Daughter refuses to pick her parents up from the airport after they yell at her for making them wait 30 minutes, she tells them to get a taxi instead: ‘They have stonewalled me since’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Sep 23, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Generally, we all should love doing favors for our parents. After all, these are the people who raised us, and we wouldn't be where we are if it weren't for them. So what is a small favor compared to a lifetime of devotion and love?

Well, that all depends on how your parents treat you when they ask you for that favor.

Take the family in the story below as an example. The parents asked their daughter to come pick them up from the airport (after she also drove them there and took care of everything while they were gone, mind you). She initially agreed, but when they started berating her for making them wait 30 minutes, she took back her offered favor and told them to get a taxi instead. 

If parents are genuinely grateful for the help you are offering, understanding that you are spending time and effort to come to their aid, that makes it all worthwhile. But if they act as if you owe them these favors, and become so entitled and demanding towards you, these favors will definitely not last. 

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    My parents were disrespectful so I made them take a Taxi home from the airport - AITAH?

    My parents (61M & 67F) went away on holiday and it was agreed that I would drop them off and potentially pick them up although this was to be confirmed due to lack of space in my car.
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    I have a 5 yr old child and am a single parent. My weekends are usually very busy with rigid schedules - my parents know this.
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    My son had football this morning from 10:20- 11:00 and my mum said that she would let me know when I should start making my way to collect them from Heathrow airport to minimise pick-up charges.
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    It was a tight schedule this morning as I also had to walk the dogs before football, take kid to football and restock the house with essential groceries plus some extra for a nice dinner that I had planned for my parents upon their return and unpack my very small car to make space for their luggage.
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    So my mum calls me at 12:00 to say they've just landed and then 25 mins later lets me know they're ready to be collected.
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    I had just finished the food shop and I just had to unpack it then I was going to collect them.
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    This would mean my parents would have to wait 35 mins for me to collect them.
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    I let them know as much. My parents turned around and yelled saying don't bother and how they didn't care about the food shopping, and that I was unkind and unhelpful (I drove them an hour to Gatwick for their departure flight).
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    They just expected me to be there right away. So I responded by letting them know I was on my way as soon as I had put all the refrigerated items away.
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    They let me know this wasn't good enough. So I told them, I drove you to Gatwick, did a few chores for them whilst they were away that were a big expense time and money-wise that they've yet to pay me back for and that they can get a taxi home.
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    I then hung up as I found their attitude to be completely disrespectful. They called me back right away doubling- down that I'm an AH so I repeated "get a taxi".
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    An hour later my dad calls me chewing me ear off saying "aren't you collecting us then?
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    When are you getting here". I told him what I told my mum, get a taxi.
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    He said that they have ordered one but that it's taking awhile. I said "it will.
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    If you had been nice you would be home already." Then I hung up on him.
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    They got home 2 hours later than they would've liked due to me refusing to collect them but I want them to know that they can't treat me like sh and expect me to go out of my way for them.
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    They have stonewalled me since. In comparison, they refused to drive 10 mins to the train station to pick me up when I came back from Italy with an ear infection so had to get a taxi home.
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    Whilst the distance home is considerably shorter, they refused because they didn't feel like it not because they couldn't.
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    I may have been the AH by telling them to get a taxi and hanging up but I feel that I need to get an outside perspective as I feel justified in my decision based on principle of respect.
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    UPDATE: So my parents did get a taxi home in the end and I didn't greet them because I was still angry with them.
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    mum came upstairs in the evening to berate me. The usual you're so disrespectful and unreliable talk. I told her that I didn't come because she was r de and disrespectful to me. She is adamant that she wasn't. I asked her"is
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    30 minutes really too long to wait?" And her response was "why should I have to?" I let her know that was the last ride she was ever getting from me. She wasn't phased at all.
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