Someone in the family has decided it would be a good idea for us all (20 odd people) to go out for Christmas lunch in a pub. They asked DP who provisionally said yes, but I really really do not want to go for so many reasons.
- I want to cook my own christmas dinner
-I don't want to eat lunch in a nondescript pub which describes it as Christmas lunch with 'all the trimmings'
-It costs £60 a head (for 4 of us) without alcohol
-it is 20 miles drive away, not far at all I agree but who wants to drive on Christmas day?
-I don't want to go
- I don't want to go
Why can't we do what we normally do at Christmas - the whole family goes round PILs in the morning to swap gifts and bucks fizz for an hour or two, and everyone buggers off by lunchtime. So I can go home to merrily potter round the kitchen cooking and pissing about, and it is all relaxed.
I HATE the idea of a crappy lunch in a pub. How can I say no without coming across as a petulant twat?