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Real life MMD: Should SIL help with fuel?

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  • If you can easily afford the fuel anyway (you would have hired the car whether she was coming or not), why worry??

    I go on quite a few jaunts wth various members of family...hope to god they're not doing polls-online as to whether I should pay for my share of the fuel :rotfl: In my opinion, what goes around comes around. If while you're there she offers to pay for dinner are you going to sit and work our your 2/3 of the bill and insist on paying?? Could be wrong, but I doubt it.
    **Keep Calm and Carry On!**
  • I don't think its unreasonable for SIL to help pay with the fuel, but it'd probably be a informal agreement, and one best made long before anything is booked. I think the argument about poorer fuel economy is invalid - over such a short amount of time, the difference would be very little, plus its family, stop being so tight!

    As its a touring holiday, fuel and food costs are going to be high anyway, and if you think money might be tight, perhaps you should be questioning your choice of holiday?

    As for car hire itself, it'd cost the same (more or less) no matter how many people go, so just think yourself lucky theres an extra person to take the wheel - which has got to be a benefit - and leave it at that :-)

    Tony
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