Helping friends often sounds simpler than it actually is.

In this story, a man agreed to visit a coworker’s new house after work and help with painting.

It was a long drive, and the timing added unexpected stress.

Moreover, when he made a simple request about clothing, his coworker made a big deal out of it.

Let’s take a closer look!

AITA for refusing to help my coworker paint his new house in work clothes?

I (27M) have a friend from work (31M).

We’ve known each other only about two years, but have gotten fairly close.

When I moved to a condo a few months ago, he helped me paint.

I’ve been meaning to help repay him the favor on a house that he just bought.

This man was asked b his work friend if he’d like to see the house.

But things keep popping up, and we’re in busy season at work.

We’re both teachers, and it’s the middle of the year testing period.

I have admittedly been pushing it off.

Anyway, last Friday he asked me if I wanted to stop by after work and see the house.

He doesn’t live there yet, so it would be mostly empty.

I could finally get a look at it, and then we could grab dinner and drinks in the area.

They drove for about two hours.

I said that’s great.

He drove, and I was immediately taken aback that the house was further than I thought.

He had said about an hour away. It ended up being close to a two-hour drive with traffic.

I tried to enjoy seeing the house, but I was immediately stressed.

Because I realized this was going to be a massive out-of-the-way inconvenience to do after work.

He offered to do the house painting right then and there.

He can’t do weekends. That’s when he has custody of his kid.

I saw that the paint was already brought.

I said since I was already out there why don’t we do it now.

He had already prepped the place to be painted. He seemed into the idea.

That way, I wouldn’t have to do a whole other trip.

He asked his friend if he could wear his undershirt and boxers while painting.

The issue was I was wearing fairly nice work clothes that I didn’t want to mess up.

I asked if it was cool if I just wore my undershirt and boxers.

He looked at me like I was crazy.

He said if I didn’t want to do it then just don’t do it.

He said please don’t make dumb excuses.

He felt taken aback and just went home.

I felt taken aback.

I didn’t think it was unreasonable to not want my clothes to get dirty.

I ended up not painting because he wasn’t into the idea.

So, I just went home. AITA?

Let’s read the responses of other people to this story.

This user shares their personal thoughts.

This person agrees with OP.

Here’s an honest opinion from this one.

This is just so weird, says this user.

Finally, short and straightforward.

Some people are just very hard to please.

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