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 ?

@NatashaDancing

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.

This in spades! ^ It's absolutely unfathomable that ANYone would expect someone to come and get them from the airport at some ungodly hour like 2 to 3am, and do a 6 to 8 hour round trip to do it... Because they're too fucking tight-fisted to fork out for their own transport, or arrange pick up/drop off from their home to the airport (and back!)

They would very likely be paying several thousand £££ for their trip in most cases, but are too tight to pay for the bloody pick up/drop off!

Life is just littered with cheeky fuckers isn't it?

The ones saying it's OK to do this, are CLEARLY the ones who do it.

Well this has escalated! When did it become an 8 hour round trip!?

Thank god my parents are not as dramatic as you.

There’s nothing ‘weird’ about it…. They ask me to take them to the airport too and I don’t offer.

In some circles people actually don’t mind putting themselves out for others… you clearly don’t have that if you would feel ‘awful’ over something so minor.

I must admit, I don't think I would do this for my adult children, simply because I don't think it would be very safe for me to be night driving long distances while tired. I would happily give them the taxi fare instead.

It's clearly not an 8 hour round trip, but it could be up to 6 hours, or even more, if the plane is delayed or if there are traffic problems or delays getting through customs and collecting bags.

If those around me catastrophized as much as they do on MN I'd be really concerned.

Logic is taking a massive hit on this thread.

First of all, asking someone to spend three hours driving in the early hours of the morning, because you’re too tight to pay for a taxi is not ‘minor’.

Second of all, I put myself out for others all the time. People put themselves out - or, as I would rather frame it: ‘help me out’ - often, too.

As I’ve said many times on this thread, I have a community that spreads far and wide, and have supported friends and family through good times and bad.

We all step up and offer - without having to be asked!

We will ask for small favours that won’t massively inconvenience someone (like childcare, or dropping a kid off, when the other person is taking their child anyway).

But we all spend much more time offering and doing - as opposed to the cheeky fucker, tight-arses on this thread - who ASK for ridiculously unneeded favours, just because they’re stingy/lazy.

Did you pick her up op?

Folded into a lettuce sandwich and did the driving, I expect.

OP said it was a 3 hour round trip.

I don't see anything wrong with her friend asking politely, and nothing wrong with OP saying no.

3 hours is just the driving time.

As the poster you quoted mentioned, there are often delays with flights, and with baggage pickup.

OP said 1h15m each way. She could check flight arrivals beforehand.

I'm not in any way suggesting OP collect them though, she doesn't sound keen so no it is.

OP said: The airport is around 1hr 15 minutes each way, so around a 3 hours round-trip.

I would trust her estimate based on the fact she has driven there before. You have to warm up the car. Maybe the weather conditions in the middle of the night mean you have to drive more slowly. You have to find a parking spot. You have to walk from there to the arrivals, etc.

She's not going to say no, so it is all moot.

Warm up the car? Where are we? The Arctic Circle? The 1950s?

Tedious.

You’re not convincing anyone picking up on these points?

Convincing anyone of what? Modern cars don't need warming up in late June.

People here making such a meal out of driving for a perfectly average amount of time. I find it tedious that a journey of just over an hour has extended into a day-long expedition. It's catastrophizing to a ridiculous degree. I honestly have no idea how some people get through life.

It's in the middle of the night that people and the OP are objecting to. If the friend wanted picking up at 10 am on a Saturday when she had no particular plans it would be different.

You really don't understand the middle of the night and different climates.

Wtf are you talking about …. I don’t live 3 hours from the airport… made that shit up didn’t you.

I don’t care what you do in your circles. Mine are different.

@lemonchiffonpie

why do you have to warm up the car ? It’s summer!

Mewkins, 3 hours is a long time to be in a car, and I would hate it

@Sigmama

how do you go on visiting friends, family, etc?

it’s just a means to an end innit

Why does it matter if the plane is delayed? I would assume the friend would message before take-off. I also don't see why the OP would have to get out of her car to

Gremlins ate my post.

Why does it matter if the plane is delayed? I would assume the friend would message before take-off. I also don't see why the OP would have to get out of her car to walk to arrivals. She just needs to text "I'm outside" then friend can come to her. It's not difficult to time it so you arrive 30 mins after the plane lands and luggage is collected.