Everyone in my family knows I hate musicals, I also hate going to the theater just sitting through anything unless it’s something like ballet because I love that. I have ADHD so it’s very hard for me to sit still for that long especially if I’m not interested in it or I dislike it. I’m just not a music theater person at all and for my birthday my sister got me tickets to a 3 hour long musical. I thanked her & I didn’t let her know I was disappointed, but I feel bad for feeling upset about this. $170 for both tickets
I’m annoyed my sister got me tickets to see a musical for my birthday am I a jerk?
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You have your siblings to mess with.
I mean, if she knows you don’t like musicals, maybe she either should’ve gotten you a better gift, or got you that gift specifically to annoy you
You have every right to throw a temper tantrum for getting you a super annoying bday gift.
She did this on purpose and thinks you will go because it was a gift so you have to do it. You don’t.
Keep this in mind. She KNOWS you don’t like musicals and bought tickets anyway. She will be hurt, offended, enter whatever emotion driven response here, but her response to you not being jazzed about tickets and refusing to go is not your problem. She set this whole thing up, and you should reverse Uno card her. She can find someone else to go with her.
My family knows I greatly dislike musical theatre. My husband and I went to see “Chicago” because he got tickets as a gift from work. At intermission, I looked at him and said, “You know, I wouldn’t hate it if we just didn’t go back in there.” He agreed, and we left.
Look at her and say, you got this gift for yourself, not for me, so go enjoy your day but don’t expect me to give you anything on your birthday.
Thank her for the tickets, sell them, and get tickets to a ballet with the proceeds. Take a friend, not your sister.
My boyfriend got me tickets to a huge concert coming for my birthday. I have really bad anxiety and hate concerts and being around a lot of people. But it’s someone I enjoy listening to! He told me to give it a shot and I trust him and he has stuff planned before and after too. He loves concerts and so to make him happy makes me happy so I’m going. 😭
Let your sister know that you’d really rather give your ticket away to someone else who would enjoy going with her and does she have any ideas of who else could go. If she gets upset about it, ask her why she would gift you tickets to a musical? That it actually sounds insufferable to you, a fact she thought everyone in the family was well aware of… Does she not know you very well? Why do you think she’d do this? You don’t have to be mean about it, but you certainly don’t have to go… tell her now so she can find a date for the musical.
I love theatre so I’d love that, however I appreciate that it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
You don’t want to go, that’s fine. Life is too short to have to be nice and just go. Tell her you appreciate it but that you really don’t want to go and give her the tickets back.
See if you can swap the tickets for another kind of performance.
You are allowed your own feelings and they are perfectly valid. You handled this correctly by being appreciative of a gift even if you have no intention of using it.
I do question the “both” tickets part. Did sister intend to go with you? If so, that’s a pretty ah move and a big waste of money since you won’t be going.