Salam/Hi/Hello I am your Neighbor, Can I borrow?

[Feroza_Banu]

A cup of sugar?... or a couple of eggs... we just ran out of it and there is no one to bring it... i would appreciate the help...

how many of you have done this?

back in Afghanistan its one of the most common thing about Afghans...

do u still do it? ... do you know of someone that does it?...




last night i was cooking... suddenly i noticed i don't have enough tomatoes... and Angaar wasn't home, so i was debating whether i should ask this Indian neighbor of ours for some tomatoes... i didn't. but i have done this before.

[Nokia_Apridy]

kala na ...........Da STUNZA DA chay da ANGAR lala

pa Gara chay sumra achwal shi humra sta hem GUNAH zka da chay

da Shpay da Ratlu sra tata Perzoy khor da TSAAR (DA SABA )

da Jwand da Terwalu Shezuna darta pora kwal da Angar lala kar

awo Wail sta kar .....Khu charta Haga tola waraz staray awo

ta hem ta tola waraz staray Wos da........

topic answer khu da har sari pa khpal zan ka kedal shi...

[IamDZJ]

if you make itto mydoorstep, i will never send you awayempty handed unless i don't have what you ask for.
would i do it myself?? no because
-safeway(grocery store) is across the street from where i live
-i am too lazy to bother myself..i will cook something else instead
-i have drivers at home
-we are a large family so one or two tomatoes wont cut the deal for us and there is no decency in asking thy neighbor for half a kg of tomatoes
-i live in a white neighborhood

there has been this one incident where i wish i had said no the first time...
we are the landlord of the house across the street from where we live. we rented it to two arab guys a while ago. it started with two onions and ended up with various types of vegetables and cooking oil towards the end.
5 times a week these guys who were young and healthy would be knocking on the door and asking for something. it wasn't the matter of giving them an onion as much as feeling uncomfortable every time i heard someone knock on the door.

i guess once in a while it's okay if you live next door to people from middle east. as long as you return what you borrowed asap and don't become an obnoxious pain in the hind...

[Wrayun]

Back home, all the time. The one thing that everyone knocks your door for is eggs, there seem to be a shortage of that. Here, we did it a few times, in the early days. But then, our paranoid uncle told us about people suing people, and said DUUNT EBBAAAR DDDUU DAAT UU GET SUUUU FOORR MONEEYY!! UR FATHER GO JAIL! U GO JAIL!

I'm not even kidding. So we stopped :- (

[khushal]

Back home, all the time. The one thing that everyone knocks your door for is eggs, there seem to be a shortage of that. Here, we did it a few times, in the early days. But then, our paranoid uncle told us about people suing people, and said DUUNT EBBAAAR DDDUU DAAT UU GET SUUUU FOORR MONEEYY!! UR FATHER GO JAIL! U GO JAIL!

I'm not even kidding. So we stopped :- (

Why was your uncle talking to you in broken english, he could have told you in pashto.

[Wrayun]

Why was your uncle talking to you in broken english, he could have told you in pashto.

Because we were fobs, and he was trying to impress us with his English.

[Admin Khan]

Not really. I would rather run out to the grocery and buy what we need.

+1 to a 24hour city.

[Laila]

I live in that typical all white suburbs....so borrowing from your next door neighbor is normal. But we never do it. Someone once in a while will come and ask to borrow something, and yes, we give it to them. They come for a lawn mower on the weekend, eggs, butter......one time a lady came to ask for a roll of toilet paper but mehhh maybe she really needed it. Since we live outside of the city, it takes a while to go to the nearest market.

[khashayar]

^ admin: I agree 100%

We would never do that, burrow stuff like that from neighbors.

[Laila]

Yeah i dont feel that comfortable to go up to people's doorstep......when we were little, my parents never allowed it, so just kind of got used to that

[khashayar]

Laila: lol @ the toilet roll. Hahah. Hope it was one of those expensive brands and not some rough cheapo one. Don't want the neighbors thinking we cheap skates. :p

[Talal]

No it would be pretty awkward though if someone showed up at your doorstep asking for something..ofcourse I would give it

But for myself ? Wouldn't dream of it .. I hate borrowing anythin from anyone

[Laila]

Laila: lol @ the toilet roll. Hahah. Hope it was one of those expensive brands and not some rough cheapo one. Don't want the neighbors thinking we cheap skates. :p

ha ha ha no i guess its a good brand. Nice and soft :D its from Costco so we get this huge box of it. Hope it was soft for her.

[Laila]

No it would be pretty awkward though if someone showed up at your doorstep asking for something..ofcourse I would give it

But for myself ? Wouldn't dream of it .. I hate borrowing anythin from anyone

yeah, same here. I am one of those people that do not like to borrow anything outside from others.

[Yousafzai Pakhtun]

well it is common here to borrow thing from the neighbours.... during cooking time when a lady finds that there aren't enough eggs/tomatoes/onions etc to fullfil the cooking requirements she would send her children to neighbours to borrow that stuff......but fortunately our neighbours are our close relatives here........still my father don't like to borrow things like that from others......