To not want to go to DD's birthday meal because I want to watch the Grand Prix instead?

[muggglewump]

Just that really.
It's a family meal and my family are all knobbers, and it's the Belgian Grand Prix, anyone who watches will that it is the Grand Prix, and I have to go to a meal with knobbers and pretend to be having a good time.

It wasn't so bad when I thought my ex-SIL was coming with my nephew, I like her, she's down to earth and a good laugh, but it turns out my current SIL is coming with my brother and nephew.

My Dad will moan about everything and nothing, and I'll get cross with all of them for never calling me, even though I was really ill earlier this year.

I'll come home with jaw ache from all the fake smiling, and then more than likely, my crap old PC will crash when I try to watch the Grand Prix on IPlayer.

I don't want to go

We sympathise, we do. DH had to drive us home from holiday instead of watching the Grand Prix - he'd rather have been watching it too - but unfortunately that was not an option.

I actually went to watch the Belgian Grand Prix one year - I have never been so wet in my entire life.

I went in 2005. I too got soaked and covered in mud and fell down the hill drunk and got laughed at, plus pissed in a bush all day.
I had the best time ever.

MW
They are generally horrible, and knobbers.

And 2 are off to Oz. Party on down ?

I just don't get the family dynamic where a child's uncle organises a family party for her without reference to her parent. It might be meant kindly, but to me it seems extraordinarily high-handed.