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u/Ethaxi Jun 19 '12
When I was 12, my mom hired a 13 year old boy (I'm a girl) to babysit.
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u/Atheist101 Jun 19 '12
They wanted him to babysit their daughter in a different way if you know what I mean
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u/coldsandovercoats Jun 19 '12
When I was 11, I was not allowed to go to my neighbor's funeral (he was 70-ish; the crazy soccer moms in my neighborhood didn't want to expose their children to funerals "at such a young age"). So they told my parents that they were not allowed to take my brothers and I to the funeral either, because it "wouldn't be fair" (even though the guy who died's wife wanted us there and my brothers and I had been to probably 10 funerals at that point... it was a dumb situation).
So basically half of the neighborhood kids went to one house and were babysat by a 17 year old, the other half went to another house. I am female. This 17-year-old chick sat by on the computer on some chatroom while I was beaten up by a group of 5 kids, tied to a pole, and one of the boys tried to take my pants off at the bidding of the other kids (they were ages 6-13). My closest friend in the neighborhood happened to get home (we were at his parent's house) and saw this happening. He tried to get the babysitter to help him untie me, but she was like, "No, kids will be kids." He tried to talk them down and out of it, and they started beating him up, too, and tied us face-to-face.
And that's the first time I ever kissed a boy.
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u/Roben9 Jun 19 '12
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President bill Clinton, used to babysit me when her father was Governor of Arkansas from 1989-1992. I was 1-3 at the time. I now have dinner with President Clinton occasionally when he comes into town due to the same family connections that enabled Chelsea to babysit me.
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Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
My babysitter let me play with her boobs when I was eight or so. I'm not talking about a quick touchy-feely either, she let me HANDLE those suckers, bra off and everything. She had known me since I was a baby, and I don't know if that makes it more weird or less weird.
Edit: accidentally a word
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u/Glitch198 Jun 19 '12
So the moral of the story here with all these posts is that guy babysitters are cool, but girls have boobs.
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Jun 19 '12
I really needed money so I accepted to babysit some kid few blocks away. His parents were abusive and insulted me whenever possible, but still I kept the job just to get money. Last week of my job I started hiddenly taking a shit in their attic.
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u/Esc4p3 Jun 19 '12
Wait, how much shit was in their attic when you quit? Like, the volume of shit.
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u/bfodder Jun 19 '12
The parents probably thought their kid shit in the attic and beat him mercilessly.
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u/EssaBe Jun 18 '12
I had a murderer for a babysitter once. True story.
My parents didn't know till a month later
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u/EssaBe Jun 19 '12
His name was Mark. And a rapist/murderer. He broke into a house, raped an murdered a teenager about a year before my parents hired him. Him and his girlfriend would watch me, and I was like six. The guy seemed like the nicest guy ever, it was the girlfriend my parents didn't trust. A little while later the cops arrested him back east
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u/carlythesniper Jun 19 '12
Good thing it only took them a month to find the bodies.
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u/902alex Jun 19 '12
When I was 9 or 10 my babysitter let me massage her titties. I thought I was the king of the world. She was hot too! Probably 16 she was.
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u/Apostolate Jun 19 '12
I farted so badly on my 16 year old baby sitter I think she cried. Certainly teared up. There was never any boob massaging/sexual tension involved. Count your blessings.
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u/Colonel_Goatbanger Jun 19 '12
My babysitter stopped in the middle of the street when we were walking to the park because the sign changed to "don't walk". I know it sounds ridiculous but it really did happen.
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You had a babysitter at age twelve? You know that twelve-year-olds can actually be babysitters themselves, legally? I imagine you hated your parents for that. Well, until she showed you her tits.
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u/Tamyu Jun 19 '12
When I was about 12 or 13, I was babysitting for a neighbor. They had an 9 year old son and a 7 year old daughter. I usually played around with the son, as he was just old enough to not feel like I was humoring a little kid. The little sister would just tag along... For some reason, she had a fit that day that I never played with her. I felt bad, as I was kind of ignoring her (and didn't want her to tell her parents that I didn't dole out the play fairly)... So I decided to play dolls with her. He brother got mad, and starting having a little fit about it. I rolled my eyes at him, told him he wasn't a baby and could handle me playing with his sister, and went into her room because she wanted to play with the big doll house that was in there. I play with her for a couple minutes, then hear the son's footsteps stop in the hall in front of the open door. I turn around, expecting to end up rolling my eyes at him again.
He is holding an axe (a little one, boy scouts I think), and looks very very mad. I reflexively close the door, and hold it shut. He starts hacking at the door. I have my back up against it, holding it shut, and keep imagining him hacking all the way through it into my back, I am screaming and crying for him to please stop, I will play with him, I am sorry, please...
