It’s no secret that the English are often far too polite and struggle to say no to an act of kindness. But it’s this inability to say no that upsets one mum, as she is frequently being asked by her next-door neighbor if she can take her daughter to school.
The anonymous(不知姓名的) mum took to an online parenting forum(论坛) to ask for some advice, telling how she likes the young girl, but that it is a bit awkward on the school run as she’s not friends with her own two children. Moreover, the woman says the daughter is often not ready when she goes to pick her up and she’s confused as to why she has to keep taking the girl to school when the neighbor’s husband works from home.
She said: “Am I being unreasonable to say no to my neighbor? I’m unsure if I’m being petty here. My children are nine and six. They don’t see Jenny socially but go to the same school as her. Her mum is always pleasant to me, but only ever messages me if she wants something—‘Hi, how are you, can I borrow some eggs?’.” She goes on to say that there have been a few occasions when the neighbor has had an “emergency” and asked her to take Jenny to school.
The mum has never been bothered about helping out—until she recently asked the neighbor to return the favour while she was sick with COVID and the neighbor was annoyed about doing it. Since then the neighbor has asked her to do the school run when it clearly wasn’t an “emergency”, with Jenny not even being dressed and ready to go when she agreed to come and collect her. All of this has left the mum feeling torn over whether to keep agreeing to the neighbor’s requests.
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