Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Silly Lawsuits Message-ID: <17500008@convexs> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 16:30:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.17500008 Posted: Wed Aug 7 16:30:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:49:58 EDT References: <663@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:tpvax.fluke.UUCP:-66300:convexs:17500008:000:1216 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Aug 7 15:30:00 1985 /* Written 3:27 pm Aug 6, 1985 by johnston@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA in convexs:net.legal */ > And reality seemed to bear out her thesis - she once loaned her car to me > (very reluctantly) to move, and while I had it, another car skidded on a > patch of ice and cracked a *miniscule* piece of plastic from her front > grill. She told me I had to pay to have the whole grill replaced (wouldn't > even let me install it). A bit of airplane cement would have made it good as > new. I told her she was being ridiculous to expect that, but she only had to > say the word "court" once to get me to pay up the 50 bucks. My point is that > to her the 50 dollars was apparently worth more than our friendship. /* End of text from convexs:net.legal */ Nor to you either, from your statement. She trusted you with her whole car, and (while you had it) the car was damaged. All she asked was that the car be returned to its "pre-borrowed" state (not broken and not glued) just as if you had rented one (except you weren't out the rental fee). But because you weren't willing to abide by that, the two of you are no longer friends, and it's her fault. Interesting logic... Say, have YOU ever thought of being a lawyer?