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Originally Posted by Richard Flanders
This is Fairbanks... neighbors expect you to steal their car if you need it, as long as you're ok with them doing it to you, which we all are.
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In that case it's called "Borrowing".
I would never begrudge a neighbor in need as long as it was returned in a timely manner in the same condition (level of fuel) as when it was borrowed.
Joe Mahoney of 'somewhere' in Pennsylvania was a teacher of some sort and every summer he would haul a few students (with certain 'special needs') to Flagstaff Lake in Eustis, Maine for a few weeks of camping. Joe had an aluminum 16' boat with a 20 hp Evinrude engine on it and would take the kids out of sight down the lake to his campsite on a remote island for some time in the natural world. Three times per week they would motor back up to the sandy beach on the peninsular where we would go for picnics and fishing and they all would go to town to do the wash and take in a movie and Joe would leave a sign on the boat that said
"You're welcome to use my boat. Please fill the tank." We used it and always filled the tank. Joe eventually moved to Eustis, Me. and built a very nice log home at the edge of a moose bog. Kathy and I looked him up about twenty-five years after the last time my family last saw him. Joe remembered my mother especially because she made such an impression on him with how she handled her four sons and asked me to remember him to her. I did. Joe Mahoney was one of the last generous and trusting people I've had the pleasure of knowing.
Five years ago 10 miles North of Greenville, Me. on my way to Kokadjo my truck blew it's transmission at about 11 PM. Long story short, Pete Grass who lived just up the road in Lilly Bay on Moosehead Lake loaned me his 4X4 GMC for my 5-day salmon fishing trip on the West Branch of the Penobscot River. He had no idea who I was and I didn't know him from Adam but he saw in me "Just a neighbor in need" and took a chance.
02-15-2011, 10:54 PM
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