Family favors can be a tricky thing to navigate, especially when everyone has different ideas of what’s reasonable.

When a family request to drive to the airport turns into a multi-trip ordeal, one person wonders if they’re being difficult or if their family is just asking too much.

If you’ve heard how horrible traffic can be in Los Angeles, you’ll really appreciate the magnitude of this favor.

Read on for the full story!

AITAH for not wanting to make 5 trips to the airport for my dad and his wife?

My dad and his wife are flying internationally out of LAX in May.

They live in Ventura, CA, and I live on the east side of Los Angeles — about an hour from LAX without traffic, closer to 1.5 hours during rush hour.

One day, their dad asked for a favor.

He texted me and my girlfriend asking if we could drive them to the airport the morning of their flight (their flight is at 11:51am, and they want to be there by 9am).

Not a huge ask on its own.

But then they added a second layer: they want to leave their car at our house, and at some point while they’re gone, they want us to drive their car to LAX so that when they return in June, it’s waiting for them.

Turns out, this was actually a huge ask.

When we actually talked about the logistics, we realized this would require 5 separate car trips:

1. We drive them to LAX
2. We return home from LAX
3. I drive their car back to LAX before their return
4. My girlfriend also drives to LAX separately to pick me up
5. Then we get home again

They try to compromise, but their dad didn’t seem interested.

We suggested a simpler plan: they could still park their car at our house, and either we’d drive them to LAX or they could Uber. Way less complicated and disruptive for us.

During that conversation, they mentioned they had looked into taking a shuttle from Ventura to LAX, which wouldn’t have required any help from us at all.

But they said the timing for the return trip didn’t work out, and they would’ve had to wait two extra hours after landing.

This whole thing isn’t sitting right with them.

Totally get not wanting to wait after a long international flight —but it felt a bit weird that their solution was to shift the burden onto us instead, without really considering how much they were asking.

So now things feel a little tense.

I don’t think we were rude, but we were honest about the number of trips involved and what we’re realistically up for.

AITA for not wanting to do the 5-trip plan and offering a simpler alternative instead?

Most people are always down to help out a family member, but sometimes it’s just too much.

What did Reddit have to say?

It’s their trip, so it’s their responsibility.

This pickup is even more stressful once they factor in traffic.

Any way you slice it, this request is just plain unreasonable.

Someone asking for a favor really isn’t in the position to be making additional demands.

Setting a boundary didn’t make them unreasonable, it just made them realistic.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.