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To be angry at sisters Eras tour present??

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Grealish · 19/06/2024 10:51

I have two tween DDs who are Taylor obsessed atm. Was gutted when I didn’t get a code to get them tickets.

Well yesterday my sister came round, and told me she had a surprise for the girls. Three eras tour tickets for me and the girls!! The girls (and me) were so excited, youngest ran off to show her aunt what outfit she was going to wear, and oldest kept announcing that it was the best day of her life.

and then my sister said: “it’s a good thing your DH has the weekend off too, he can drive you to the airport!”. Well I felt like bingo in that one episode of bluey. Airport? I’m not going to the airport?

Turns out the tickets are in London. This Sunday. We live in Ireland. My sister bought the tickets, but now I’ll have to book flights and hotel. I have work on Monday so I’ll have to try book that off. We have a family holiday coming up as well as my best friends hen party so really do not have the money for flights and a hotel, if I can even find a hotel this late notice.

I just wish she’d come to me first before telling the girls, as now I’m either going to have to crush their dreams or somehow find a few hundred quid to get us all to London.

AIBU to be so angry at my sister (even tho I think she thought she was doing a nice thing.) and to think that a present should not put the recipient out of pocket…. Sorry I actually don’t even know what I’m expecting people to say back I’m just in need of a good rant.

OP posts:
Noodlehen · 11/08/2024 23:37

Grealish · 11/08/2024 17:47

A little update just if anyone who called me ungrateful checks this thread- at a family occasion on fri night. The concert came up in conversation. After a few wines, sister started laughing and told me that she didn’t actually think we’d go. Her plan was offer the tickets, I’d say no, she’d sell the tickets and get an extra couple hundred quid, all while looking like the best Aunt in the world.

Never been so glad to have gone. Will be returning the favour when she has kids by buying them all recorders.

I wasn’t in the ungrateful camp, but what a wee cow your sister is. You were so panicked and she done it to make herself look good, and earn some extra money?

id be buying a recorder and a basketball net.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 12/08/2024 07:29

I’d definitely tell your daughters what she said!

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 13/08/2024 11:28

She's happy to look good at the cost of hurting her nieces, that's so nasty. Why would she want to hurt them like that just to look good. It's pretty messed up thinking.

Plantheads5 · 13/08/2024 11:30

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 13/08/2024 11:28

She's happy to look good at the cost of hurting her nieces, that's so nasty. Why would she want to hurt them like that just to look good. It's pretty messed up thinking.

I think so too.

Had she really thought it through or was it a wine chat?

If it was really her plan, she's a bit of a selfidh dose.

So glad you pulled it out of the bag for your girls.

CatMum27 · 15/08/2024 17:30

Grealish · 11/08/2024 17:47

A little update just if anyone who called me ungrateful checks this thread- at a family occasion on fri night. The concert came up in conversation. After a few wines, sister started laughing and told me that she didn’t actually think we’d go. Her plan was offer the tickets, I’d say no, she’d sell the tickets and get an extra couple hundred quid, all while looking like the best Aunt in the world.

Never been so glad to have gone. Will be returning the favour when she has kids by buying them all recorders.

I’d go further OP and get this for her kids. She deserves it!

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781495013058?gC=5a105e8b&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADsTpATVXpAioC2Y6ckYgNQB26I63&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpfnY_rT3hwMV9pZQBh3OzAGAEAQYBiABEgItu_D_BwE

Frozen - Recorder Fun!

Frozen - Recorder Fun!

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781495013058?gC=5a105e8b&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADsTpATVXpAioC2Y6ckYgNQB26I63&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpfnY_rT3hwMV9pZQBh3OzAGAEAQYBiABEgItu_D_BwE

BehindTheSequinsandStilettos · 15/08/2024 17:35

What a twist!
What a see you see next Tuesday!
Two words:
Drum Kit Wink

DarkForces · 15/08/2024 17:35

That's really low of your sister. Glad you had a blast. Enjoy plotting your revenge

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