The Loan

“Hey, I need to give a presentation this weekend and I need a laptop to do it. I was wondering if I could borrow yours.”

“For the whole weekend?”

“Yeah.”

“Um… no.”

“What? Why not?”

“Because I don’t loan expensive things, even to people I know, and I barely know you. Because it’s mine, and I use it a lot, every day, especially on weekends when I have nothing else to do. Because I can’t believe someone would have the audacity to ask a near stranger to borrow a $2,000 computer for an entire weekend.”