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Gettinga ride from a friend

wywern209

wywern209

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do you rly want to know?
Well, i have a friend who lives very close to me who offered me a ride to school and back in his car( i don't even have my license yet).anyways, he lives opposite me and i know him well enough.My question is, i feel a bit guilty about taking free rides from him as it takes some cash to fill up the gas etc. I am just wondering if i am going to come across as too serious or formal if i ask this question. Btw, i live in the US but i moved here like 5 yrs ago but i don't know what the norm is here for car rides and stuff in HS.
 
When I was in high school I regularly gave a friend of mine a ride home. he did offer some money for gas and I turn it down.

I would just him if he would like you to pay him some money for the gas. Chances are he will turn it down but it is always nice to be ask.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
When I was in high school I regularly gave a friend of mine a ride home. he did offer some money for gas and I turn it down.

I would just him if he would like you to pay him some money for the gas. Chances are he will turn it down but it is always nice to be ask.
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Ok. I'll ask him tomorrow. cuz i got a ride to and from school from him today. i just thought about the gas thing after i got home.
 
My brother drives me and my sister to school. He goes too so I dont think he minds that. But he has work after school and I feel like a burden because he drives us home wich slows him down like 15 minutes.
 
When I was in high school my friend drove me and a few others to school. We each paid a bit for gas money because she had a car with bad gas mileage. At the least, offer to pay for some of the gas costs.

Steve
 
Just a thought: even if your friend turns down your offer to chip in for gas (or takes you up on it - doesn't really matter), every so often if you're with him when he fills up, offer to go inside the store and pick him up a cup of coffee or something. It doesn't take much, just an acknowledgment that he's doing you a favor and that you appreciate it.
 
Tomorrow said:
Just a thought: even if your friend turns down your offer to chip in for gas (or takes you up on it - doesn't really matter), every so often if you're with him when he fills up, offer to go inside the store and pick him up a cup of coffee or something. It doesn't take much, just an acknowledgment that he's doing you a favor and that you appreciate it.
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Very true. Those little things are nice.

I joke that the payment for me giving him a ride home was borrowing a serious of books of his I was reading. By the end of the semester I read every one he had.
 
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