Friend/Neighbour came over last night at about 9pm (which already annoyed me as I think it's too late for visitors). She wanted to know if I could drop her at the hospital next week for her minor elective surgery. I said sure, no problem, assuming it was our local hospital. No, it turns out she wants to be dropped in to one of the hospitals on the other side of the capital city (we live rurally), which is a two and a half hour drive away. And she needs to be checked in by 6am. Which means leaving home at 3:30am to get there on time. I was pretty gobsmacked, and suggested her staying overnight in town the night before, she could get the train down and spend the night in a hotel, but she doesn't want to do that, as it's mothers day the day before and she wants to spend the whole day with her kids. I'm pretty annoyed, not least because to leave at that time of the morning, I'll have to take my big 4x4 because of the black ice that's likely and in case of the roos that like to sit in the middle of the roads. The trip is a full tank of fuel, which is about $70, and I know from past experience that she won't offer me a cent towards it. I'll have to turn around and come straight back because I've got tradies here doing the bathroom, so will need to be back by nine. So five hours straight driving at silly o'clock.
To top it off, I said that if we have to leave that early, I'll come to her place to have a shower before I go, as I won't have a bathroom (being ripped out and will take two weeks). The elderly lady next door is letting us use her shower, but I'm not going in at 3am to disturb her, and would prefer to have a shower to wake me up at that time of the morning before driving. "Friend" has said no I can't have a shower at her house as it might wake her kids (teenage boys, who I'm sure could roll over and go back to sleep).
AIBU to be feeling pretty sulky about having to do this favour?