To not take ds2 to the fireworks?

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He's in reception. It's his first school fireworks. He has expressed zero interest in it.

DH is working that night and keeps asking me if I've got tickets yet. I'm not going.

My reasons are that I hate crowds, I hate fireworks, it will be cold and I'll be miserable.

He says I should suck it up, that ds will love it, that I should take him for his benefit.

I said if our older two would come I'd think about it. But neither of them want to.

Fireworks nights as a family are fun, we get hotdogs and sparklers and I'll have a glass of warm wine. Going on my own with a five year old is anxiety inducing AND deathly dull.

I'm not going. DH says I'm a grinch.

AIBU?

I would have rather paid the school £50 a year flat tax to avoid the years and years of fetes, PTA shit events and bollocks I had to attend over the last 22 years.

Don't go op.

Unless the fireworks are like this, I wouldn't go.

If they are, go for it. Your Ds will be glad he went