Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for September 25, 2021

Sage advice.

Nobody has ever lent me $100 – guess I’m popular….

If I lent just $1 to everyone I can’t stand, I would have gone bankrupt 35 years ago.

I have done that… and it really does work… without any feelings of guilt…

One of my expressions when I run across someone repeatedly is, ’It’s a good think I don’t owe you any money."

Any lesser amount they are more likely to pay.

Hey Dude, here’s $100. Scram.

I learned pretty quickly, after not getting both loaned money or books back, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”. Sometime later, when I said no to a friend asking for a loan, he got upset, playing the “Friend Card”. I simply replied, “Why do you think you have a right to my money?” He was mad for awhile, but I guess he finally just realized it was never going to happen, so he forgot about it and never asked again…

If you lend me $100, I will be back next week for another $100. I will have found your soft spot.

Yup, you can always count on the scumbags. I had a used refrigerator that still worked, put it on the sidewalk with a sign, “Free” on it. It sat there for over a week. I changed the sign to “For Sale” and someone stole it that night.

Aunty Acid made me laugh today along with the replies! It was good today, and so true!

Nope. You will instead become their slot machine – if they just keep at you you’ll payout regularly.

it’d be cheaper to avoid them.

They’ll be back for more.

I think that Ben Franklin once said, “To make a man a friend, ask to borrow something of his.” Pay it back before he asks for it and he’ll be a good friend.

I always tell someone who borrows money from me that it’s really a gift and I don’t want it back. He should do the same when he is in the same position if he can. Usually, I got it back anyway.

If you must borrow money, borrow from a pessimist. They don’t expect it back.

A very timely corollary to Hamlet’s:

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan doth oft lose both itself and friend".