Today, I had to watch my neighbor's daughter for 10 hours. She wouldn't eat anything I had to offer, so I ordered a pizza for $19 + a $5 tip = $24. Her father came by to pick her up, thanked me, and gave me a $20 bill. I effectively just paid to watch his kid. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, while delivering pizzas, someone ordered $19.41 in pizza and wings. After finally finding her appartment, she paid me in two sandwich bags full of pennies and nickels. I had to count them out before giving her the pizza. We aren't allowed to enter the residence, and it was 22 degrees. FML
Today, I babysat for my neighbor's brat kid. The mom gave me $15 for 5 hours. I complained to my mom when I got home because last time I got $15/hour. Turns out my mom had told my neighbor that she thought they'd paid me too much last time. Thanks mom. Thanks. FML
Today, I tutored a kid for two hours, for $25 an hour. When it came time for them to pay, my mother told the kid's parents that they could give me ten bucks for the whole thing. She does this a lot. FML
Today, I was delivering pizzas for my summer job. I got a big order to deliver for a fellow graduate's party. While I was being paid for the order my friend shows up and says "Don't pay him, his parents are rich, he can handle it." Then they shut the door and took off. The bill was $75. FML
Today, I got a $20 tip from an old lady I delivered pizza to. Ecstatic, I walked back to my car where there was a $30 parking fine waiting for me. FML
Today, while I was delivering pizza in the torrential downpour, I waited 5 minutes in the pouring rain for an old lady to dig 20 bucks out of her purse. Her total was $19.99. She told me to keep the change and make lots of money. FML
Today, I ordered pizza for dinner and left cash by the door so my son could pay for it, in case it arrived before I got home. I told him they should get all the money, but I just found the tip. Apparently he thought I'd miscounted. I'm a server. 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, I had to pay my manager $10 just to take my stalker's order so I didn't have to. FML
Today, my daughter asked for a dollar to buy ice cream from the ice cream truck while I was on my computer working. Out of my wallet she took a fifty dollar bill. The ice cream man got a big tip before driving off. FML
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wtfdidido 0
$20 for 10 hours is stupid. Why were you even willing to do something without knowing how much you'll get out of it?
TheCrow471 0
I wouldn't do that guy a favor again.
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lol_seriously 0
lol shame, hmm... pizza brb
kaydow87 0
what a jerk -- thats like 2 dollars an hour. what a rip off. he def took advantage of you.
dol567 0
That is crazy. Agree on a price beforehand. And you shouldn't have bought the pizza in the first place. Lol... I babysat someone, and his mom gave me her credit card to order Chinese. The person I was babysitting was 11 at the time, and I was 15, so it wasn't that bad because we just watched Harry Potter.
liquidpaper 0
Pizza aside, $2 an hour? And you didn't say anything to him about it?
bryan314 0
eh, the babysitting sounded like a favor for which the father proffered an honorarium. On the pizza, you shouldn't have caved...eventually little won't eat will eat SOMETHING. Remember: you're temporary. If she won't eat real food, offer her snack food, don't order out for pizza....doesn't have to be a balanced meal. Sounds a little like you decided you were wanting pizza, used her as a pretext and thought her dad would cough up a $50 instead of a $20. Oh, and a standard tip is 20%....you overtipped. Unless you're courting extreme service from the local pizza place. I have been known to intermittently drop the carrier an extra $10 when I get it fast...word gets around that it's SOMETIMES, but I tend to get good service.
Trooth 13
pizza hut pizza only costs $5 (so most pizzas should cost around there, not $19) and wow...only $20 for 10 hours. That is soooo not worth it. You should've gotten a couple of hundred I believe
theArkenstone 0
can't believe he only gave you a twenty! you should have slapped him in the face. i got 70 for watching a sleeping baby for 4 & 1/2 hr. even a cheap sitter is 5 an hr.
wholeon 0
LMAO@25. Do you recognize the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars?
jabbaundead 0
wow. i didn't know people asked permission to order food for the kids they babysat. it's not like he asked the parent to pay for it (OBVIOUSLY) and if it's a health concern the parent should tell the babysitter beforehand. i would think a parent would be more pissed if their kid didn't have dinner than if they had one less than healthy meal. give me a break. and wow, that guy is a total douche. you totally got jipped.
madomis 0
i would of been like "SCREW YOU" cause 10 hours isen't worth 20 bucks.. thats 2 bucks an hour.. that sucks.