I don't like anyone touching my John Deere. I loan it to my neighbor each year for his leaves, act like I don't mind, but I watch his ass closely as he uses it. He has a Toro zero turn bagger, but my mower and device is better for leaves. I'm torn between being nice and a prick.
I have a lesser JD over at my mother-in-laws house. She doesn't know how to drive it, because my father-in-law wouldn't let her. (I think he understood) He's dead, so now she wants me to teach her to drive it next spring. I would have preferred she asked me to just put it back in my shed and let me handle her yard. No good reason, and the battery would just die down, but it's part of my stuff and I liked having it, even though I really do love my mother-in-law very much...
It's a big part of my stuff, for no real good reason, and I'm just tighter than a tick's ass, I admit. A tool-material, pack-rat if you will...