To think my Friend/ neighbour is a meany by not lending us her sledges?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Her sons go to boarding school so aren't here to use them.

I asked very nicely and she said she wouldn't in case they got broken or if someone else asked for them?

Oh devil. are you sure you want to post this? You know what you are going to get, right?

YANBU, that is really mean, I know it is her property so her choice, but what a tight cow.

meany YANBU

Apparently sledges are so last year....you use lids from storage boxes if you want to be in dontya know

Well I suppose its her perogative but bear this in mind in future if she asks you for a favour tight arsed cow.

Fling snowballs at me all you like Heqet. haha

Really I just wanted to take dS out - will have to resort to pulling him down the hill in the ikea bag......

Wasn't it you who posted last week about the mean people who wouldn't let you sledge in their garden?

bin liners are more fun for kids than sledges anyway. I had a sledge at one point, but it is sliding down the hill on a bin liner that I remember so fondly.

if you have a wheelybin - prise off the lid and use that. works really well. and YANBU btw. are they prada sledges or something?

'or if someone else asked for them?'
So although a friend, you are obviously in one of the outer circles.

binliners ouch on the posterior!!!

All part of the fun, Mayor.

ittledawley

aye

and about the friends that laughed about my sledging outfit,

Step away from the sledging TDWP, I repeat, STEP AWAY FROM THE SLEDGING.

Our best ever sledge was a big sheet of industrial polythene we found. Fitted at least 4 kids on, and gathered speed scarily fast!
YANBU, I know it's her choice but she knows where you live- and that you'd replace if they broke- supposedly a friend too, what a meany!!

YANBU
But.........................................................
What are you planing on wearing?

YABU. Whenever I have lent people things they always seem to damage them - so I don't loan things anymore. If you want a sledge so much, go and buy one

YABU

She's probably lent people stuff in the past and never had it back, or had it back damaged etc.

'never a borrower or lender be' etc etc.

Do you think you'll be less stressed when the snow goes away? Fewer opportunities for sledging rage

YANBU

My DC love using the cheap IKEA trays, prefer them to their proper sledges

Steal them and post loads of icy snowballs through her letterbox. That'll learn her.

YABU. I'm very reluctant to lend items because they're so often returned damaged or not returned at all.

Is this a windup btw? I'm just wondering because last week you asked if some residents of an almshouse were being unreasonable because they didn't want to allow you to make use of their garden.

YANBU How strange of her? And I am sure if something did get broken you would replace it!

Just to add, we were recently staying in a holiday cottage, it was snowing, and a perfect stranger came and asked us if we would like to borrow their sledges for my children to play in the snow. We accepted gratefully and a couple of days later returned the sledges, clean and unbroken!

Lids for storage bozes are indeed very good sledges.

DD nicked the lid of 4 (4!!) storage boxes last week and cracked them all. She then threw them away. So now I have 4 boxes of crap in the garage with no lids.

Bloody kids.

TBH I wouldn't lend anything which belonged to my dd to someone else, as it isn't mine. I think dd would be rightly annoyed if I lent a toy of hers to someone without asking, especially if it got broken or lost.

YABU-not only do you want to sledge in other peoples gardens, you want to use other peoples sledges!

How were you sledging in another garden and with friends if you don´t already have sledges?

diddl i think she borrowed sledges and was in someone who was also slegings garden ......is that really relevant??