to want to slap myself around the head

[Ormirian]

and yell 'Well serves you RIGHT for not saying NO in the first place!"

MIL wants to go the the Olympics opening ceremony. She will be 80 next year and the stadium is near the place she was born and lived for the first 30 yrs of her life. None of her kids would take her - not interested, too busy etc so being a twat Good Samaritan, I agreed to do it. I quite fancy it anyway in a 'well, why not' sort of way.

That was last summer....

Since then she has nagged and nagged me about registering and getting tickets. So I registered back in January. She rang DH last night to tell him to remind me that tickets went on sale at midnight. So I dutifully logged on from my IPhone during a sleepless early morning. Now I can just about afford 150 for me (MIL is paying for her own) but I can't help thinking that if I am going to fight my way across London to get to the East end for this once in a lifetime event, I might as well take the DC. But you can't make more than one application for a single event - so I either have to ask for 4 £20 tickets which we almost certainly won't get, or 4 £150 tickets which I can't afford!

I rang MIL this morning to suggest she orders some of them herself. But she doesn't have a Visa card.

And if I do get some tickets how the fuck am I going to get myself, a very infirm elderly lady with dodgy hips and knees across London at an even busier time than usual, with potentially 2 DC in tow? I mean how?

Added to which MIL can arrange for her and I to stay with a friend overnight - but she doesn't think she can accomodate the children.

Why do I do these things? Why?

Twat!

Lean over here Orm.

Bit more now, can't quite reach.......

• I's kind, done it for you

But you do these things because you're kind, because you know she wanted to, because it would be one of those once-in-a-lifetime things. But it will cost, unfortunately.

Hope you find a way round it.

Unfortunately sounds like you are going to have to leave the children at home.

Console yourself that you are really and truly doing a nice thing - you're putting yourself out for another person. Yes it's annoying but if it wasn't you wouldn't be able to feel so virtuous

You are a much better person than me Orm. I had considered taking DD to a game of some sort but realised that I couldn't because
A) I haven't registered
B) I am not interested and doubt that she would be.

Thanks.

i am not feeling like a nice person, I am feeling like a mug.

See kreecher - i would like to see some athletics but I am not going up twice and MIL wants to see the fireworks and the jollities

It's sports, OP, it's not meant to be fun.

Yes you are right! If people can do the Iron Man I can get one old lady across London.

You're a good ,kind person .
Can your MIL ,or you on her behalf ,get a Taxi Card ?
www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/services/taxicard/default.htm
and if you get it ,get this one as well if you can

www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1195.aspx#capital_call

Keep repeating "good ,kind person "

BettyCash

OP, you sound lovely. How old are your DC? Do you think they really want to go? Maybe one of your MIL's other children should look after them for you while you kindly take their mother to an event she really wants to go to for her 80th?

Dh could look after them. Childcare not a problem, but I would like them to go too if at all possible. I mean it's not that likely there'll be another in the UK any time soon.

But I can see the obvious answer

ginger - thanks for that. We don't live in London so I dont know if that would be avaiable for us.

Does MIL live in London ?

Nope. We're all coming up from Zummerzet!

even more of a kind ,nice person !