Absolute CF. I know IANBU but sharing anyway.

[JeffTheSquirrel]

I bought 3 tickets to a show this weekend, for me & DD + a friend of her choice. I paid for them all (£50+ each) but told the mum of invited friend that I didn’t want any contribution. All good.

Now the friend unfortunately can’t make it (legit reason). I mentioned that I’d probably be able to sell ticket as it’s very popular, so no worries (as it happens, another friend has accepted a late invite).

The mum of original invitee asked me to transfer the cost of the ticket to her, so she can treat her DD for missing out.

Eh??

I mean that’s batshit, right?

This!

WTF she’s mental.

I’d text back ….’Are you on glue hun?’ 😂

Couldn't have worded it better 😎

The update! Bloody hell!

That's ruled out her misremembering paying for the ticket. She thinks because you invited her daughter the ticket is hers and you should compensate her for you making use of HER possession.

I'm actually at a loss as to what I would say. Some other posters have made good suggestions. I like the ones along the lines of what you offered her daughter was the option of joining your outing, not the actual ticket or it's face value. I agree you really need to be quite blunt, if indeed you respond at all.

Oh absolutely not! This would make my blood boil, how rude. Tell her to piss off now!

Dear cheeky f*cker,
I am treating dd and one friend to a night out at the theatre. As your dd unfortunately cannot go, I am paying for another of my daughter's friends to attend in her place. However, I cannot afford to pay for 2 friends, only the one who is going. I do hope your dd will join us on another occasion.
Please take your cheeky fuckery elsewhere...

She cannot attend because her dad's taking her to Pizza Express and not sweating.

I really what to know her reasoning. The cheeky!!!

'I see. We are taking someone who can make it instead. Maybe you can do something nice to treat your own daughter yourself...'

What a bizarre woman!

This has to be the best CF thread on here

I’m reaching, really really reaching to clutch at a straw here. Because if this is as it looks it’s just mind bogglingly cheeky!
How did you find out the friend couldn’t come, did the mum tell you or was it the friend who told your daughter? Is it possible she just didn’t want to come and made up an excuse to your dd and told her mum your dd chose someone else last minute?

Wow, that's extraordinary.

Are you going to respond? I actually feel strangely invested in this now and selfishly want you to, to find out what the hell is going through her mind! I couldn't leave it myself - I would have to ask for more details of her thought process.

Do you know much about her? Has she previously seemed sane and rational?

Just when you think youve heard it all 🤯

I would simply send her a link to this thread 😂

for which a ticket was needed, so the analogy still works. If OP's dd and friend had gone to the gig, the DD wouldn't have been able to just tell security "My mum invited my friend here to come with me," for them to smile and say "Of course, come through!" CF!DD would have to show them a separate ticket.

Neither the pp you were replying to nor myself are trying to excuse the extreme CFery - just trying to explain her probable thought process, seeing as multiple people on the thread are baffled as to how she could have even got to this point.
@MrsBelindaMay explained it clearly.

Forget about the specifics of it being a ticket for an event. It works the same if DD, for example, bought her friend a t shirt. T shirt didn't fit so DD took it back and got a refund as there weren't any t shirts in the right size. Friend thinks it isn't her fault it didn't fit, so she is still 'owed' a present/the money.

Again, I don't agree with said "logic!"

You should ask her to transfer to you the money you were going to spend on snacks/dinner/treats.
As we're obviously in backwards day.

If hasn’t got it yet she is not going to. She is either stupid or shockingly entitled.

I would just say “no you are not entitled to any monetary compensation from me, the ticket will now be used by someone else.”

Also, when it's something so identifying i usually suggest the OP takes the thread down. But in this case I am longing for the CF to be a Mumsnetter, and come on here to explain why she thinks she is entitled to £50 for cancelling plans.

Please, CF, if you are on here, please explain. I, at least, am agog.

I've had the shittest day ever, in my defence, and in a strange way this thread has actually cheered me up! People are fascinating in their strangeness.

"It was just an offer to come with us not a financial offering, if you want to take your daughter out I suggest you pay for it yourself"
What a prize CF!!

How good a friend is she?

I think the reply is nearly at the "fck, no" stage.

If you are right the OP won't come back! Thread ruined.

Clearly we are dealing with a CF extraordinaire here. She has no shame whatsoever.

This is top tier, advanced, high level upper echelon CFery. She almost deserves a prize

Wtf! The absolute brass neck of it!

‘sorry but I brought two tickets for my daughter and a friend, and another for me.
As your daughter can’t make it, we need to invite another friend or failing that, sell it. As I have already paid for the tickets and no monies was requested from you, I don’t owe you anything. The ticket belongs to me. I’m afraid I’m unwilling to be out of pocket for the potential unused ticket and for a treat for your daughter for not being able to come.
I hope you are able to fund a nice treat for your daughter but I won’t be’