Ok folks. New babysitting nightmare.
*Not the boss lady.
So this nice couple was referred to my daughter for babysitting service.
She’s sat for them a handful of times. 1 child. A 2-1/2 year old.
Yesterday she was supposed to sit for the lady while she went shopping.
Six hours later someone is knocking on the front door.
My daughter looks out the window. There’s a non-descript “work van” parked out front.
Knocking continues. Door knob is being fumbled with.
She hears a woman’s voice yelling let me in g-dammit!
It’s the mom.
And some random man who makes the drinking motion with his hand to his lips behind her. He’s shaking his head and hands her off to my daughter. Turns to leave.
The lady is yelling at him about her “bags” which are piled up on the little porch.
My daughter thinks to take a picture of the man and his van as he’s walking away.
The woman is PLASTERED.
and MEAN.
DD asked if she was okay?
Hurt?
Did she want to call the police?
Go to a hospital?
Where is your car?
The woman says in a very mean way, why the f would I want to do that? You know what?... just get out of my house. Get out. Leave.
DD says she’s not comfortable leaving the “baby” there with her
Could they call the DH and see if he can come home.
Lady starts roughly herding DD to the door.
DD doesn’t want to leave and says you need to pay me. I’ve been here all day.
Lady says she has no money. And that she’s already given her “so much money in the past”. Get out!
DD gets in her car and calls me. Says the DH works 5 minutes away. I tell her to call the police. She doesn’t want to. She’s afraid.
Then I say go to the dh’s workplace now.
Tell whoever it’s an emergency and you MUST talk to him.
He comes right away.
Almost faints.
She tells him what happened and he gets his keys.
Says his wife has a “serious drinking problem” and thanks her on the way to his car.
She’s obviously not babysitting for them ever again. She’s already upset because they know where she works and she’s afraid the lady will come in.
And of course she didn’t get paid.
I said she should mail the DH a bill at his work address, enclose a SASE with her work address on it.
I realize that paying the babysitter isn’t a high priority at this point, but she did forgo picking up an extra shift at work because the lady BEGGED her to babysit.
What do you guys think of this?
Also she said the lady seemed a “little off” when she arrived and she asked her if she was okay.
Sounds like more than just booze to me.
This world is a mess.
*Not the boss lady.
So this nice couple was referred to my daughter for babysitting service.
She’s sat for them a handful of times. 1 child. A 2-1/2 year old.
Yesterday she was supposed to sit for the lady while she went shopping.
Six hours later someone is knocking on the front door.
My daughter looks out the window. There’s a non-descript “work van” parked out front.
Knocking continues. Door knob is being fumbled with.
She hears a woman’s voice yelling let me in g-dammit!
It’s the mom.
And some random man who makes the drinking motion with his hand to his lips behind her. He’s shaking his head and hands her off to my daughter. Turns to leave.
The lady is yelling at him about her “bags” which are piled up on the little porch.
My daughter thinks to take a picture of the man and his van as he’s walking away.
The woman is PLASTERED.
and MEAN.
DD asked if she was okay?
Hurt?
Did she want to call the police?
Go to a hospital?
Where is your car?
The woman says in a very mean way, why the f would I want to do that? You know what?... just get out of my house. Get out. Leave.
DD says she’s not comfortable leaving the “baby” there with her
Could they call the DH and see if he can come home.
Lady starts roughly herding DD to the door.
DD doesn’t want to leave and says you need to pay me. I’ve been here all day.
Lady says she has no money. And that she’s already given her “so much money in the past”. Get out!
DD gets in her car and calls me. Says the DH works 5 minutes away. I tell her to call the police. She doesn’t want to. She’s afraid.
Then I say go to the dh’s workplace now.
Tell whoever it’s an emergency and you MUST talk to him.
He comes right away.
Almost faints.
She tells him what happened and he gets his keys.
Says his wife has a “serious drinking problem” and thanks her on the way to his car.
She’s obviously not babysitting for them ever again. She’s already upset because they know where she works and she’s afraid the lady will come in.
And of course she didn’t get paid.
I said she should mail the DH a bill at his work address, enclose a SASE with her work address on it.
I realize that paying the babysitter isn’t a high priority at this point, but she did forgo picking up an extra shift at work because the lady BEGGED her to babysit.
What do you guys think of this?
Also she said the lady seemed a “little off” when she arrived and she asked her if she was okay.
Sounds like more than just booze to me.
This world is a mess.
I will be shoveling. Yes we still have the atv with plow......no we don't need it. It is sold though and the buyer is making payments to hubby. Yes it sits here until paid in full.
What a complete cluster.
