Typical behaviour.
My ex wife once gave me my own watch back for Christmas.

She’d borrowed it (for some reason), broke it and then, as a Christmas gift, gave it back to me.

Granted, she’d had the watch repaired, but from the point of borrowing it, breaking it and then giving it back to me, 7 months had elapsed.

The watch-battery had also failed by this point, but she didn’t get that replaced because ‘I didn’t break that, so it’s your responsibility to fix’.

I couldn’t help thinking that, ‘Hmm.. if only I could have used the watch over those 7 months and enjoyed some of the remaining battery life’.

As it goes, it was only about a fiver to stick a new battery in, so that was no great shakes, but you’d like to think that if you’d borrowed something for that length of time, you’d give it back in the condition it was leant in.

Mullered.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 10:28, Reply)