Mother Nearly Ruins My Vacation by Not Booking My Flight Like She Promised
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled mother nearly ruins my expensive trip to New York City |
| 0:03.8 | as she said she would book my flight for me as a gift. |
| 0:07.1 | But instead of actually following through with that, she instead put this off for far too long, |
| 0:12.0 | leaving me with no choice but to book the flight myself, |
| 0:15.0 | and in the end she called me ungrateful, |
| 0:17.0 | despite the fact that she almost ruined everything. |
| 0:20.0 | And to this day, this situation honestly still makes me mad. |
| 0:23.4 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:24.4 | Okay, so this happened to me about two years ago, |
| 0:27.0 | but it still enrages me whenever I think about it. |
| 0:30.0 | Before the pandemic started, I bought tickets to go see Rage Against the Machine at Madison Square Garden in New York City. |
| 0:37.0 | I live in Los Angeles, so I planned a whole week-long trip to New York City around this concert. And unfortunately, the concert was postponed twice due to COVID. |
| 0:46.2 | When the concert's rescheduled date was finally solid, I decided to book my flight. |
| 0:50.8 | I was talking about the trip on the phone with my entitled mother, and she insisted book my |
| 0:53.1 | flight flight, my entitled mother and she insisted on booking my flight for me as a gift. |
| 0:57.3 | I was meeting friends in New York City and we spent a full evening on the phone |
| 1:01.3 | booking restaurants, museum tickets, show tickets, and several other things. |
| 1:06.0 | And I found the perfect flight that would get me there in time for everything. |
| 1:09.6 | And they only had two tickets left. |
| 1:11.8 | So I called my mom and I told her I wanted this |
| 1:14.2 | particular flight. She said okay and to send her the flight information and she |
| 1:18.4 | would book it for me. I send a link to the flight I sent screenshots and all |
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