as well as mine, fuck that, just draw the line, and don’t look back. you will thank yourself later that you did.
Just tell the guy that you know his first name is Cosmo and you’re going to spill the beans to everybody he knows if he doesn’t leave you alone.
You’re being used. Next time, whatever they ask for, just tell them you don’t have any. Keep telling them every time they ask that you don’t have any ketchup, toilet paper, sugar, etc… eventually they will get the hint and fuck off.
HKM: If someone came over to borrow my toilet plunger they would be shit out of luck! No pun intended. Who the hells DOES THAT???
I so have a friend that does the “I don’t have it” thing all the time… only to the extreme…
they even do it to the telemarketers.
They want you to buy car insurance? sorry, no car.
a paper subscription? sorry, don’t read.
New Phone plan? sorry, don’t own a phone…. on the phone no less….
works 90% of the time, every time.