Today, after I went to collect my pay for babysitting, the girl's dad pulled the old "Can I pay you in Trident Layers?" bull on me. Hoping to show that I wasn't going to play ball, I told him that watching his gran inhale a cock would be funnier. If scowls could kill... 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, after babysitting, the parents actually tried to pay me in Trident Layers Gum. FML
Today, I finally summoned the courage to ask my dad to pay me as he promised, after I cut the lawn and cleaned all the house windows last week. His response was, "Get fucked." FML
Today, the guy whose son I babysat for six hours straight confessed to being broke, then actually asked if he could pay me with sex instead. 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, my dad offered to pay me $40 to wash his car. Needing money to buy a video game, I agreed, and went out in the freezing weather to do the job. I finished the task, only to be paid in Monopoly money. My dad still hasn't gotten over how "funny" his prank was. FML
Today, as I was walking home from school with my guy friends, my dad pulled up by the sidewalk, offered me a handful of dollar bills and said, "Get in, baby." Only after we drove away and he started laughing did I realize I'll probably never hear the end of this at school. FML
Today, trying to pocket a little extra cash for himself, my dad responded to multiple babysitting ads on Craigslist, accepting them all on my behalf. I despise children with all my heart. FML
Today, I was babysitting a little boy for the first time. He kept using all sorts of profanity toward me the whole evening, so I told his mom when she picked him up. She just grunted and muttered, "Fucking cunt-ass snitch." 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, my boss asked me if he could pay me in gum. Thinking he was playing around, I agreed. He wasn't playing around. FML
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kickazz16 15
That was rude.
thebeautybleeds 17
Why would you even say that?
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Comments (369)
LennyComa 39
Your a prick
alycion 39
If he wasn't joking there were better ways of handling it. Though he probably was, taking a fun jab back is fine. But that way crossed the line. I wouldn't want someone who would use that language in my house babysitting my kids again and I would warn other parents as well. If that is your response to a joke what do you say to the kids when they piss you off.
Dramori 29
Did you get a reference from him?! :)
SrakaSrakasta 20
Fair answer imo. What if your boss asked YOU at the end of the month if he could pay you in coupons?? Fair work requiers fair payment.
EthanQHarris 3
Where the **** did that come from?
Zomg_Okay 27
That reply was completely unnecessary. If you thought he was serious, you could have just said "No, you can't." All you've accomplished now, OP, is an inability to get further babysitting jobs. I certainly wouldn't hire someone who said something like that to mind kids and I'd be sure to tell anyone I knew who might need a babysitter.
HarryWeder 4
What the ***** wrong with you?
ScrivNasty 3
Im gonna the bad guy here and go with OP. First off none of you guys were there, so how would you know if the Father was joking. Maybe the kid thought he could joke like that with the Father based on a relationship he thought he had. Seems to be wrong, but either way give OP a break. Acting like any of you guys haven't been in a situation where you thought it'd be ok to say something then realize well I ****** up and shouldn't have said that. And who gives a **** to all you people out there saying respect their employers and blah blah blah. Just cuz someone as an employer pays us doesn't give them the right or audacity to try and one up us as employees....they have guidelines to follow too, being professional and what not. Im not saying that OP is correct in his actions, but I doubt he deserves the reaction he's getting....
uprising_fml 0
IT WAS A JOKE GODDAMMIT !! sigh .
vettle 6
It's not the joke that was a stupid move, it was the content of the joke. OP could have chosen a much more tasteful comeback to joke around with the dad. So no. No sympathy here and you're a tool for thinking OP is right here. I think most of us that have screwed up and said something we regret certainly pay the consequences.
uprising_fml 0
btw I was referring to the dads joke . OPs 'joke' was not funny and very rude .
ScrivNasty 3
I never once said he was right....I was trying to make the point that everyone's bashing him, when they wouldn't know the ins and outs of what happened and the fact everyones probably done the same if not worst... He obviously knows he ****** up, posting an FML. I agree he could have handled it better but w.e. Just gotta roll with it.
kayleigh12 0
First of all, what parent would SERIOUSLY ask to pay their babysitter in gum? And second, in what world do you live where it is okay for a teenager to use that sort of language around an adult?? I know most of the people I babysit for are my mom's work friends, and if I ever said anything of that nature to them, I'd be out of many jobs and probably grounded until I move out. Be realistic here.
mersinary12 0
Wow. Obviously he was joking. You shouldn't be a babysiter, your an asshole
willn98 5
If I said that, I think my parents would probablÿ chain me in the basement....