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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/mikuloverthrowaway on 2023-09-14 21:46:39.
Posting this because my friends are split, some say I overreacted and some say I’m in the right.
My (26f) boyfriend (28m) was talking about how Mikuexpo is coming to our city and he was planning on buying a ticket. I asked him if we could make it a date, and could he get me a ticket too?? He said sure and I was excited.
However, today he sends me a picture of his ticket - only one. I asked if he’d gotten a ticket for me too and how much I owed him, he seemed surprised and said “you never said you wanted to come?”
I showed him the text from 3 days ago where I asked if I could come with him to Mikuexpo and he said yes. He looked at the text and said “oh, I didn’t look closely and I thought you were talking about some place in Mexico, I thought it was weird you were asking to go to Mexico all of a sudden but I said sure.”
I was annoyed because how tf can you be a Miku fan and not even be able to read the word “Mikuexpo”. He knows I like Miku too, I have a poster on my wall and we went to Japan together last spring where I bought a bunch of Miku merch. So, I called up a different friend and we made plans to buy tickets together and go to the show together. I don’t want to go with my boyfriend anymore because we can’t sit together, so I think this is reasonable.
He’s saying that it was an honest mistake and he’s sorry, and that I’m being mean because he just has bad reading comprehension skills, and that I should just buy a ticket for myself and we can go together.
Tl;dr: My boyfriend didn’t get me a ticket to Mikuexpo, he just bought one for himself even though I asked to go with him. I asked him why he didn’t get two and he said I never brought up going. I showed him the text where I asked “can we go to Mikuexpo together” and he said he misread “Mikuexpo” as the name of a place in Mexico and didn’t realize I was talking about the show. He knows I like Miku. AITA for making plans to go to the show with another friend?
Edit: Some people have said that going with a friend was basically my only option - my bf offered to let me to sell his ticket and then we could buy two tickets together but I thought that sounded like a hassle so I just made plans with my friend. My bf and another one of my friends thought it was an asshole move to jump straight to making plans with someone else and abandoning my boyfriend.