If your H calls you

[Elsa]

And he is driving back into town after a one day business trip and his car is broken down on the side of the road....

What do you do? He's an hour and a half away. It's 630. I have a 4 yo that goes to bed at 8. I called a friend to see if she could watch M till my mom could get here...and her H basically insisted that he go instead.

That's a three hour round trip. Her H and my H are friendly- they've golfed together, etc. but damn this feels like a massive favor. :/

Do I go get him or do I let our friend go get him or do I make him call a tow truck to come get him in the middle of nowhere east tx and get him to the nearest town to spend the night and then worry about his car tmw?

[rosiebear]

Oh no! Take the favor and get them nice thank you gift?

[mcsangel2]

Let the friend get him. He offered. That's really nice, but I would do the same for a good friend also.

[TR]

Someone needs to go get him, an hour and a half is not far enough to make him deal with a tow truck and staying out of town tonight. I'd probably go. I'd feel too bad if someone else did.

[soozy87]

Let him go. He wouldn't have offered if he didn't mean it.

[agnes]

H would just call AAA or a tow truck and then he'd call me to let me know what's up.

[lucky513]

he would cal triple A

[curtains]

I would let him go. A nice gc to a restaurant for him and his wife would be a nice way to say thank you

[muffin0]

I wouldn't have called friend I would have just went and got him, my kids can miss a bedtime/sleep in the car.

But I would have friends H go since he offered (as long as H is cool with this)

[miso]

Let your friend be the nice friend he is!

[hopecounts]

Accept the kind gesture as intended and let the friend go.
Friend knows what a pain this would be so is offering to help, it takes a village accept the help and do so,ring nice for them (a gift card to a restaurant or something)

[Elsa]

Ok we found another work around. Different good friend of my H has a dad that lives 20 min from where H is stuck. And good friend randomly has an extra old vehicle at his dad's house that H can borrow to get home tonight. So no one is going horribly far out of the way.

I feel pretty lucky right now to have such amazing friends. So glad we have a village!

[lilac05]

Accept the favor, thank them a million times. Then, depending on your relationship, get them a small gift, offer to watch their kids for a few date nights, take them dinner, or whatever they would appreciate the most.

[suzubell]

AAA! But really, my husband is the kind of guy who would offer to do something like that. Driving favors are the ones he likes to help out with. He offered to drive 6 hours round trip to pick up my BFF's husband who he isn't close to a few weeks ago when his flight got cancelled and he got stranded 3 hours away.

[sofamonkey]

Glad you have good friends. That's very awesome.

[tacocat]

Glad it worked out, I would do that for a good friend if I could.