All I ask out of a person who borrows my stuff is they respect it, return it to me in the condition I gave it to them, and take responsible for it until it is returned.

Someone returned a gaming book back to me this weekend and the binding was ripped... broken even. This person apparently had not notice what they'd done. When the said destruction was pointed out to them they had the balls to tell me, in the kind of self-righteous voice of a five year old, that is wasn't their fault, they didn't do it, and it wasn't done on purpose. As if these shallow defensive words of the guilty party make the wrongs done to my property all better. Sure, I'm angry at the person for not taking care of what they borrowed... but more so I'm disappointed at the lack of responsible and maturity of this individual. He didn't feel it was worth the time to take care of what  was trusted with him. He couldn't even step up and admit being the one responsible for its well being and blaming anything but himself. It is a sad state when the simple thing as lending books can lead to such immaturity.