What is the most significant thing you ever borrowed or lent?

my car. I’ve lent it to family, for obvious reasons.. they had to go somewhere and didn’t have another vehicle available. lol

my heart. and it was returned broken.

Yes, my car would be my answer, too. My daughter had it for several days last fall when her car was in the shop. She’s a good driver, but I was on pins & needles until I got it back. My car is like my kids to me.

@eponymoushipster Awww, that stinks. I’m sorry, my friend. Shame on her. :-(

@jbfletcherfan it’s all good.

My trust. Sometimes is has been returned. Sometimes it has been abused.

Money for a house. Paying it back in teeeeny tiiiny pieces. Will take me 30 years. But still the smartest (economic) thing I ever did.

My house.

My wife’s best friend visited from Seattle, WA and we live in Sussex, WI. We were going to D.C.

Her friend isn’t allowed to stay at her own psycho b*tch of a mother’s house. Actually, she, her husband and two kids are not even allowed in the house. But god help them if they don’t visit. But I digress. So we let them stay at our house.

When we got back, it was gone.

Wait, the house was gone?

I feel like Daloon might’ve been talking about material possessions, and some people got a bit carried away.

@Bri_L You cannot leaving us hanging like that. What on Earth do you mean?

I was just kidding, it was still there.

It felt like a long borinig answer.

Got me!

It would be my car. I lent it to an acquantaince at my base who said he needed it for a short time. As it turned out, he borrowed it for most of my duty shift, almost 8 hours, and brought it back about 5 minutes before I was due to come off duty.

I found out about a week later that this same person was being discharged from the military for failing a urinalysis test due to a controlled substance in his system. The worst part was, I additionally found out that the night he borrowed my car, he used that 8 hours to drive around the city to buy and do drugs in different areas of the city. I’ve never, ever lent my car to anyone since that time.

I’ve borrowed and lent money. I’ve always repaid what I borrowed, but have not always been repaid what I lent. It’s ok…I never lent money I couldn’t afford to never see again. The most emotionally significant things I’ve ever lent were all books that were important to me. So far, all have been returned in good condition. Though my children still have one on long-term loan, my favorite Winnie-the-Pooh collection. I do expect it back someday!

Against my better judgment, I lent my typewriter to a would-be author. It took me a long time to get it back, and when I did it was disgustingly covered with unremovable spatters of White-Out. Typewriters were an important possession in those days. I shouldn’t have let anyone (including my husband, who wanted to do the guy a favor) talk me into it.

@Bluefreedom OMG!!! I hope your car didn’t smell like it! And I hope he didn’t hide any drugs in there!

@jbfletcherfan. I thoroughly searched the car after all this happened. It ended up being the white, sniffable substance and not the green, smokeable substance that he was buying and using while driving around in my car. I wanted to beat the living bejesus out of the guy when I found out all the details of what happened.

@Bluefreedom I’m sure you did! Too bad you didn’t.

@jbfletcherfan. I couldn’t. I’m a military policeman and it would have been totally inappropriate for me to beat him senseless around the head and shoulder area with chains, rubber hoses, and a frozen chicken. It was very tempting but I would have faced serious disciplinary action if I unloaded on him.

@Bluefreedom I know that. But get out of that uniform & have a go at him that way. You ARE packin’, you know.

Whenever I’ve borrowed something, it has always been important for me to return it as soon as I can. Once my neighbor lent me a levering rod to help me dig up roots. Even though he was right next door, that rod stayed in my door for a year. He knew it was there, but refused to let me return it. Finally, the next year, I was able to return it to him.

Recently, though, a colleague who turned out to have the same brain disorder I have lent me a book. But she left town to get another job, and I have no idea where she is, and I don’t think I’ll ever return that book. I think it was an important book to her, too. I don’t know when this will stop bothering me.

@daloon It obviously isn’t bothering HER. She knows where you are & how to get ahold of you. It sounds like she’s forgotten all about it.

But I know what you mean by returning things that you’ve borrowed. Even if I borrow a dollar, it kills me until it’s repaid.

@Bluefreedom remember Lethal Weapon 2? “We’re not cops tonight rog. We’re not cops.”

just do one of those. that’s legal right?

@eponymoushipster I agree. He should use the one that causes the most pain. (Blue, forget the frozen chicken)

@eponymoushipster. I do remember that. What a good line and a good movie. I should have done just that. Since I know how to beat someone without leaving marks, that would have worked to my advantage too.

@Bluefreedom see, and you wouldn’t even have to pull down a house with your pickup truck!!

Trust, availability.. to someone whom I once called ‘little brother’ . Loyalty (given, not lent) to past friends.. Faithfulness to a woman I loved…
Shit I still didn’t get one of my favorite books back from a friend.. that book quite acted as one of the pillars of my youth.. it was full of quotes and anecdotes of Oriental Philosophers.. another book ,to my Brother.. he gave it back. it was another pillar.I too have borrowed two books which I still have from years ago.. I remeber whose they are.. waiting for them to show up.. (hehe)

secondarily.. (important only for circumstance)
my car (fact is, in a period I needed it most.. but found someone who could’ve used it more than myself) ... money..what little I had I gave when I didn’t even have 2 cents for bread daily… (never got it back.. yet).