This.

you both sound like douches, so ultimately it does not matter what you decide to pay

This leaves you with zero sympathy.


Once I realize this semi-friend is the one who actually blew the alternator, I tell him to **** off, if he knew how to jump a car this wouldn't be an issue, but then again I wouldn't wait 2 days like an *******.

I'm sure OP will realize he's wrong after reading everything that's been written, apologize to Friend B, pay in full, and emerge from this incident a better man.

my bet is he comes in here defending his case, like 99% of past threads asking OOT for their advice.

This, plus you owe the guy the full amount for the repair and a case of beer on top for his inconvenience and your utter douchiness.

I too have faith that this will happen.

Also, on an unrelated note, I have a great real estate opportunity that I just learned of, any interested OOTers should PM me (pic below).

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For the OP: http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/11...p-start-a-car/

You could do well by studying the rest of the site in detail while you're at it.

1. Edit text of OP and swap I/me and Friend B in all instances.
2. Reread OP
3. Don't get TOO pissed because remember it really happened to him, not you
4. Pay him the rest of the $$, bitch.

this thread won't be any good unless he does this. i suspect OP will bring up some obscure case where he did friend B some huge favor like pick him up at the airport two years ago and therefore believes himself entitled to some goodwill like borrowing his friend's car and draining the battery then not paying for it in full.

It's *******s like this that make small claims court necessary.

This, but I do think "all" is the worst option.

Holy ****, **** you.

Because you are!

Sucks that your friend is stupid, but like likes like.

The jump wouldn't have happened if you weren't a careless ****head with regards to the lights initially.

Fuses cost about $0.25 at most places. Be a good friend and chip in a dime or so.

HOW on earth can you justify any option other than "all"?

I never realized they never turned off, once again, my fault but it was not intentional.

Ok I did leave out info. When Friend B initially learned about the battery dying, Friend A called me and says I killed the car, I offered to go there and jump start it, Friend B says don't worry about it (I think I put that in the OP). A couple days after that when I started getting texts demanding for me to do something, I said I was busy for two days, but before I went to the city to do my ****, I will come over to his place to jump start/fix the car. We set up a meeting time at 7. When I went there that morning, I try calling/texting him, knocking on his door, but he never answered, so I left. 2 days after that is when I went over again to try to make the car work.

OP wasn't the idiot that blew the fuse.

OP was the idiot that couldn't figure out how the lights worked, and instead of either 1) calling friend and asking how to turn the lights off or 2) at the bare minimum, shooting him a text message warning friend that the lights were on and he might want to stop off at the car himself and turn them off, acted like it just wasn't his problem that he was leaving a dead battery for someone that did him a favor.

Not that I think any of this ever happened, since OP claims that opinions were "mixed" about how to handle the situation. The only way that's possible is if OP's friends suck even worse than he does.

you are a huge douche

Absolutely.

Why would I knowingly keep the lights on and let the battery die? When I took his car, I went to my house and messed with the lights there. When I returned to his house I didn't think about it, so they were left on.

pretty sure if this was true you would have put it in the op and not after you realized how much of a douche you were during the whole situation

This

is completely different than this

easy question, you pay all. your fault. you pay.

if you cross the +ve and -ve on an alternator, the smell is worse than a dozen rotten eggs when that resistor fries. The story has the same smell to it.

I'm guessing from "halo"and all the stupidity that you guys like to get high?