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Originally Posted by Tweety
How would you actually respond to the email request without seeming too cold?
I think you were intentionally trying to make the point that this sizable request was made via email. Regardless, this resonated for me.
I have a best friend. He has a wife and two kids and is the gentlest soul imaginable. At one point when he was going through a rough time I thought he was going to ask me for money, but he didn't (I offered, he declined). Anyway, this money wouldn't have been to go to Rio, it would've been to pay for food and mortgage and clothes. So a little different, but still: never in a million years would he have shot me off an email asking for dough. I mean, come on. A couple of clicks? Call me old-fashioned, but this is a conversation that needs to be had face-to-face, or AT LEAST on the phone. But the email nature just pisses me off (again, I'm old, but not much older than OP).
So, no. I don't give someone who can't ask me to my face, or at least to my ear, the money.