9-year-old walks home in the rain when friend's parents don't offer her a ride home, despite her parents always giving the friend a ride, dad of 9-year-old refuses to continue carpooling: 'I found my daughter fully soaked and wet'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Oct 12, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Parenting doesn't just exist in the vacuum of your family, it often extends to others around you, like other family members, neighborhood kids, or friends of your children. It can be a handful to take care of your children's friends, especially when you're not their official parent. You never know how the kid is being raised, and you don't have control over it. In this story, the dad continually gives carpools to his 9-year-old daughter's friend. They've been inseparable since they were 2, and he never minded giving the friend rides home. That is until one day his daughter needs a ride, so he asks the daughter's friend's parents. They say they will, and then he finds his daughter soaking wet at home and crying. 

She says she walked 25 minutes home in the rain because when her friend's mom came to pick her up, she didn't offer a ride to her. He's obviously livid, and he told the other parents he'll no longer drive the friend home. They don't exactly listen, but you'll have to read the full story below. 

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    AITAH for not picking up my daughter’s friend again after her mom did not pick my daughter and left her to walk home in the rain?

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    So I 41M have 3 kids with my wife 41M the older two are in college and my youngest is a sweet little 9 year old baby girl, my wife and I
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    always wanted two kids so she was an unexpected but absolutely loved and beautiful surprise, we
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    both love her to death and her older brother and sister treat her like a princess.
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    She has this friend that she's been inseparable from since she was 2 and they're both the same age and are classmates. This girl
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    lives in our neighbourhood and I work from home full time so I take my daughter to and from school everyday and I used to
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    take her friend as well, I had no problem waiting for her every morning. Until last week.
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    So last week I had a doctors appointment right when my daughter was supposed to finish school and it was heavily raining that day my wife and brothers
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    and brothers in law were all either working or far away from us so I called my daughters friends father and asked him if he could
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    get the girls home, he said he was at work but he'd send his wife, he told me he'd tell her to also get my daughter so I didn't question it.
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    When I got home I found my little daughter fully soaked and wet and she was crying, I asked her what happened and she said
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    nobody picked her up and she had to walk the entire 25 minute walk home while it was pouring down rain, she said her friends
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    mom came and took her daughter without offering mine a ride even though we live in the same neighbourhood, I
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    called back her father to ask him why the h I she did that and he was angry. I told him I'm not picking up their daughter
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    anymore, he said he was sorry and that this was just a bad misunderstanding and I hung up.
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    They have sent their daughter over every morning since then way earlier than they did before but I send her back home every
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    single time, her mom called my wife to complain that I'm being childish petty and vindictive, it
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    was on speaker so I jumped in and said h I yea I'm a petty b rd.
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    Thankfully somehow my little girl didn't get sick from it, she's a though lil mf lol Anyways am the a h le here?
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    Suspicious-Curve3... 3h ago nta but why would her mother even do that?? i feel so bad for both girls :(
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    Stephij27 ⚫ 3h ago NTA. I was the other mom in this scenario once. There was a miscommunication and I didn't know I was
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    supposed to pick up a friend's kid (we periodically swapped picking the kids up). I went to pick up my kid and saw him there. I asked
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    the kid if his mom was coming, he didn't know, so I waited with him until I verified the plan with his mom. Because a responsible
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    adult does not leave a child (especially one that has previously been in their care) uncared for. Your poor daughter.
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