KeKe Court - The Podcast: "Do You Have Gas Money!?"

You are the jury! Who's wrong in this crazy case of Besties vs. Gas Money?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Woo. The courtroom is O friend? What's a friend? It
is Kiki here with a bonus case in Kiki's court.
You know, we do these cases only for the podcast,
and we do a new case every Monday on The
Fred's Show. So shout out to you for being a
part of the jury. And this case really made me
chuckle because it's so petty, but it's so relatable. Take listen.

(00:21):
It says, Kiki, am I wrong for asking my best
friend to start paying for gas money since I drive
her to work every day. My name is Nia and
I work at the same company as my best friend.
A few months ago, her car broke down and she
couldn't afford to get the repairs right away. I offered
to give her a ride to and from work until

(00:41):
she got things sorted out. At first, it wasn't a
big deal. We leave around the same time and she
only lives about eight minutes out of my way. But
here's the issue. It's been four months, she still hasn't
gotten the car fixed, and I have basically become her
personal uber driver. Oh hell no. It's gotten to the

(01:02):
point where she doesn't even ask. She just texts me
every morning and says I'm ready. That's funny. Last week,
my gas light came on while we were driving to
work and it caused us to be late, so she
stopped for gas. Okay, she got an attitude and said,
why didn't you get gas the night before? So I

(01:22):
snapped and said, because I was waiting on you to
offer to pay for it. Damn. We got into it
and I told her, listen, I need at least twenty
dollars a week if I have to keep picking you up.
She told me never mind, and she will find another
way to work and we haven't spoken all week. Am
I wrong? Whoo? First of all, no, you're not wrong.

(01:46):
You're not wrong because she, as your friend, should have
at least at the very least, offered to give you
gas money for picking her up and dropping her off
at work. And I understand you thought you were doing
it a good deed. You thought it was gonna be temporary.
But four months of driving her back and forth is
insane because I think people don't realize when you pick

(02:08):
up someone or when you carpool with someone, that whoever
is driving has to leave out earlier because they can't
be late for work and they have to add in
the time it will take to get you. They can't
go home straight from work because they have to drop
you off. So even if she wanted to leave work
and go run errands, she has to consider what's going
on in her friends schedule. Like that is a lot

(02:29):
of pressure to put on someone to require them to
pick you up and drop you off. And if you
are gonna have someone do that, at the very least
offer them gas money in this economy, like you need
some gas, she needs gas money, girl, groceries are expensive. Hello.
I don't think you're wrong for asking her to give
you twenty dollars. I do think you should have communicated

(02:51):
it though way further in the beginning, Like you waited
four months and you waited until you guys gotten into
a little heated exchange to require her to give you money.
But like, I mean, she should have offered it a
long time ago. But you know, I think you should
have spoken up too earlier. Like if it was my

(03:11):
best friend on like the that first week, okay, I
would have driven her from Monday through Friday, and then
on that next Monday when she texts me I'm ready,
I would have said, girl, do you have some gas money? Okay, Like,
I'm not your uber driver. No. I think it's a
good deed that you were trying to do, and she
just unfortunately took took all advantage of your good deed

(03:37):
as a friend, and I hate that it had to
come up, you know where you guys got into a
little fight and you know, things turned left. I really
hope though, as your best friend, she'll get over it
and then come back to you and say, hey, you know,
here's a gift card for driving me. I really appreciated
I was wrong for, you know, getting snappy with you,
but I appreciate you driving me Like that's the lead

(04:00):
she can do at this point. So I don't think
you're wrong, but you know I'm not the jury. So
let me know what you think. Friend, I posted a
video on our Instagram friend show radio at on air
key key k e k e. Let me know your
thoughts and if you have a case, honey, send it
my way, Okay, hit me up on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,
all the places at on air kikey to send your

(04:21):
case and we'll bring it to the courtroom. Have a
good day. Bye.