“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“Plato was a bore.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”

- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

“I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

“Hemingway was a jerk.”

- Harold Robbins

I’m waiting on someone to comment on how much of a bastard Robbins is. Anyone up to it?
Now here’s the actual entry on my shallow complaining on the small things in life, such as having to lend out stationeries:
The only thing that I like about people borrowing my stuff is when they say “thank you” in the end. Yes, even if they return my pen in a damaged condition. When they are frank in their appreciation of my little bit of niceness, it feels very pleasant on the inside. See, I’m not heartless or insensitive at all.
But what annoys me is how there’s this trend of lending something you just borrowed from someone else to another person. Let’s replace “something” with “my stuff”, “you” with “idiots”, and “someone else” with “me”.
There’s this trend of lending my stuff idiots just borrowed from me to another person.
Perfect! Now, this wouldn’t be a problem if both parties (idiot and another person) were responsible. However, plenty of my not-so-cheap stationeries have faced fates such as being missing, being broken, running out of ink, lost their lids, have only half of it left, and various other horrifying ends.
Even Robbins doesn’t match up to this bastardliness (was someone about to say that, or am I going to be quoted for it when I become a famous person?).
There’s also this group of girls that borrows my correction-pen/white-out everyday, and they always return it on the end of the day. Today, they didn’t even think about returning it, and just stuffed it into their desk drawer until I asked for it.
Definitely didn’t intend to return it.
But what annoys me the most are guys who borrow my pens with the intention of keeping it, except that they end up losing it. You know, for basic things such as pencils, pens, and white-out, there shouldn’t be any excuse to borrow it unless you left your pencil case at home/other reasonable reasons.
You left your things at home? Sure, I’ll be glad to lend you my things for the day. Borrowing them everyday is just like making them yours and making me only keep it for you to borrow the next day. Great plan, with how you’re not going to be blamed in case it gets lost, and it makes it seem as if the objects are still in my possession, but I don’t want to be a part of it.
What happened to the good old days of lending stationeries to each other and actually keeping it in good condition?
I know this is kind of a shallow rant, but forgive me; I’m a mere teenage girl who still has no intellectual topics to discuss about. But hey, this can be applied to other things, too! Like when someone borrows your T-shirt all the time and only return it in time for you to dry-clean it.