Used a mates cold saw and busted the blade!( left a small offcut sitting in the clear zone and as the blade cut through my follow through with the handle made the blade hit the offcut and try to deflect sideways)javascript:emoticon(':evil:'). $120 later I gave the saw back and apologised for giving him a new bladejavascript:emoticon(':shock:').

Same mate then borrows my never used G-clamps and proceeds to cover 8 of them is welding spatter, threads and all. When I chase him up to say "hey you ever giving my g-clamps back" he gives then to me full of grot, I did a double take thinking he was joking. I suggested he keep them and get me new onesjavascript:emoticon(':x'), he gets shirty with a line like "they're g-clamps that what happens to them". I was stunned, took the clamps and spent hours cleaning them.

Next time I borrowed his cold saw, used it carefully as I didn't want to break the blade I was about to take off and hang on the wall. He got his saw back cleaner then he lent it with the original busted blade. Well we had a long conversation about not letting this get in front of our friendship. I suggested next time I borrow his saw, he take off his blade and I'll get my own and if he ever wants the g-clamps I get them them back cleaner then I lent them to him. We agree and I thing well that was really good to sort out and I feel good about him again.

Next time he borrows the clamps and only gives back half and they're still grotty, just no spatter. I'm ready this time and call to "borrow the saw" when he's not home, I tell his wife we're cool about this swapping and head into his shed to find my remaining clamps hanging off his welding bench covered in crap, one he'd "fixed" with a new handle as the original had bent. Well I took them home and cleaned them best I could and store them in a tub under the "wife's area" in the shed. I've officially let them to another mate when he wants them and I always look after his saw when borrowing it.

I suppose he just sees the world different to me. I always say when I lend stuff out "it comes back better then it leaves or it don't leave!"