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New Zealand woman sues partner for not taking her to airport (www.bbc.com)

submitted 4 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

            
              oral contract
If it was important, she should have prepared a back-up.

[–] escew@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s already been dismissed by the tribunal. Hilarious that it got enough attention to be in the news.

[–] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'd cut her a bit of slack.

She might have been dreaming of this for a long time, she thought that she could trust her boyfriend to do this simple and easy task, but one very important to her, and he fails to do it, and since they're in a relationship, one doesn't think of writing stuff down.

If it happened as reported, I agree with the ruling, but I wouldn't be so quick to ridicule her.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

In the situation you're presenting, I would be empathetic to her loss of the money and experience. However, all of that empathy disappears when she tries to sue because of it. The ridicule is for suing.