Borrowing personal items should come with the basic courtesy of returning them.

In this story, a woman lent her only black dress to her friend for a funeral weeks earlier.

When she asked for it back for another funeral, things became unexpectedly difficult.

Check out the full details below…

AITA I lent my friend a dress and she did not make an effort to return it

My girl friend rang me.

She asked if she could borrow a dress from me for her brother’s funeral a few weeks back.

I lent her my only black dress. I also drove it to her home about 45 minutes away.

When I got there, her daughter saw the dress.

She told her mum that she would like to borrow the dress from her one day.

She is a size 18. The dress is a size 6.

This woman needed the dress back from her friend.

Anyway, fast forward to this past Saturday. My father-in-law passed away.

I asked for the dress back, because I was unable to drive to their home to pick up the dress.

The mother is having difficulties driving at the moment.

I asked if they could please send it to me via post. I didn’t receive a response.

Her friend kept making excuses.

Today, my daughter offered to pick it up. I need it for the funeral tomorrow.

I asked if they could leave it in their post box.

They said the post box is too small. Mind you, it is a small dress.

Anyway, messages were sent back and forth.

They were between the person who borrowed my dress and her daughter who lives with her.

So, she told them that she was disappointed for not making any effort.

I mentioned that I was disappointed that neither of them could have posted the dress to me.

The post office is 600 metres from their home. It is about an 8 minute walk.

The daughter said to me that she wasn’t going to walk to the post office in 30-degree heat.

I responded that she has had all week to make the 600-metre trip.

Now, she’s wondering if she was in the wrong.

Then, she asked me why I hadn’t arranged a pick up prior to today.

I am sorry but I didn’t think I would have to.

Her mother borrowed the dress from me.

I had delivered it to them some three to four weeks ago.

So, am I the jerk?

Let’s see how others reacted to this story.

This person makes an honest assumption.

Short and simple.

Here’s a valid point from this one.

This one makes sense, too.

Finally, people are saying the same thing.

Funny how a short walk feels much longer when it’s someone else’s problem.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.