AITA
for asking for compensation when a heavy-smoking drunkard with no
income who lived for free upstairs with a girlfriend, interrupted my
sleep numerous times in order to ask me for a ride to Dillons?
I
sleep in the day & work evenings. He'd ask for rides to Dillons
(Kroger chain of supermarkets) when I still had hours of sleep left. I'd
ask for compensation because I needed to sleep, but he'd have nothing
to provide me right then. Yet he still insisted that I take him.
I
refused to be anyone's free taxi service when I wasn't well-rested and
alert, so I told him to only come back either when I'm well-rested or
when he'd figure out what compensation to give me.
I'd
also ask the jobless man why couldn't he just walk to Dillons himself.
(About 7 blocks east of our apartment complex) He said he had a bad knee
from an old motorcycle accident back in the 80s. It hurt to this day,
so without medical insurance for painkillers, he resorted to drinking
heavy liquor (often vodka) to dull the pain. It's also why he'd ask for
$5 frequently; the cheapest vodka would be had for $5.
I told him "As the US Marines say, 'Pain Is Weakness Leaving Your Body.'"
(Yes, that is an actual motivational quote perpetuated by the USMC.) So
I insinuated he'd get stronger through the pain if he'd just tough it
out and walk there anyway.
I
also asked why he wouldn't make friends with other tenants in the
complex who actually was alert in the daytime and he said he didn't like
to associate with most people but very much wanted to be around me.
Later,
he would compensate me sometimes with meals that he'd cook (to his
credit, he cooked quality meals somehow) so after taste-testing them,
I'd begrudgingly give him rides, although it wasn't as safe to give
rides in my state of tiredness. After all, drowsy driving may be as
dangerous as drunk driving. (Is it?)
Luckily,
he and his girlfriend were eventually banned from the apartment complex
because he wasn't authorized on the lease and she had cats that he gave
him, but without the proper pet authorizations ($200 pet fee,
vaccinations and miscellaneous documents.)
So
AITA for asking for compensation upon being asked for a ride by a drunk
neighbor, due to my needing to sleep in the daytime and work in the
evenings? And for implying that his knee pain would make him stronger if
he toughed through it by walking 7 blocks to Dillons instead?
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