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I lent money to someone and that person did not return me the money. How familiar is that?
However, this experience of mine is rather unique and I would want to share it with you in blog space to caution you all to give a second thought before lending money to people.
It all began in a course of mine that I took recently, and there was about 40 of us in the group. This person that approached me happens to be in my partner in learning. He is going twenty this year, claims that he's married and has a gal of 2 years of age. Well, he's the typical 'beng' with tattoo, foul mouth and i don't give a damn about authority type.
One day, he approached me for money in a soft and tearful manner. "My gal birthday is today, she's going to be 2 today and I hope that I can lend money from you to bring her to the bird park today as she likes the place." My question next was when the money could be returned and also how much he needed. He said he only needed fifty. I was alright with the decision as fifty was relatively okay to me for birthday celebration and so I gave in and said I'll transfer him the money when I got home. Then he asked if I had cash as he wanted to rush cab home to celebrate, then I offered him 10 to take the cab home.
Come next week, he took MC and didn't transfer nor brought the money when he came back from MC. It was only after a few days into the course that we discovered that he was conning money from everyone. I had lend ten dollars for him to take the cab, but in the cab he borrowed another ten from the coursemate that took the cab with him, claiming that he had no cash. Be it money to buy cigaratte or to the bird park or zoo, it seems like the fire was getting too big to kill off with a bucket of water.
For 2 weeks, about 8 of us were pestering him for the money, summing to more then 500. He then gave excuses and eventually took 2 weeks of MC and refused to come back. It was then we took the last approach; we went to his house. We did a little bit of homework and managed to track him down at home. When he saw us he was shocked and he 'acted' breaking down saying he really got no money. No one else was at home and we couldn't get any money from the parents if possible. We pestered and pestered and told him that he has problems but if he don't return the money to us, it becomes our problem also. He JUST DIDN'T HAVE MONEY TO PAY US BACK.
To me, it seems like a lesson well learnt. I'm not lending money to people anymore. And I hope taht you out there think before lending money to people, and even close friends for that matter.