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[quote=Anonymous]This is stirring up memories of a year when I taught part-time at a private school and stayed several extra hours so I could drive my son home... but this also meant I was asked to drive two other children home on a near-daily basis. I didn't mind driving the one kid because they sometimes drove. But the other family never drove once in the entire year. I never even met the parents or spoke to them once after the carpool was set up. I had to drive an extra 10 minutes each day to drop off their kid. At the end of the year they gave me a bar of "nice soap" as a thank you gift. Afterwards, I wondered why I had agreed to that plan. At the very least, I should have requested gas money but probably also something for the extra time. When all was said and done I spent about 40 extra hours over the course of the school year on the extra driving to drop off their kid.

Point is, some people are takers. I do think we should help when we can, but when there is an actual cost to us in time and gas, it's reasonable to ask for something in return.
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