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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]
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?[/quote]

No, those parents have better children.[/quote]
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)[/quote]

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. [/quote]
My parents are smart, and tend to fly in at off hours. They know it’s unrealistic and unfair to demand people who are still working to take hours out of their workday on a Tuesday afternoon to come pick them up, when they’re perfectly capable of taking metro or Uber.

College students are also adults. Sure, picking them up is nice if you can make it work. But it involves essentially zero effort for them to travel that last little bit home. [/quote]

+1. My parents don't fly any more, but they also never expected to be picked up when they came to visit me in a major international city with metro and taxi options. They'd hop on the metro and I'd meet them at my local stop. When I came home from college on the train I would take the local train to them and they'd pick me up a mile from their house if they could. If they couldn't, I walked. Same deal when I lived or traveled abroad -- I always got myself from the airport to my destination via public transit. If you are able-bodied it's not a big deal.

I was truly surprised about 10 years ago when a friend flew in to visit, landing at a time when I was working, and was upset when I asked her to take the metro from the airport to within a block of my workplace and I would meet her there. I didn't even own a car at the time so I don't know how she thought I was going to get out to the airport to get her. I'd told her when she booked her flight to be sure to fly into Reagan for that exact reason, and she had. Oh well.[/quote]

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