Sarah Pontillo’s mother let her skip school to buy Taylor Swift tickets.
The plan was for Ms. Pontillo, who is a high school junior, to attend her first two classes on Tuesday morning, after which her mom, Ida Pearce, would pick her up and bring her home just in time to log onto Ticketmaster to buy tickets for the “Anti-Hero” singer’s Eras tour. Once the tickets had been secured, Ms. Pearce planned to return her daughter swiftly to school.
When rumors began to spread earlier this year that Ms. Swift would be announcing a tour, Ms. Pontillo, 16, bought socks at a dollar store to turn into sock monkeys, which she sold to her classmates to earn money to buy tickets. She hoped to make enough cash to buy floor seats and planned to bring a monkey to try to hand to Ms. Swift.
But when Tuesday morning rolled around, Ms. Pontillo didn’t make it back to school. Buying tickets took nearly an entire day of waiting and frantic clicking.