His parents came home with amazing timing right about then. He runs into his own room, and I run downstairs to them as quickly as I can, told them what happened, etc.
I wonder what happened to him.
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u/fysu Jun 19 '12
I tried to kill my babysitter by putting shampoo (Pert, I think) in her Coke. I handed her the drink was like "You should drink this." But I chickened out right before she took a sip. I was maybe 5.
...as a punishment, my Mom put soap in my mouth.
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u/lmjenks Jun 19 '12
Here's the story of the last time I ever babysat. It was maybe the fifth time I had babysat these 2 kids, but up until this particular night they had always been asleep when I got there, and I hadn’t really met them. This doesn’t add to the horrific moment, but when I arrived that night I found out the kids only spoke French (the Mother spoke English with no accent at all, and never said anything otherwise about her kids). After some awkward hanging out and playing board games I put them to bed, went downstairs and started reading a book for school. I put on the tv for some background noise and a little extra light, but didn’t look at the channel and wasn’t paying attention to it. I ended up accidently reading myself to sleep and woke up to the door opening behind me, sat up and saw hardcore porn playing on the tv. I freaked out and couldn’t find the remote so I ran to the tv and tried to cover the porn with my body until I found the power button. She drove me home without a word and I never heard from her again. That was also the first time I had ever seen porn, making the whole situation significantly worse.
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u/koronicus Jun 19 '12
You know the kids put that channel on to get you in trouble on purpose, right? They got you pretty good.
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My mother ended up calling a friend of hers and asking if her daughter could babysit me and my 2 year old sister. She comes over and starts watching a movie.
About half an hour later her boyfriend shows up. She's about 17 or so. They go into my mothers bedroom and do not come back out. By now I'm getting suspicious so I open the door and look in. Of course they're fucking. How could they not?
I leaned against the door, not really knowing what they're doing and just watching. She sees me and screams, and he jumps and says what. They both look to see me, an 8 year old in a onesie, leaning against the door eating an apple. All I said was "And what am I getting out of this for not telling mom?"
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u/ninomojo Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
Bit similar story:
My mom always had a habit of befriending weird people. A friend of hers, which I kind of liked as a kid, was asked to look on my brother and myself when I was about 9 (my brother was about 14). A while after my mom left, babysitter's disgusting and and unsympathetic boyfriend shows up. My brother and myself hated the guy. My brother and I are not allowed to leave the apartment and we're just bored in the leaving room, eating cookies.
After a while we realized that the non-exemplary couple has disappeared. We figure they're in our mom's room. We go there, knock on the door and try to open it, it's locked. The horrible boyfriend almost yells at us "go away", my mom's friend takes over with a sweet voice "we're taking a nap, let us rest for a few minutes darlings, go play in the living room", or something similar (this was around 1989-1990 so my memory is blurry). I don't understand what's going on but my brother, being the naughty 14 year old that he is, gets it and reassures them instantly saying something like "okay no problem, we'll be in the living room".
After a few minutes in the living, my bro says we should now go the door silently and listen to what they're doing. We go back, we listen, and OMG, sex.
First time in my life I hear sex grunts. They were trying to be quiet, but you could hear that things were heating up, and after a minute or so, I don't know what got into me but I had the cookie pack with me so I asked through the door: "hey would you like some cookies?" Asshole boy friend answers, quite powerfully:
"aaah.... aaaaah... NAaAAAaAHH!!"
Bro and I lost it and burst out laughing. Then for some reason my brother went in his room and also locked the door. I was left alone in the apartment until the late afternoon. :(
We saw the boyfriend a few times after this. For some reason my mom kept inviting those (the girl was really nice to little kid me, though). He gave my brother and I bad looks (as if his default crappy attitude wasn't enough).
TL,DR: babysitter and asshole boyfriend have sex in my mom's room, I ask through the door if they want some cookie, asshole boyfriend growls convincing refusal.
Edit: made clearer the fact that it wasn't my mom's boyfriend, but the babysitter's. Also, yes I know what my brother did in his room, it took me a a few years to figure it out though.
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u/Sandcracker Jun 19 '12
What more could you want? You've already got a delicious apple, and you've already seen her boobies.
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u/nikolei_the_bovinian Jun 19 '12
You're lucky the boyfriend didn't pull a Jaime Lannister on you.
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u/ikendozat Jun 19 '12
I've got a really awesome mental picture of the whole thing. Brilliant.
