This is the first game at a new school, and school just started. Things usually don’t settle down for anything school-related for a couple of weeks – that’s just the nature of the beast. Even if this particular school (and team) had its shit together, the school they were tentatively scheduled to play might not have. And there are many, many ways in which school-to-parent communications get screwed up, especially for parents new to the school.
MandaJO, you are on the right track. This movie wasn’t a test for me as much as it was a mirror. I knew it would be emotional. She and I had both read the book and talked about it. She was the first one to suggest seeing it together. It was just one of those movies, you know? If it had been another movie I wouldn’t have minded it.
I do go see movied by myself, btw. First movie I saw after Rick died I saw by myself.
Diogenes the Cynic, I get that you pride yourself on acting like a jerk, but please be a jerk who at least reads the whole thread.
I don’t get the sense that the friend was trying to “finagle” her way out of anything. It was a real and genuine conflict for her.
Answering the OP - for me its a bit of a wash, the kid is 14 so old enough to understand the issue and why mum can’t be there (BTW - What about dad? It shouldn’t need both parents right?) but balancing that its the first game at a new school.
I don’t and won’t feel the need to attend every single little event in my daughters life, even now when she is five and its much more important to her, but I probably would have attended the game. Mind you - I would have invited you to come with me and gone out for dinner and the later showing of the movie afterwards.