Is it a thing for older people to be picked up from the airport?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC can be intimidating to figure out. Be a nice host and pick your guest. You sound like a lazy, selfish person, OP. Be grateful for the guests you still have.

WTF do you have to figure out? It’s no different than any airport. Exit the airport. Find a ride/Uber. If you can’t do that you shouldn’t be flying by yourself.

Team I’ll pick you up if it’s convenient but I’m not sitting in rush hour traffic. For anyone. My husband travels regularly for work. He manages to Uber there and back weekly I’ve picked him up maybe once in the past 5 years.

Exactly. Figure it out. If I'm in a small town I will pick a person up but when I lived in LA and it was two hours in traffic to get you from the airport... nope. Youre on your own.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Normally I'd say that refusing to take a 10AM flight due to personal inconvenience and choosing a flight that gets in at 5:30 instead, during rush hour traffic and conflicting with your work schedules, is incredibly rude. But since it's the day after Thanksgiving and traffic should be light, yeah, you should pick him up. I do think it's fine for him to wait an hour or so if you need to handle daycare etc. first. But I assume your DH can do that?

For me this would be an issue bc we have one car and it is required for daycare pickup. Don't know about OP. However, on the day after thanks giving no one will be working, so I would just pick up my kids a little early and then have one spouse to airport duty while the other does dinner/bathtime/bedtime.

Why are your kids going to daycare the day after thanksgiving?

[Anonymous]

I’ve never not picked up guests from the airport. It’s hospitality for your guests. Age doesn’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never not picked up guests from the airport. It’s hospitality for your guests. Age doesn’t matter.

Nor does town. I’ve lived in four major cities, we always, always pick people up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is the only region I have ever lived in where people seem to really push back against picking guests up. So I think it's regional vs an age thing. Or maybe people in DC are just less kind than elsewhere.

Do you live around here? Depending where you live, it can be a complete PITA to pick someone up from the airport, especially during rush hour. We are within a reasonable distance from BWI so I've picked up guests from there a number of times over the years, especially pre-kids, but Dulles? Yeah no, sorry. Completely different from my parents small mid-western city where everyone lives within 15 minutes of the airport.

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Maybe this is a generational divide? Seems old people insist on pick up. I dont get it.

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Yes, it's rude and weird. Are you afraid of driving to the airport?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's rude and weird. Are you afraid of driving to the airport?

No. Are you afraid of taking an uber?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is a generational divide? Seems old people insist on pick up. I dont get it.

I pick up friends, siblings, cousins and even my college kid. Age doesn’t matter to me.

What I will do is encourage them to not fly out of Dulles. Most of the time DCA or BWI is cheaper.

When I travel, my husband drops me off, including Dulles for international flights (precovid). He would never tell me to take an Uber or Metro.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is a generational divide? Seems old people insist on pick up. I dont get it.

I pick up friends, siblings, cousins and even my college kid. Age doesn’t matter to me.

What I will do is encourage them to not fly out of Dulles. Most of the time DCA or BWI is cheaper.

When I travel, my husband drops me off, including Dulles for international flights (precovid). He would never tell me to take an Uber or Metro.

I think you should pick up college kids and young people. But once someone is out of college age, they can figure it out, period.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's rude and weird. Are you afraid of driving to the airport?

No. Are you afraid of taking an uber?

Many people are unfamiliar with it. Not everyone lives in areas with public transportation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's rude and weird. Are you afraid of driving to the airport?

No. Are you afraid of taking an uber?

Many people are unfamiliar with it. Not everyone lives in areas with public transportation.

OMG. Time to grow up and enter the 21st century! Figure it out!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is a generational divide? Seems old people insist on pick up. I dont get it.

I pick up friends, siblings, cousins and even my college kid. Age doesn’t matter to me.

What I will do is encourage them to not fly out of Dulles. Most of the time DCA or BWI is cheaper.

When I travel, my husband drops me off, including Dulles for international flights (precovid). He would never tell me to take an Uber or Metro.

I think you should pick up college kids and young people. But once someone is out of college age, they can figure it out, period.

They can, but they shouldn’t have to. They are a guest visiting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is a generational divide? Seems old people insist on pick up. I dont get it.

I pick up friends, siblings, cousins and even my college kid. Age doesn’t matter to me.

What I will do is encourage them to not fly out of Dulles. Most of the time DCA or BWI is cheaper.

When I travel, my husband drops me off, including Dulles for international flights (precovid). He would never tell me to take an Uber or Metro.

I think you should pick up college kids and young people. But once someone is out of college age, they can figure it out, period.

They can, but they shouldn’t have to. They are a guest visiting.

For a guest, sure. For a family member, no. They need to get it together.

[Anonymous]

DH and I, go to pick and drop off friends and relatives of all ages all the time. We also drop off our grown children friends who come to visit us to various places - metro, hotel, airport etc.

Most of the time when we have not picked up friends and relatives, it is because they have insisted that we do not pick them up, and it is usually also those who are not staying with us.

I think we are also more hospitable because we are Indian-Americans and we are culturally conditioned to treat guests very well and invest in relationships.