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
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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, 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, after my family left me at home for the weekend before finals while they went on vacation so I could focus on my studies, I spent the weekend watching my little cousins for no pay. It wasn’t an easy babysitting job either. I had to pay attention to and then re-enact basically every Bluey episode ever to exist, with no time to study. FML
Today, I realized the only reason I was invited to go on vacation with my extended family was so I could babysit everyone's children while the adults go out and have fun. 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
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 asked my parents to babysit my kids for an hour so that I could visit the doctor for my asthma, which has worsened over the past two days. Apparently I'm a bad mother, and it's OK if I stop breathing, but shouldn't leave my kids to go out alone. My husband was at the gym the entire evening. FML
Today, I had a babysitting job. When I got there, the parents were rushing out the door and told me they'd left instructions for the kids on the table. The first bullet point stated that the oldest was convinced she is possessed by the devil, but just to ignore it. Three more hours to go. 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, 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, my mom tried to force me to stay home from work to babysit my sister and her “boyfriend”. I snuck out and went to work anyway, because I hate being around them. FML
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emily_choxly 0
Fall asleep and have them mess up the whole house and wait until your parents get home and just say "I told you I wasn't feeling good"
erockinthesuburb 17
Quick, get some bananas!
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erockinthesuburb 17
Quick, get some bananas!
jonn090 13
And a joint
macrosoft 3
Take them to the zoo…
wannaplay 1
A spoonful of sugar!!! That'll make you feel better.
wannaplay 1
Oh Well I'm not a huge marry poppins fan, even though I got the cd and saw the show in Radio City
jordyxjigsaw 11
I'd call them to come back to their children then get up and leave.
jessicaazzzzzzzz 3
She expected to "help babysit", not be all my herself.
MrsDruidess 23
learn how to say no!
jonn090 13
Your mother is a...................very nice lady...not really
chickenwalrus 14
"not really".. oh i couldnt tell.
EvilPotato 15
3 period spamming is so overrated.
KiddNYC1O 22
Ellipses...
emily_choxly 0
Fall asleep and have them mess up the whole house and wait until your parents get home and just say "I told you I wasn't feeling good"
Michael_92 20
I love how most of us give advice as if this is currently happening and not a few days old. lol
rubberduckie94 13
Give them the meds you need for your sickness and knock their butts out. (Jk). Sorry for your luck op. it has happened to me. I guess consider it practice for parenthood.
jkmartinjk 16
Unless OP doesn't want kids.
kat2812 1
or reason to practice safe sex!!
mk58 31
That's when you become one of these howler monkey-like abominations and get someone else stuck with babysitting.
kinkyfemboislut 6
Your goddamn fault for evening going home.
beatlegirl27 20
Her mother made her
kawaiisakura 12
I have to agree its her fault. She could have simply said no. Plus, ive learned that when people mention "help," they are really asking u to do it urself while they do something else. Thats y if ppl ask if i can "help" them w something, i say no due to my experience.
l0v3p4in 7
10 - 'Evening?' I think a better word to use would be 'even.' It fits into the context a whole lot better unless you were trying to make some type of pun in which I believe you failed . . . miserably.
kelseynikolee_ 7
Well, make the best out of it!
Trisha_aus 15
Sounds like a fun time...one thing though, don't fall asleep..when you wake up one of them might be fondling your breasts
l0v3p4in 7
Or running around in circles screaming, "Woo woo woo" . . . or masturbating. You never know what kind of kids OP may be dealing with.
RoadKill67a 4
You should sit on the couch and do nothing because your too sick to get up, it's not your fault your sick.