u/Tronwhisp_3F3

So I stopped by the supermarket on my walk home yesterday just to grab one single lime for dinner. That was literally my only item. I walked over to the self-checkout lane, scanned the barcode sticker on the fruit and set it down on the metal bagging platform.

the machine immediately froze. The screen started flashing amber with a message telling me to place the scanned item in the bagging area. The lime was already sitting right in the center of the metal scale. It just didn't weigh enough to trigger the sensor. I picked it up and set it down firmly three times. Nothing.

This was ABSOLUTELY ridiculous. I should of just went to a regular staffed register. I stood there alone under the fluorescent lights having a silent standoff with a computer scale. I ended up placing my heavy metal house keys next to the lime just to add some weight. The machine instantly sounded a loud red alert for an unauthorized object. The bored teenage employee walked over, stared at my single fruit and keys for five seconds, scanned his badge, and walked away without saying a word. Why do supermarket scales have an existential crisis over small citrus fruit.

My sister dropped her laptop last week and the screen cracked. She asked if she could borrow mine for a few days until hers gets fixed. I said no because last time she borrowed something of mine, my tablet, she returned it with a bunch of apps installed and the settings all changed. She also kept it for almost three weeks even though she said it would be just a weekend.

Now she's saying I'm being selfish and that family should help each other out. My parents are kind of on her side too, saying it's just a laptop and I'm not using it all the time anyway. But I actually do use it pretty regularly for work stuff and personal projects. Plus I don't want to deal with her messing up my files or settings again.

She says she'll be more careful this time and that the tablet thing was an accident, but I don't really trust that. I offered to let her use the old desktop in the basement instead, but she says it's too slow and inconvenient. She got really upset and hasn't talked to me much since.

I feel bad because she does need a computer and I technically could lend mine, but I also don't think I should have to risk my stuff getting damaged or messed with just because she wasn't careful with hers. My mom keeps texting me about it saying I'm making a big deal out of nothing. Am I actually being unreasonable here or is it fair to say no?