I can give you a quick example of a friend and the issue of driving. A recent trip back to the US meant when it was over there was a need to get to Newark Airport from the Jersey shore vicinity at night. My two days and nights was at a friend's home. I was prepared to get a limo pick me up for the over hour trip in the evening I was to depart. International flights are evenings. My friend wouldn't hear of it and drove me there, and of course had the return trip back to her home. During my stay with her she had picked me up at my ex sister-in-laws home to bring me to her house and took me to my favorite seaside community for a days outing. Of course she prepared meals too when I stayed with her.

When she had come over to Ireland some years previously, we had taken her around in our car as well as had her for meals when we ate in and not dined out. It's called give and take and friends don't think twice about this stuff. So it's far better for you to find out now who are true friends, to learn from these sometimes hurtful revelations and just consider it all a learning experience.