Friend giving me a lift aibu?

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I can drive but at the moment I haven't got a car.
My friend passed her test 7 months ago and started inviting me for tea and she was very enthusiastic about driving.
3 times we've gone to a friends house (she's drove,20 mins each way ) I've have her £10 petrol money each time.
Last week she invited me for tea,she drove to mine.
I said leave the car and we will walk into town and she said no I don't mind driving.
Sunday we are going away for the weekend and she wanted to stay at mine the night before ,then drive us to train station next day,so she didn't have to rush over the morning or going away.
I said of course but my boyfriend will be here but the spare room will be made up with new sheets etc.
She said no I won't stay if your boyfriend is here,tell him not to come over or you will have to get to the coach station on your own (45 min drive )
I said I didn't want to do that.
Then she started throwing in my face the fact she's drove us places lately.
Just because I don't have a car doesn't mean I don't do her favours.
I will go to town for her if she needs things,I walked to kfc to get her food.
I've lent her over £300 8 months ago and she hasn't paid a penny.
Got her a new outfit for her birthday night out.
Here she is having the cheek to say to me "I'm not a taxi"
I never think she is,she takes me somewhere once in a blue moon and always for tea or friends (where she's going )
Aibu here ?

Train not coach station

£10 for a 20 min journey??
Not paying back £300?

This isn’t your friend OP, she’s absolutely taking the piss out of you. You’re an ATM.

Ask her for your money back and take a big step back from this relationship.

I bet my last £ she will expect you to pay for the tea! She is a massive cf taking £10 off you for the petrol imo!
Give it a miss, ask her when you should expect to see the cash she owes you...

1. Ask her for the £300 back
2. Don't pay for petrol for local journey that she is making anyway

How weird. Why won’t she stay if your boyfriend is staying?

"you're not a taxi driver, and I'm not a bank. I'd like my £300 back please"

Tell her you know she's not a taxi but your not a cash machine either. That 300 could be going towards your own car. Time to get it back

I would never charge anyone for a journey under 90 minutes and I reckon it’d need to be two hours to charge £10!!! Stop giving this tool money!

She says she doesn't want to third wheel.
I told her she wouldn't be.
It was on the tip of my tongue but stupidly didn't want to cause more Agro.

A taxi wouldn’t cost £10 for 20 minutes!

She’s a CF.

£10 petrol money for a 20 minute drive is OTT, especially for a journey she’d be making anyway. Even more ridiculous that you’re paying her when she owes you £300! It should be the other way around.
I also can’t believe she had the cheek to invite herself to stay and then tell you to cancel your boyfriend coming.

She’s a CF and she’s using you. Your response to ‘I’m not a taxi’ should be ‘I’m not a cash point, pay me back the £300’

£10 for a 40 minute round trip is a rip off. It should only cost you around £3.00

I would question her audacity to throw that in your face when she owes you so much money! Does she know the £300 wasn’t a gift?

She's a cheeky fuck for accepting that from a friend for a 20 minute journey she was doing anyway. Get that £300 back. Yanbu about the rest either.

Tell her thats fine, say she can she pay you the £300 she owes and you will use it for a taxi to the station (assuming you still want to go away with her)

You could always comply and then bill her £60 for B&B.

More seriously, I do agree with PP she a CF and needs to be told.

Get your £300 back then drop her, she’s no friend.

She's definitely in the CF category.

A taxi wouldn’t cost £10 for 20 minutes!

I want the number for the taxi company you use! On the odd occasion I miss the bus to work I have to take a taxi and it’s £16 for a 15 minute journey.

Just call her bluff. "Ok, meet you at the station". No more cash changing hands. She's making a profit every time you get in her car.

Generally my experience for motoring costs has been that HMRC got it right at 45p per mile, and a 40 minute round trip could easily exceed a tenner at that rate.

It sounds a bit like you need new friends though if they can’t repay your loan and are asking for money constantly for little things.

So many questions...

Op where are you going next weekend? Is it just with her or with other friends too? Have you bankrolled any of it? Made the bookings and expecting her to pay you back?

I’m just trying to suss out how deep you’re in it here... at the minute if this goes nuclear you’re down 300 quid (and all this tenners you’ve pushed up the wall on ‘petrol’ money)

If you ask her for the 300 quid now is she likely to turn around and sabotage the weekend away? Do you want to even go with the cf anyway? Is she likely to get where ever you’re going and conveniently forgotten her wallet?

What did you lend her the 300 quid for in the first place???

A taxi wouldn’t cost £10 for 20 minutes!
£8 for 7 minutes here.

Everyone comparing taxi costs in various regions are somewhat missing the point... op isn’t paying for a taxi, she’s contributing to a journey that her ‘friend’ would be making regardless.

And as for the HMRC 45p a mile, well it’s the same principal, she’s only part contributing to a journey that would be made anyway!

And her CF friend still owes her 300 quid!!!!

How about every time she gets in the car she offers to knock off a fiver of her friends debt to her? Though even that is over generous, if someone is prepared to borrow 300 quid they should be prepared to repay it like for like... as in cash not favours....

Doesn't sound unreasonable. She should pay you back at some point, even if not right now.

My own story just 'cos I feel like telling it :

A friend didn't drive & we went to a lot of the same things, so I gave her lifts & never asked for or got any money from her. One day I needed something done which she sometimes did as piece work for a small company. She said, "I'll show you how to do it, but I'm not going to do it for you."

It took all my self-control not to retort, "Yeah, well, next time you need a lift I'll tell you which pedals to press, but I'm not going to take you!"