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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in a similar situation this summer. Family has two working parents and 4 kids and two involved grandparents plus an aunt, but they couldn’t get kid A to an activity if grandparents and aunt were getting kids B, C and D to other activity. I said yes to driving kid A to the activity with my kid. All was fine until day 2, when we were standing in the street outside our house waiting for kid A to be dropped off by a grandparent for 25 minutes after the agreed-upon dropoff time. I didn’t have contact for any of the grandparents so I texted both parents asking if kid A was still planning on attending the activity and to let me know if she still needed a ride because we were going to leave.

They were finally like “wait, she isn’t there?”…but didn’t contact the grandparents or anything. We were super late. When they finally showed up and didn’t even apologize or acknowledge the time. They dropped the girl at the end of the block and had her run to our house. The parents texted back and were like “we’ll do rides the next time!”

There will not be a next time. I no longer help people who have more kids and way more help than me and I have learned that grandparents in these situations are usually stretched thing and just not reliable.[/quote]

OPs situation is just like yours! only if, instead of 25 min late, she was right on time. But after three such rides, costing you up to 5 minutes a ride, you discern from indirect incomplete data that for ride #2 one of the parents may have actually been free to drive themselves!  And now you question whether the parents really need the ride at all going forward or they are milking you for rides.[/quote]

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