He’s Being Blamed For Ruining His Friend’s Honeymoon Because He Agreed To Drive Them To The Airport, But His Friend Never Woke Up On Time
Last summer, this man’s friend, Ty, married Rose. For their honeymoon, they booked a week-long cruise.
Unfortunately, there were issues with the ship they were supposed to be sailing on, so they rescheduled their honeymoon and were going to take the cruise a few weeks ago.
Two weeks before Ty and Rose’s cruise, they realized he’d be on the same flight as them while traveling for a work trip.
He had a layover in the same city that they were flying into. Once they found this out, Ty and Rose asked if he could give them a ride to the airport.
That way, they wouldn’t have to worry about the expensive airport parking fees. They told him they could pay half his parking fees.
“I was a little apprehensive because I knew Ty and Rose well enough to know that they were extremely late for everything and that they never planned,” he said.
“I had the fear that if I agreed, it would come back to bite me in some way. At first, I declined, stating that I couldn’t afford to miss my flight.”
In the back of his head, he was concerned that Ty and Rose might oversleep and not pack ahead of time.
Ty assured him that they would pack days before the flight, drop off their dog with a dogsitter the day before, and be ready before he arrived to pick them up. He hoped his friend meant what he said, and he agreed to give them a ride to the airport.
Chalabala – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
During this conversation, he told Ty that he’d be at his house at 5 a.m. so they could have plenty of time to make their 7 a.m. flight.
He added that he would only wait until 5:30 a.m., and if they weren’t in the car by then, he would head to the airport alone because if they left any later, they wouldn’t be able to get through security and screenings and catch their flight.
Ty told him that he accepted these plans, adding that he and Rose would be ready to leave when he got to their house at 5 a.m.
Two weeks later, it was the morning of their flight, and he drove over to Ty and Rose’s house. He arrived at about 4:50 a.m., and since he was early, he chose to wait in the car for a bit.
At exactly 5 a.m., he called both Rose and Ty, but neither of them answered. After that, he texted them.
Twenty minutes later, he got out of the car, walked up to the front door, and knocked and rang the doorbell.
They didn’t answer, so at 5:30 a.m., he called them each one more time and left voicemails to say that since he’d been outside their house for half an hour, as promised, he was leaving to catch his flight since he wasn’t able to reach them.
At 6:50 a.m., he was on the plane before it took off, and he was bombarded with texts from Ty and Rose.
“They told me that I should have waited for them and that it was selfish of me to leave when I agreed to pick them up,” he explained.
“I attempted to explain to both of them in our group chat that we agreed that they would be ready to leave by 5 a.m.”
Eventually, Ty and Rose confessed that when he was waiting at their place to drive them to the airport, they hadn’t packed their bags or dropped their dog off with the sitter yet.
In response, he kindly but bluntly told them that it was their responsibility to plan in advance and set alarms to wake up on time.
He continued, telling them that he wasn’t to blame for their actions, adding that their refusal to take accountability proved how self-centered and childish they were.
After that, he turned his phone on airplane mode, so he didn’t receive any more texts from them until after the plane landed.
Luckily, Rose and Ty rented a car and drove to the port city so that they could still go on their cruise. Since the ordeal, which happened two weeks ago, they haven’t spoken to him.
“They told me that they wouldn’t even consider talking to me again unless I fully refunded what they paid for the plane tickets, along with the money they had to spend on gas and vehicle wear and tear to drive themselves down there,” he shared.
He refused to pay them for their missed flight and the gas money and fees on the car they rented, pointing out that these were the consequences of their actions.
Upon reflection, he wondered if he had done the right thing because Ty is his closest friend, and they’d been inseparable since they met in college.
He feels guilty that because he didn’t give them a ride, they had to rent a car to make their honeymoon cruise.
On the other hand, they didn’t set alarms so that they were awake on time and didn’t even pack their bags, which wasn’t something in his control. The reason they missed their flight was because of their own choices.
What advice would you give him?
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