He Agreed To Pick Up His Daughter And Her Friends From An Amusement Park, But When One Of The Girls Got Sick, He Refused To Take An Extra Earlier Trip To Pick Her Up, And Now The Girl’s Mom Is Furious With Him
This man’s daughter had the day off of school on Veteran’s Day last Friday.
A ton of her classmates were planning to go to an amusement park for their day off.
His daughter, as well as some of her friends, wanted to go to the amusement park, and while they were old enough to spend the day there alone, they needed a ride there.
The park was an hour and a half away by car, and there wasn’t any reliable public transit that his daughter and her friends could take.
One of her friend’s fathers said that he could drive everyone to the park at 8 a.m.
He volunteered to pick everyone up at the end of the day.
“At around 2 p.m., I get a call that one girl, Andy, is sick. I told my daughter I could be there in an hour, but I was only doing the drive once, so I’d be picking them all up. The other girls didn’t want to leave until the park closed because the tickets were expensive, and they wanted to get their money’s worth,” he said.
In the end, his daughter told him that they could try to reach out to the other parents to see if any of them could pick Andy up.
Unfortunately, all of his daughter’s friends’ parents were busy and unavailable to pick Andy up from the park.
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His daughter and her friends reached out to Andy’s mother, who later called him to ask if he could drive to the park to pick up Andy.
“Andy’s mom had an appointment she couldn’t reschedule, so she couldn’t leave until 6 p.m. to pick her daughter up. She stressed that I had agreed to pick up the girls when they were ready to go, but I meant all at once,” he explained.
He told Andy’s mother that he wouldn’t be picking Andy up before everyone else.
Even though he was mostly available, he had a lot that he planned to get done before picking up his daughter and her friends.
Understandably, he didn’t want to waste time and gas driving back and forth on 3-hour roundtrips.
Plus, he thought it would be unfair to make the entire group leave earlier than they wanted, especially considering the fact that they had saved up their own money to buy tickets for the amusement park.
“On the ride home, my daughter and her two other friends told me that Andy ended up having diarrhea, which some other kids at her school saw, and she had not gone to school the day before, according to my daughter,” he shared.
When his daughter was back at school on Monday, his daughter told him that Andy was again absent.
Later, the mother of one of his daughter’s other friends called Andy’s mother to check in on how Andy was feeling.
This mother then passed on what she heard from Andy’s mother.
Apparently, Andy’s mother thought it was his fault that Andy went through this and dealt with so much embarrassment.
The other mother who spoke to Andy’s mother assured him that he shouldn’t be concerned, feel guilty, or take Andy’s mother’s words to heart.
This mother also cautioned all of the other parents of his daughter’s friends to let them know how Andy’s mother has been feeling about the whole situation.
All of the other parents felt like he was under no obligation whatsoever to pick up someone else’s child who was ill.
Despite the fact that everyone had his back, he couldn’t help but feel terrible about the ordeal.
What would you have done if you had been in his shoes?
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