Hi everyone,
So I'm going to a wedding next month and one of my close friends suggested she drive and pick up our friend, and me on the way. She lives the furthest, our friend is around 50 miles from her and I'm almost exactly the halfway point on the journey.
I was planning on driving but when she suggested that she drive, I thought it'll be fun and work out cheaper anyhow as we'll divide the cost between three.
I booked the hotel (£35 per person) and she said that instead of paying me for the hotel, she'll keep that and consider that my contribution for the car trip. Fair enough I thought, makes everything more simple.
Rough online calculations put the fuel cost of my leg of the journey at around £64. Car park will cost £28.
So the way I see it is, that £92 total should be divided into 3, so around £30.5, and the extra fiver (£35 hotel room) she can chuck towards the car.
Now she's messaged me (privately, instead of in the group chat) saying 'had a look at the car park and it'll be £28, please send £14 to my bank account'.
I was not expecting this at all. So now that £50 for the trip. So basically she wants me to chip in as if I was travelling the whole journey (62*2 fuel) +28 parking /3. I mean I'm literally the halfway point, surely it's unreasonable to expect me to pay for double the distance?
AIBU to tell her that our cost should be divided by 3 so £35 is more than enough from me and I won't be paying £14 on top of that. In comparison taking a train is only £42 return (and near hotel).
This is the first time she's every driven me anywhere, so I wasn't expecting this to be an issue.
I've driven her and my friends loads of times. I personally don't charge anyone for the first tank of petrol, I always pay that myself (it's how I was raised but I appreciate it's not the norm if people are already in the car).
Anything after that I just split between everyone in the car (as I would have picked everyone up by that point).
It's not about the £50 it's really about asking me to pay for a whole journey when I'm only doing half of it. For a return trip the differnce is 300 extra miles I'm being charge for.
I haven't messaged my friend back, thought I'd ask you guys first then give it a little while to reply (so my tone isn't argumentative)