re: A good buddy called me asking for money yesterday. Update 6/12

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I loaned money twice to “friends” and they are “friends” no longer as they repeatedly promised (lied) about paying me back.

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This for me now. It's a crapshoot if the person borrowing the money will actually pay it back.

The last time I lent a friend money he needed $3K and did pay it back in less than 2 months time and threw in an additional $500 that I refused to take.

However, that is the best case scenario and I've been burned a few times, but luckily not for big money-----just a few hundred a time, but it's the principal of the thing.

And I've got family members who mistake the word "borrow" for "just give me money" and they no longer bother to call me. I'm not a walking ATM that dispenses cash at will.

A co-worker once borrowed $5 from another one of my co-workers. Over the next few weeks, the lender kept asking the borrower to pay him back. Finally the borrower lost his temper and angrily told him, “If I had the money to pay you back I would not have had to borrow it.” Then, as the lender walked away, the borrower muttered, “Putz!”

I’ll never forget it. Me and the other guys in the bullpen were dying laughing.