Is my friend BU to ask me to pick her up from the airport at 2am ?

[Eggsandpickles]

She clearly wants to save money by not getting a taxi. There are no buses to our village at that time. A taxi would probably cost her around £85.
Thoughts ?

@@Tremaria

have you been taking drugs?

Peedoffnow - real pals wouldn't ask

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but mrjjackskipper has just done this on Instagram - ‘giving someone a lift to the airport’.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtuFiLorW9W/?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg==

She can afford overseas holidays but doesn’t want to pay for a taxi home or for her own car park at the airport? Hard no from me, especially such a long drive at such an hour.

This made me laugh…. I just asked my parents to take me to the airport for 4am next month 😂

They said yes…. No bitching in sight 😂

Well yes I would take one of my kids @Buyyouflowers and I am sure my parents would take me, but I wouldn't even think to ask a friend - I would think it was a bit of an unfair question tbh

Well yes, my parents would do that for me, and I would do to for my DC. But a friend who was asking just because it made life easier for her and not because she needed it? Nope.

I wouldn’t ask my parents, precisely because they would say ‘yes’ - I’d feel terrible dragging them out at that hour, just because I’m a tight-arse.

Odd that your parents didn’t offer to take you, if they’re so enamoured with driving around in the small hours of the morning….

Jesus Christ…. ‘Feel terrible for dragging them out at that hour’… honestly get a grip.

Are you always so uptight about a small thing? And yes they see it as a small thing. They also know I would do it for them because I have, more then once.

Some Families do stuff for each other and don’t whine and bitch about it. Sorry you don’t have that kind of relationship with your parents that you would feel terrible asking for a minor thing.

We regularly drive 20 miles at three/ four in the morning to grab our night-clubbing daughter from a Part and Ride stop. All part of being a parent who wants their grown up child to have fun!

Yes, but that’s your daughter, not an adult friend who just doesn’t want to cough up for a taxi. Completely different situation.

As I say, I’s never ask them as I’m not a tight-arse, and I’d rather they get their sleep (this is theoretical, as they’ve both passed away).

And as I say, weird that you had to ask, and they didn’t offer to take you….

I’d feel awful needlessly dragging anyone out at that hour, because I’m too right to just put my hand in my pocket.

It's quite a big put-out when it's not necessary, though?

It's not like friend will be stuck in the middle of nowhere without any transport options.

My parents are 75 and we have an excellent relationship but I just would not ask them to collect me at 2am, even if they would do it. I do remember him collecting me from Birmingham airport at 11pm ish when I was visiting them via work trip abroad.

Actually dad would give me the cash to be fair. He slips me £20 for a taxi when I visit then. And I am 50. And a chartered accountant!

Can't you see the difference?

20 mile journey of what 30 minutes for a situation where there is presumably no other transport options and possibly not safe as opposed to an 8 hour round trip to pick someone up from a perfectly safe place simply because although they could afford a foreign holiday they were too mean to arrange their home travel or wouldn't wait a couple of hours at most until public transport started.

I’d feel awful needlessly dragging anyoneout at that hour, because I’m too right to just put my hand in my pocket.

that's the crux really. It's not a big emergency. There's no need to ask anyone.

…that was meant to be ‘too tight to put my hand in my pocket.

But I think that was pretty obvious - the zen diagram between CFs who ASK people to haul ass out for them in the early hours, and the tight arses, is an eclipsed circle.

Wow, you really don't care much about your parents, do you? Losing a night's sleep can really upset the immune system, not to mention making you feel bloody awful.

Crikey. Some people are perfectly willing and able to get up and drive at any time of the day or night- it doesn't faze them. Just because you aren't, doesn't mean that no one is. It really wouldn't bother me to do this for someone as a favour.

And if someone important to me asked me to do it, I’d probably do it, but I would never ask someone to do it for me, because it’s total CF behaviour to ASK.

And that’s also why no-one I know would ask.

So you'd never ask and no one you know would ask (how do you know what will happen in future?!) But if they did ask then you would do it. Even though you don't know anyone who WOULD ask. All clear and understood

Are you trying to be sarcastic?

It's perfectly clear what CrazyArmadilloLady meant.

I honestly can't imagine the mindset of an adult capable of paying for and going on a foreign holiday even beginning to think of asking someone else to make an 8 hour round trip starting late at night for absolutely no reason at all except the holiday maker is too tight fisted to have included the final costs of the homeward journey in their calculations. Or is too precious to put up with the very slight inconvenience of waiting at the airport for public transport to start up.

Ah well, we're all different. As illustrated by this thread.

Yep, we're all different...... Some people are cheeky fuckers, and the rest of us are not.

Yep, we're all different...... Some people are cheeky fuckers, and the rest of us are not.