My next-door neighbor and I frequently borrow things from
each other. Not long ago, when I requested his ladder, he
told me he had lent it to his son. Recalling a saying my
grandmother used to repeat, I recited, “You should never
lend anything to your kids, because you will never get it
back.”
With that, he responded, “Well, it’s not even my ladder.
It’s my dad’s.”