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?

I despair. What goes on in some people’s so-called brains?

One of the cheekiest most unhinged things I’ve ever read. Message back and say well the tickets were a treat for my daughter to bring someone and now your daughter can’t come the money will be used to treat my own child. Sorry your daughter can’t come to our offer of a night out.

But you didn't 'give' her DD the ticket as a present.

She had been invited as a 'guest' and since she can no longer come, you have invited another 'guest' instead.

I must admit I'm kind of impressed by the sheer brass neck on her. It's almost fascinating.

It is obviously a joke about Sarah Ferguson....

But you didn’t give her a ticket. The tickets were for your daughter, and she was given an extra so she could invite a friend. This friend can’t come so another one is. There was no gift to this friend and no money owed. Why does this woman think it was a gift?

Did you reply?

Ha! Yep. This is fucking wild.

I might say I didn’t gift a ticket, I invited your daughter to attend. She can’t come. The ticket is MINE. There is however a late cancellation charge…

Why not? Doesn’t matter anymore does it?? 😆

Wow, just wow. I'm almost speechless.

I appreciate you want to stay on good terms with this person so some of the responses above are more appropriate but honestly I couldn't bring myself to give a big explanation. Mine would be

'I invited your daughter to an event which she can no longer make and so you think I owe you money? Are you insane?

‘Sorry I think you’re confused. You paid me £0 so the money you’re getting back is £0. The ticket is owned by us not gifted away and we are now using it, so there is no money.’

I’m so invested after your last update, OP….

I'd keep going! I am that petty when it comes to CF.

"I'm really confused now. Why would I owe you money, when you didn't pay for the ticket?"

Is this real? Nobody is that batshit crazy surely?

wtf 😂 She’s either really stupid or trying to pull a fast one.

Oh this is priceless. 😂

I 100% believe you too @JeffTheSquirrel because some years ago, I started giving a classmate/new friend of my DD's a lift home when it was raining for a few days on the trot. Cue me giving her a lift every day (she lived 15 minutes walk from us and it was on the way home, but still...)

After a few weeks, she said she is going to her gran's after school for the next 2 weeks, and could I drop her off there. She lived a 5 mile round trip, in the opposite direction! I did it 4 or 5 times, then started to get annoyed, and told DD to tell her that we were going to pick up my cousin's children for a few weeks and were taking them home (they were at a school a mile or so from DD's school.) So we could no longer give her a lift.

So my DD told her this, and on Facebook this girl's mother posted on her page, 'Zov is a lying piece of shit who has let my daughter down, and made her have to get the bus home now, in the dark evenings too, putting her safety in jeopardy, and it's on Zov if anything happens to her.'

Just batshit. I was quite shocked. She thought it was now my responsibility to get her child home, or to her gran's, because I did it for about a month. How the F did she get home for the first 7-8 years of her school life? I blocked the mad cow, and this girl was mean to my DD for about 2 months after! Thankfully, by the time the Christmas holidays were over, it had burnt itself out... But yeah, some people are laughably entitled!

I think I'd go equally bizarre and say "i got the ticket free from work, but you do owe me for the ticket transfer charge, please send £5 over".

Channel your inner Willy Wonka!!

Or, I bought the ticket so that my daughter could bring a friend along, your daughter was unable to come and now another friend will be using the ticket.

What the actual fuck?? Tell her to sod off.

Wow.

I’d reply:

you want me to give your daughter £50? Sorry, I’m confused. Why?

Yes, you could keep it going OP so she has to explain why she feels entitled to money for a ticket she never paid for.

This nails it 👊 💥 💯

Holy fuck, this is astonishing 😱
She is some piece of work op...go full Beth Dutton on her now!!!!!

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@JeffTheSquirrel wow, the bare faced cheek in her curt reply - you could say ‘well it doesn’t work that way; I’m £50 out of pocket and I may not get that back even if I find someone to use the ticket. It’s not down to me that she can’t go and of course there will be other invites in future**’.

**OP reserves the right never to invite again

@JeffTheSquirrel Ha, I'd send her sth like this: "Wait, so because I invited X as my guest, the ticket I bought now belongs to her? That’s a bold interpretation 😄"