Give me some good excuses for not going please. It's a friends 2 year old, they won't know the difference
You'd love to go, but you just remembered you've already committed to a fund raiser for wounded warriors
why do you even have to give a reason? Just call and say, "thanks for the invite, sorry I won't be able to make it. Inviting grown-ups without kids to these kinds of parties is just silly.
Unless it's the wife that wants him to go with her. Much harder to lie then. If he is single, just say no.
You'll be a little late if the NAMBLA meeting runs over.... SRS, I hate that shit. I have some relatives who've insisted on pissing away hundreds of dollars, every year, on their kids' birthday parties. And these are people who don't need to spend that kind of money, especially on a 2 or 3 year old who will barely know what's going on, and forget it in a week anyway....