To not pay for friend's taxi?

[GambaJoe]

Best friend and I have been very excited to go to a mutual friend of ours wedding for some time.

Beat friend has recently had a baby so is excited to let her hair down and show off her baby.

I've recently learned to drive and have my license. I am still a nervous driver and friend is now assuming that I'll be driving her and baby to wedding.

The thing is: I don't want a baby in my car. I don't feel ready to have that responsibility on my shoulders (not only for a worse case scenario but also crying while driving ect)

Friend is now in a huff and expecting me to pay or contribute to her getting there and getting back home.

WWYD? Drive the baby or help/pay taxi fare

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Your post is rubbish. Statistically you're much safer after ten years then after just passing your test. This is just fact and is reflected in insurance premiums and all of the statistics about road traffic accidents.

I have passed my test but have never driven on a motorway so I'll take a few lessons to practise it. I will decide when I'm comfortable taking passengers and until then I won't.

I still don't understand people who can't understand probabilities that aren't 0 or 1. Your probability of an accident is greatest when you've just passed your test. This probability is greater still at night and when you're distracted. To decrease your probability of an accident you can remove some of these factors (e.g. driving at night and with distractions). This is official advice from the DVLA based on decades of statistics.

If you have a drivers license and you are driving yourself there then I think you ABU. If a taxi is going to cost your friend 130 what friend would do that to her friend, especially when said friend is driving herself there? You say you'd take the friend but not the baby.... are you saying you dont trust yourself to get yourself home safely....because if so maybe you shouldnt be on the road putting other drivers and their families in danger. Personally I would be as offended as your 'friend'. Maybe you, you 'friend' and the baby can share a taxi and share the cost - maybe then you wont need to stick to fizzies.

• you are driving yourself there ( not friend is driving self there)

On my first year after passing my test I refused to take any passengers other than my immediate family that new the rules of not making any sudden noises or talking to me . Can see now how weird it was to outsiders.But I was terrified. Remember once passed a colleague on the way to work and didn't stop . It was raining . So understand where you coming from. Consider taking the taxi with her. So you can both have a drink together :)

crispsandwiches i think i love you for your wit, brevity and application of logical thought.

I did pass my test first time, and have always been pretty confident ( I'm not saying it to show off just to show how much I understand!) but even when my baby was born and I had been driving for about 12 years, I didn't even feel happy driving her about in the car, never mind somebody else's new born just after passing your test! I sympathise op, it's difficult as you don't want to have that responsibility on your shoulders. Maybe just discuss with your friend again and explain exactly how you feel??

You call this person a friend?

If you are such a nervous driver should you be driving in the dark? It is harder than when it is light. Nervous drivers should not be drinking alcohol before driving in dark. Why not stay over and drive back next day or go half's with friend with baby for taxi?

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how was the wedding

what was your transport?

Yes, what did you do in the end?

At first I was going to say I'd just drive the baby. But after her response I say fuck her (not literally obv lol!) It's her kid not yours, she needs to stop being a brat.

I'm aware I'm late to this party...

How did it go in the end OP? still Friends?