If you're a mum or dad who drives, you'll know the feeling of being your kid's own personal chauffeur, expected to take them here, there and everywhere at the drop of a hat.
Whether it's to a friend's house right in the middle of your favourite TV show or a sports club when you've a million other things to do, the list of their destination demands seems endless, and the role as taxi driver is often thankless.
But now parents can get payback - not in the form of cold, hard cash but through housework, reports Edinburgh Live .
Skoda have launched a hilariously cunning new app which allows parents to 'charge' kids for lifts by getting them to do chores in return.
So now when you've got dishes piling up in the kitchen but your dearest daughter is running late for dance class, you can take her, safe in the knowledge she'll be scrubbing those plates when she gets home.
It's so clever, we wonder why no one thought of it sooner. The app tracks how many miles a driver clocks up on these near-constant kid-chauffeuring journeys.
Like a taxi meter, the miles are converted into a fare at the end of the journey and sent to the passenger.
But instead of getting paid in cash, parents can exchange every mile driven for household chores.
Drivers can even send a receipt directly to their child's smartphone to make sure everyday tasks are completed, like doing the dishes, tidying their room, brushing the dog etc.
You can use it however you want - maybe if they don't complete the backlog of tasks, they don't get a lift somewhere. Or you can name and shame them on social media.
The app comes after a study by the Czech automaker revealed UK parents approximately drive 1,648 additional miles a year ferrying their children around, the equivalent of £12,565 if London taxi rates were applied.
The investigation also found that 66 per cent of parents felt they acted as a taxi service for their kids, spending around three hours each week driving them to various places.
Northern Island parents travelled the furthest driving their kids to extracurricular activities, according to the study, with parents driving on average 2,142 miles each year.
