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Entitled sibling demanded her older sister let her be in her comic con photo op because her parents didn’t buy her her own before it sold out
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This girl’s photo op is my backstage at a Punk show or a book signing. We all have the little niches we geek out in, fly our own type of nerd flag high. And if you’re reading this and have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sorry, but we can’t be friends. Because I don’t care whether you're passionate about Philosophy, Music, Comedy (like a like those three, hehe), Marvel and Comics like the heroes in today’s story, or History, Movies, or whatever. If you don’t have anything like that in your life, to me, that sound kinda lame. Remember, kids, being cool all the time is a prison.
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Thats why you don’t have to be a dedicated Comic-Con super fan to know that waiting in line with strangers who respect boundaries better than your own family is just bound to happen.
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Here, a teenage girl showed up 15 minutes early with her boyfriend, photo op ticket in hand, ready for three glorious seconds next to someone in elaborate makeup and foam armor. Then her parents rolled up with her little sister in tow, armed with audacity and zero backup tickets. Apparently, they had meant to buy the sister her own photo op but forgot, procrastinated, or just assumed someone else would solve their problem for them. Now they needed the older sister to fix it by sharing what she paid for herself.
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The funniest part is how the parents framed sharing a paid ticket as basic decency while ignoring their own failure to plan ahead. The younger sister got spoiled into thinking other people's purchases were community property. The older sister got a brief moment of peace and probably a lifetime of awkward holiday dinners. At least she got the photo without extra family members photobombing her one moment of nerdy joy.
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Teenager pays for her Comic-Con photo op ticket, refuses her parents' demand to share it with her sister, leading staff to remove her family from the line: ‘The parents and sister began calling her entitled’
The thing about once-in-a-lifetime opportunities is that they come, well, once in a lifetime. And what I think the parents and the younger sister in this comic-con situation don't seem to grasp is that ruining such an experience is something that can sting for, you guessed it, a lifetime.
And I know Comic-Con isn't exactly like a comet sighting you can catch once every 74 years, and that, in theory, when this teenager grows up a little bit, she can buy as many Comic-Con passes with as many photo op tickets as she wants. But that wouldn't help me even a tiny bit if something similar happened to me when I was a teenager.
Now, I might not be the biggest consumer of Comic-Con's universe of content, but what I love about these stories is how you can see the universals (see what I did there) underlying them.
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