Most of my family lives in the same town as me. My parents live five (four if traffic is good) hours away. The plan this year was for thanksgiving to happen in the town most of us live in. Because I wouldn’t have to travel, I signed up for a work project for end of November because extra money never hurts (normally I’m furloughed during this time). Two weeks ago, I found out that everyone else had changed the plan a month ago and everyone is now going to travel to where my parents live. By the time they told me (which only happened by accident, otherwise I wouldn’t have found out until a few days ago), it was far too late for me to back out of the work project (and too late to get a pet sitter).
So I told them sorry, I can’t come because I have to work this week and the day after thanksgiving. And thus started two weeks of blackmail, emotional BS, scolding, and a litany of reasons why my job isn’t important enough to skip thanksgiving, along with every conceivable method they could find to get me to visit. They are “disappointed” in me for staying home. I would have to take off work early Wednesday to make the drive, then drive back Thursday afternoon if I was going. I thought the group activity could be a good compromise because everyone had been talking about doing something like that for years. Sure, I’d be wiped out from driving and it would make work the next day hellish, but it would be worth it to keep the peace. But kind of pointless if no one else will be there so I said sorry, looks like it won’t work out.
So no, I didn’t start Machiavellian manipulation. I tried to find a way, despite a host of other reasons why me traveling to my parents is a bad idea. But it just isn’t going to work.
No reason is good enough for my family because they are bananapants. They changed plans, didn’t even tell me they were considering it, and then sat on the changed plans info for weeks until it was too late for me to adjust, but I’m the bad guy. I haven’t even heard from anyone since Monday.
I posted about this earlier but I realize not everyone would have seen it. I was trying to avoid a long backstory about why I generally hate thanksgiving because it’s like this every time.
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