Today, I found out that while my sister can somehow manage to keep an eye on and control her three preschool-aged children at the park, making sure nobody steals my dog from right beside her is just too big of a job. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I called my sister and asked if she could watch my baby while I went to the store for desperately needed groceries and supplies. She refused, despite the fact that she's randomly dropped off her three rambunctious boys more times than I could count so she could go clubbing. FML
Today, I agreed to care for my girlfriend’s sister's dog. She assured us that the dog was housetrained, but when I got home from work at 07:00 AM my girlfriend was sleeping and there was not only one “accident” but five. This is going to be a fun weekend. FML
Today, I found the Facebook album my sister took with her kids by the pool and out on boats while back in our hometown. My problem? I'm our dad's carer since his stroke and she had planned the trip as a mission to help me take care of him, but due to her kids being "sick", she only visited briefly. Twice. In 5 weeks. FML
Today, I'm babysitting three children under the age of seven. They have no discipline, don't listen, scream all the time, won't nap, terrorize my dog, and have peed their pants a collective 5 times today. I am not getting paid for this. Their mother has no plans to come get them any time soon. FML
Today, all I wanted was to take my two kids and their two favourite cousins to the beach on their last day of vacation together. My mother-in-law went into full beast mode, shouting about how I'm always roaming around and being irresponsible. The kids never meet and are from different cities. FML
Today, despite the fact that I'm really sick, my mom insisted that I come home and help babysit my cousins this weekend. When I got there, everyone else took off to do "errands," leaving me with three hyperactive, howler monkey-like children to deal with. FML
Today, after an emergency, my sister’s kids had to spend the night at my house. While I was asleep, they absolutely trashed my place top to bottom. In the morning my sister came in, said, “Wow, what a mess! Bye!” without offering to help clean up or make her kids do it. They drew on my dog. FML
Today, I took my child to the park. Having been there an hour, another mum came up to me and we started talking. She then told me that one kid had been harassing her children, pointing to my child. When she asked which one was mine I pointed to a random kid. It was hers. FML
Today, I was told at my babysitting job that I can't bring my toddler with me. My employer is my best friend. Now I have to find a babysitter for my kid if I want to babysit hers. FML
Today, I went over to confront my parents about how my siblings always get to visit and all I do when I’m over is work on their house or take care of grandma. My mom was very upset. Then she snuck out with my sister, leaving me to take care of grandma until she got back. FML
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gosh_mate 30
That's so sad for the dog, but I would struggle to look after all that at once....
bushmeat 3
You sent someone being responsible for THREE preschoolers off with an extra life-form to watch after?!? You are clueless.
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bushmeat 3
You sent someone being responsible for THREE preschoolers off with an extra life-form to watch after?!? You are clueless.
Miss_Whipped 43
It's better than someone stealing one of her kids.
IWishIWasObama 12
Sorry but 3 kids are waaaaay more important.
confused_wandere 26
Why? Because they are human?
confused_wandere 26
My dog is way more precious to me than some kid.
Dallyni 22
It isn't "some kid" it is the ops family. Her sisters children are more important than a dog. It just is.
confused_wandere 26
If you say so...
IWishIWasObama 12
yes, because they're human! A humans life is worth way more than any dumb god or any other animal that's not a **** sapien
confused_wandere 26
Well that's your opinion. Personally I just see humanity as an extremely nasty, aggressive and destructive species that causes way, way more harm on this Earth than good. That's just my opinion though.
Emmageen 14
Maybe you're right but even so it doesn't really matter : you take care first of the young ones of your own species, like many "intelligent" animals do. A human life should always matter more because that's who we are and who we relate to.
wheresmymary 22
Who steals a dog?!
tw124331 13
My dog was stolen when I was 15, but she was a rare color teacup poodle so we found her a year later. My neighbor stole her and sold her to his grandmother. Losing her was horribly sad but learning who stole her was worse!
DoomedGemini 38
And unfortunately, they can be used as bait dos sometimes. That's why you never give away lets to people you don't know for free either. It's very sad, but you have to be very careful.
IWishIWasObama 12
How do you know the dog just didn't run away like most of them attempt to do at some point of their life, bimbo?
emmusj 14
That's sad but honestly? Having her children kidnapped would be much worse. I'm sure she feels bad about the dog but it wouldn't be my first priority in that situation either.
Benzio 15
Did she just refuse to watch the dog or did it get stolen? Was your idea or hers to bring the dog? I really hope you find your puppy.
GravityOfLove 3
Seriously people, she's not saying that the kids aren't important. She's saying that if she can keep an eye on 3 kids how hard can it be to keep an eye on a dog too?
Ichiya 29
Pretty damn hard. Watching 3 young children is like trying to hold water in a seive, and dogs can be just as bad.
johannah1993 7
I get the feeling that OP has never tried to take a preschooler go the park, let alone multiple! I would probably lose the dog too.
Ichiya 29
At the same time it sounds like the sister was watching her children and the op just dumped her dog on the sister. If thats the case op deserves it because the sister clearly had enough on her plate with out adding a dog to the mix.