Daughter refuses to drive Mom to the airport after discovering Mom’s elaborate schedule will lead her to spend hours driving around town: ‘She could just Uber’

«No, Mom. I’m not going to be your free chauffeur.» Many children do not find it necessary to set firm boundaries with their parents once they become grown adults, and that is a mistake that everyone else should learn from. Parents, as it turns out, forget that when their children are all grown up, that …
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Coachella goer takes Uber to festival, complains when 2 mile drive takes 2 hours: ‘I am lowkey on the verge of tears’

Music festivals are often as much of an endurance test as they are a place to enjoy yourself, but what has to be endured can vary greatly from person to person. If we are being perfectly honest, some of the inconveniences that people complain about are kind of self-inflicted. You do not need to be …
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Snowed-in employee calls off at 5 AM, boss tries to send ride share to pick them up anyway: ‘The roads are so bad here’

When you’re not working, do you still answer your work phone? If you have a certain kind of job, you might need to be on call all the time. If you own a small business, you probably always have your phone on. Even if you have other people helping you, if something goes wrong, it’s …
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‘A favour isn’t four years long:’ Frustrated sibling stops driving older brother to work, after he breaks promise of using the carpool savings to get driving lessons

The thing about carpooling is that it normally involves a mutual ‘you today, me tomorrow?’ type of approach. However, this situation seems to entail a lot more ‘you todays.’ This younger sibling is starting to regret the offer they made over 4 years ago. While allowing their older brother to catch a ride to work …
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‘You’re a guest in my house, act like one’: Woman staying at a relative’s home stops doing house chores after the host snaps at her to act like a guest, letting dishes and laundry pile up until the overwhelmed host begs her to return to her helpful ways

Just like no one outpizzas the hut. This woman’s relative will not let anyone staying with her to out-host her.  This one woman showed up at her relative’s house determined to be the model guest, ready to cook meals, keep things clean, and replenish the groceries before anyone even noticed something was missing. Then came …
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‘You want me to arrive like some classless girl?’: Entitled cousin Lena demands her cousin’s brand new SUV to impress high-profile rich classmates as she «can’t be seen arriving on foot or on public transport»

If modern adulthood has taught us anything, it’s that a reliable car is less a status symbol and more a hard-won badge of survival, especially if you’ve had to eat more ramen than you care to admit to get those monthly payments squared away.  Meet Lena, this family’s undisputed champion of vehicular destruction, who’s racked …
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26 Public Transportation Memes That Are More Reliable Than the Bus Schedule

Public transportation is simultaneously the best and worst thing to ever happen to society. On one hand, who actually wants to drive a car, get stuck in traffic, and pay for parking (not to mention the emotional damage of watching gas prices skyrocket)? When you can just hop on the subway or bus and get …
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Big city man refuses to be his small-town cousin’s personal tour guide and Airbnb host when she shows up uninvited and demands another free stay at his place, then sends him Uber and hotel receipts expecting him to pay: ‘I never met this woman before’

The way distant relatives you’ve never met expect you to become their personal concierge, chauffeur, and Airbnb host simply because you share a last name and happen to live near the city is truly one of those amazing things about family. Take the case of this unsuspecting city dweller who graciously picked up a mom’s …
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30+ Relatable Food Delivery Memes For All the Couch Potatoes Out There

Ordering food right from your couch might be the height of luxury. It may be the definition of treating yourself. Nothing feels more like we live in the future than using a phone to demand someone to get your meal and bring it to your front door–sometimes without even making eye contact with the delivery …
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Uber Driver Preposterously Charges Fee For Waiting 0 Minutes

Uber etiquette can be a slippery issue. I’m always wondering how much I should talk, if it’s poor form to have headphones on, or if I should actually be sitting in the passenger seat. I’m pretty convinced that I’m fine on that last one, but the point stands. I suppose everyone is different, and you …
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