I got into a somewhat similar dilemma around Thanksgiving. My cousin and I had made dining arrangements at a restaurant, and then we'd head back home to watch some tv. Our usual holiday routine. My cousin then mentioned about stopping by her friend's house for a visit, and I told her that I'd just stay in the car and take a snooze.
I wasn't about to go through the stress of dealing with a house full of total strangers I'd likely never meet again. Predictably, my cousin took offense to this and it briefly got ugly. (But then we have a lot of those brief, but ugly moments.) So I made it very clear that under no circumstances would I have left the car .
Frankly I thought I was being relatively magnanimous by offering her the chance to meet with her friend while I opted to stay in the car. Knowing full well that she had little concern over my stress of dealing with strangers, particularly during holidays.
Luckily she decided not to make that stop, and it ended up on a more pleasant note. Guess I got lucky...![Roll Eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png)
The things I do to perpetuate long-time family ties...
I wasn't about to go through the stress of dealing with a house full of total strangers I'd likely never meet again. Predictably, my cousin took offense to this and it briefly got ugly. (But then we have a lot of those brief, but ugly moments.) So I made it very clear that under no circumstances would I have left the car .
Frankly I thought I was being relatively magnanimous by offering her the chance to meet with her friend while I opted to stay in the car. Knowing full well that she had little concern over my stress of dealing with strangers, particularly during holidays.
Luckily she decided not to make that stop, and it ended up on a more pleasant note. Guess I got lucky...
![Roll Eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png)
The things I do to perpetuate long-time family ties...
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