Most people who do this service to their loved ones or friends never dare to say no. But everyone would have secretly liked that they find another solution. Here is why.
In life, serving others is a particularly appreciated quality, and this generally allows you to count on the people around us. And when it comes to a family member and especially a parent, we don’t think twice, we go for them to help them. Do their shopping, accompany them to an appointment, water plants or feed the cat in their absence … Nothing could be more normal. It is also difficult to refuse to help: you do not want to seem lazy, or selfish or ungrateful …
But sometimes, some people request their friends without thinking that another solution, simpler, would be the best option. Please note, we are not talking about people who do not have a budget or young people who would like to save by requisitioning arms for a move for example, which we all did. This is a request that has become normal, banal, even usual for some, especially during the summer holidays. The people we interviewed are mostly unanimous: “No one dares to say no, but it always disturbs or almost “admits Mathilde, 35 years old. According to her, the constraint and the time spent are not worth soliciting those around him, although this represents an economy of money.
Nevertheless, there are the “for” and “against”: those who believe that it is a duty to come and pick them up at the airport to bring them home. “It seems completely normal to me that one of my loved ones comes to pick me up and I also do it when they travel. We live in the Paris region, and this easily represents an economy of 100 euros compared to a taxi“Explains Julien, 41.”And then, we also don’t want to take transport after a long flight, loaded with our suitcases“He adds.
Finally, there are those who assume: yes, it disturbs, and if some dare to say nothing, others find an excuse simply because they do not want … “In general, at certain hours of the day, we have to spend two hours in the traffic jams, an hour waiting for them to recover their suitcases, and rebelote, one hour to bring them home, hoping that there is no behind theft“, deplores Mathilde, who – in addition – must run after his working day, so that her friends are not waiting” for too long “. People who come to pick someone at the airport by car must also coordinate to arrive at the right time if they do not want to have to pay the parking lot (the drop -off is limited to 10 free minutes).
For Fabrice, there is even worse as request and generally, he refuses: “When I am asked to do the “taxi” to take a flight very early in the morning or late at night … they must understand that we have a life, that we want to sleep, that we have to work the next day. In this case, I prefer to offer them to pay them a real taxi rather than struggling to get up at 5 am or come back at midnight “adds the young man. Another scenario that puts him out of him: those who prefer to choose the flight of 6 hours because it costs 100 euros less than the flight of 10h: a price difference which would have allowed them to take a taxi rather than to request it.
Finally, Stéphanie and Maxime have found an alternative that seems to make everyone agree: “We looked at the price of a parking lot for 5 days and it came back to us 150 euros, the taxi budget on average 160 euros, so we offered 100 euros to a friend to accompany us and pick us up with our car“, testifies the couple.
Again, it all depends on the relationship that we maintain with the person. For a father, a mother, a brother or a sister, it is easier to be of service than in a friend who never renders the aircraft or who has a large budget to pay a taxi, especially since it comes back from a week in a club to Bali and that you are not even on vacation. So, family, friends, taxi or Uber, parking nearby, for what solution do you opt to leave or come back from vacation?
