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My ex-wife had a loser friend who asked if I had a a jig saw she needed for an arts and crafts project. She is very opinionated and self entitled. She had one way "her way", and turned any request into the thing a good person would do. I have a pretty nice jig saw I use for wood working projects, that is pretty sophisticated for what it is, and being porter cable, has brand specific blades. This same individual trashed me on my face book page implying because I owned guns, that I was insensitive to the Ct. mass shooting. She wouldn't stop with her postings until I de-friended her on Facebook, then she tried to "friend me" as her husband. My EX wife became anti 2nd amendment after meeting her(that was the beginning to the end of our marriage) anyway after all of her crap she wanted to borrow my jig saw. I told her that I don't loan tools to people for all of the above reasons mentioned, and because I personally didn't like her, and didn't appreciate pot shots with her extreme liberal friends when ever I was attending a party with my wife where she was also present. She then decided that I really must be a dick because I wouldn't lend her my tools. I pointed out the expense of the saw, and the blades and suggested she either rent on, or buy a cheap one from Harbor Freight, but that I would not lend my tools to anyone. Especially a non wood worker, for the potential of them breaking. At this point she started attacking my character, trying to guilt me into getting her way. I walked away from her, then she came at me thru my wife, with why won't you lend her your stuff. I pointed out to her that her friend borrowed stuff including my wife's truck all the time, and that the truck basically was so old the insurance agent said itf it got more than a 1000 dollars in damage that they would total it out. My wife said so what, I replied your friend doesn't have the money to fix or replace things. If she gets in an accident we lose our truck. She still didn't get it.
I refused to allow her to use anything of mine, and when my divorce did eventually come, I explained to my wife when she values her friends(with little or no person character) more than her family their is nothing left to maintain a marriage. I think she finally got it
The point is even people with the best intent can ruin a tool, which if they borrowed is probably something they can't afford. The more they borrow the worst they situation gets. Secondly people who don't own tools, probably lack the skill and knowledge to use them in a safe manner, or handle them properly with out breaking them, like when your wife borrows a screw driver to use as a pry bar and breaks it, or grabs a framing hammer to nail a picture hanger into a 150 year old plaster wall. You can't fix stupid, but you can protect your tools!
Lastly borrowing causes amnesia!