📝 AITAH for not giving a guy a ride?

By CorbelledArch • Score: 12 • April 25, 2025 2:17 PM


Long time lurker, first time poster so sorry if my formatting is crap.

I (F25) have been talking with this guy Kevin (M24) for about a week or so. Originally, we were just going to hook up last week, but we've been texting afterwards and have sorta struck up a friendship type situation.

I've made it very clear to him that I'm not trying to get super emotionally involved with anyone right now after coming out of a long-term relationship and I thought he understood until this morning.

He calls me right off the bat like three times (until my phone ringing wakes me up) and tells me he's got an emergency and needs my help. I tell him I'll hear him out and see what I can do. Well he proceeds to tell me that he needs a ride to his old apartment that he's currently moving from (he still has some stuff there evidently) because one of his old friends just got out of jail and Kevin's certain this dude is going to rob his old apartment. That he either needs to get there before the guy or be there soon after to call the cops.

Being freshly awoken, my brain wasn't totally fired up yet and it took me a second to think about it. I said "I'm sorry this is happening to you, but I'm not sure I'm the right person to help you out with this situation". He wanted me to explain my reasons for not helping and I said I didn't have to explain myself, but that:

1: it's over an hour drive to where you're at

2: it sounds like it could potentially be a dangerous situation

3: that's a level of involvement that I am not ready to sign up for with you

He of course got really upset and begged me to empathise with his situation, tried telling me it was just a tiny favor and that he could totally beat the robber up (lol ok), and then resorted to bully negotiation tactics. I tried to help him brainstorm other solutions, but he was dead set on me being the only person who could help him out. I just told him one more time "This isn't the right choice for me" and then he hung up on me.

I'm not really worried about salvaging this friendship or whatever it is with Kevin. I just want to know if I was the a-hole for not giving him a ride. I'm still practicing setting healthy boundaries and not being a people-pleaser and I feel a little guilty that this guy might get robbed and I didn't help out when I technically could have.

(edited for spelling)

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