Please return my inner tube!!!!!

[Supersuperleeds]

We will need to contribute. Them Yorkshire folk look after their brass*.

Edit for southern jessies: *tightwads

I wouldn't say tight, just careful!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I wouldn't say tight, just careful!

As careful as a gnat's arse

 

[mr_hippo]

I have lost count of the number of tubes that I have given away and the hours I have spent helping stranded cyclists. I normally carry two new tubes and one patched tube and it is the patched one I give away. I neither ask for payment nor accept it; all I say to the cyclist is "If you see a fellow cyclist in trouble, stop and help them, accept no payment but tell them what I have just told you." One day, you may be stranded and help will come! Believe me, it does work
The word 'cyclist' here refers to anyone on a bike.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I carry my own spare inner tube the only problem is i can't fit 'em. So at least if someone stops to help,they wont lose anything apart from a few minutes of their time.

 

[Pale Rider]

What bugs me about these situations is the deceit.

I'd far rather the other guy said: "I am now going to promise to return the tube, but I won't do it."

Fine, have the ruddy thing anyway.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Cant believe your wanting an inner tube back ,,
I remember years ago I used to give three lads a lift home from work every night in the car, I never asked for petrol money, then one night we ran out of petrol (the petrol gauge did not work) and I had no money, so reluctantly one of them gave me £2 so I walked a mile to the get petrol.
The next day as soon as I walked in he was there asking for the £2 he lent me !!!!!!! so much as to say they all had to walk home from that day on , ,, some people are in the words of Jim Royle "a right tight get"

 

[Globalti]

The French, masters of the language of diplomacy, have a good expression to describe this kind of sitiation: "Savoir faire...." which means "knowing how things ought to be done".

It's one of the few examples I can think of where a foreign language is more succinct than English.

 

[Stonechat]

I think the same. What goes around comes around. I would lend one out in the hope that if it happened to me I would get one in return.

However I remember once I had three punctures on one ride, and just two tubes!

I never used to have spares and had to repair 3 punctures in a day. Have got a spare inner now though

 

[Hip Priest]

If he arranged to call you, then he should've done.

However, I'd have just given him the tube and told him to pay it forward like Mr Hippo above.