Man Drives Friend Home—Not Ready For What She ‘Pressures’ Him To Do

A man has been backed for refusing to add another 20 minutes to his drive home because a woman he had just met didn’t want to be alone with him in his car.

In a post on Reddit, user Acrobatic-Freedom316 explained that he had agreed to drive three people home after a group outing, including a woman he had just met.

The plan, he said, was straightforward based on geography, dropping off his longtime friend Joe first, then Sandra, and finally Amy before heading to his own home nearly an hour away.

But the atmosphere in the car changed mid-drive when Amy said she did not want to be alone in the car with him.

“Her only reason was that I’m a man, and she alluded that being alone in a car with a man she doesn’t really know is unsafe,” the original poster (OP) wrote.

“So what she was asking me was to drop her off next, then drive 10 minutes back, in the opposite direction of my house, to drop Sandra off. Then another 10 minutes, back the exact same way I just came from, passing Amy’s house again, in order to get home.

“My drive home is already an hour from town, so I said no.”

He continued, “They were both really pressuring me and trying to guilt me into just doing it, but I kept saying no. It was such an awkward car ride because they just didn’t give up,” adding that Amy chose to get out at Sandra’s home instead—but not before slamming the door “aggressively.”

Reddit Reacts

Reddit users flocked to the comments to weigh in, with the overwhelming majority applauding the OP’s refusal.

One wrote, “Her getting out at Sandra’s was the right thing for her to do if she was uncomfortable. You were giving her a free ride. Totally her choice to not take it, for whatever reason, but you didn’t do anything wrong.”

Another added that planning could have avoided the conflict: “If they wanted you to do it that way, that should have been agreed upon before.”