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

614 replies

Eggsandpickles · 15/06/2023 08:12

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 ?

OP posts:
CrazyArmadilloLady · 24/06/2023 19:11

Buyyouflowers · 24/06/2023 15:37

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.

WTF?

The three-hour round trip applies to the OP, and the situation she is in. What she has been asked to do.

What’s where you live got the slightest bit of relevance to anything? Confused

lemonchiffonpie · 24/06/2023 22:34

LuckySantangelo35 · 24/06/2023 18:37

@lemonchiffonpie

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

Where I am, it is cold at night, winter or summer. Do you know where the OP lives by any chance?

EbonyRaven · 24/06/2023 22:42

@mewkins

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

Why the 1950s? Confused It wasn't any colder then than it is now. LMFAO! 😆

EbonyRaven · 24/06/2023 22:44

lemonchiffonpie · 24/06/2023 22:34

Where I am, it is cold at night, winter or summer. Do you know where the OP lives by any chance?

Don't know where YOU are, but it's 22 degrees C right now (Midlands, UK.) At nearly 11 at night!

It is certainly not COLD...

BarbaraofSeville · 24/06/2023 22:48

EbonyRaven · 24/06/2023 22:42

@mewkins

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

Why the 1950s? Confused It wasn't any colder then than it is now. LMFAO! 😆

But cars were a lot less reliable. I take it you've never tried to start a car with a choke in winter?

EbonyRaven · 24/06/2023 22:51

BarbaraofSeville · 24/06/2023 22:48

But cars were a lot less reliable. I take it you've never tried to start a car with a choke in winter?

They weren't less reliable. Confused

CrazyArmadilloLady · 24/06/2023 23:04

FFS. Most people are not going to need to ‘warm up their car’? They will turn their car on, and it will take the best part of 2 seconds.

But it’s irrelevant, because that’s really not the issue!?

lemonchiffonpie · 24/06/2023 23:09

None of it is the issue - because the OP cannot find it in herself to seem mean and say no to this ridiculous request.

BCBird · 29/12/2023 08:28

It's unsociable hours. I stopped doing this gor my.mom, told her she needed to.get taxis I needed be ip at 5 for work. Even if u don't need to .be up, such unsociable hours have a knock.on effect the next day.

BCBird · 29/12/2023 08:29

Remember the choke😁

JMSA · 29/12/2023 08:44

Tell her you'll do it for £100 paid in cash, in advance.

This is so embarrassing. It's better just to say no.

CheersToAMerryChristmas · 29/12/2023 08:49

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!!

JMSA · 29/12/2023 09:53

illiterato · 15/06/2023 08:55

Basically she’s saved money by booking the crappy timed flights and is now trying to keep those savings by pushing the cost of the consequences of that onto you. Tight AF.

Often with package holidays the flights ARE just crappily timed (as in, really late) and there's nothing you can do about it.

JMSA · 29/12/2023 09:54

@BCBird

Why did you start this thread up again? Hmm

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