I just got my N and now 2 of my friends want rides every day. I’m going to use their actual names for the story’s sake, and I doubt they will find this but if they do it isn’t a big deal.

My best friend Chris wants rides home from school everyday and my friend Sage asks for rides here and there but I think it’s going to become an every day thing. I’m just frustrated because I drive a truck that guzzles gas, and even small detours make a difference. Sage lives literally a street away so she isn’t a big deal but it’s Chris. Anytime me and Chris and others want to hangout I become the deciding factor for plans, if we want to go somewhere, a part of Chrisses descision depends on if I can drive him and if not, does he want to take the bus. Another thing is that he’s offering people rides for me and it just happened today. He was asking me if I could drive sage and I told him no since she was going to her mom’s house which is super off track. And then he told sage that if she’s at her mom’s I can’t drive, she ended up coming because she had to get things from her dad’s house.

This is not related to one person, but when I am driving the truck with someone, it’s already a hassle to have music going, driving safe, and be talking to said person the whole time.

My friend Alyssa bought me a Starbucks drink after a couple rides but Chris hasn’t done anything to pay me back other then let me use my points at the McDonald’s drive-through since it’s easier, or when I ask him for something like a drink from McDonald’s.

I’ve come up with two ways to fix these issues

1) I can wait it out until Chris gets his license and the weather is consistently good. He doesn’t have a car but he has been saving and has around 2500-2700. Then I would ask him for 25 dollars a month for rides from school to help with the gas money. Bus passes cost 35 dollars so I think it’s fair, and his parents buy his bus passes for him anyway. This way there aren’t any excuses about taking the bus or the weather. And if he doesn’t want to help there is nothing bad about taking the bus!

2) I can cut a few days out of the week where I can drive from school on my own, like Wednesdays when I have guitar practice, and every second Monday when I go to my grandmas house for dinner after school, this lets me have a break, where I can listen to my music in peace, and I get a chance to go hangout with someone or drive someone else somewhere. And it just gives me time to get home and get some stuff done before I have to leave again.

I think I might start both of these, I’ll just tell Chris and Sage that I am still new to driving and was just making plans and testing them, Sage will understand. I think Chris might seem disappointed in a last minute effort to make me change my mind. Then once the time is right, I’d be abled to start the first idea.

Am I the asshole? Please leave any advice