A Single Mom She Went To College With Keeps Asking Her To Give Her Rides Places, And She Doesn’t Want To Help Her
Not too long ago, this woman signed up for a gym membership.
Her usual routine is once she’s done with work for the day, she picks her two sons up from daycare, brings them to the daycare provided by the gym, works out, picks up her sons, and then hurries back to their house so that she can prepare dinner and put her sons to bed.
Even though it’s hectic for her to fit all this into a three-hour time frame, this is the best way for her to fit in her workout.
This past week, as she was about to leave the gym, she saw a woman she went to college with.
“We were not friends, but both participated in the same Bible study organization. As I’m picking up my boys, we both pause to acknowledge we recognize each other. A second later, she says, ‘I can’t find my son; can you give me a ride home?’ I told her I was in a hurry, but if she lives close, I could,” she said.
After she agreed to give this acquaintance a ride home, she motioned to open the door, holding her 8-month-old in her arms, with her 2-year-old son right by her as well. Strangely, the woman didn’t walk with her to the door.
Then, the woman asked where they should meet up once she located her son.
This baffled her because she thought that this woman had been relying on her son to give her a ride home but that he wasn’t available anymore, hence why she asked her for a ride.
Since this woman was older than her, she didn’t think it was out of the realm of possibility that this woman had a teenage son.
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However, she quickly discovered that the woman meant that she had to pick up her son from the gym’s daycare.
Normally, she would have taken the bus, but she missed it due to the gym’s daycare employees taking a while to bring her son back to her.
“As she and her son (about 5-years-old) get into my van, she asks if we can stop at the dollar store. I remind her I’m in a hurry,” she explained.
“I ask for directions to where we are going (meaning her home). Soon, I realized we were at the dollar store. As I park, I make it clear I’m staying in the car, and she needs to be quick.”
Before getting out of the van, the woman asked her if she could have $5, and at this point, she couldn’t believe that this woman was demanding so much of her. But she didn’t have any cash on her, so she didn’t give her any money.
Luckily, the woman and her son didn’t spend much time at the dollar store, and the apartment she directed her to was about two blocks away from the store.
“During the drive, I learned she also works at the daycare her son attends (in the same building as my gym),” she shared.
“This means that she will be getting off work and picking her son up at the same time as me. I began to suspect this request for a ride might be a regular thing.”
Unfortunately, her prediction was spot on. This woman has asked her twice more for a ride when she’s been picking up her sons from the gym’s daycare.
By coincidence, she’d been running behind schedule both times, so even if she’d wanted to, she wouldn’t have had time to take the woman and her son home.
Understandably, she doesn’t want this woman repeatedly asking her for rides whenever she runs into her.
Plus, she doesn’t want to feel guilty for rejecting the woman’s request.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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