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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/OtakuNinja1311 on 2023-09-26 18:09:47.
This is a pretty simple question. Last month I (28F) had surgery on my knee, and while, yes, it’s healed up some, it hasn’t healed completely. A friend and I have been wanting to see a certain band in person, and yesterday they played in concert. They weren’t the headliners, but it was my first concert and I had so much fun!
About my knee surgery: it wasn’t a knee replacement, but they had to go in and shave the top and bottom of my kneecap. Because it, in the words of my doctor, “looked like a shag carpet.” I am pretty much healed, but it still hurts to put much of my weight on it, and I can’t bend it all the way yet. It also swells and starts to hurt if I’m on it too much.
I had fun, we were close enough to the stage that we could see the band without trouble, and it was overall the best time I could have wanted. The problem comes in when I told my mom that when I booked our tickets (on September 10, about 3 weeks after my surgry, and 2 weeks before the concert), that I got disability seating. I didn’t book disability seating because they were good seats, I was genuinely concerned for my knee at the end of the night. My friend who went with me (Dan) has been to plenty of concerts and told me we’d be doing a lot of waiting and standing, which is why I decided to get disability seating.
She told me that I should have just got “regular seating,” because other people who are disabiled might have needed those spots. I get where she’s coming from, but there were still other open seats in the disablity seating area that went unused. AITA?