Would you charge a family member for a rasher of bacon?

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Our adult son lives a few minutes drive away. He messaged me today asking if we had a spare slice of bacon, he needed one for the recipe he was planning for tonight and wouldn't have time to shop after work. Sure, I said, I'll swing by and leave it in your fridge. Told DH where I was going and he said "Is he paying for it?" and he wasn't kidding! Gobsmacked.

Wow! That is very tight!

That is ridiculous 😂😂

No, of course not? How much would it be? 20p?

Unless there’s backstory, your dh id unreasonable to expect money.

Ffs.

Okay then

It wasn’t really about the paying for it though. It was that your H thinks you are a complete and utter doormat to deliver one slice of bacon to the fridge of a presumably competent adult.

Of course he had time to shop for it. Or he could have managed without. Or at the very least collected it from yours, the lazy entitled little sod.

£5 for the bacon & £2 for the delivery!. (I'm only joking I wouldn't charge for the delivery)😁

No don't charge, but he picks it up from you on the way home from work. You don't deliver it.

Is his name Sheridan?

No real backstory other than DH historically being "careful" with money but this takes the biscuit. Son hardly ever asks for favours.

Fairly sure this is not about the rasher. If your DS had planned a meal he should have shopped. Before today, at lunchtime or online. Or else cooked something else. Or at the very least come after work to pick it up.

Is it just me who is wondering what the recipe is that needed just one single rasher of bacon?

What exactly was he making that requires a single slice of bacon?

Hmmmm. I misread the title as ‘would you CHANGE a family member for a rasher of bacon’.

Yes. Yes I would.

Whoops cross post @LizB62A

No I certainly would not charge him but I have a feeling that, despite what you say, your husband was not serious. Some people are very good at delivering a line with a straight face.

Are there no shops at all on the way home from work?

I wouldn’t charge but I would probably have asked whether the recipe could be adapted if it only required one rasher of bacon

I do hope you had enough sense to tell your twat of a husband to fuck off.

I have a feeling that, despite what you say, your husband was not serious. Some people are very good at delivering a line with a straight face.

Presumably OP knows better than you whether this is the type of person her husband is.

Is his name Sheridan?

Recipe was Chinese garlic stems, a new one on me I must admit. Son doesn't drive and there's no direct bus between ours and his, would mean a bus all the way out here then back into town and out to his. A time consuming journey. DH has form for low level twattishness.

No, I wouldn't charge, but I wouldn't be going round to his house to deliver it either.

That sounds like a ridiculous request from your son though