When I was starting out in 8th grade, there was one day I didn't have the 50 cents to buy a soda from a machine at school. This kid I barely knew was passing by and heard me lamenting my situation, and he loaned the money to me and wrote me a receipt. I thought it was weird, but didn't think anything more of it. Fast forward to about 3/4 through the school year and he approaches me and asked me for the money back. I had no idea what he was talking about because we're talking months ago and 50 cents. I told him I didn't know what he was talking about, and little dude pulled out a notebook where he had marked down the date, time and place he loaned me the money. Even had a section for the reason I borrowed the money, and the page was torn where he'd written out the receipt that he'd given me.
When he mentioned the receipt, I remembered. I couldn't even be mad. I gave him the 50 cents and our business was concluded. I should be glad he didn't calculate interest into the loan.
This was about 30 years ago, and I still think about it. That dude is probably a millionaire or a loan shark right now. Or both.
Edit: Removed the decimal for the sake of mathematicians' sanity.
Shadowyugi on March 18th, 2019 at 17:02 UTC »
You gotta take that money back.
Become a stone cold debt collector, with your robot buddy as your sidekick and me as your informant ;)
Tm0ney22 on March 18th, 2019 at 17:06 UTC »
Me: hey man dont you owe me some money
Friends: first off, how dare you.
depcrestwood on March 18th, 2019 at 19:36 UTC »
When I was starting out in 8th grade, there was one day I didn't have the 50 cents to buy a soda from a machine at school. This kid I barely knew was passing by and heard me lamenting my situation, and he loaned the money to me and wrote me a receipt. I thought it was weird, but didn't think anything more of it. Fast forward to about 3/4 through the school year and he approaches me and asked me for the money back. I had no idea what he was talking about because we're talking months ago and 50 cents. I told him I didn't know what he was talking about, and little dude pulled out a notebook where he had marked down the date, time and place he loaned me the money. Even had a section for the reason I borrowed the money, and the page was torn where he'd written out the receipt that he'd given me.
When he mentioned the receipt, I remembered. I couldn't even be mad. I gave him the 50 cents and our business was concluded. I should be glad he didn't calculate interest into the loan.
This was about 30 years ago, and I still think about it. That dude is probably a millionaire or a loan shark right now. Or both.
Edit: Removed the decimal for the sake of mathematicians' sanity.