Rich is in a long distance relationship, and his girlfriend is in town from Texas this week. While Rich is at work she is pretty much doing her thing, but she is afraid to borrow his car because she doesn’t want to scratch it. Rich is particular about his car but not that particular that no one else can drive it. As he said during The Morning Mash Up, “that is what car insurance is for.” Stanley T’s brother attitue is the exact opposite. He doesn’t let anyone drive his car, not even Stan.
Nicole’s fine with letting someone borrow her car. Nicole’s sister just lent her car to her boyfriend. Ryan is cool with it too. Some people are very particular and very obsessive with their cars – where do you fall? Are you OK with letting someone borrow your car? Does whether or not you do depend on the person? Do you have any rules that people need to follow when borrowing your car?
Here are the rules we came up with together:
- You need to be the first person to put a scratch on your car. Don’t lend it out until then.
- Do not borrow a person’s car if it costs more than you make in a year.
- If you use more than a quarter of a tank of gas you need to fill it back up.
- If you get the floormats dirty, then clean them.
- Do not leave things in the center console area, especially drinks!
Once, when I was in college, a “boyfriend” of mine spent the day driving around in my convertible Fiat Spyder. At the end of the day, he asked if he could borrow it and go wash it for me (how sweet, right?). 2 hours later I got a call from a friend who worked at a local restaurant, he was there, with ANOTHER GIRL driving my car. Needless to say, I was a LITTLE upset!
i don’t usually let people use my car for the simple fact that it is standard.. unless i have drove with them, driving standard before & approve of the skills, it’s not happening..
Sure that what warranty is for but the sounds a gears grinding & clutch burning.. really gets under my skin.. i can’t deal with it!
I don’t mind letting others bother my car. I just try to know them well enough to know their driving habits. And it really pisses me off when someone “borrows” my car without asking…which has happened. If you ask me, I’ll be glad to help out. oh…and I drive an “05 Jeep!
I let a friend borrow my car for a drive-through Safari park visit with her daughter, since hers was a rental. We got it back on empty and with animal food (the pellets they give you to feed them) all over everything.
Her excuse for the gas was that she wasn’t sure if we used Premium or Regular. There was no excuse for the mess :O
My fiance was very particular about who drove his car. After we met, I was the FIRST person to drive the car besides him (he’d owned it almost a year). I didn’t have a car, and I drove it as my own after we moved into our apartment. After that, we let people drive his car, but family that we trusted, like his father, and his brother in law. I was in an accident about 3 months ago, and totaled his car. We bought a new car, a brand new 2010 Mazda3, that belongs to BOTH of us now, and we don’t let anyone drive it. The only person who has ever driven it besides us, is my younger sister who I’m teaching to drive … in a parking lot no where near objects. As far as allowing people to borrow it, we’re a bit hesitant because it’s so new. We’ve borrowed other peopls vehicles during the time that we didn’t have one, and we tried not to go anywhere, because we didn’t want to dent anything.
I’m very protective over my car, it’s an 06 Mustang I bought brand new off the lot. I’ve let a couple of my really good girl friends (who I trust the driving of) borrow it a couple times but I would never ever ever let a guy drive it besides my Dad of course. No way, wreckless messy boys, eff that noise. I wouldn’t even let my boyfriend move it in the driveway to get his out of the garage, no matter what I was doing I’d get up and do it, the thought just horrifies me. They just don’t care enough. I also wouldn’t let 99.9% of girls drive it either though. I see you girls on the highway, it’s made me a very sexist driver towards my own sex!
I will pretty much let any of my good friends drive my cars. Then again I have always driven standard and I’ve even taught a few of them how to drive standard just so they could use my car. That being said I’ve never owned a new car or even newish. The youngest car I’ve ever owned is the one I’m currently driving which is a ’92.
If i know the person well enough and their driving habits, and I know they won’t total it then I will allow them to drive it. However when someone brags to me that they can get their dinky Kia Spectra up to 120 on the 5 freeway (My ex girlfriend), then no.