I have a little situation here. Last year in deer camp a friend invited myself and another friend to hunt his private land up North. All year long we have been planning for this and now its a week and a half away. The two of us have a mutual friend that since September keeps asking when camp is. We have both been telling him that we're too busy at work to go to camp this year. This third party guy is a really good friend of both of ours, but we don't really want him to go to camp because he's kind of a handful. He rarely hunts while in camp, refuses to climb a tree, requires to be waited on, drinks a lot, is messy, and never brings enough money to support himself. The problem is that my friend and I are going to disappear next week and the third party guy is going to know something is up. When he finds out where we went and didn't ask him to go; Words will not be able to describe how pissed he is going to be. You would think it would be as easy as "you weren't invited" but there is an open invitation to any one we know. It has been a real challenge to not slip up and mistakenly blurt out "Can't wait till November, go'in up north", and I really feel bad about it but... what are going to do?

The only thing that I can think of is to call the guy the day or two before and ask him to go, knowing that he won't be able to because of work, and play the whole thing off as last minute.

What do you guys think?