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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 09:55 PM
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Poll question: Say you borrowed your friend's copy of 'Fast Food Nation'...
Edited on Fri Jan-06-06 09:56 PM by dolo amber
Now, just for the sake of argument, say you spilled something on it. Not too bad, no internal damage...just a wee stain on the cover.

Now, just for further argument, say it was McDonald's coffee that was spilled. :rofl:

Would you:
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aclog Donating Member (521 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 09:59 PM
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1. I borrowed an SAT study guide
from my HS guidance counselor once

She got it back without any semen stains on it, which is more than I can say for my friend's porno mags...
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:00 PM
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2. *sigh*
It was a used paperback, don't sweat it. :eyes:
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:00 PM
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3. I just think it's fuckin' hilarious.
D: "Now I have to buy asthmaticeog a new book."

me: "No, you don't."

D: "But it's only like $5 at Half Price Books."

me: "It's McDonald's coffee. That's worth WAY more than a new book."
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:05 PM
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4. And it could have been SO much worse.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2897527&mesg_id=2897527
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 09:49 AM
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10. You should never have told me that post was RKz's and let
me continue to labor under the delusional memory that it was yours. You were a GOD to me, man...a GOD! :cry:
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:05 PM
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5. A lot of times when I lend books...
...I tell people not to worry if it gets damaged or stolen or something, because it's better that people are reading it than it sitting on a shelf. That way they don't have to agonize when something does happen - I've already covered it.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:07 PM
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6. But when you lend books to the Gallagher brothers...
...you just have to EXPECT they'll get urine, vomit, and blood on them.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:22 PM
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7. return the book with a marker made of McDonalds gift certificates
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 09:53 AM
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12. Seconded!
Maybe an "Arch Card" with the value of the book on it?
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:38 PM
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8. A book is a book. You hurt it, you replace it and give back the original.
Denys Finch Hatton lent a book to someone once, and when he didn't get it back broke off the friendship. When asked if he would lose a friendship over a book he said something like "no, but they(the borrower) would". It's about respect.
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 10:44 PM
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9. See post #2.
It's my book. I absolved her. It was a beat-ass used paperback, and the irony wins my smile.

That said, I agree 100% with your post. A friend of mine, after some cajoling, once borrowed my first edition hardcover of "Infinite Jest." It came back with a cracked spine and - I shit you not - tomato sauce on several pages. That was a LOOOOOONG time ago, and I still won't trust him with any of my stuff. I wouldn't even lend him a guitar pick. :grr:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 09:52 AM
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11. I voted for option one because it's hilarious.
But option two is the actual right thing to do. :rofl:
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