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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Comments (62)
StephyChado 13
I would be so angry.
Eleora 19
What kind of dog was it?
DoomedGemini 38
No one is saying she shouldn't have watched her kids. To me it depends on if she agreed to watch the dog or decided to take all of them to the park. Don't accept responsibility if you can't handle it. That said, op shouldn't expect her to watch the dog IF that's what happened. Either way, I really hope the dog is found safe.
Emmageen 14
Maybe I m being mean but I have a feeling that the responsibility was somehow forced on the sister who has other things to do, obviously.
DoomedGemini 38
If that's what happened then yeah, not her fault at all. It's hard to make a right judgement without knowing how she ended up watching the dog, though either way I say f the dogs life.
kirkaygri 18
The dog probably wasn't right next to her. I don't know if you've taken preschoolers to the park, but some of them can't push themselves on the swings or they need some reassurance to go down the big slide alone. She probably got up to tend to one of her children and then someone grabbed the dog, if it didn't just get loose. As much as I'd love to plop down on a bench and dog sit at the park, with four+ kids in tow (daycare, only one's mine), that's not an option. You're constantly helping someone one or 'watching this!'
Captain_Debilos_fml 13
we don't know if the sister was keeping an eye on her children and on the dog at the same time. Maybe OP brings up this fact to show that usually he can rely on his sister.
momac86 17
Her kids her job your dog your job
katertott 44
She can successfully manage three kids of that age range out in public? Supermom! We need more moms like her. I sure couldn't do that. Sorry about your pup though. Hope you find it soon and in good health!
worldclassrager 41
Who would steal a dog?
MysteryGuest214 10
Sorry about your dog, but if she was watching 3 preschoolers in a public park, I don't think she should have been tasked with watching your dog too. That's just too much.
gsam99 20
knowing she had three children to look after, you shouldn't have given her your dog.