It kinda peeved me but since it’s a low amount and I would have lent the dollar directly, I just shrugged it off.
I suppose if there was some chain of familiarity involved it wouldn’t bug me much.
If some stranger wandered up and asked me for cash I’d be less likely to give. If someone I know is essentially asking on behalf of someone they know, it makes me at least more confident about loaning them the money.
In that situation, I’d have said, “I don’t have a dollar. I’m sure enomaj would lend you one, though.”
I would’ve felt just like you. If I hadn’t known the person or didn’t like the person, I’d probably be kinda pissed. Not about the money, obviously, but the principle, dammit!
As a smoker, though, this sort of thing is not uncommon. Someone will ask me to bum them a cig, sure sure, and then I’ll watch them walk off and give it to someone else. These situations peeve me a bit, especially when it’s strangers (and usually an attractive girl asking for her dipshit boyfriend).
It would annoy me if the first person then fobbed off responsibility for repayment to the other person.
Not quite the same as the situation described in the OP, but my mother-in-law recently borrowed two dollars from my husband when we took her to the outlet mall. She used the money to buy two packs of underwear for someone who is friends with all of us. The difference is that the friend didn’t ask her to buy him underwear. We don’t know if she’s actually given it to him yet, but she told him she has something for him.
Worse. I sold a set of wheels to a kid and he paid me half up front. Later he gave them to a friend of his. GAVE them. And still owes me money, the little shit.
Sounds like a Ponzi scheme to me.