So, I am an idiot.

[stoopbeck]

A couple of weeks ago my brother expressed an interest in one of my favorite books. (To Say Nothing of the Dog, for those of you playing at home.) I love when people I love read books I love and so I let him borrow it. It came back to me with the cover half torn off, and the binding on the back peeling away.

And yet, despite this, I let him borrow another book. I knew what was going to happen, and I still let him do it.

And now my copy of Queen of Sorcery has a big tear in the spine.

I want to get mad at him and yell and throw things, because, dammit, I don't scratch up his X-box disks when I play them, and he knows how anal I am about my books. But I got myself into this situation by letting him borrow another book after he gave me back the previous one in crap condition.



I can has apartment now?

Comments

[skroberts]

Alex. NO MORE LETTING DANNY BORROW YOUR BOOKS. Tell him that I said I'd kill you with my brain if you do...

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

*cries*

[skroberts]

Not that I actually would! I'm just giving you an out. ;)

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

No! I wasn't crying over my brother being killed with your brain, because today I kind of wanted to kill him with mine several times over, I just really wish he hadn't wrecked two of my favorite books. :[

[surferartchick.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would be pissed! And tell him off at the same time! That's just wrong! What are you going to do?

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

My dad had a nice suggestion that I could charge a deposit fee before he borrowed a book, and if it came back in anything other than the condition in which he borrowed it, I could keep the deposit fee.

Of course, there's always the clever accident, like your icon suggests...

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Wow. You must really love him. I'm anal about my books, and if I saw that first book, I'd never let him touch them again. :D

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

I do, and I like introducing him to new books because he hadn't really shown much interest in books I liked before now.

He's not allowed to take my books out of the house now, and hopefully that will fix things?

[hokkaidomary13.livejournal.com]

This is when "tough love" measures are taken-->putting him in a choke-hold with his face near your butt and threatening to fart in his face; sitting on him after wrestling him to the floor; wet willies; atomic wedgies; making him smell old gym socks...

...How old is your brother again because I think I just reached the same maturity age as him? lol

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

He's like 13, going on 5. I can't wait until he gets out of teenage-hood.