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

[Anonymous]

Jeez, louise. Your DAD is flying in to visit and you're quibbling because you don't want to pick him up at the airport? You are crazy. Of course, you (or your spouse) pick him up. How is this even a question???

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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.

It's a city thing. You don't expect relatives in NYC to pick you up at the airport.

Oh please, do you really live a Manhattan car-less lifestyle here? Or are you getting into your car all the time to drive to groceri s and activities and everything else. It doesn't have to do with the "city"

DP. I know of a number of families in this area who have one car. We have two but mine is a compact and with two car seats in I can only pickup one guest if I have both kids and car seats in the car. Not everyone is a dual-mini an-SUV household.

But this is about picking up one guest.

I have trouble believing that OP's car doesn't have a seat for an adult. She has 2 kids, so she must have a backseat, which means that there is a front passenger seat.

Exactly. She sounds either lazy or narcissistic. Or maybe both.

[Anonymous]

Where I come from, you pick loved ones up from the airport. Plus, it’s a pandemic. Seems very rude of you not to pick him up if he would like you to.

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Anonymous wrote:Where I come from, you pick loved ones up from the airport. Plus, it’s a pandemic. Seems very rude of you not to pick him up if he would like you to.

Oh come on. This is a person who just came out of a bustling airport and a plane with 150 other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Your dad is coming and you will not pick him up?

Wait? Let me guess. You are a WASP?

No wonder you guys don't reciprocate even after you stuff your faces at the dinners I host. If you cannot show manners to your parents...I am asking too much of you!

Why are you playing the race card? I don't get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, FIL lives in Denver and was against picking up anyone... until my post above when he now wants to be picked up!

Denver is a pain in the ass distance wise. I always rent a car when I fly in rather than expecting a ride.

Well, it sure is, no question. However, now he is going to sit at BWI until he is ...picked up, by someone, whenever... So much drama when before he ripped people apart who need a ride to and from the an airport.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of older people (boomers) are narcissists and expect to be catered to hand and foot. You pick a child or kid from college at the airport, not a grown adult who's navigated back and forth to the airport dozens of times in their life. Tell em to take an uber.

Seriously. My parents usually fly into Reagan. They’ll jump on metro and I’ll pick them up at the stop near us. They’re in their 70’s and have traveled all over the world. Do people on this thread have parents who have regressed to childhood?

No, those parents have better children.

No, those children have entitled parents, which is sadly common with Baby Boomer parents.

My parents like their independence, and my mom has said she considers metro to be an “adventure” (in a positive way, if you can believe that)

She is trying assuage your guilt (if you even have a shred) for not picking her up.

These responses are enlightening. I pick everyone up. Including my million miler aunt - me picking you up has nothing to do with your flying status. But I guess if you grew up with cold, “find your own way” parents, this is what you are used to. I mean…telling your college student to find their own way home from the airport is ice cold.

[Anonymous]

This generation had more opportunities for great jobs, with good pensions, affordable homes, job stability and decent working hours. Many women were SAHMs.Now with our crappy jobs with poor retirement plans while juggling parenting and a million other things we are supposed to be chauffeurs not just to our kids, but to able bodied reitred folks who can't be bothered to wake up for an early flight, but expect you to battle rush hour and a possible accident to get them.

Love all the women here chiming in the shame OP. That['s sisterhood for ya.

[Anonymous]

If my husband refused to take care of our children for one night so that I could welcome my father, the man who gave me life, by picking him up at the airport, he would no longer be my husband. You’ve got much bigger problems than an Uber ride OP. Unbelievable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This generation had more opportunities for great jobs, with good pensions, affordable homes, job stability and decent working hours. Many women were SAHMs.Now with our crappy jobs with poor retirement plans while juggling parenting and a million other things we are supposed to be chauffeurs not just to our kids, but to able bodied reitred folks who can't be bothered to wake up for an early flight, but expect you to battle rush hour and a possible accident to get them.

Love all the women here chiming in the shame OP. That['s sisterhood for ya.

Pretty sure it was stated his chosen timing would have been rude had it not been a holiday. Do you know any white collar people working on Friday? It is a state holiday in MD. So not likely to be traffic, certainly not rush-hour level. Btw does sisterhood mean supporting a woman whose DH can't take care of the kids for a few hours?

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Anonymous wrote:If my husband refused to take care of our children for one night so that I could welcome my father, the man who gave me life, by picking him up at the airport, he would no longer be my husband. You’ve got much bigger problems than an Uber ride OP. Unbelievable!

Or at least send him to get his FIL. OP and her husband are weird. Given it's a holiday, this should have been no drama.

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Anonymous wrote:This generation had more opportunities for great jobs, with good pensions, affordable homes, job stability and decent working hours. Many women were SAHMs.Now with our crappy jobs with poor retirement plans while juggling parenting and a million other things we are supposed to be chauffeurs not just to our kids, but to able bodied reitred folks who can't be bothered to wake up for an early flight, but expect you to battle rush hour and a possible accident to get them.

Love all the women here chiming in the shame OP. That['s sisterhood for ya.

In my family, sisters tell a sister when she's being an entitled a-hole. Maybe in your family you ignore it. In my family we remind them of our value system and peer pressure them into living up to our standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This generation had more opportunities for great jobs, with good pensions, affordable homes, job stability and decent working hours. Many women were SAHMs.Now with our crappy jobs with poor retirement plans while juggling parenting and a million other things we are supposed to be chauffeurs not just to our kids, but to able bodied reitred folks who can't be bothered to wake up for an early flight, but expect you to battle rush hour and a possible accident to get them.

Love all the women here chiming in the shame OP. That['s sisterhood for ya.

I’m with you on this.

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Anonymous wrote:This generation had more opportunities for great jobs, with good pensions, affordable homes, job stability and decent working hours. Many women were SAHMs.Now with our crappy jobs with poor retirement plans while juggling parenting and a million other things we are supposed to be chauffeurs not just to our kids, but to able bodied reitred folks who can't be bothered to wake up for an early flight, but expect you to battle rush hour and a possible accident to get them.

Love all the women here chiming in the shame OP. That['s sisterhood for ya.

Pretty sure it was stated his chosen timing would have been rude had it not been a holiday. Do you know any white collar people working on Friday? It is a state holiday in MD. So not likely to be traffic, certainly not rush-hour level. Btw does sisterhood mean supporting a woman whose DH can't take care of the kids for a few hours?

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

I think it IS an old person/anxiety thing and you should pick him up.