I suspect you will all say I am!

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Every morning DS1 walks to school with his friend who lives round the corner. We prefer them to walk together as its quite a long wlak and I'm not happy about DS1 doing it on his own. Also he has been getting bullied and another reason why I'm not happy if he goes on his own
He went round today and knocked and his friend said "Oh I am going in at 8.15 as I have to take a model in and I'm getting a lift, bye" and shut the door on DS1.
DS1 came back home, actually quite upset. DH ahs walked him along to school, but AIBU in thinking that his friend should have just said "we're going down a bit later, come in we'll give you a lift"
I know the car wouldn't be full, as there would just be his freind and his dad in it

kids sometimes don't think though do they, maybe the parent was expecting to give you ds a lift as well but didn't tell the son?

That's harsh. I would have expected a phone call to tell me of circumstance change. Sometimes children dont' think though. Look on the bright side, term is nearly over.
YANBU.

Hopefully a misunderstanding.
Children can be very literal-if the father has said "I´ll take you in"-it might not have occured to him that your son was included.

That said, if I was the parent,as soon as I discovered what had happened, I would be running after your son so that he could wait & have a lift.

Kids just dont think and the dad probably didnt either.

Perhaps you ds could ask his friend to let him know in future.

How old is DS?

DS1 is 11. However he's been getting bullied a lot and is very insecure and gets very wound up if he has to walk to or from school on his own

11 year olds don't always process the thoughts & needs of others, do they? I'd have hoped the parent would offer, but don't think I'd blame the child, tbh.

Yup, I agree, think it'll just be thoughtlessness on the part of the other boy. Sorry for your poor DS.

But YANBU in hoping that the boy would have behaved differently. Shame.

Very thoughtless but nothing more sinister.

I would be really upset by this too, but IME most people are thoughtless about this sort of thing and won't be trying to be horrible. I do think it's a horrid way to behave to be selfish like that, but most people seem to think this sort of thing is quite normal, so I accept that this is just something that is a 'pet peeve' for me. I remember when I was at school I used to get the bus with 2 other girls who lived quite near me (we were from outside the catchment area, so the only 3 going that way) and one day one of the mums came to pick the other 2 up and they left me behind and waved out of the back window. Also I had a friend (still do actually) whose parents would never offer you anything to eat at their house and if you went round at the weekend you had to take a packed lunch! They weren't poor, just mean. I hate people like that. Grrrr I am cross on your behalf. I always go out of my way to do people a favour and it's only now that I'm an adult that I fully realise that most people wouldn't give you last week's newspaper and that I am quite unusual in this respect - but then, so were both my parents, so no surprise I've ended up the same I suppose!