Mom Gifts $4,500 Taylor Swift Tix to Daughter, Complains When Daughter Takes Friend

Michael Natale
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  • A woman called into a radio show to complain about Taylor Swift concert tickets she bought her daughter.

  • The mom spent $4,500 on a pair of tickets as a gift for her kid's 19th birthday, and the daughter decided to take her best friend with the second ticket.

  • The mother was upset her daughter didn't voluntarily offer the other ticket to her but admitted she hadn't told her daughter she intended for the two of them to see the show together.

By know, we've all heard horror stories about the difficulty of getting tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. These much-sought-after tickets can sometimes cost a metaphorical arm and a leg, and quite frankly, you could lose a literal arm or leg in a fight to get them.

So imagine one mother's surprise when she obtained $4,500 Taylor Swift tickets as a gift for her daughter for her 19th birthday, only for her daughter to turn around and take her friend to the concert instead of her!

Outrageous, classless, and disrespectful. Your mother bought you those tickets and clearly communicated to you that it was for you and her, and you decided to take a friend instead? She has every right to be mad.

{checks notes} I 'm sorry... the mom didn't actually say the other ticket was intended for her? Oh, for the love of...

In a story that sounds like a nightmare dressed like a daydream, a mom known only as Susan called into the Country Mornings with Ayla Brown radio show, according to Unilad, to relay her Taylor-related woes.

"I really wanted to go big [for her birthday]," Susan said of the $4,500 purchase. "I mean, she's turning 19. Like, we're getting closer as friends, not just mother-daughter. So I gave them to her." And hey, Taylor Swift concerts can be a bonding experience for family members, as even T-Swift bestie Selena Gomez demonstrated when she took her sister to a show.

Unfortunately for Susan, Susan's daughter opted to take her best friend to the show instead of her mom. "I thought she was going to invite me," Susan said of her daughter's decision. "God, I was so hurt. I was so hurt."

Now, there are three ways one could go about this from here:

  1. Politely explain to your daughter that you intended those tickets for the two of you while apologizing for not making it clearer when you first gave them to her that that was the intention.

  2. Accept that simply "hoping your daughter would invite you" when you wanted to go was the wrong approach, that it was unfair to expect your daughter to read your mind regarding your actual intention with the tickets just so that you wouldn't feel selfish for taking one of the tickets for yourself, and allow her to enjoy the gift you got her in her own way.

  3. Decide that it's all your daughter's fault, you are blameless, and go full throttle into being petty as hell.

Wanna guess which option Susan chose?

"But things really escalated when the daughter asked Susan to drive her and her mate to the concert. 'She has the audacity that day to say, 'Hey, Mom, can you drive Casey and me to the show?'' she said. Susan told her daughter: 'You know, I have my own friend, and I’m going to go do stuff with her. And you two have a great time.'"

Now, this 19-year-old girl being passive aggressively punished by her adult mother caused her to be "kind of upset," but Unilad suggests "not in comparison to the mom's heartache at not being taken to the concert," which, reminder, the mother doesn't appear to have vocalized her intention to go to when she gave her daughter the gift.

This led to the daughter being asked to be compensated for the Uber she and her friend would have to take to get to the concert Susan gifted her tickets to, and Susan fired back that perhaps she should ask the daughter for the $4,500 back. Because that's how you act about a gift you give to your kid, right?

Curious about the majority's take on the matter, the show put up a poll where most listeners sided with Susan—despite Susan giving the tickets as a gift and not just telling her daughter: "We're going to this concert together."

Instead, fully grown adult Susan and presumably fully grown adult listeners responding to a poll have all decided it's all the fault of a 19-year-old girl just trying to enjoy a concert.

Hey Susan? Right here, buddy. Right here:

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