I’d Rather Loan you’re my Wife for the weekend than loan you my tools. This has come up on a few occasions, most recently for my very expensive and 100% reliable flaring tool, and I really hate to have to tell someone especially a fairly close friend or relative that I just simply don’t loan out my tools. When I offered to come over and do the job for them the response is usually something like “Well, never mind, Joe has one I can borrow!”
I’ve worked my whole life to collect the tools that I have and keep them in good condition and it really bugs me when someone wants to borrow them. I know, I know, I’m a selfish self centered old buzzard, but in my younger days I had to go looking for the tools that I had lent someone and most of the times they were scared up, bent, broken or just plane lost. So, ya want to take my “big old wife” for the weekend, fine, but not my TOOLS!!!
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
