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
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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 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'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 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
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 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 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'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 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, 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
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anniebananie 3
Why didn't you say anything?! Stand up for yourself!
Alister09 0
I would say Hmm...$5 for 8 kids under 10? I think I'll tell everyone that goes to my school that you're cheap and you'll never be able to get a babysitter again!
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Comments (180)
ElMundio87 0
YDI for not specifying how much you charge per hour.
oopsyipooped 0
kind of sux and funny story BUT your life isnt ****** :/
the_stereotype 0
it's too late to get more money, but you can always tell everyone else in the neighborhood what horrible kids they have and what-not...enough to convince people not to babysit for them, then they will be forced to hire you, and then you can get paid whatever you want, because they need you
jane99 0
why on earth would you want to babysit that many young kids. silly silly.
anniebananie 3
Oh, thank god. I thought that was going to link to "How is babby formed?".
simplyapril 4
some times the person brings extra kids over without telling you about it ahead of time, i had this happen to me when i was like 13. I had to babysit about 6 kids all under the age of 8. I than lost the 20 dollars I was paid (all day) in the person's vechile, and never got it back... sometimes the people are just asshats
mercedeslove 0
people with children are so ignorant.
princeton16 0
especially those with 8 freaking kids. i would tell them to close their legs are open their wallets!
Grangoire 0
YDI for not having the common sense to negotiate and agree upon the hourly price prior to accepting th job. Pretty stupid. Hope you learned something from this. :-/
FFFFFFFFFFFF_fml 0
This.
jonny2x4 0
$5? Whatta bargain. Now you're going to get more calls for sure.
namarub 0
Has noone else noticed that the name of this person is TWO PEOPLE? fakeeeee
ladedum 0
actually - sad that i know this but i had to say something - jazzy&alice i believe is a twilight referance to jasper & alice. lolol therefore... that the OP is not two people. just a fan of the couple. okay that is all.
namarub 0
lol.
jdog69 0
YDI for not negotiating the price beforehand. usualy it wouldn't be necessary but for 8 kids under 10 that's practically a daycare centre. and also YDI for agreeing to babysit 8 kids by yourself. That's just irrisponsible of you and the parents unless you're a proffesional babysitter in which case you should definately have set rates
AvenVonDom 0
YDI for not sticking up for yourself and telling them it wasn't enough.