Delhi Woman Skips Meals, Limits Bathroom Time To Book Coldplay Tickets For Family

The past few days have seen a major frenzy around the ticket sales of Coldplay’s Mumbai concert on January 18, 19 and 21. The craze level reached a crescendo minutes after the sale went live, with fans willing to spend lakhs for the tickets. As it stands now, after a lot of struggle, several Coldplay fans still missed out on buying their dream passes. With many having their own stories to tell, a Delhi woman recently caught attention with her take on the Coldplay craze in her family.

She shared how she stayed glued to the screens for the entire day, skipped meals and even limited her bathroom breaks to buy the concert tickets. What’s more interesting? She wasn’t even a fan of the band and was just doing it for her family. In a series of tweets, Naomi Barton, a literary agent, shared her entire experience till the end. “I don’t even like Coldplay but my entire family has harangued me into contributing my devices to The Grand Ticket Buying and now I am 22,000 in queue and they are 1,50,000 in queue so my whole day is going to be spent looking at this page and carefully not refreshing it,” she wrote.

As the day unfolded, Naomi continued sharing her experience, describing how the ticket booking fiasco turned into an impromptu family gathering with everyone on Google Meet. She went on to mention that they even had discussions about buying the expensive tickets. “Note that I am not even attending the concert. This is my concert,” she continued.

The woman shared how her cousins joined the call from abroad with their friends. Waiting behind 20,000 people in the queue, she eventually decided to read a book.

As soon as all the cheap seats were gone, Naomi received extra money from her family for the standing seats. “Frantically delusional conversations are happening to rationalise spending 10k more than budgeted. My book is quite good,” she wrote.

With only 16 per cent seats left, the family even thought about sacrificing their Christmas savings. Amid this, her brother-in-law suggested giving up on the investment. After all the cheapest tickets were gone, they had long discussions on whether tickets worth Rs 12,000 would be a good deal.

Naomi was even barred from getting her lunch as she desperately waited for the tickets, only to lose the race behind 1,500 people eventually. “I now have an amazing amount of money in my bank account that I can steal if I never want to talk to them again,” she added.

With lost hopes and a crying sibling, the family ended up planning a Christmas weekend in a big house with a pool and Coldplay song in the background.