My portable DVD player and a total moron

[docellis]

So I let a guy I was dating borrow my portable DVD player as a thank you for watching my dogs when I went on vacation in July.

I have asked for it back many times - and usually he manipulates hanging out, in order to return it, only to show up to pick me up having "forgotten it".

The last time we hung out he was so annoying that I decided I that I just couldn't hang out with him again.

So yesterday I ask if he'd bring the DVD player to work and I'd swing by his office and grab it. I sent an e-mail, no response, called, no answer, texted, etc over the course of a 6 hour period yesterday. And this is a guy who responds immediately anytime I contact him. He didn't want to give it back to me, clearly.

So today I try again. He says he won't be in the office all day. I ask if he can just leave it at the front desk at some point when he is in the office. He won't commit to that.

I can't decide if I should just say screw it, and buy myself a new one or if I should stand my ground and get it back.

So far I've been very polite about wanting it back. But my patience is wearing thin. I'm getting really mad.

[The Third Man]

Get him to hang out again, and when he shows up, kick him in the nads.

[Leroy]

He clearly needs to be offed.

[KyCardinalFan]

Remind him there's a law against stealing and you're not above involving the authorities.

Perhaps a letter on a law firm's letterhead would help. Anyone?

[Fat_Bulldog]

Act like you're going to hang out with him again and have him pick you up.

Get in his car and proceed to pee all over everything. Then stab him in the thigh with an ice pik and tell him you forgot that you left your oven on and go inside and bake a cake and make some rice krispie treats.

[docellis]

I absolutely will not subject myself to his company again - even for the pleasure of kicking him in the nads.

This is a guy I went to see a band with 2 weeks ago. The entire night every word out of his annoying mouth was a variation of "Why do you keep walking away whenever I come stand near you? Why aren't you acting like you like me? Why does it seem like you can't stand me?"

Saying stuff like that, repetitively, will ensure that I don't want to be near you.

To make matters more uncomfortable, he had brought a friend who was blatantly hitting on me, right in front of him, the whole night. When I say blatantly, I mean "Hey Scott, why don't you drop Doc off at my house on the way home tonight?" and the whole "you're so attractive" variations.

THEN when he dropped me off he proceeded to call me to KEEP whining about how I wasn't acting like I liked him.

I tried to think of ways to defuse his angst but eventually gave up and hung up on him. Which only prompted him to continue calling me for the next 20-30 minutes (I didn't answer the phone).

THEN there was a knock at my door. The bastard drove all the way home, turned around, came back. For what? To tell me I don't like him for another 2 hours??

I don't answer the door but I hadn't locked it and he opens the freaking door. Sees me just sitting there looking at him and says "I can't believe you weren't going to answer the door!"

That was a really fun time. Give me back my stupid DVD player and leave me alone!

[cardinalkarp]

Doc you sure attract some wierd ones.

[docellis]

Doc you sure attract some wierd ones.

yes. my whole entire life I really have attracted some weird ones. true.

Maybe I should just give up the DVD player.

[haltz]

Maybe you should just let him love you. He only acts like that because he cares so much.

Just get one of your normal guy friends to deal with it.

[docellis]

Maybe you should just let him love you. He only acts like that because he cares so much.

Just get one of your normal guy friends to deal with it.

I don't have any normal guy friends. Not one. Why do you think I call my dad when things go bump in the night?