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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG the man can take an Uber. It is rude for a retired person to assume a busy working professional with kids should cater to them.

It's not 'a retired person and a busy working professional with kids', idiot, it's a father and a daughter.
But if you don't see the difference, yeah, you are a WASP, like someone said upthread, and you dislike your parents as much as they dislike you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

we didn't know that it was going to be the day after Thanksgiving - now my brother is going to pick him up (but will have to drive 1+hour each way)
My DH does not handle the dinner time / bedtime on his own.

Haven't commented before, but the bolded would be a much larger issue for me than a parent that wanted a ride after a flight.

[Anonymous]

My in-laws are coming to visit and plan to stay in a hotel rather than with us. That's fine, but they also refuse to rent a car or Uber, and expect DH to transport them back and forth every day. They're 70 and FIL only recently fully retired, I didn't realize they would lose their self-sufficiency so quickly.

[Anonymous]

I have always picked up my parents from DCA/Dulles and they always pick me up when I fly home (unless i'm renting a car). The only time I have not done so is when they insisted on flying into BWI to save money (I live in Alexandria) despite my offer to pay the difference in air fare. As that was ridiculously inconvenient for me I made arrangements for them to take the train.

[Anonymous]

Does your dad know how to Uber, has he done it before??
By the way, my spouse is not elderly and thinks I am going to do airport pickup for said spouse?
WTF??? You literally expense that shit.
But an elderly parent, i get their request.
But I would call an Uber for them if it was doing rush hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

we didn't know that it was going to be the day after Thanksgiving - now my brother is going to pick him up (but will have to drive 1+hour each way)
My DH does not handle the dinner time / bedtime on his own.

Awww… I hope your dad is coming to help while your husband is recovering from his illness.

Yes. Unless your husband is deathly ill, you have wayyyyyy bigger problems that Big Daddy not wanting to Uber.
Dayyyyyummmmmmm.

[Anonymous]

I always pick up friends/family if at all possible. Parents, omg, yes. These are guests and loved ones! And, yes, I work and have kids. My H can do dinner and bedtime, tho.

DC native, gen X.

[Anonymous]

Well rush hour traffic here is awful.

[Anonymous]

I never pick up people at the airport, nor do I expect to be picked up. But I do hire an actual car service (the kind with a personalized sign) rather than make family members rely on Uber, since they aren’t always used to working that app.

[Anonymous]

According to an article on Martha Stewart’s Instagram stories today… your guests shouldn’t expect to be picked up from the airport

[Anonymous]

Let me blow your mind… They still have taxis at the airport. FOR REAL. My mom isn’t comfortable Ubering either. I do my best to pick her up but if I can’t, she gets a taxi.

[Anonymous]

I hate coordinating Uber @ DCA to head home. I grab a cab if my car isn’t parked there. Can’t your DH watch kids & you pick up dad?

[Anonymous]

How old is your parent? I would never expect my 70+ mother who rarely travels to navigate ridesharing or even a cab. It would be stressful enough for her to navigate both airports alone.

Yes, it’s disruptive to pick him up and change your schedule, but as our parents age, we need to take more and more care of them. This is minor compared to what’s coming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me blow your mind… They still have taxis at the airport. FOR REAL. My mom isn’t comfortable Ubering either. I do my best to pick her up but if I can’t, she gets a taxi.

Yes, we usually take a cab from the airport because it’s simple to just walk out and get in the taxi line. However, when family visits we usually go pick them up. If it were rush hour they would probably just prefer to wait at the airport for a couple hours until we could get there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me blow your mind… They still have taxis at the airport. FOR REAL. My mom isn’t comfortable Ubering either. I do my best to pick her up but if I can’t, she gets a taxi.

This is what my FIL does if we can't pick him up. He doesn't want to figure out uber. He'd rather get a taxi. My MIL wiil Uber if needed but not FIL.

When we do pick them up we NEVER park. They meet us at the curb. I'm not picking anyone up if it involves parking and going into the airport.