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    ‘Now she thinks I owe HER an apology’: Daughter stops speaking to her mom after being pressured into working a concessions stand for 8 hours at a concert she had tickets to, missing half the show she had waited 8 years to see

    Eight years is a long time to wait for a concert. Long enough to plan outfits, dye your hair, pick up extra shifts for months, and buy tickets for both nights because one just wasn't going to cut it. The first night delivered everything a 16-year-old had once dreamed about. Then the morning happened.

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    • AIO for telling my mom I’ll never trust her again after she ruined a concert I waited 8 years for?

      I (24F) have not spoken to my mom (48F) in two weeks because of what happened at a concert that meant EVERYTHING to me, and now she's acting like I'm the problem.
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    • Mom’s  offer had all the classic warning signs. A guy who knows a guy, free floor access, free food, and a bonus paycheck for working concessions. Every added perk should have made it more suspicious, but the group consensus of a sister, a girlfriend, and a sister’s boyfriend all saying go for it has a way of overwhelming the one person whose gut is telling them to stay home and do their makeup in peace.

    • For context, there's an artist I've loved for 8 years. I was supposed to see them in 2020, but obviously the tour got canceled. Ever since then, seeing
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    • this artist live became one of my biggest dreams. I finally had the money this year, and I worked extra shifts for MONTHS to afford tickets. I bought tickets
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    • for both nights of the show because this wasn't just "some concert" to me. This was something 16-year-old me dreamed about.
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    • The second I secured the tickets back in January/February, I cried. I planned EVERYTHING. I got outfits, did my nails, dyed my hair, even started going harder at the gym because I wanted to feel good and confident for the experience. I was genuinely so excited.
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    • My mom immediately started telling me buying tickets for both nights was "too much" and that I should've saved my money. She kept insisting I should sell my second-day ticket
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    • because she "knew a guy who knew a guy" that could supposedly get me in for free and even get me onto the floor.
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    • For background, this DID work once before at another concert last year. But that concert had a free pit and was way less organized. This newer concert was extremely strict and organized, which I kept trying to explain to her.
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    • For months she kept pressuring me to give up my actual ticket. because "if I didn't accept the offer, it would look like we didn't trust the guy anymore." I kept
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    • saying no because honestly? I didn't WANT to depend on someone else. I worked hard for those tickets and I wanted the experience I planned for myself.
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    • The first night of the concert was honestly one of the happiest moments of my life. It was everything I imagined and more.
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    • The next morning, after getting home at almost 2AM, my mom called me saying that if I got there early enough, the guy could get us onto the floor, feed us for free, AND pay us because
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    • they were short staffed at concession stands. My sister (21F), my girlfriend, and my sister's boyfriend all thought I should give it a shot. Looking back, I wish I had trusted my gut and said no.
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    • Instead, my entire schedule got ruined. I barely had time to shower, couldn't do my makeup the way I wanted, skipped breakfast, and was also trying to finish FINAL assignments for school before the concert.
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    • We got there and immediately got put to work selling food for EIGHT HOURS.
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    • Eight hours selling food. Half the concert missed. One hot dog. Three dollars in tips.

      The math on that trade is brutal, but the most interesting part of the story isn’t even the concert. It’s what came after. The mom who spent months pressuring her daughter to give up tickets she had already paid for, watched the whole thing go sideways, and then posted on the sister’s concert videos about how she would have wanted her closer but did her best. Nobody asked for closer. The tickets were already good. The plan was already set. The only thing that needed improving was the situation, and the improvement made it significantly worse.

    • I missed HALF the concert because they wouldn't let me leave until inventory/counting was done. I was on my feet all
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    • day, exhausted, stressed, hungry, and ended up getting paid literally THREE DOLLARS in tips. I ate one hot dog the entire day.
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    • The experience I had dreamed about for years basically turned into unpaid labor where I missed the concert I already had REAL tickets for.
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    • I texted my mom afterward and told her I would never trust her again because I felt pressured into giving up the experience I had worked and planned so hard for. She read the messages and ignored me.
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    • Now she's been refusing to speak to me for two weeks, and recently my sister posted concert videos online and my mom commented: "I would have wanted you to be closer but & I did the best I could."
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    • That comment honestly made me furious because I NEVER asked her to "do" anything. I already HAD tickets. Good tickets. I was happy. I feel like she ruined my experience trying to make it "better."
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    • Good intentions are a reason, not an excuse. Pushing someone for months to abandon a carefully planned experience, having it collapse into unpaid labor and a missed show, and then treating your own hurt feelings as the main issue when they’re upset is a very specific kind of accountability avoidance that tends to show up a lot in families.

    • Now she thinks I owe HER an apology because she "had good intentions" not the other way around...
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    • Two weeks of the mom refusing to speak is doing the emotional work that an apology hasn’t managed to do yet, which is at least something.

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