(January 24, 2015 at 9:52 am)FlyingNarwhal Wrote: Is it about the money or the time? If it's about the gas money it's going to cost to drive everyone home, then ask them to fork up some gas money. Don't be afraid to ask them for it, if they think you owe them a ride but they owe you absolutely nothing in return then fuck them, they don't understand the basics of give and take. If it's about not wasting your time, I would give them a ride this week and when you got them all in the car tell them that they're going to have to find another way of getting home next week because it takes you too much time to bring everyone back to their house. Actually.....as I'm typing this out.....how the fuck did they get to where you're meeting them in the first place?!?! Tell them to do what they did to get there, just in the opposite direction.
I wouldn't be dishonest about it though. It'll probably just end up backfiring on you. I had a date with a girl two days ago from a couple of towns over. Yesterday I'm driving home from another nearby town, and I happened to end up behind her for half my journey home (that date is probably ruined too because she thinks I'm a stalker now). Chances are slim that you'll be see them, but you just might. And if you lied to them you're not only going to have to explain why you don't want to drive them home (like you should) but you're also going to have to explain the lie as well. It's just less work to tell the truth.
Isn't that an amazing opportunity to joke that you were stalking her while at the same time making it clear you weren't?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
