Try adopting a female approach to the sit-you

Say "no, it's OK, I'll stay at home and help you entertain your parents", with a sniff and a slightly teary half-glance away (you'll need some cut onion) roughly, ooh, every five minutes. Then sit around alternately looking glum, morose and forlorn, with a copy of anything at all club related in your hand which you glance at from time to time and then sigh (don't read it avidly).

If she hasn't *insisted* you go to the game by then, stand up and scream "no, look, I'm not f**king irritable, it doesn't matter, we'll probably lose anyway, I don't want to make an issue out of it". That should do the trick.

Of course, the chances are that you'll be bored in either location anyway (and doubtless pissed in either as well ;-).

Posted By: Partial Angler, Dec 19, 13:53:03