Picking Up Spouse From Airport?
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Anonymous
| If you spouse travels for work about every 6 weeks and the airport is 40 minutes from your house, and their employer pays for Uber, how often do you pick up your spouse? |
Anonymous
| This was asked very recently. |
Anonymous
Then what was the consensus? |
Anonymous
| Never. My spouse is a fully functional adult and capable of arranging their own transportation. |
Anonymous
| I would start from zero and move up from there based on circumstances and what else I have going on. If it was off hours for traffic, I have nothing else to do (including no kids) sometimes I don’t mind a drive and it’s nice to do a favor. |
Anonymous
| Never. That’s what the company expense is for??? If it were personal travel, however, I’d do it. |
Anonymous
| Unless we're doing something before or after together (sometimes the kids like hanging out before a trip, if it's a weekend flight), pretty much never. Spouse travels about once a month. |
Anonymous
| DH doesn’t travel that often but travels a few times a year. Since it’s not often and I don’t work, I’d be happy to drive him if it wasn’t in bad weather or at a ridiculous hour. Fortunately, he and his colleagues just carpool. They did Uber once because their flight was rebooked to BWI from DCA and it was the middle of the night. I told him to uber and expense it. Ideally if your spouse can be reimbursed for the Uber and your work is disrupted by driving, I think asking them to use a Uber is very reasonable. |
Anonymous
| Rarely |
Anonymous
I get this. But I wonder if you’d feel this way in the reverse scenario. I don’t like making the airport drive but I will do it if I don’t have a conflict because DH always insists on driving me to and from. We’re about 30 minutes from Dulles using the access road so it’s not terrible though DCA is more of a pain for me. I’m not suggesting disrupting a busy day or taking off from work but what if you have no other plans? |
Anonymous
| I pick up my wife when she travels. I think she’s more comfortable with it than uber regardless who pays. |
Anonymous
| My spouse would use the free Uber, so probably never. However, if my spouse had a legitimate reason and asked me, I would pick him up as needed. |
Anonymous
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DH travels for work every 2-3 weeks and I travel every 2-3 months. Neither of us ever pick each other up from the airport.
I guess some people see it as an act of love to have someone wiling to drive the hour+ round trip and then sit around waiting in an airport parking lot for potentially another hour+ more just to see their spouse 30 minutes sooner, but honestly, even absent the unnecessary burden to my spouse, after getting off a long flight I’d much rather be able to hop in an expensed taxi/uber immediately and get home quicker rather than inevitably waiting the minimum 15-20 minutes (and potentially longer) that it takes for spouse to figure out my exiting location and circle around to collect me. |
Anonymous
Why is this a question? |
Anonymous
Found the singleton |