Is This Kid a Jerk for Not Letting Aa Friend Drive Her Father's Ferrari?

I read this headline and immediately thought, ‘have we learned nothing from the tale of Ferris Bueller and Cameron, people??”

If you let your potentially irresponsible friends talk you into using your parents’ expensive things, bad stuff could happen – which is probably what OP was thinking when her friend wanted to take their dad’s Ferrari for a spin.

OP says that their dad loves the car and it’s super powerful – they’ve been allowed to drive it like, once, and was too scared to take the wheel again.

My dad is wealthy, not like mega rich billionaire wealthy but pretty damn wealthy.

My dad owns this Ferrari v12 super car that he LOVES. He takes it out to drive a few times a month when he can and usually likes to take it to a local track. He’s very protective of that car and doesn’t want anyone driving it. He let me drive it once at his track, and I had like a race car driver instructor with me but honestly I am sorta afraid of it.

It’s really powerful and just more car then I can handle.

OP is dating a guy who wanted to drive the car, but when he asked their dad, he said no (for obvious reasons all stated already, that are perfectly reasonable).

Anyways I’m dating this dude and he saw my dads car when he was over and he asked me if he could drive it.

I told him he would have to ask my dad cause its his not mine but that I dont think he would let him because my dad doesn’t really want anyone driving it.

Anyways he left it alone.

He brought it up to my dad later but my dad said no. My dad said he let me drive it once at a track with a race driver in the passenger seat and that he just didn’t trust anyone else to drive it.

Now their dad is out of town and the boyfriend is pushing to drive the car without his knowledge – going so far as to call his partner names and shame them for not understanding what it’s like to not have money.

So my dad went out of town and now my BF is asking me to let him drive the car while my dad is gone.

He keeps asking me where the keys are and can he just take it for a spin and I keep telling him no and its making me uncomfortable he keeps asking.

Finally he got mad at me and called me a bi**h and said I should be supportive of him that I should understand he doesn’t have a rich family and will probably never have this opportunity again and that if I loved him I would do this for him.

I dunno.

For some reason, they think they’re the a$shole in all of this, and I just want to take them out for coffee and knock some sense into them.

I get that he doesn’t really have another opportunity to drive this car but like its just a car and my dad would be really pissed if I let him. AITA?

I believe I might be the AH because my BF can’t afford a car like this on his own and I feel bad that I’m denying him the opportunity to drive one which is something he really wants I am denying him his dream.

Does Reddit agree?

Yes. Yes, they do.