It wasn't mine

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I've been driving a truck, a really nice one, but it wasn't mine. Is it better than mine? Well, I guess that's subjective; I reckon it's better in some ways and mine is better than it in other ways - let's call it a draw. Anyway, I managed to drive it for a decent amount of time (a few days) and got a really nice feel for it - *it's a really nice pickup truck. The owner was accommodating, threw me the keys and said I could use it for a few days - I'm a long way from home on a work trip and needed to be mobile.

So, here's the thing. I was thinking about how trusting the guy was with me in respect of his truck which has a total value of about $200,000 Australian dollars; that's trust that can't be bought I think. Here's the other thing, I treated that truck like it was my own - That is to say with care and respect; it's how I am when using my stuff and how I am when I use other people's stuff.

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Have you ever had the use of something that wasn't yours? Have you treated that thing well or badly? I know people who treat hire cars very poorly for instance, a few others who borrow people's things and simply treat them badly. What about you?

Do you feel obliged to treat other people's things with care, do you treat them with care simply because you treat your own things that way? Do you abuse and mistreat things? Explain in the comments below if you want to.