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Accepted and I trust that you won’t go there again.

RB, what you refuse to realize or what you are in denial about is that the girl was NOT doing her a favor. The girl was supposed to be doing a mitzvah but missed the boat a bit. She didn’t do her any favors making her wait over an hour after being in the hospital all day as it was, and blasting music as well as loud chatter for someone who was over stressed and needed some down time. As I said if it was a problem for her and she thought she was doing a favor she should have left it for someone else to volunteer for and she could have offered to try another night when it was more convenient.

As for you, if it was a “tircha” for you to accommodate your passenger you shouldn’t have picked him up. Either do it with a full heart of don’t do it at all. You could have said, “maybe this is not such a good idea and I can drop you off at the grocery store where it will be easier for you to hitch another ride” or “actually I am only going till here, you can try and hitch another ride over there” and then drop him off where there was more traffic instead of doing the mitzvah angrily. Someone else might not have felt it was such a tircha and would have done it without complaint.