Bought Oasis tickets for husbands birthday and now doubting the date I picked

[boymama55]

So for context I’m only posting this late as we have been at a wedding in London this weekend and I spent most of the car journey home asleep (6 hours as had to detour to pick kids up from my mums) and also I rarely experience hangovers these days due to having 2 toddlers so I think my anxiety levels are through the roof atm (lol).

I tried for Manchester tickets first time round, didn’t get into the pre sale ballot so queued for hours in general sale and no luck so gave up and started looking for alternative birthday present ideas as husbands birthday is on 20th September.

Then by some miracle I got invited to enter the presale ballot for the extra Wembley dates and got sent the code to join for the 8.30an slot yesterday. I was getting ready for the wedding at the same time as waiting in the queue. Ideally I needed Saturday tickets as my husband is a primary school teacher at a private school so the chances of him being allowed to take Monday off is pretty slim if not out of the question (he basically wouldn’t want to ask). Whereas I could take Monday as holiday if I wanted to or just swap my Friday as I don’t work Fridays atm. Anyway annoyingly there was 16,000 people ahead of me and by the time I got to buy tickets standing had gone. I really wanted standing. I then tried seating and at first there was only restricted view seats so I went back and tried again and then there was 2 top tier seats but I knew he wouldn’t want to be that high up so I tried again and there were 2 seats for lower section but for £206 each and I still wasn’t sure they were the best option?! I’ve never been to Wembley so not a clue where to sit as I just assumed I would get standing and I felt very under pressure to be quick - I almost bought them then last minute pressed the back button out of panic and then just couldn’t get back to where I was and had to join the queue again (yes, I know :| ). I then thought right I’ll just see if I can join the Sunday queue instead and low and behold standing tickets were available so I quickly added to basket without hesitation and purchased.

however, now I am thinking that I should have just stuck to the Saturday and just bought the seated tickets (lower section) ?! As we would be staying with my brother in twickenham which is at least 40 mins on a bus on a Sunday late at night and then it’s a 3 hr 20 min drive from his house to where we live so for my husband to be at work for 8am we’d have to leave at 4am in the morning 🙈 or we park at Wembley and drive back to ours after the gig and get home for 2am (if we’re lucky).
I don’t drive so it would be him driving.

So now I’m thinking have I made a huge mistake and will I end up reselling my tickets closer to the date? Or should he just be grateful that I got him standing tickets to a once in a lifetime experience and as a one off he’ll accept the situation as it is?! Also if he doesn’t want to go because logistically he doesn’t think it will work am I being unreasonable to be annoyed?

what would you have done in my/his situation?! Advice appreciated.

If it's be 1.5 hours I would get the train and tell him to phone and say he will be late, car broke down or something. Don't message his teaching assistant, see first what he thinks as he might be happy to go or try for a swap. Try not to overthink, he will be delighted you tried and that you even have an option

I’m a teacher and Wembley is a similar distance away from me. I’d still be over the moon with Sunday tickets! I’d let my department know in advance about the date and see if anyone would be able to help me arrange a slightly later start on the Monday (e.g SLT often don’t teach as much so might be able to help out, someone might have Monday morning PPA and could swap or he could offer to use his PPA another week to cover a teacher on a course etc) If he’s a good employee, they may well be more adaptable than he thinks. I think it’s common knowledge how rare an Oasis ticket is!

You’ve got a year. Learn to drive. If you can overthink this much about bloody concert tickets then why don’t you put the effort into something useful instead.

Give him the tickets and let him decide.
I like the idea of getting a friend who can drive to go with him.
Could he see if anyone else has PPA on the Monday morning and can swap.

I hope you do end up making it work, OP @boymama55!
But on the off chance that you do decide to sell, I’d love to buy them from you through Ticketmaster (read that you can sell them to a direct person sending them a link, so they don’t get thrown into the general resale) - I wanted to take my Oasis superfan Dad and didn’t manage to get tickets.
Keep me in mind, but definitely try to go, it’s gonna be amazing!! :)

Are you actually stalking me from thread to thread?

Do you understand last tense. I have been bed bound, in the past. Several years ago. I obviously recovered since, in the post you quoted, I pointed out that my first thought was being able to get back to normal with my kids.

When people share stories on here; they draw from their whole life experience and things from years ago. Not just what’s happening now.

Why are you following me from thread to thread? You stalker.

well, seeing as the op's thread has suddenly been replied on

did you @boymama55 give him the tickets ?
as his birthday was 4 days after your thread.

Sorry about that. @moddinner has been picking through my posting history and stalking me from thread to thread to try and make me out to be a liar. A total stranger on the internet… but she seems to be on a vendetta against me. And is using a story from years ago when my kids where young enough to be picked up, which I posted on here, to say I’m a liar because she doesn’t understand past tense.

I did similar doe the foo fighters. Im also a teacher. We got a hotel hotel near Wembley and got a 4am train direct to my home town. Then drive to work as normal. It felt like an adventure ;)

Its very doable even if not ideal

Honestly.... they dont

@OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon hi 👋🏼 I’m honestly amazed at how many people were invested in my ‘non problem’ problem post 😂 but nonetheless grateful for everyone’s feedback. As suspected he doesn’t think it will be possible - I’m holding onto the tickets until next year and will just see but will most likely give them to a work colleague who is willing to pay for them if we don’t end up going. I’d also bought tickets for prodigy at warehouse project in Manchester for 14th Dec as pre sale was announced and released 2 days before his birthday. I printed out both tickets on card for him to open on his birthday and felt a lot better knowing that he had at least one present he would definitely be able to enjoy. I clearly know him too well, we have 2 toddlers 16 months apart (2 and 3 years old) so I can see why it doesn’t seem feasible to start his working week on 4 hours sleep and no down time in the evenings (we rarely sit down before 8pm most nights). In hindsight I should have got seated tickets for Saturday, but I’ve let it go now.