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AIBU?

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To be really pissed off about this?

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Fanfeckintastic · 08/04/2015 21:40

I was supposed to go to a show tonight with a good friend. The tickets were £65 and my friend booked them on her card ages ago and I transferred the money into her account the same day.

Another good friend of hers (who we'll call Sally) who I have never met seems to be having a really bad time lately, horrible husband (that my friend really hates), money troubles etc among other things. A couple of days ago I said "it really seems as if Sally could do with some time out, do you want to give her my ticket and you two go and make a night of it?"
Friend replied "I don't think she'd afford the £50 for the ticket"
Now we did book the ticket ages ago so it's possible she just forgot the price or something, no big deal, I replied "don't be silly I don't want money for the ticket!"

All good, friend agreed to go.

Sally has just tagged my friend on Facebook at the event saying what a great night etc and also tagged her husband gushing for buying her the ticket

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Sierraspider · 12/04/2015 18:31

Op, didn't you friend comment on what a great time she had? I think she's lying to you :-(

orangeformica · 12/04/2015 18:45

I think she fainted after realising she had been caught out

WellYesOfCourseYouAre · 12/04/2015 20:06

Have you heard from your friend yet OP?

MrsRaegan · 12/04/2015 20:29

Cheeky mare! I also call bollocks on the MRI. not place marking, promise

PHANTOMnamechanger · 12/04/2015 20:40

me neither MrsR

BifsWif · 12/04/2015 21:57

She's is lying about the MRI. She's been rumbled and knows it, so why not just hand over the money?!

WizardofSnoz · 12/04/2015 22:18

Um, name changed to post this, but OP, are you perhaps obscuring some of the details about this to make it less obvious? Perhaps the theatre trip actually happened some time ago and not recently? And the post about the ticket thanked a sister rather than a husband? Just seems to oddly mirror some events in my own life recently a bit too much to be comfortable...

Penfold007 · 12/04/2015 22:27

Wizard did you sell a ticket to a friend?

WildStyle · 12/04/2015 22:39

wizardofsnoz if this is about you...then who are you in this story...? The friend suffering bad times who received the ticket? If so, did you pay for the ticket? Or the friend who's potentially scammed the OP?

WizardofSnoz · 12/04/2015 22:39

No, I went to the theatre with a friend for free. She gave me a ticket that she told me a relative had got free because they worked in a theatre and I tagged us at the theatre and thanked the sister. That was a while ago now.

But I also collapsed a few weeks back and have been having MRI scans and neurology appointments and there are some other details that made me wonder. If the OP has changed some of the details to make it less identifiable it could be me. But I took the ticket in good faith and I genuinely have been ill.

Only1scoop · 12/04/2015 22:42

But your ticket was free....the Op indicates money exchanged hands somewhere.... Think that's the prob.

WildStyle · 12/04/2015 22:44

Wow wizard yes it sounds similar... If it is about you, then it sounds like crossed wires. Wishing you good health.

WizardofSnoz · 12/04/2015 22:46

Yeah. I'm slightly worrying now though that my friend told me the ticket was free but actually somebody else had already paid for it. And when I thanked the sister (who I thought had got the tickets free) that person saw it and thought money had changed hands.

I'm probably being paranoid and it's just a bizarre coincidence because I think my friend is trustworthy!

WildStyle · 12/04/2015 22:49

I'm sure your friend is trustworthy. If this is indeed about you, and she said it was free, but it wasn't. She probably didn't want you to think it was charity. Why don't you ask your friend? Explain you've seen this thread.

HookedOnHooking · 12/04/2015 22:54

The plot thickens ......

gonetrekking · 12/04/2015 22:56

Crikey!

TerryTheGreenHorse · 12/04/2015 23:00

Oooooo.

nickelbarapasaurus · 12/04/2015 23:03

OP
yoohoo!

BifsWif · 12/04/2015 23:24

But isn't it the friend of the op who had the MRI, not the friend-of-a-friend who took the ticket (ie you)? Confused

kent43 · 12/04/2015 23:37

Op please come back with update.

Harverina · 12/04/2015 23:37

If your friend has charged for the ticket without planning on paying you the money then of course yanbu!

I would have expected a text to say "Sally's DH has offered to buy your ticket, will get the money to you ASAP". As opposed to finding out on fb on the day. Seems a bit sly. Though she was maybe just going to tell you next time she saw you?

Anyway, Wizard I think too many of the details are different? Have you since asked your friend?

WizardofSnoz · 12/04/2015 23:50

No I haven't. If it is me then I don't want to embarrass her because she will genuinely have done it out of kindness. If her mate said she didn't want to and she offered me the ticket with a bit of a cover story so I wouldn't feel like it was charity. I would hope she wouldn't see it or wouldn't know if it is us. It was a while back, can't remember if I thanked DH for paying for a train ticket and that's mixed it up.

It's a really odd one, lots of details the same and lots different. Hard to know if it's a coincidence or not.

Anyway, if it's not me. OP, the thing about the faint and the MRI scan is not necessarily untrue. I collapsed and was very disoriented afterwards and was admitted to hospital straight away and had an MRI scan within 24 hours. I've since had various outpatient appts and they've found a problem with my blood and I need another scan.

It could potentially be true what your friend is telling you. Might be crossed wires over the ticket too.

BackOnPlanetEarth · 13/04/2015 00:01

This might be one of those situations where you can never find out what actually happened.

WizardofSnoz · 13/04/2015 00:08

I'm ashamed to admit it but I've googled the OP and from her previous posts she lives in Ireland and I do not so am fairly certain that this is not about me!

OP, please see above about the MRI. Could be true.

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Fanfeckintastic · 13/04/2015 22:38

Oh wizard I'm so glad you ruled yourself out, I've been meaning to come on and put your mind at rest! Definitely not you but really weird about the MRI similarities!

I wanted to update sooner but there was nothing to report other than slight passive aggression, quick subject changes and very evasive blatant lies about the MRI (caught herself out about five times, it was actually embarrassing)

Then today after listening to her giddily talking about her holiday plans and the usual work rants, I inquired about her health and she practically snarled at me! So I just played a bit dumb but said she's been acting very strangely, is it something about the ticket, was she hoping I wouldn't find out she charged Sally (I said in a genuine "surely that's not it?" way, to give her an out) And then she hit me with this most ridiculous reason I've ever heard!!

Apparently she felt she couldn't be herself with me since the weekend because she knew my moral objection to the grand national, she felt I was looking down on her involvement and excitement over it (making a few bets, not a part of it whatsoever)

I honestly think I may have mentioned once my slight objection once, though I don't really know enough to have any opinion at all.
It's laughable, the grand bloody national! She had to have plucked that from thin air. It would have been so much easier and less weird to just come out with the truth. She got really snappy about it and offended when I laughed in disbelief, said a quick sniffy goodbye and hung up.

She's really changed in my eyes now and the money is so unimportant but the principal of it is still really bugging me, more so the lengths she's willing to go to to weasel out of it.

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