Spotted...

Can I make myself really unpopular for a moment?
I work in two shops that have lending tools. This is a nice thing to do and I'm glad we do it.
However, I know of no other industry in which it's ok to borrow the things that they have that make them money, ie tools.
Go into starbucks often and ask if you can make your own coffee in their machine?
What about going to the chippy with a bag of frozen chips and using there fryer?
Take your car to the garage and ask if you cam borrow a spark plug remover (note: I don't know anything about cars, this is made up tool name, but you get the idea)?

All of you, stop feeling so entitled, you are essentially asking fir a favor because you are either too cheap or two lazy to carry your own.

Amen, worse are those that ask if the mechanic can come out and explain how they can do it themselves at home. Uhm, sorry, he spent a lot of his own money and time training, for what?

In the area I work in this really frustrates me. I want to say "Oh okay, you work upstairs, yeah? Well I'm in a costly legal battle at the moment, but you wouldn't mind just telling me how I can defend myself in court, yeah? I don't need you to be there, i just need you to tell me everything to say and write."....