It’s pretty much impossible to book something without it overlapping on other people’s schedules, yet some people insist on trying.

See how it got personal in this story.

AITA for not cancelling my camping trip to go to a family BBQ?

My husband and I bought a new to us RV last September.

Due to a hard winter we’ve only been out in it a couple times so far, so we are sitting on a lot of pent-up excitement.

I managed to reserve a primo campsite at one of our favorite lakes this coming weekend.

But there is a conflict.

A couple days ago SIL (who lives 3 hours away) invited us to a bbq along with some other family.

We politely declined as we have plans.

All was good until I get a text from SIL stating if it’s just the 2 of us going, we should reschedule our trip.

Trying to be diplomatic, I offered that we could visit them the following weekend (holiday).

I stressed that we were in no way asking them to change their scheduled bbq.

In comes the guilt trip.

In the meantime other SIL texts saying I hate to be morbid but you never know how long we are all going to be around.

My husband requested time off work for this trip and state park reservations are really hard to get on the weekends, not to mention losing half our reservation fee.

It’s not like we never see these family members.

Are we being unreasonable for not cancelling?

Here is what people are saying.

I bet SIL is a peach.

I admire your optimism, but no.

I thought it was that simple.

Oh, I hope he said this.

SO manipulative.

The family barbecue sounds like such a feel good time.

But maybe not for everyone.

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