WIBU to give my daughter's friend a lift home in torrential rain?

That's a good update, OP.
I would be slightly wary of her though, just from my personal experience. I knew someone who had serious emotional regulation issues and she would have kicked off like this (I can even imagine her using similar language to 'we’ll be chatting about it tonight'). She would then act contrite and apologise afterwards, but the next time something happened it'd be the same: kicking off and irrational accusations/threats etc.
So hopefully in this case it was just a bad day and a one-off, but I'd not 100% trust that.

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Are you a townie by any chance? You obviously don’t live where I do! 😂

I live just off the Atlantic coast and it gets very windy here at times and when driving on winding narrow rural roads, you need to have your wits about you when it’s torrential wet and windy as it’s not uncommon for small bits of tree branches to fall down into the road.

Two weeks ago, I was driving to collect DS on a Sunday evening in the rain and must have driven over something sharp (and metal possibly?) as all 4 tyres suffered some degree of damage and had to be replaced. Aargh that was bloody expensive but at least I didn’t have an accident.

Eeek! I'm glad you were safe, but what a pita about the tyres.

I'm familiar with the Atlantic coast area of Devon and the weather can be pretty extreme. When I lived there I used to pick the kids up from school because hardly any students lived close enough to walk there and back and there were no buses.

Did you miss that she is 15!!

I love a normal happy ending. Not everything is drama. I’m glad it’s all sorted.

she will have been worried sick, OP! Maybe take round some flowers to her as way of apology and be clear that it won’t happen again.

I think this highlights the lunacy of the life we are living now with mobile phones, life 360 etc. Her daughter was literally 15 minutes later than expected and she has you all in a car crash etc etc. Defcon 1 straight away - simply for 15 minutes. Things happen, people get delayed, it's not always a life changing event and there's no excuse for her to let her own anxiety turn to rudeness. Life was far more simple for everyone before we were able to track people to the nth degree. Don't get me wrong, there are some terrible things that happen in the world, but they are the exception not the rule.

Seriously? A 15-year old was 15 mins late home from school and the parent's immediate reaction is to assume disaster. Surely she doesn't arrive home at exactly the same time every day - what happens if she stops to chat to friends, goes back to pick up a forgotten bag/book, buys a snack on the way home? If the daughter knows that her mother is going to immediately assume the worst because of a delay, then she needs to make sure she always gets in contact. Presumably she could have used her friend's phone/OP's phone to text her mother from the car?

Maybe she's recently watched the season finale of Rivals and panicked!

So what

I could understand a teeny bit if the reason behind her outrage was that they needed to head out as soon as they got home for a doctors/dentist appointment and this made them late. However, she was very OTT and that would be the last time I did any favours for them going forward as no way would I want to deal with her tantrums in future.

You did nothing wrong and thank you for looking out for your daughters friends

Unbelievable.

I think this person was joking

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If she was THAT worried, why didnt she call her daughter? Presumably she has a phone!

You didn’t read the thread, did you?

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At least in British schools you know your child is likely to not get shot dead. I'd rather they got soaked than murdered, but each to their own.

Good point!!

Sounds like a nutter. She wasn’t even picking up her own daughter, you were about 14 mins off schedule (?), tell her not to be daft.

She might have been worried for five minutes although it wasn't much of a stretch for to maybe imagine you were delayed by bad weather or that you might be giving someone else a lift as well. However, once her DD got home, and not that much later anyway, you would think she would have been reassured enough not to send a silly message. Obviously once of those people who don't engage their brain before rushing in, but it's good that she's apologised. This is also another downside of mobile phones, that you immediately think the worst if you can't get through.

but even if this is the case, it’s still exceptionally rude to get cross with the OP and threaten words later!! Bat shit behaviour!

I tell her to never speak to me like that again....

I suspect some posters don't get the type of sideways torrential rain that some of us do. I also suspect that the pupils weren't appropriately dressed for the weather.