mortensorchid Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 A few years ago I took a trip to Chicago for a fan convention and met a group of fan friends. We keep up through Facebook like most do. We made a plan for this summer to see the band that we had gone to the convention for, one location near where I am and another out where she lives (on the west coast). She approached me asking if I wanted to do this with her, I said ok. Here's where things get a little strange. She's a bit on the flaky side. I fully admit that I can be at times, but she is more extreme than me. I gave her my cell phone to arrange some things over the phone via phone call or text. She sends me a text and I responded with a PS saying that I am nearing my texting limit this month so limit her texting until a certain date. She then tells me a long, drawn out story via texts. I had put my phone in my pocket and was working, take it out about a hour later and she had sent no less that 35 texts telling me the story. I sent her a text back "Excuse me I told you that I was nearing my texting limit and you send me 35 texts in a row? This is the second time I am telling you this NICELY." She texts back OMG I'm sorry! I see that now. When we were going to buy tickets in the presale, she let me have her email / password to access it and I got the seats. It was sent to her email address and she doesn't have a printer to print them out. When I asked her to send me confirmation to my email she was dizzy and said she would get to it. It finally after three days got to me. She asked if I was annoyed with her, I said I have had a lot of craziness in the past few months (job, friendships, deaths, etc.) and I have been cranky. I'm sorry if I have been cranky. Now, the big issue : She wanted my seat at the west coast concert because she wants to be closer to the stage and I got one row closer. I was a bit miffed that she asked this, I think it's a tacky question to ask someone. I asked her to send me the confirmation email of the ticket, which she did. How do I approach this saying that I want my ticket which I purchased? We're both in our forties, it's not like we're teenagers, but some like to pretend they still are. If I were in her position with the better/closer seat I would let that person have it because they bought it.
CarrieT Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 Just say No. She asked, but that doesn't mean you have to give up your seat.
CC12 Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 How do I approach this saying that I want my ticket which I purchased? "Sorry, I purchased that one for myself so I'm going to be using that ticket." But it sounds like you purchased both tickets at the same time, right? If that's the case, why aren't you having a discussion about who gets to sit where? I'm not sure why it's automatically assumed that you would get the better seat. Maybe I'm missing something there.
Author mortensorchid Posted January 6, 2016 Author Posted January 6, 2016 To clarify, she purchased her ticket on her card. I purchased mine on mine. Both of which were sent to her email address. Mine is in row G, hers is the row behind in row H. Now she wants mine which is one row closer. I think that is tacky of her to ask this. I would not ask someone to give me their ticket even if I had six weeks to live.
preraph Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 Tell her you'll flip for it. I completely stopped being friends with someone over a ticket buy once. We'd waited overnight in 4 degree weather and she let a bunch of people in and they got great tickets and I didn't. I never had anything to do with her again.
CC12 Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 To clarify, she purchased her ticket on her card. I purchased mine on mine. Both of which were sent to her email address. Mine is in row G, hers is the row behind in row H. Now she wants mine which is one row closer. I think that is tacky of her to ask this. I would not ask someone to give me their ticket even if I had six weeks to live. Right, I think I get it. If I made arrangements with a friend for her to buy the tickets and I gave her money (or credit card #) for my own, and she came back and said, "Here's your ticket. It's a row behind mine." I'd be a little annoyed that she took the better seat without even talking to me about it. I wouldn't understand why she thought she was entitled to the better seat just because she physically went online and tap-tap-tapped to buy them. I would hope that my friend would either flip a coin for the better seat, or offer to trade seats halfway through the show so we could both enjoy the better view.
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