In February we bought tickets to a show by a performer we'd seen a few times before.
It's in a nice city about 80 miles from home. We'd actually gone a tad wild and splurged on a whole bottle of wine and snacks when we'd bought the tickets. They were to be delivered to our seat during the interval. A nice touch we thought
A couple of weeks later DH said he'd managed to secure tickets to a Very Important Sporting Final. He hadn't clicked it was in the same day as the show.
So we gave a close friend the show tickets as we thought she'd be interested in the performance.
We cancelled the hotel and rebooked to see the performance in another city and made a nice break from it all. He wasn't as great as the previous times we'd seen him. Ho hum.
The weekend in question was a fortnight ago and a good time was had by all. She thanked me both at the time of the tickets being offered and again after the show.
DF left her jacket under the chair at the theatre. She filled out an online form the next day to enquire about it.
Yesterday DF contacted me to say it looks like the jacket is sadly lost and is having to give up on it.
She feels that it was left only because she was tipsy on the wine that came with the tickets.
She now feels that I ought to reimburse her for the jacket as she wouldn't normally drink that much alcohol in one go.
It's a vintage jacket and she said she wasn't really sure how much she needed to replace it.
I was a teeny bit gobsmacked really. Do I have replied that it was entirely her responsibility to decide how much free wine to drink and to take care of her possessions. And I wouldn't be reimbursing for anything!
She's replied saying that she's going to look on Vinted Ebay and other places to see if she can find similar and she'd let me know then if she finds a replacement.
She wasn't exactly clear that she'd ask for the money if she did find a jacket, but equally didn't say she wouldn't ask.
Aibu to think she's a giant piss taker?