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TIFU by letting an untrustworthy person borrow my car

A little backstory here. I'm a divorced father and my ex is a real POS. We're talking about a woman so bad that I've even had feminists side with me in augments with her. And I mean stereotypical, man-hating, "like a fish needs a bicycle" feminists.

Anyway, yeah. All my interactions with this woman revolve around what's best for my kids, and in my mind what's best for my kids very rarely includes their parents fighting. Which, for the most part, means making what most would consider an extraordinary effort to get along with her even though she's a manipulative narcissist with some sociopathic tendencies. So when she called me up to ask to borrow one of my vehicles while hers was in the shop (I have two, one I've had forever and one even older that I bought from my parents for near nothing when the other was wrecked) I hemmed and hawed and finally decided it was ultimately better for my kids if their mother had a way to get to work so she didn't get fired yet again (did I mention she's been through more jobs in the 5 years we've been divorced than most people go through in their entire lives?)

So I let her borrow the more torn up of my two vehicles, the one that's been wrecked and repaired just enough to be drivable that I keep around and drive when I'm alone because it gets crazy good gas mileage, against my better judgement.

She surprised me by bringing it back when she said she would with a full gas tank and without a fight. I thought it was too good to be true and thought maybe she had changed.

Nope.

I got in my car after lunch today and noticed an empty bottle in the back seat. Looking closer at it, I realized it was an empty BEER bottle. That's bad enough, but in this state you can catch a pretty hefty fine and have your license put in jeopardy for having empty beer bottles in your car even if you weren't the one who emptied them (law says any container that once had alcohol in it has to be in the trunk - yes, it's a stupid law, but that's par for alcohol laws here). Probably I wouldn't have had to worry about my license since I don't do dumb things like that, but if I'd gotten pulled over before I found it I could have been hit with a $500 fine. This on top of the fact that she was apparently drinking and driving in my car. Basically, I'm so pissed I can hardly think straight over it.

I really lucked out here, but I've learned from my mistake. She never borrows my car again for any reason.

TL;DR: I let my ex borrow my car while hers was in the shop and it came back to me with an empty beer bottle.

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