Originally Posted by Expatriate
It's all well and good, but if you broke your arm on someone else's property, from something like a poorly built ramp, and you were under 18, your parents wouldn't be too keen on paying that bill out of their pocket. Happens all the time.
It's never about how well you know your friends. It's about how well your friends' parents know the person responsible for the building. Your friends may have nothing against you or you against them, but their parents don't know or care who Grandpa is...only that their kid busted a collarbone on a ramp in HIS warehouse. Even if it never happens, ONCE is all it takes to financially ruin someone, and it's a risk not everyone is willing to take.