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AIBU to refuse a neighbour a hospital lift when I was wfh?

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NoMoreGaming · 26/08/2026 14:26

Our neighbour came to our door yesterday when I was on a work call. There were 6 people in the meeting with one presenting so I was able to go on mute and just speak to my neighbour through my phone using the ring app, still half listening to the meeting.

Her son wasn’t feeling well and she couldn’t get him a doctors appointment so she was asking me to take them to the hospital. I asked what was wrong with him and she said he had a temperature and wasn’t himself. I asked if he was conscious, talking etc to try to rule out an emergency and she said he was but that she thought he might have an ear infection. I said I couldn’t give her a lift as I was working. I needed to present next in the meeting and had another meeting after this one.

My husband saw her putting her son in the car this morning so asked how he was. She said we didn’t care yesterday so why ask now. 😬

Was I unreasonable for not giving her a lift yesterday? If it was an emergency, I would have excused myself from work but it didn’t sound like it was.

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BippidyBoppety · Today 13:08

Gawd, I was forever having my elderly neighbours both sides dropping by for chats while I was WFH. Ten past four in the afternoon "are we disturbing your dinner"? Couldn't get them to understand I was WORKING.

I had a friends partner stay when my friend died very suddenly - he stayed for 4 days while I tried to grieve myself, comfort him AND check-in with my busy office. On the 4th day I spent 10 minutes checking emails and the company bank account, returned to sit with him and he chuckled "is that what work from home means". I felt zero respect from him, took him home that afternoon.

People just don't get it.

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