Cast of Characters:
B - Wife of my friend D and source of current tension! She is pretty selfish at times.
C - Old friend from HS and coworker of B! She gives me the inside scoop.
D - Husband of B, and the friend that I take to work five days a week.

Ok Friends...I am in a total friendship dilemma. If you recall back in October, I began taking my friend D to work because he had had several seizures and doctors would not allow him to drive for 90 days. Helping out an old college friend of six years did not bother me. I never even hesitated to say yes. However, tension rose with his wife and I towards the end of the carpool. It was the Christmas season and there were a couple times that family issues got in the way of me being able to pick up D. or take him home. There were also moments that we got caught in some horrible Christmas shopping traffic and delayed D. by getting home by 20-30 minutes. His wife got a little upset with me because she had to drive the 30 minutes to pick up her spouse a couple times. We left on a bit of a sour note right before Christmas and I was a little upset with that. I didn't want the fact that I took her husband to work, and the fact that they paid me $25.00 a week to impact our friendship. Well I think it has damaged our friendship to a final point where I see no repair. This is where I need your all's help... read on

Present time....

D. had more seizures 2 weeks ago and so now I am taking him to work again... I do not mind to do that whatsoever. I knew D. a semester before I knew his wife B so I'm totally cool with taking him. He seems very appreciative and to a point in his life now where he is asking himself, 'should I take a pay cut and get a job closer to home?'... Folks he has even considered getting an apartment 30 minutes up the road to live in 3 days a week so he won't inconvenience his wife by having to take him to work. I'm moving 30 minutes up the road hopefully first of May so as much as I would like to help, I cannot accomodate my friend. Ok, here's the kicker.... his wife, B, works with my friend C. C and I have been friends since High School. C called me several weeks ago concerned. She told me B. was talking horribly about me behind my back. She told C that when I took D to work several months ago that I was very unreliable.

Well.... Sunday night my husband and I were out of town in Tennesse. We were a good 3 hours away from home. We got back late, and my husband was very tired. Husband had to drive 6 1/2 hours at 9:30 at night to get back to North Carolina. He had to do an install in South Carolina the next day. So I made him call his coworker and tell them he would be in a little late. I would have never forgiven myself if husband had drove down to NC and had had a car wreck because he didn't want to let his co-workers down. AS SOON AS I REALIZED I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE D TO WORK, I called him. He seemed understanding and was cool with the whole situation. Well yesterday I walk into my office and I have an e-mail from C. C told me that B said she was pissed because I wasn't able to take D to work and that inconvenienced HER because she had to get up at 5am to take him to work.. boo hoo right. B. also said that this was another example of 'Amy's unreliability!'...

So I ask you dear friends, what should I do???
Should I:
A. Tell D. that I'm not taking him to work anymore because his wife's a bitch?
B. Just ignore her behavior and keep on helping out my friend?
C. Confront B. on her two-faced comments that she told C.?

What should I do? I'm in a total loss for words.. I feel like I have been betrayed by the only 2 people from college that I'm still friends with.. Our friendship has been strained for a number of years because we have all grown up and changed a bit.

I wish I knew what to do...I hate being the bad guy. I don't play that role very well whatsoever.

Help!

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