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Partner wants me to pick him up

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Pissedoffatwork · 17/06/2019 16:15

Hi everyone,

i've name changed as i don't want this linked to my other posts as partner knows my username.

I'm so pissed off. My partner is a gardener and works mon-Fri 7am - 4pm, though has been doing overtime recently and staying until 6-6:30 ish.
He doesn't drive though normally he works locally so it's not hard for him to walk home if he doesn't fancy doing the overtime, otherwise he gets a lift with the person he works with as he always does over time. Thursday and Friday last week i picked him up at 4pm, bear in mind i work 9:30-5:30 Mon-Fri, though i can be a little bit flexible and i worked from home for the rest of the afternoon on both days. He was also based 5 minutes from our house.
Today he was supposed to be local, he never asked me to pick him up but implied it last week. He's been sent about 25-30 down the road and wants to finish at 4. This means I'd have to leave my office for at an hour and then come back. As i work in the tourism industry it's the busy period for us, we're short staffed so it's only me in the office at the moment.
He text me off his work friends phone to call him, I said he was taking the piss and i couldn't pick him up , plus i won't have my expenses paid until tomorrow and only had 45km in the car and that wasn't enough to get there and back. He asked me to call his nan and ask to borrow 10, said i wasn't comfortable doing this plus there is a language barrier, i can speak the language at a good level, however she's going deaf and finds it hard to understand what I'm saying. I call her anyway, 3 times and each time i called she didn't understand me. Called my partner back and told him to borrow his friends phone again, call her and ask her to call him back. He refused as he didn't want to borrow the phone again (his credit had gone).
He's now all pissed off with me because i'm not going to just knock on his nan's door and ask for money or hand my phone to her and expect her to give me cash. Told me not to bother to come home tonight Grin (which is so pathetic it's laughable) and now he has to wait around for 2 hours in the other town.
AIBU not to go to his nan's and just get the cash. She can't understand me, i don't feel comfortable doing it and it means at least an house out of work!

OP posts:
Bananalanacake · 17/06/2019 18:01

Does he want to learn to drive or is he unable due to medical reasons. My DP put his foot down with me learning to drive and I'm happy he did as I really need to with kids.

anothernotherone · 17/06/2019 18:10

Wow - he does indeed sound like a stroppy, spoilt pre teen! I wouldn't run around after my 12 year old son like that if he was so rude to me. My 14 year old is better organised. Leaving work without prior arrangement for taxiing about is strictly for emergencies only - I'd leave work to pick the kids up if they were ill, injured or in danger, otherwise I encourage and prompt the 12 year old to have thought through how he was getting home and arranged to cycle or ask for a lift, and 14 year old makes arrangements and simply tells me what she's arranged/ is planning to arrange and asks if it's ok with me.

Being in a relationship with a 29 year old shouldn't be so very much like parenting a 12 year old.

As others say - he needs a push bike. Perhaps his nan will buy him one for his birthday...

As you know, you're wasting your early 30s on this manchild. If you want actual kids one day you'll want an adult partner - time to dump this one ASAP.

oneforthepain · 17/06/2019 18:20

You make a heck of a lot of excuses for him.

tolerable · 17/06/2019 18:32

yabu. only by nc cos he will recognise his schedule.your schedule and all your life details as well as situation prompting you to ask aibu.why not just speak to him?

yearinyearout · 17/06/2019 18:41

Forget all about the having no fuel/getting cash from his nan malarkey, he is being massively unreasonable expecting you to leave your office and fetch him. Why do you do this? If he needs transport for his job tell him to get a bike/take driving lessons, you're not his bloody mother/personal taxi service.

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