You know how things sometimes stick in your mind from years ago and you sometimes wonder if you were right or not? What do you think?
I had been skiing and treated myself to a brand new ski suit, I think it cost just under £100. I wore it for my skiing holiday, for a week.
When I got back an acquaintance said that her daughter, who was living abroad, had been invited to ski one weekend - could she borrow my suit? Obviously, I wasn't using it and was happy to lend it.
A long time later, it turned out that actually she had used it a lot, not just for the one weekend for which I lent it. It had got badly ripped on the leg, the tear was about 6'' long. The girl had tacked the tear together with thread of a completely different colour. Her mother told me that the girl had tried to mend it and that she was willing to offer me £25 for the suit. (This, she said, was the cost of a second hand suit). I was really unhappy about this; my point was that I bought a new suit, not a second -hand one and that I had never intended to sell it anyway! In the end, we more or less fell out about it. I was moving house and she sent a cheque for £25. I never saw the suit again and am pretty sure I cashed the cheque.
Over the years I have thought about this - if I had damaged something belonging to someone else I would have been mortified and replaced it or offered the full value.
It happened so many years ago I know IABU now! - But WIBU then??