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To think I shouldn't have to give DH a lift?

103 replies

Fretful · 29/12/2015 22:19

So, my husband's going out at 7pm tomorrow to meet his friend to watch football and have a few drinks. He's going to a pub around 8 miles away, the place is not on a regular bus route from our house (but by no means impossible), and taxi would probably cost around £10.

He's asked me to 'drop him off', i.e. do a 16 mile round trip purely to take him to the door of the pub. I am 8 months pregnant and have a 4 and a 7 year old.

Was I unreasonable to tell him to get a taxi?! He has managed to make me feel guilty, but I think it's a lot to ask, particularly at that time of night from the kids' point of view.

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BertrandRussell · 30/12/2015 12:59

I suppose my perspective comes from living in the back of beyond where we can't get anywhere after 5 without a car and where an 8 mile taxi ride would be at least £20. I really don't see a problem with chucking the children in the car for half a hour.
But if the OP is unwell then of course she shouldn't do it.

Katedotness1963 · 30/12/2015 13:03

I'd take him.

LordBrightside · 30/12/2015 13:40

"I am 8 months pregnant and have a 4 and a 7 year old."

Given this, no YANBU at all. If I was him I wouldn't be going to the pub at all and frankly who is so tight that they grudge a tenner for a taxi to go to a night out?

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