Her Dad Freaked Out On Her For Selling Two Of Her Graduation Tickets, Then Called Her A Spoiled Brat

Most people would consider school graduation ceremonies very important and memorable events, as they should!
Graduation is a big deal, whether you’re graduating from middle school, high school, college, or graduate school. It’s an important milestone, and one of the best ways to commemorate it is to attend your graduation ceremony.
Unfortunately, some friends and family may not realize just how important a graduation ceremony is.
One teenager recently gave away her dad and sister’s tickets to her high school graduation ceremony because they told her they couldn’t stop by until it was over.
She’s 18 and days away from her high school graduation. It’s going to be an especially special ceremony for her, as she was named Valedictorian because of her great grades and will be making a speech.
She’s been very excited about the ceremony and expected her entire family to be there, including her mom, dad, and younger sister. Unfortunately, she recently found out that would not be the case.
“My school made us reserve and buy tickets to the ceremony weeks in advance,” she said.
“When I told my family I picked up the tickets for my graduation day and would keep them with me until the day of, my dad told me that he and my sister had plans an hour before the ceremony but that my mom would be there the whole time, and they’d try to be there for the afterparty. I was honestly shocked for a moment before [I started] to laugh, assuming they weren’t serious.”
She eventually found out that her younger sister would be attending a sleepover party the night before her graduation at a place two hours away from home. Her dad will be going with her, as the parents of her sister’s friend group didn’t want them to be alone so far from home.

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As she learned all this, she became very upset and confused about why her dad and sister would prioritize a slumber party over her graduation.
Her dad told her he and her sister would make it in time for the graduation “after party,” but that meant they’d miss her speech and other important moments.
“I told them that the after party was useless to attend and that all the pictures of the graduates with their families would be taken at least two hours before the ceremony,” she recalled.
“They said it’s fine and we can take our own pictures the day after my graduation, but I got up and left dinner. Over the weekend, I saw a few people on my class group chat complain that they didn’t get enough tickets, so I offered up the two tickets I had and met up with a girl from my class to give them to her. Even though I told her not to, she paid me the original price for them.”
A few days later, during a family lunch, she updated her family and let them know she sold her dad and sister’s tickets to the graduation ceremony since they would miss the actual ceremony.
“My dad blew up on me, saying I’m acting like a spoiled brat, and it’s not like I’ll die if he and my sister are a bit late to my graduation,” she added.
“I spoke to a few people about it, including my friends and grandma. My friends said good riddance [to my dad and sister], but my grandma said that while she understands my side, I shouldn’t have given away the tickets just to spite my dad because maybe he would have changed his mind and gone on time.”
Should she not have sold the spare graduation tickets, or were her actions justified?
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