You loan a friend one of your favorite CDs. When it is returned
to you, you listen to it and find all sorts of skips that were
not there before you had lent it.

Do you mention this to your friend?

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Are you very close to this friend?

Carson, did you go to Pioneer?  I know that name sounds vaguely familiar.

No, but I'd be cautious about loaning things to this friend again.

I might try washing it with soap and water to see if it's just dirty.
I think if that doesn't work, I would mention it to my friend (hopefully
in a tactful way; like, "Did that CD skip when you played it?") - ther
might be something really wrong with his/her CD player.

i would politely ask if they knew what had happened and go from there.

That's what I'd do too.

I would probably follow the same course s aruba (and vow secretly
never to lend that friend another CD).

re #1: yes, I did. you did too. ;)

Darned right I'd say something....I'd say "Hey, dude...what's up with
this CD?" :(

I would calmly say "AaaaGggGhHHHhhmyCDaaaGGaaAgHHwhatGGaahrRhappenedHgg?

I have a Yamaha CD player, so I usually don't have to worry about it.  If 
someone did return my CD so that it skipped, I would take a course paper
towel, and rub the scratch out of the plastic.  (It's worked every time
so far!)  I would then proceed to really castigate the person for being 
so inconsiderate with something that I was kind enough to loan him.  I 
would be extremely hesitant about loaning him things again.  

No, and I'd never loan that persn anything at all.
But I never lend out things I care about getting back in the original
condition.  Friendships aren't worth it.  Accidents happen,
so why get pissed at a friend.

"Friends aren't worth it"?  I would proffer that friends are always 
worth more that material things.

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Actually I agree w/nephi.  I intended my comment to mean friendships
are too valuable to disrupt because of different attitudes toward
material objects.
I have never eaten or drunk anything in one of our cars.  I would not loan
it out to someone who might stop for a big mac and get special sauce all
over my seat--I'd be upset looking at the stain forever, and couldn't
ask a friend to re-upholster it.   (But I'd loan a different
one to the friend). 
I have a book that was autographed by the author...I have a friend whom I
love dearly but has forgotten to return other books to me.  I wouldn't
hurt her feelings by saying anything directly, but I would not loan my
irreplaceable autographed copy to the friend.  We'd be sure to get into a
fight, and I'd have to accept the material loss of something I valued to
keep the friend.  That would not contribute to a healthy relationship. 
Guess I should have said loss of friendship isn't worth it. 

Yes and stop the lending perhaps if people dont treat your things as they
would their own or........ perhaps they do.

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