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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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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ohthatsucks 0
seems unrealistic. you watched some kid for 10 hours and only 20 bucks? my friend watches her neighbors kids all the time for under or over 10 hours and gets like 40 or 50.
wholeon 0
#53, I've seen several ads on the local CraigsList lately looking for someone to watch their kids over the summer for 40 hours a week for $50-125 a week. How ****** up is that.
uconnhusky 0
2 dollars an hour? seriously? babysitting should atleast be ten dollars. minimum is 8 dollars, and youre not doing a minimum wage job
OperationNicole_fml 0
1) I think you exaggerated how little the parent gave you. No person in their right mind would pay a babysitter $20 for ten hours of service, but either way you should have negotiated first. 2)If the parent wanted you to order pizza, the parent would have told you. You were to cook something and you can't use the fact that the kid didn't want to eat it as an excuse because anyone with experience knows that kids know what they can get away with and that they'll try it if there's a chance it'll work. Plus, I doubt the kid ate $19 worth of pizza anyways.
angeluscado 15
Oh I got about that, maybe a little more, when I was babysitting not one, but three or four little hellraisers. Initially, anyway. The wife found out how little her husband paid me and doubled it.
lol_everyday 0
what a shady guy... my neighbor gave me $20 just for watching his kid for an hour. you should have complained and let the child starve.
tamoomoo 0
Wow. You got $2 an hour.
kspy 0
something like that has happened to me before. for an entire summer, i watched two kids from 9-5 five days a week for $100 a week. they were a family friend, so i did them a favor, but it was basically hell since they were the worst behaved kids i've ever seen.
OperationNicole_fml 0
#51, the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars? You need to review your math as well.
iluvuxinfinityn1 0
hahahah 25 and 51.
wholeon 0
61: Internet knowledge fail. http://failblog.org/2009/02/04/verizon-math-fail/