My friend says I'm selfish ...aibu?

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So my friend is getting her hair done tomorrow and we've agreed to go out afterwards.
I agreed to go to the hairdressers with her and wait but I've just remembered I need to go to the doctors.
I live near the salon (10 min walk ) and she said she would drive to mine and leave her car and walk to the salon as she's scared driving into town.
She's asked me will I walk her into town and walk back up and meet her when she's done.
I said would it not be easier to just drive into town.
She's refused and expects me to walk her there and back.
Aibu to not?
I even suggested il get her a Uber on my account and pay.
Just tomorrow is so busy.

I mentioned that I might not be able to walk up to meet her and she said I was being selfish.
Am I ?

She can leave her car at yours and walk on her own there and you can meet her afterwards?

Yanbu she's not a child

Why can't she still park at yours, walk herself to the hairdressers, and you just meet her afterwards?

Who will accompany you?

Cross post!

So she's a grown ass woman who's scared to drive in town and walk on her own...and this somehow makes you selfish. Mmhmm...

That’s quite an unusual request. Is she normally so demanding?

She said she doesn't know the way but it's literally a straight road and she's walked it so many times with me.

Does she suffer with anxiety?

She's very demanding.
I shouldn't of originally agreed to sit with her for 2 hours whilst she was getting her hair done.
Obviously now I need to go to doctors which clashes with hair apt.
After her hair she wants to come back to mine and change her clothes..or I would have just met her.
So I would be walking into town to walk her to mine to then go back.

is your friend actually a 5 year old child? if so yabu. Assuming not she is very very unreasonable, entitled and rude

Why on earth would you have waited at the hairdresser anyway? What a waste of your time! What is her reasoning for needing to be accompanied and why would you offer to pay for a taxi for her?

its all so weird.

Nope no anxiety but hates being on her own in places not familiar to her.

seriously! I can’t be doing with ppl who need other ppl to hold their hand constantly. fair enough she doesn’t feel able to drive into the town, I suppose. But now she needs an accompanying adult to walk 10 minutes, come on 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just say no, that doesn’t work for you.

That's completely daft. Don't do it.

It's not selfish to go to a doctor's appointment. It is selfish to expect a friend to cancel a doctor's appointment to 'walk you to the hairdresser'. Unless your friend is 5 years old, she is the selfish one.

Why does she feel she needs you to walk her? How old are you both?

Why is she "scared" of driving into town or walking 10 mins on her own?

Tell her no.

Both 33

Is she old enough to decide how to have her own hair cut?
Maybe doing this journey alone will give her a confidence boost.

Use the good old mimsnet favourite ‘sorry that doesn’t work for me anymore’. It’s unreasonable to ask you to do this.

She sounds like a complete sap. Tell her you'll meet her after the hairdresser. Or not.

So why did she book an appointment at a hairdressers she doesn't know the way to?🤨 What does she usually do?!

Does she have a smart phone? Download google maps for her and point her in the direction of town.