"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news
On Sun, 08 May 2016 22:34:07 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Mr Macaw" wrote in message
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On Sun, 08 May 2016 17:29:22 +0100, F Murtz wrote:

Richard wrote:
"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news
How many of you are happy to lend tools to neighbours?

Doubt whether my neighbour would want to borrow you.
I do do it but it takes time to get back,but it does not matter I get
it
back if I need it.

Odd, I don't know anyone round here who wouldn't
return something immediately they've finished,

Least half of those that borrow stuff can take a while to return it.

With stuff I'm not actually using, I often do say that there is
no rush to return it, whenever that is convenient for them etc.

That is inviting them to forget.

I don't see them forget very often at all.

and get very apologetic if they forget and give it back the next day.

Can't say I have ever had that.

Some people are overly polite.

True, but none of those that borrow stuff from me
are like that, maybe they are too polite to ask.

I used to have one of my Italian neighbours that used
to borrow garden tools quite a bit. Once the ****ing
great Alsatian grew up a bit, you could see the neighbour
almost turn and run when the dog started barking at him
when he knocked on the patio door with the dog inside
the house. He stopped coming after a while presumably
because of the dog.