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The original was posted on /r/amitheasshole by /u/wifeallowance on 2024-01-24 10:30:35+00:00.

I am on a trip to a country in Asia for work and left from the US.

My work was OK with me bringing my wife as long as I paid for her ticket so I thought I’d treat her to a trip. I paid for her ticket and left our 6 year old with a friend.

We were slightly rushed as we made it to the airport a little late and weren’t sure about the lines at security.

Unfortunately for my wife once we crossed security, the heel on her boot broke. I don’t know why but she insists on wearing heels everywhere and was all dressed up for this trip. Like not completely broken but would completely fold outward so she had to walk on tip toe.

Unfortunately there weren’t too many shops and the shops we found was rather expensive.

Most of the women’s shoes were weird looking but she liked one pair of heeled boots. However it was around $350 which while I could afford it, it didn’t seem reasonable to me. We were already near the gate so I suggested looking again at our layover airport in Europe.

Unfortunately we had the same problem there, while there were more shops many of them were closed and the one open shop we found in out terminal had even more outrageous prices of around 400€.

Eventually I just told her to wait until we arrived and she changed her shoes when we picked our checked bags.

AITA here? She is a SAHM so she doesn’t have her own money and after the cost of flights, and paying my friend to babysit we’d already spent more than usual. She seemed to handle it fine, just had to walk on tip toe and put less pressure on the broken heel and I carried the heavier cabin luggage. However she got upset with me after we arrived despite nit saying much during the trip.