Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Viberduo

Ooh money, I learned over the years never to lend anything out as you never get it back, at college I loaned a game to someone who did a literall runner laughing as he knew he was dropping out of college and at time I had £50 a month to cover travel, lunch and books/materials for college so a £10 game was about 2 months savings for me. then a year later loaned a £30 game I bought to some foreign students who had same landlord and lived about 6 doors down from me, never got it back.

I could handle the PS2 game I loaned to a girl I fancied in 2004 because lets say she made up for it in other ways lol, but uni was the worst, 1st year 1 flatmate did a runner owing me £400 for a phone bill, somehow I got BT to wipe it as it was international calls but thats not the point, 2nd year another international flatmate ran up £400 of calls and never paid me for it so I had to use my student loan, 3rd year sold a friend a tv and loaned him some money for respite as he was on verge of breakdown, never got it back.

Most recent is a guy I got on well with but was suspicious of as dvds and games always vanished when he came round and he only showed up to use my internet, get free meal and download games and such for himself, he came round once on New Years Eve at 12 midday with his girlfriend with clothes to change, food to cook and stayed to 8pm, then came back 8.30 saying his parents refused to give him drink money, noticed I chucked out his leftovers and demanded I pay for them! Then had cheek to ask my friend who came down in car to give him a lift home and pestered him till he said yes.

It reached boiling point when he owed me £40 and kept buying cannabis daily for £25(or £75 on payday) but never even gave me a £5 towards the money he owed me and he wanted me to put a advert online for him to sell his sky box, then give him cash(and no commision for me) I did so and decided when he said he wanted cash and couldnt afford to give me a fiver I told him I would keep his money

Cue texts from his "girlfriend" pleading they are living in poverty and I am rich as I owned a PC, tv and PS3(which was years old at time) and I was scum, I responded with how they can afford £25 a day for drugs and can afford taxis to jobcentre and its not my fault they have no money left for food

My stupidity though was when another friend asked me to get some smoke and I handed the guy I fell out with £30 and he ran off with it.

Sorry long response there lol.

bugslet

I've got a very large driver. I find a suggestion that someone owes me £X and his presence usually works very well. ( He's actually just a big cuddly bunny, but doesn't look it:rotfl:).

On cars and reversing, a customer of mine's on once helpfully moved his father's car at the age of 15, off the driveway so that his sister could get her car out. Foot slipped, car shot back and into neighbours house. House was declared unsafe, neighbours had to move out whilst it was repaired. The car insurance wouldn't pay out unless said customer brought criminal action against his son, which he refused to do. It cost him an awful lot of money.:(

GDB2222

My stupidity though was when another friend asked me to get some smoke and I handed the guy I fell out with £30 and he ran off with it.

Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!

lostinrates

Nikkster.

I made a very expensive mistake with a less than shining example of an ex too.

I'm going to point out how well you have done with out that money and what a negative impact his contact has on you.

I'm going to make a suggestion you'll hate...but think about it. Can you write it off? Never having to look out for the money going in to your account. Knowing the grammer edit of that closed chapter is also over....that no contact ever is necessary. That is O.V.E.R.

There are some things that are cheap at any price.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Nikkster.

I made a very expensive mistake with a less than shining example of an ex too.

I'm going to point out how well you have done with out that money and what a negative impact his contact has on you.

I'm going to make a suggestion you'll hate...but think about it. Can you write it off? Never having to look out for the money going in to your account. Knowing the grammer edit of that closed chapter is also over....that no contact ever is necessary. That is O.V.E.R.

There are some things that are cheap at any price.

She has, more or less, I think.

She has decided she is not going to contact him, or chase the money, or think about it, or let it bother her. If he happens to send any back, she'll accept it, but that's as far as she goes.

He contacted her out of the blue, asking to meet to discuss it. This has reminded her how upsetting everything connected with him is to her. NP have merely been considering how she can best communicate her "no" to his suggestion of meeting.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

She has, more or less, I think.

She has decided she is not going to contact him, or chase the money, or think about it, or let it bother her. If he happens to send any back, she'll accept it, but that's as far as she goes.

He contacted her out of the blue, asking to meet to discuss it. This has reminded her how upsetting everything connected with him is to her. NP have merely been considering how she can best communicate her "no" to his suggestion of meeting.

'I do not wish to hear from you again. Contact me again and I will be forced to take action to prevent you from doing so ( and pursue your debt through proper channels.) '

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

'I do not wish to hear from you again. Contact me again and I will be forced to take action to prevent you from doing so ( and pursue your debt through proper channels.) '

I'd be delighted if you paid off the loan ASAP, but I don't want to meet up to discuss it

lostinrates

A nice little phonetic tickle on the news this morning. Not sure it will translate to writing Yvette cooper criticises ed for being ANTI business, ANTI growth and ANTI worker. Someone else throws weight behind ANDY Burnham. All in one flow, sounded very good. Made my skin goose bump because of the good sounds playing and presumably unintentional humour.

purch

vivatifosi wrote: »

When I got out of the car, I had the most enormous bird poo on it.

What makes you so certain it was a Bird :eek:

purch

Wheezy wrote: »

Spot the westie

Top left hand corner. :question: