Broken guns, healed heart.
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Yeah yeah, valentines - schmalentines. I'm going for a beer ......
Now about the whole idea of lending guns out to people, right? Well you know the kind of people that you would trust with them, and the kind of people that you wouldn't. So to say that I was apprehensive about my birthday skirmish the day before yesterday would be putting it mildly ....
There were people I did trust (Jason, The Other Tim, Dave (Shard) and Dan (well, mostly, He's hyperactive by nature but we never actually stop him smoking weed, ever, so he's pretty much neutralised 
) and then there were the 3 Unknown Quantities:
A 35-year old unemployed hippy called Jasper, and in both regards;
He is a good-sized quantity of `all f*cked up` and
He doesn't know what he's doing himself, most of the time, so that was just asking for trouble really, wasn't it?
Apart from him though there were - as it turned out - a thoroughly charming couple that Dan knew who actually used to be instructors in the ATC and ACF, and they were really great guys on the day but I was unsure of them before I met them, naturally. Given the recent contact I'd had with `proper` army types I was more apprehensive about them than I was about Jasper.
Oh how wrong I was...
The daft git never stopped smoking greenery throughout the day, not once. Now what you do in your own home is, although illegal, still your own business at least until the law nabs you for it. But on a skirmish site??!! Fcuking wnaker, as the ARRSES boys might say.
Now maybe it was his predilection for total idiocy, maybe it was the weed, but what he managed to do was quite special: went straight into the game with his goggles off: well done, good work there numbnuts, but best of all he twatted my recently completed HK51 custom baby into a tree and smashed the stock off (my newest addition and the item that finished the gun, I'll be needing a new MSG90 stock then) and he also smashed a crack into the RIS 
Not happy with a tally of;
"Kills: Some, some of them even on the other team
Deaths: Many, not all of which admitted to
Destruction of property: 1 "not my property so hey! Fudge it!" 
he then carried on as if he really did mean it and caned my AK so badly he stripped the gears, and, according to the guys in our group who were near him, carried on firing it after it stopped working and was making that delightful "I'm *fruitcage* ed, I'm a *fruitcage* ed gun, please stop firing me I'm a *fruitcage* ed gun" noise that AEGs are wont to do when the gears totally go South.
He carried on after other regulars had told him to stop because he had broken the gun as well, apparently. Talk about no respect for other people's stuff, sheesh...
Worst thing is he only made a very brief and cursory apology when he handed it back, but complained all the way home that neither of his guns worked properly and that this wasn't really very fair. How fair is my £100+ bill to fix your *fruitcage*-ups then, eh???
BUT, and that's a big but (huh huh `big butt` huh huh huh) it was a fantastic day all round, we had 8 people out and 7 of them are more than welcome back and although not all of us had great kill ratios some of us totally owned the other enemy (The Other Tim hid in a bush and capped about 20-25 people, died only 3 or 4 times himself: well done mate) and generally a good day was had by all. I was sitting on about a 1:1 ratio with 11/12 kills and 10-12 deaths, including the crazy-assault-hill-storming-infinite-respawning endgame.
But the thing to watch for is: if you have a feeling that someone is a bit dim, or can't be trusted, or is just too much of a stoner, don't take the risk with your £200 gun - this may seem bloody obvious but social optimists like me do usually give people the benefit of the doubt. I think it pays to trust your instincts with expensive gear, even if it does make for awkward situations were you have to discriminate who is welcome and who is not.
Next time, if at all, the only thing Jasper is getting is a £20 springer and a hearty `good luck`; and with me in the group behind him he'll damn well need it 
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