I feel really stupid...

[Moai]

Right now I feel like the biggest idiot in the world. So on Tuesday, I was at lunch and this kid that always sits at our table (I've known him for a couple years, I talk to him a lot but I'm not really a close friend or anything) asks me if he can borrow a five dollar bill. He told me that the next day he'd bring me change and I was like whatever sure because I was about to get checked out. The next day he was like yeah I didn't have change but I can't pay you back because all I can get is a twenty. This was during bus call and I really needed to go or I'd miss my bus, and he kept bugging me so I gave him the ten he wanted and he said he'd pay me back the twenty the next day. The next day however, I happened to be sick. Today, he didn't even show up and now (well before I blocked him) he started messaging me on Facebook about how he's not going to pay me back and that I got "played".

Well now I feel incredibly stupid that I trusted this kid and I feel really awful...

[ShaneK]

I aint goin to say neither a lender or borrow be. Everyone at some point in their lives gets played like that. Some people will try to take advantage whenever they can. You werent stupid you were trying to do someone a favor. Next time you will know better than just to lend an acquaintance money.

As I said everyone gets played eventually, don't feel bad. Take it for what it is a lesson in life.

[laurita_21]

This is why I don't lend money. It happens all the time and it's not your fault, ok?
The guy is an ass hole. You shouldn't feel awful because of it!

[cuddlemuffin3]

Don't feel bad. Use it as a learning experience for future times.

[Moai]

Thanks guys, I feel slightly better about it. I'll try to think of it as a life lesson from now on.

[Shenron]

Well, I get this alot at school, people ask me for money all the time. People come up and say "hey man, can I hold a dolla" I then look at them and say "If I gave you a dollar, and everyone else that asked me a dollar, I would find myself in need of a dollar." So yeah, I never lend money except to very close friends.

[ShaneK]

The person who took advantage of your kindness should feel bad not you.

[whereismymind]

If you feel like you can't trust someone in the future unless you need it, just give it to the person thats what I do.

[Moai]

Alright so later this night, (this happened about half an hour ago) I was talking to one of my friends on Facebook, and I told him about it. He told me that lots of people want to beat up the kid that ripped me off for various things. I get a text from the jerk about 10 minutes later saying "dude I'll pay you back when I get the money". My friend on FB tells me that he told him that if he doesn't pay me back by the time Winter Break is over, he's going to beat the snot out of him.

I ask the jerk why he's acting all nice now and how he was being an ass before, of course I get the lame excuse that he couldn't get the money and that he was only "joking" before. I replied with smartass answers and of course he starts telling me about how I got my friend involved with this, and all this crap. I act like I know nothing about this at all and he just gets so mad at me and threatens to beat me up. I reply saying I didn't even do anything and he replys with a "whatever" answer.

I feel a lot better that I have a lot of people on my side against this son of a gun, but I feel really bad getting into all this stuff I HATE getting into. Any advice guys?

[ShaneK]

Let your friends do what there gonna do. Cos it sounds like he owes a lot of people money, so his beating is inevitable i would sai. Get your money back and don't bother with him.