35 Mildly Infuriating Times People Had No Shame Returning Borrowed Items Completely Ruined
Lending something out always feels like a tiny trust fall—and these stories prove just how often people let you hit the floor.
These tales from r/mildlyinfuriating are a masterclass in regret. Sometimes your stuff comes back late, sometimes it comes back broken… and sometimes it comes back with a story that somehow makes it worse.
1. My mom borrowed my (nearly new) heels months ago and forgot them in her car… She found them like this today.
2. My Partner Borrowed My Car For A Few Days, And Gave It Back Like This
3. Roommate Crashed My Car While Borrowing It To Go To Work Then Refuses To Pay Anything Unless I Let Her Continue To Drive It In The Future
4. Borrowed My Car To A Friend And This Is How He Returned It. (I’m A Non-Smoker)
5. My Computer After I Let My Friend Borrow It
6. This Is What Happens When You Let Someone Borrow Your Truck
7. My Mom Borrowed My Gaming Mouse Because She Lost Hers. This Is How She Returned It
8. My Mom Let Her Friend Borrow Her Van For The Day And It Got Returned With This
9. Dad Borrowed My Tablet, Sat On It And Then Returned It Like This. God Damnit
10. I Let My Brother Ride My E-Bike. This Is How He Returned It
I’ve had the bike for maybe 2 weeks. I let him ride it to work yesterday because I didn’t need to ride it. I rode it to work today and when I took the battery off I saw the key and the battery. This is how I get it back? Not only that, but when I push the bike the chain makes a clicking sound.
This is my first time owning an ebike and I have no idea what to do. When I would ride it to work before the battery would stay on 6 bars the whole way there and would only go down 1 bar when I got back home. On the way to work today it went down 3 bars and the 2nd bar is flashing indicating it’s going to drop down again. I don’t even know if I’ll make it home in 6 hours or not, I’ve got nobody to pick me up so I’ll have to see how this goes and hope for the best.
I keep the e-bike in side to stay out of the rain. The battery is always removed from the bike when not in use.
He promised he would take care of it and if it rains he said he wouldn’t ride it. He lied.
11. My Friend Borrowed One Of My Records And Returned It 4 Days Later Like This
12. Loaned My Wife’s Brother My Truck So He Could Move. This Is What Greeted Me When I Got It Back
13. Sister Borrowed My Guitar And Broke It
14. Let My Friend Borrow My Honey. This Is How It Came Back
15. Let My Girlfriend Borrow My Controller For One Set, Never Again. What Is This
16. Let My Friend Borrow My Earbuds For A Week
17. My Mom Borrowed My Car. Got It Back Smelling Like Cigarettes And My Mints Perfectly Trapped In My Cup Holder
18. My Coworker Returned The Front Desk Stapler Like This. Told Me It Ran Out Of Staples
19. My Mom Let Me Borrow Her Cd. Broke It When I Tried To Pop It Off
20. Girlfriend Borrowed The Car This Morning And Just Sent Me This
21. My Brother Taking My Bluetooth Headset Without Permission And Returning It Like This
22. My Neighbor Borrowed My Hedge Trimmer. This Is What She Did To My Extension Cord
23. Friend Asked To Borrow My Soldering Iron, And He Returned It Like This
24. Let My Friend Borrow A Nintendo Switch Game. One Week Later It’s Damaged
25. I Think My Husband’s Going To Realize I Borrowed One Of His Extension Cords
26. I Let A Kid In My Class Borrow My Calculator, I Got It Back Covered In Scribbles
27. When Someone Borrows Your Needle Nose Pliers And Returns Them Like This
28. Friend Borrowed My Laptop. Said He Left It In His Car For A Day. What’s Going On With The Screen?
29. Before And After My Little Brother “Borrowed” My Racket For Badminton Practice
30. My Son Asked To Borrow Some Duct Tape… This Is What He Gave Me Back. Somehow Took Out The Entire Middle And Just Left The Sides
31. And They Wonder Why I Don’t Let Anyone Use My Knife. Found This Hanging Up On The Magnet
32. I Let My Sister Borrow My AirPods. This Is How She Gave Them Back To Me.
Apparently, it’s from her hair dye. I’ve tried everything, and the stain won’t come out. The fact that it happens to be the color of earwax annoys me the most.
33. I Let Someone Borrow My Knife At Work, This Is How They Gave It Back To Me
34. I Let My Son’s Teacher Borrow The Penguin Sculpture I Made And She Left It In A Windowsill For 6 Months
35. I Let A Colleague Borrow One Of My Favorite Books, And It Was Returned To Me With The Pages Written On And Stuffed With Sticky Notes
