# Woman wants ex-boyfriends super bowl tickets. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797 "2012-02-04T21:57:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/21 "2012-02-06T22:49:04Z")
Well I guess we know what your promises are worth then. Otara ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/22 "2012-02-07T04:26:58Z")
If your boyfriend breaks up with you two weeks before prom, with prom tickets bought, you probably aren’t going to prom with him. If your fiancee breaks things off a month before the wedding, you can’t expect to still go to Hawaii on a honeymoon. And if your boyfriend dumps you before the Superbowl, he might not let you still have that ticket. And if your husband vows to be faithful to you, once he is your ex, he’s going to sleep around. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/23 "2012-02-07T05:22:32Z")
The girl is a C U Next Tuesday kind of girl. And **Colibri** should have moved this to the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/24 "2012-02-07T11:42:15Z")
Someone’s probably lying. But if this does happen, I’d say it’s a grey area. If he’d bought a car with the intention of giving it to her, but hadn’t yet, it would still be his. If he’d bought a car and already specifically given it to her, it would be hers. If he’d bought a car for both of them to use, but she used it more, I think it may be up to a court to decide how ownership was apportioned. Here’s it complicated by the fact that he would have intended them to go together, but it’s not clear how that would be reflected in the physical posession of the tickets. Are they his, but he was going to use one for her? Are they owned jointly? Are they owned one each? I don’t see how she can possibly claim more than one of them – he surely didn’t intend for her to take someone else to the superbowl. I think by default they are probably his. The main message I take away is "don’t spend $8000 on tickets to see a sporting event, and if you have significant joint finances with someone, have an exit strategy, just in case " ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/25 "2012-02-07T15:23:27Z")
> [@Otara](#): > > Well I guess we know what your promises are worth then. My promises are worth gold. Just don’t change the conditions of the promise. > [@Dangerosa](#): > > If your boyfriend breaks up with you two weeks before prom, with prom tickets bought, you probably aren’t going to prom with him. If your fiancee breaks things off a month before the wedding, you can’t expect to still go to Hawaii on a honeymoon. This. I actually got a ski trip to Copper Mountain and Vale out of this situation. I met a guy who’s fiance broke up with him after he’d paid for the reservations etc for the trip. He and a buddy were going instead, and I was available and got a last minute invite. And it was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/26 "2012-02-07T19:46:15Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > You’ve been here 12 years and you still can’t work out the rules? > > What would prevent you from posting your opinions on this matter in IMHO? Basically, the main difference between the Pit and the rest of the SDMB is that the Pit is specifically designed for ranting threads, and is also the only place where you can deliver a personal insult about _another member of this message board_. > > There is nothing to prevent you from describing the people involved in this story in pretty much any way you like. > On the matter of the OP, i’m leaning towards **Odesio** ’s opinion here. It sounds like a publicity stunt of some sort. It could be true, and i’ve certainly seen stranger and more fucked-up stories that _were_ true, but my internet bullshit detector is pinging a bit right now. Maybe I wanted to post something about another poster. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/27 "2012-02-07T21:04:26Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Maybe I wanted to post something about another poster. Yeah, sure. ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/28 "2012-02-07T21:37:44Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > And if your boyfriend dumps you before the Superbowl, he might not let you still have that ticket. Isn’t the story above (true or not) that _she_ dumped _him_? The tickets are his. She left. Too bad, so sad, she has no “right” to the tickets. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/29 "2012-02-07T21:49:34Z")
> [@justrob](#): > > Isn’t the story above (true or not) that _she_ dumped _him_? > > The tickets are his. She left. Too bad, so sad, she has no “right” to the tickets. As long as we’re doing hypotheticals, what if he lied about having cancer so she would dump him, so he wouldn’t have to share the tickets? What then, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/30 "2012-02-07T22:01:47Z")
> [@bup](#): > > As long as we’re doing hypotheticals, what if he lied about having cancer so she would dump him, so he wouldn’t have to share the tickets? What then, huh? [Archer]I feel like a I dodged the world’s most dysfunctional bullet.[/Archer] ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/31 "2012-02-07T22:07:07Z")
> [@bup](#): > > As long as we’re doing hypotheticals, what if he lied about having cancer so she would dump him, so he wouldn’t have to share the tickets? What then, huh? Well then, hypothetically, she still has no right to the tickets and he’s an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/32 "2012-02-08T17:34:19Z")
Any truth to the rumor she finally got the tickets back - today. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/33 "2012-02-08T18:16:41Z")
Where’d you hear that rumor? Was he lying about his contest, then? From where I sit, there’s this guy who claimed to have these Super Bowl tickets that he was going to give away, but won’t say who he gave them to, what section they were in, never produced them… He also says he made up the part about it being _this particular girl_ who dumped him, but there’s some other girl he won’t name. He’s just enjoying how gullible everybody is. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he never had cancer. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797/34 "2012-02-08T21:36:07Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > The girl is a C U Next Tuesday kind of girl. > > And **Colibri** should have moved this to the pit. Did you bother to read the thread? The “girl” claims the man is making this up, and the whole thing seemed pretty suspicious by the time you posted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-ex-boyfriends-super-bowl-tickets/611797.md?page=1)