Mr Unreliable, at your service.

[Puzzles]

Dear sirs and sirlettes of the Escapist,

Please regale me with your stories. Everybody has one of these friends; the kind that can't be relied upon for anything; that will lose your precious Arrested Development box set when you lend it to them; that will promise you a lift somewhere only to bail out at the last minute leaving you stranded.

I got to thinking about one of mine, and how he is so reliably unreliable I can almost predict what will go wrong next. I must have lost five hundred dollars over the course of my life, lending things to friends who break them or lose them under a pile of filth. The one I am thinking of in particular is a real slob and loses almost everything lent to him (so he says ).

Anyway, with no more delay, what are your unreliable friends like, and what is the worst thing that has happened as a result of their compulsive awfulness?

Maybe I just have the absolute worst friends.

 

[Panzer_God]

It's me, I am the unreliable friend due to my lazyiness and lack of caring aout other people

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

My 'Mr unreliable' is one of the people on my friends list here on the escapist.
He forgets things. he over sleeps. he generally can be an ass.
but he hasn't yet lost a game of mine.

 

[Zacharine]

I have never had a single friend like that. Not at all. And this isn't BS. Anything I've loaned out, I've gotten back in working order. The only exception are my Baldur's Gate 1 CDs that were a bit more scratched but they did still work and my friend did apologize.

 

[Puzzles]

I have never had a single friend like that. Not at all. And this isn't BS. Anything I've loaned out, I've gotten back in working order. The only exception are my Baldur's Gate 1 CDs that were a bit more scratched but they did still work and my friend did apologize.

Still, Baldur's Gate man.

That's pure sacrilege!

 

[InvisibleSeal]

Well... none of my friends is really unreliable.
Except maybe one of them who is always late. I mean, I was supposed to meet up with her, and she was an hour late :O, and then she was surprised that I hadn't stayed in the same place...
That's it though, and usually I preempt her lateness and just go half an hour late myself.

 

[Zacharine]

I have never had a single friend like that. Not at all. And this isn't BS. Anything I've loaned out, I've gotten back in working order. The only exception are my Baldur's Gate 1 CDs that were a bit more scratched but they did still work and my friend did apologize.

Still, Baldur's Gate man.

That's pure sacrilege!

I know, but when my friend offered to buy me a brand new set and keep the scracthed ones I forgave him instantly. Without buying a new game. He clearly knew the graveness of his error...

 

[Xyphon]

Eh, I lent my friend one of my 360 controllers. He had a sudden retard moment and left the controller AND his 360 unguarded in a highly populated area. Needless to say, both his 360 and my controller went missing. He was like a brother to me, so I forgave him. >_>"

 

[TheSunshineHobo]

I live about 30 minutes [by car] out of Edmonton, Alberta. I was in West Edmonton mall with a few friends hanging out. It was around 8:30 and I figured it was time to go so I asked a friend for his cell phone. He told me not to worry about getting a ride, he'd drive me home. As we're heading out of the mall I have to go to the washroom, everybody else piles into my friends car. They leave. It is 9:00 PM and i'm stranded in West Edmonton with no money, no phone, and no ride. I walked home, got there at around 12 to find my mother in histerics. Fucking assholes.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

I got a few friends like that. There was one girl I used to work with, I lent her a game and a limited edition strat guide (luckily a crap one) but it was still worth about £50 at the time and I never saw her again. I think she sold it for drugs though, more than was just unreliable.

 

[SLy AsymMetrY]

My lasting memory of a 'mr unreliable' friend was when he had arranged for all of us to go to a music concert. We were waiting in the pub. The concert was 15mins walk from it. He keeps calling up to say he's on his way....3hrs later, he turns up suddenly and says lets go....

...We end up sitting on the grass in front of an empty stage drinking vodka/beer/sprite (?!) and eating sushi until 1 am! No music, until a man with a guitar turns up strumming Eric Clapton (badly) and drinking our beer!

Still...happy days!-)

EDIT: The sushi exacted its revenge the next day. or should i say the same day. Vomit should not be black.

 

[Kajt]

I don't borrow stuff that often, but when I actually do, I usually get the stuff back in perfect condition.

 

[TankCopter]

One of my friends always SAYS he will do something or be somewhere, and then doesn't. If he said he was going to be somewhere, he just won't show.
Another friend borrows stuff then takes absolute AGES to return it. I lent around AU$700-800 woth of CD's to him, it took him two days to put all the songs onto his iTunes, took another 3 months to get the CD's back.

 

[traceur_]

I think I'm Mr. Unreliable.