Originally Posted by
Machka
This thread isn't about friends ... it's about colleagues and acquaintances.
Fortunately, the most my colleagues and acquaintances will ask to borrow might be an office pen.
They wouldn't have the audacity to stroll up to me and ask to ride one of my bicycles.
Good point. I have just been imagining situations similar to when I would let a close acquaintance (not necessarily friend) ride my motorcycle. He had a motorcycle, too, and we each wanted to see what the other was like, or just "mix it up a bit," because our bikes were different. I even let a perfect stranger ride my motorcycle once. We were in a big parking lot just doing manoeuvering drills. But yeah, a colleague coming up out of the blue and asking to ride one of my bikes for fun? That would indeed be very rude.