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Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:12:17 2016 No.8557964 [Reply] [Original]

>Lend someone a book
>Get it back a year later and its beat up like they used it as a dog toy

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:23:46 2016 No.8558011 File: 386 KB, 667x670, whynot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >lend someone a book >they dogear it

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:27:52 2016 No.8558029 File: 2.33 MB, 208x200, no.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >lend humanity the word dog >they've been using it on books instead of dogs

Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:27:54 2016 No.8558030

>Go to high school in small town
>Get lended The Road in high school by a teacher, whose daughter i was crushing on
>This was before I seriously got into literature
>Months later and the teacher has asked me several times if I've finished it
>"Nope."
>End of the semester, and I bring it back to her unfinished, and she shakes her head.
>Next year I'm trying to date her daughter
>Daughter's parents give me the coldest of shoulders
>Cringe years later thinking that this isn't even in the top 1000 of horror stories

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:43:26 2016 No.8558079 File: 191 KB, 470x595, pep.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >go full e-reader >if someone wants to borrow a book i email it to them

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:44:58 2016 No.8558083 >>8558030 Just be happy you didn't end up dating a corncobber.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:45:49 2016 No.8558087 File: 40 KB, 380x234, 1474371084366.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >lend someone a book >they don't read it

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 27 22:47:02 2016 No.8558094 >lend someone a book >ever expecting it back

Anonymous Tue Sep 27 23:57:42 2016 No.8558356
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>>8557964
>lend someone a book
>never see them again

Alternatively:
>talking with flatmate about poetry
>she works in healthcare
>mentions all the doctors she works with and how they'd be good at writing poetry
>lend her my copy of Spring and All
>find it back on my bookshelf the next day

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 00:19:17 2016 No.8558415 >>8558094 >>8558356 This. 99% of lent books are never returned.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 28 10:30:34 2016 No.8559377 >>8558030 YE

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