Mr. E
I know somebody.
This somebody is fictional, and I don't want anyone to read anything into this. Please, really don't... this person doesn't exist, and too my (limited) knowledge, neither does this situation.
Think of this somebody as a hypothetical.
Hypothetically speaking, there might be this guy that you once enjoyed drinking with. He might have, hypothetically speaking, gotten himself into some shit.
Now if I'm in shit, I might not like to talk about it. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
So this guy might need a hand, and not really want to, you know, hypothetically talk about it too much. So I might lend him a (hypothetical) hand, in the form of an amount of money.
Not an amount to get excited about.
If the person couldn't (hypothetically speaking) pay it back, it's certainly not an amount to get in the way of drinking with me anymore. Chatting used to be good. It would be silly to (hypothetically speaking) miss some leaving drinks next Tuesday.
So I'll see you next Tuesday then, eh?