Today, I was babysitting. Being kind, I went to grab their mail, while their 4 year old ate lunch. He locked me out, wrecked the house, and let me in right when he saw their car two hours later. I didn't get paid. I paid them. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I babysat the neighbors’ evil kids. They dropped them over at my house and I played with them for five hours. After taking the brats back home and putting them to bed, their mother asked me what time I came back to the house. She only paid me for the 20 minutes I was in their house. FML
Today, I babysat a kid who was such a bratty little prick that I actually considered walking out on the job. After his mom finally got home 4 hours later, he called her a slut. When he got in trouble for it, he claimed that I taught him the word. Needless to say, I didn't get paid. FML
Today, I'm babysitting kids whose parents said they would be back by 12. Its 4 a.m. and they still aren't home. I don't get paid enough for this. FML
Today, I babysat the brattiest and most foul-mouthed 8-year-old I've ever met. After I survived three hours of it, his parents finally came home. He claimed I'd invited a boy over and that we did "stuff" on the couch all evening. They believed him. I didn't get paid, to say the least. FML
Today, I babysat the most annoying and obnoxious kids for almost eight hours, when the parents assured me that they would only be gone about three or so hours. After constant calling and worrying, they finally showed up at 11:30, completely drunk. The mother paid me with three dollars and a banana. FML
Today, I babysat the Antichrist of all kids. After the 5 long hours were over, his parents came home. Instead of paying me what they agreed, they offered to let me eat some leftovers of a takeout in the fridge. I'm so afraid of confrontation that I accepted. FML
Today, I was babysitting a couple of kids. I'd spent time with them before, so I brought my video game console to play with them. I forgot to take it home with me. They soon sold it to another kid for $10. FML
Today, I went to babysit eight kids under the age of ten, all by myself. After five hours of Hell, the parents finally came back from the ASU game. I got paid $5. FML
Today, I volunteered to babysit my nephew. He somehow managed to lock himself in the bathroom and then flood it with the sink. I had to call his parents, and they're now on their way home from their romantic anniversary dinner. I'm not even getting paid for this. FML
Today, the woman I babysat for blamed me for the cut on her son's face, and fired me with no pay for not looking after him properly. He already had the cut when I arrived. FML
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mimori_kiryu 5
never leave a kid alone...
thenumberblue 0
I pity the fool that trusts a 4 year old!
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aardvarkish 17
Me, i would never touch someone else's mail.
lawlita 0
YDI. You're supposed to be watching him, not going to fetch the mail.
paul924 0
dude, first thing is u bring a leash for the kid and bring it with u, also, u can sue for that
lendahandmanda 0
how is OP gonna sue? SHE (or he...) left the child UNATTENDED. If anything the parents can sue OP for negligence and emotional trauma to the child, not to mention the property damages.
Xxdom4073xX 0
Property damage would be pretty hard to sue for. The negligence, eh, doubt that would fly as well. There really isn't a case here, more morals then anything.
lendahandmanda 0
I agree, it would be ridiculous for the parents to sue her, but to me, it makes more sense for the parents to sue her than OP suing them. neither have a solid case and I'm sure it would be dismissed, but if it came down to it the parents, from the information we have in the FML have much more of a case than OP.
Xxdom4073xX 0
58- I never said Op could sue, just saying there isn't a case anywhere in this FML, ^_^.
dm72 0
Sounds like Denise the Menice
sublime93 0
Denise, the girl version of Dennis?
SeedlessMe 13
Good thing She's the nice one, not the menace
nessalujin 0
sucks for you
EricJ 3
It's lousy that you were locked out, but I babysat when I was a teenager lots of time, and it never occurred to me to get the parents' mail. It's their mail. It's no burden for them to get it themselves. Let people get their own mail in the future.
Hellooomindyy 0
Now if this was me, I wouldnt being paying them shit. Either way you still stayed there and provided a service. Its not your fault that the child did that shit. What if he went to the bathroom and locked himself in there, would you be at fault for that too?
FernandoTorres_fml 0
It is her fault. The parents hired her for the sole reason of avoiding that situation. She clearly failed to do her job and let the child run loose around the house...
comrade500 0
YDI for babysitting that piece of shit
lcolla38 0
I hate kids lol never will have any
asenimehenry 0
This is why you don't leave kids alone. YDI