A good friend of ours is coming back from a trip and his flight was supposed to land at 10:30pm. DH very kindly agreed to go and pick him up from the airport (10 miles away). Now it transpires that the plane is over an hour late and will be getting in close to midnight. We have two young kids one of whom is very unsettled at night. The reason a friend doesn't want to get a taxi is the cost (not huge). DH is too nice to refuse!
By way of background, both us and our friend and his wife (one child) earn about the same amount of money ( not much) but they also own (no mortgage) two impressively expensive houses while we are paying off a mortgage on a cramped little house...in other words, I'd just pay for a cab and wouldn't expect a lift!
AIBU to be pissed off at my friend for having the cheek to ask, and still expect to be picked up even when the flight is delayed?
AIBU?
Friend wanting to be picked up from airport late at night
BeadyEyes · 28/10/2015 11:05
Erm, you are being massively unreasonable! Your DH made the arrangements to pick up his friend, he can't just decide not to do it now because it's a bit later than first thought, that would be a really shitty thing for a friend to do.
As for your kids, unless you are also out meaning they will be left alone I don't see what your DH being out has to do with it?! Surely it doesn't take both of you to settle the one that wakes?! 
How on earth do you cope if DH has an evening put with friends?! 
And you sound far too over invested in the friends financial situation! It makes you sound bitter and resentful, neither of which are attractive OP.
Presumably the unsettled sleeping child is relevant because the sound of her DH returning home is likely to wake him at 2am or whatever time...
Presumably the finances were referred to to indicate the friend can afford a taxi (driving to and from the airport and probably parking there are by no means free to the DH).
Assuming the trip is nothing to do with you I'd be at being asked, in the context of the late night (even 10.30pm) arrival and the ability to afford a taxi. Its not as if he's coming to visit you. Presumably his wife could even have bundled their DC into the car and fetched him, if being fetched is important to him... your DH will be tired for work in the morning too.
On the other hand the onus was really on your DH to say no, sorry, in the first place.
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The text was just an example, and meant for the people who seem to think that 'friends' should be willing to do anything for a favour.
Who said friends should be will to do anything for a favour?
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