A classmate keeps asking me to borrow my text book. I have told her not to be relying on people. I do not like lending out my text book. It costs $170.00. She keeps bothering me and everytime i have to say no. It stressed me out! Am I being a bad person for not lending her my textbook?

Textbooks show you who your real friends are.

In nursing school, we found out 3 weeks before the exam that it was open book. My friend hadn't bought the text, she she immediately went to the library. The book was lent out, so ahe reserved it for the exam period.

A few days before the exam, book hadn't been returned and was well overdue. The library, for some reason, gave my friend the name of the person who had it. My friend got in contact with them and asked them to either return the book to the library, or meet her before the exam to hand it over. Got no response. My friend gave up on it. Another student was kind enough to photocopy all the relevant pages, so my friend at least had something to take into the exam.

Immediately before the exam we were all milling about waiting to be let in. The dude who had kept the library text found my friend in the crowd and started laying in to her. Shouted at her that she was irresponsible for not organising to have the book (the one she had organised to borrow from the libarary, that she couldn't have because he effectively stole it). Accused her of harrassment and breach of privacy because the library gave her his name and she sent him one messsge asking for the book. He was shouting at her in a room full of people. It really shook her up, right before an exam.

Then he actually reported her to the school for harrassment. She had to have a disciplinary meeting, but they let her off with a warning. He got off scott free apart from an overdue fee from the library.

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