DC (junior school age) goes to various clubs after school. This particular one in question is in the early evening and I work just half a day that day so I do pick up and drop off. I or DH always do pick up and drop off at clubs. We don’t have much family help (not moaning, just context) so we ensure our schedules work as best as we can for DC and we don’t really rely on other school parents to provide pick ups/drop offs at all.
Child in DCs class also attends this club. They’re not best friends but are friendly enough.
I’m not friends but friendly-ish with said child’s mum. She is a MLM bot and has tried and failed for years to recruit me. I think she’s finally realised I’m not interested.
The other week I drop DC off and as I’m leaving see CF dropping her child off and I wave hello.
I get home (it’s a long club and we don’t live far) to a message to ask if I can pick up her child from the club as her husband is poorly. I say fine. I’ve done it literally twice before in many years so I’m not too bothered usually but this time I was a bit miffed as she knew I had had some really horrible bad news this week so I’ve been really down and wanted to just pick DC up and get on with my evening.
I pick DC and CFsChild up. The child didn’t know I was picking up and said blithely as they got into the car “my mum probably couldn’t be bothered to pick me up”.
I drop the child off home and their teenage sibling answered the door. Child asked where their mum was and sibling said “oh she has gone to the local restaurant/bar”. I text CF and told her I had dropped Child off and to enjoy her evening. She simply responded “thanks”.
AIBU to be annoyed and feel like I’ve been taken for a mug? I’m feeling bad about my awful news so I’m not sure if I’m overreacting so need some Vipery Perspective.
I won’t be picking up the CFChild in future let me tell you that for nothing!