Should I stay or should I go?

Well great, now it’s the Clash that’s stuck in my head. Yours too.

Here’s the question of the day: do I go to my 10-year college reunion?

On the plus side, my ex-girlfriend/now friend is going with her son and has hooked us up with a friend’s cute little lakehouse for the cost of a cleaning service. I can show off my cute wife and cute son. I’ll see some people I had forgotten about but will be really happy to see anyway. I unambivalently skipped my high school reunion and then was sorry later when I heard the gossip. And it’s 2 hours away by car, so it’s an easy trip.

On the con side, I’m naming a million stupid reasons why I shouldn’t go (Bubba sleeps badly when we travel, we’re travelling a lot this spring, I don’t want to pay the fees), but I think what it really truly comes down to is I’m afraid I won’t have anyone to talk to. That I’ll go out to dinner with a bunch of people my wife doesn’t know and I don’t care about, or that I’ll wander around campus and not recognize anyone or, worse, I’ll recognize people and we won’t care about talking to each other. Apparently I am just that insecure.

Am I being completely ridiculous? Or is it really an overblown kind of event and not worth all the pomp and circumstance of finding something all white to wear to march through the pre-graduation parade with a ridiculous sign in my hand making fun of the class of 1998? And why am I being so freakin’ indecisive about this?