You be the judge: should my daughter pay the fine we incurred dropping her at the airport? | Life and style
The prosecution: Margaret We dropped Georgia off in her own car and she didn’t pay the drop-off fee, so the fine is hers My daughter Georgia and I have had our fair share of ups and downs. She is quite shortsighted when it comes to disagreements and can’t see my perspective a lot of the time. Recently, my partner, Bill, and I dropped her off at the airport for a holiday. She’d stayed at ours the night before, as we live near the airport. The next day, Bill said he’d drop her off at the airport, and we used her car for the journey since it could fit all her luggage in. It was a favour to her, and she was very grateful. However, when she got home three weeks later, she called to tell us that she had a parking ticket at home, because we didn’t pay the airport’s drop-off charge when we arrived. I said: “Oh, that’s terrible, but you should have paid the fee.” And Georgia said: “I don’t even know what that is.” I was annoyed …