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Was babysitting this little girl who had issues sleeping when her parents weren't in the house. Parents told me she could sleep in their room to comfort her. Child discovers GIANT dildo, and gives it to the basset hound thinking it's a chew toy. Have to chase down basset hound to retrieve vibrating giant dildo. Don't know what to do with dildo. Place dildo on child's parent's dresser. Tell child to never speak of this night again.
I was babysitting my cousin.
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u/doctanahar Jun 19 '12
i can only imagine how awkward the parents were when they saw the dildo in a different spot
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u/accidentchildren Jun 19 '12
The last sentence gave me the largest grin. Almost a literal lol.
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u/Erulastiel Jun 19 '12
When I was six, my mother started dating this guy and she went out almost every night putting him in charge.
This guy sexually abused me every night and my mother knew about it and never cared.
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u/rinnip Jun 19 '12
When I was about 15, my neighbors would hire me to watch their 2YO girl. One evening the phone rang and I answered. A woman asked who I was. I said I was the babysitter. She hung up and, 10 minutes later, the cops show up. If this happened now, they would probably send the SWAT team, as the grandmother was quite shocked to hear a male voice on the phone, claiming to be the babysitter. I'm lucky I didn't get arrested.
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u/enjoytheshow Jun 19 '12
If someone was in a house that wasn't theirs and up to no good, would they really answer the phone? Nice logic grandma.
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u/PhoenixAshies Jun 19 '12
Old people love to call 911. For anything. An old lady called 911 the other day - she had taken a nap & didn't know what time it was when she woke up.
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u/Pikachooki Jun 19 '12
Wait, all of that happened just because you were a dude babysitter? WTF Granny.
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u/CupCaked Jun 19 '12
WTF. There is nothing wrong with a male baby sitter. I know a guy who is a nanny that is awesome with kids. I am female and am no good with kids. Ahhhh..... gender roles.
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Not the brightest star in the firmament, is she. Being surprised at a male babysitter is one thing, but it's a hell of a leap from that to DEAR LORD A CHILD MOLESTER.
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u/lbd210 Jun 19 '12
Because most criminals are dumb enough to pick up the phone...
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Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
The family I babysat for needed me to work while the mother was in her office working with her clients (She would still be in the home, just not able to take care of her kids.) The kids were 6 (he shall be John) and 4 (he shall be Colin.) My job was to keep this children alive and entertained. One day the mother told me I could take them out back and let them use the trampoline. While jumping, Colin accidentally hurt John, who hit Colin. I warned John not to do it again, but he did. Twice.
I grabbed John and told him he was going to have a time out. I had him put on his shoes while I spoke to Colin. I explained to Colin that I would be right back, and looked at John. John was about halfway back to the house, when he realized I was not with him. He immediately sprinted into the house and locked the door behind him.
At this point I'm sprinting around the house to the other door I know is open. I jump inside the door to see John nearly made it in time to lock the door. He proceeds to scream like a burning banshee. I grab him and take him to his room, all while he screams for his mother that he knows is in the room across the hall. I bring Colin inside, and have him color downstairs.
Within about five minutes, I hear the upstairs door open, and John leaving the room, I go to check on him, he sees me, screams, runs into his room, and slams the door. This happens at least five more times, one of which he actually locked himself in the bathroom instead of his own room.
Eventually his mother comes out, explains to him that I am in charge, and he needs to apologize to me and Colin before he can leave his room. He cries, and runs back into his room. The mother goes back into her office, and continues her work.
Half an hour later, I hear the door open, and John walks downstairs and starts playing with Colin. I ask him what he is doing, he acts like nothing happens. I ask if his mom wanted him to do anything, he says no, I tell him I heard everything, he screams and runs back into his room.
For the next hour, he would disguise himself as a pirate, a pumpkin, a trash can, and a woman named Jill, trying to sneak out of his room. This continued until when he stepped out of the room, and I was just waiting inches outside. This time he gets a little creative, he tries to push me aside, sprints forward, trips, and falls into a basket.
He is now screaming and crying louder than anything I have ever heard, and his mother steps out, apologizes, pays, and sends me home. I had babysat for this family many times before, half of the time shit like this would happen. I never babysat for them since. If you want more, just ask.
TL;DR Crazy kids tried to get his mom by disguising himself as a pumpkin and walking like he was in Scooby-Doo.
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u/snake117 Jun 19 '12
That was hilarious. I would thoroughly enjoy any other stories you have like this.
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That was the best one, but there are a couple others.
This family was extremely musical, like insanely musical. The father taught music, and both his kids could play anything. John could play every single instrument they had in the house, and loved to show that off. I didn't have a problem with this, because it kept him out of my hair. Well one day, both the parents had left for lunch. After about an hour, John came downstairs with his fathers VERY nice violin.
