My dh is away a lot with work, today he was 1 hour 20 mins away on site and he forgot his wallet with the company credit card in it. He was taking some clients for lunch with another company representative from abroad.
I rang him 5 mins after he left home to say he'd forgotten it, he didn't answer. I get hold of him about 2 hours later and told him and he was really cross with himself, but he asked me to drive it to the site to bring it to him.
I refused on several grounds:
I have a grumpy 2 yr old toddler in tow who is just recovering from a sickness bug,
I am recovering from a sickness bug,
I have recently had a car accident and am still recovering my driving confidence.
I have whiplash.
it would cost me about 20 quid in fuel,
it was a 3 hour (ish) round trip, my toddler would most likely fall asleep and i had a meeting with my business partner at 11.30 am on which I was relying on being during toddlers usual nap time
All of this could have been prevented because his colleague also has the capacity to pay for lunch for the customers on the company credit card but my dh was too embarrassed to ask him because it's his role as the uk representative (boss is based abroad and is over here at mo). he had to in the end because I refused. He thinks I was unreasonable to refuse.
In order to save drip feeding, theres more to this-I hate his attitude to my work, i'm in the process on setting up a business, yet my work doesn't appear to be important to him. The fact I actually had an appointment with my partner today was irrelevant to him.