[Jess]

The guys who are saying anything other than "you owe him a sled" are out of thier minds.

When you got on the machine you tacitly aggreed to hand it back to him in the condition that he gave it to you in. Whether or not it is insured is irrelelvant to the story. He has the insurance, you wrecked the sled.

You buy him a comparable sled and you get the wrecked one. That's fair and that's right.

I had a situation that was sort of the same as this a few years ago. I missed a shift in a new friend's 930 on the track. I told him "pick a shop and I'm writing the check." He's now one of my best friends, I think, in part because I stepped up and did the right thing.

Jess