Can I borrow your car please?

[velocemitch]

Just seen this in our local ‘grumbled’ facebook page

‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get…
Would anyone consider lending me their nice car for 3 hours on Saturday from 4pm?

I’m fully comp, clean licence, 24 years driving experience including 10 professionally.

Ideally looking for a Mercedes, BMW, Audi saloon or SUV type car and not more than 3 years old.

I’m finding it difficult to find a car hire company with local availability and I’d be happy to pay a fee for your trouble.

Cue the laughing reactions…’

Seems wrong on so many levels.....!

Would you lend your ‘nice’ car to a stranger.
I wonder what your insurers might say!
Amuses me also that if it’s not one of those three, it seems it’s not ‘nice’ enough!

[velocemitch]

panholio said:

You’re on the same group as me. This is in Leeds.

Yeah close, I don’t think of it as Leeds to be honest.

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South tdf said:

Will be for a school prom, I suddenly get messages from people I hardly know asking if I can do them a favour.

Ah yes, that caper! I’m glad mine grew up before we imported that idea from the good old US of A.
Though it does add another level of ridiculousness, when the kids start getting some stick from their mates because dad put an advert in FB to get someone else’s car!
Mind you I’m surprised it wasn’t a Tesla he wanted, not one of these polar bear killing ICE things.

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Ussrcossack said:

velocemitch said:

Yeah close, I don’t think of it as Leeds to be honest.

Pudseyis so look close to Bradford.
Wild guess

Nope wildly wrong

[velocemitch]

But third part cover on driving other cars, is certainly not a given for a FC policy holder nowadays.

On the subject of ridiculous requests on FB, I once saw somebody asking if anybody could give them a set of valve covers for their car, as the air was leaking out of the Tyres. Oh and by the way would they mind delivering them as my car has a flat Tyre!!

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donkmeister said:

Rick101 said:

I don't think it's so bad.

It's a speculative request and he happy to remunerate.
As he said, you don't ask, you don't get.

I can't see it being that financially beneficial for all the hassle you'll have to go to but stranger things have happened.

Possibly I'm being a tad hyperbolic, but it's like asking "can I borrow someone's wife? Must be under 25, DD or above only and not a munter."

It's odd, it's unrealistic, and it's also choosy beggarism. If he wants it, he should earn it.

I'm going with "lied to someone now is in danger of getting caught".

Its also the specifying of the three German makes which amuses me.... I think it sort of sums up the kind of person he seems to be, impressed by those particular ones, but not apparently others, which certainly in my book would be far more desirable.