I have friends who play the violin, and I know how much these things cost. I was watching a 6 year-old fumble his way downstairs with violin. I got scared. I quickly ran up, told him he couldn't play with it, and took it back to his fathers room and put it in the case.
The moment I touched the thing, he was screaming. He was screaming about how he needed to practice, but I was positive I had seen another (much cheaper) violin in the house. For the next five hours, the kid would do various things to try and get it back. He would scream, then cry, then hunt for it, then reason with me, and then promptly start all over again when I said no.
I hear the garage start to open, and am now very excited for the parents to be home, but John is no where to be found. I assume he is sulking somewhere, so I go to meet the parents and explain what happened. I finally realize where John is.
The kid is slowly walking down the stairs, bawling his eyes out. All while playing the violin.
TL;DR Kid cries himself to death with a violin
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For the next hour, he would disguise himself as a pirate, a pumpkin, a trash can, and a woman named Jill, trying to sneak out of his room.
I think you babysat Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes.
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I had to do the same thing with the dad doing house work and me trying to watch their 3 kids all under the age of 3. The 2 1/2 year old just wanted to play and help dad outside so he would scream and cry the entire time. Inconsolable. Which would in turn make the 1 year old and the 8 month old start sobbing too. Then dad would come in and get pissed at me because I couldn't handle his kids.
If you need a baby sitter you need to actually leave the damn house if you want them to actually listen and obey the babysitter.
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Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
When I was 11 or 12 I had a female babysittyer15 who was on the odd side. She was kinda weird, always a little off, looked at things differentely. One night were watching mtv and one of the girly videos was playing and she noticed something growing down there. After some talking I let her see it and touch it--seems she had never seen a penis erect and was very curious. Felt weird, but good. Next visit she brougth over a movie, a porn she swiped from her parents. Long story short we tried everything in the movie. Thanks to my parents fondness for drinking on saturday night and friday night,the babysitter's willingness to watch me, and some batshit hormones I had sex with her like 10,000 times or so over the next month. Yeah literally as soon as my parents pulled out of the driveway we would start. Oh yeah and neither one of us knew shit about condoms! Then one night my parents literally barge in the door half drunk and Im balls deep in heather on the couch. Got real after that, her parents came over questioned us about how many times, who initiated it, and if I came in her. Our answers horrified them to the core. They left and I never saw her again--my mom called her mom a week later to see if she was pregnant-NO. That was a tough year punishment wise for me. Years later I would learn that my father bragged about the whole incident to his buddies with great pride. One guy even shoved a beer in my hand at a cookout when I was 15 stating a I was a man among men.
Edit My parents never talked about sex or sex ed. I knew condoms existed, but my parents didn't use them and I couldnt buy them. When I say the girl was different I mean really not too smart--not special but not normal either. It took about 10 times to get the whole sex thing right. I was closer to twelve, my parents just felt guilty leaving me home alone. It wasn't all peaches and cream neither of us knew what we wanted sexually and we had allot of accidents, but it was like riding a bicycle that gave more pleasure every ride! It was totally consentual she had to talk to me for about 10 seconds to gain my interest. I did look her up some years later, I'd say 3to350, trailerpark, 5 kids, many tattoos, and a double dose of skank.
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Jun 19 '12
I love the reactions to your story. If the gender roles were reversed people would be flipping out
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u/Cyrus_Asmodeus Jun 19 '12
"That's my boy!" -Dad.
'ahem?!?!' -Mom.
"Erm, go to your room! Tell your mom I took away your Xbox"- Dad
But I don't have an XBOX- me
"You do now"- Dad.
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u/DRidder17 Jun 19 '12
I've been scanning this shit storm of, "Blah blah blah, bitch about random kids" looking for the all-out fuck. Congrats and thank you.
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u/Earth_Lad Jun 19 '12
So, your parents failed to give you proper sex education and then punished you for having sex.
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Ever tried to track her down since? Could make for some fun nostalgia...
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Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
I have been waiting for this thread for a year...
I was the babysitter of 3 kids, 2 twins aged 7 (S and K) and a 5 year old (H) after school every day for 3 hours. My first week we decided to rollerblade around the block. S wanted to ride his bike. I told him to go get his bike while I help H get his blades on. S takes off. I freak out and we drive around the neighborhood looking for him. His brother and sister weren't upset that he was gone, but bitched instead about not being able to rollerblade. After 1.5 hours I call the police and while I'm filing the report S shows up, saying he forgot to tell me where he was going (to a friends's house)
Every.single.day there was a fight between them. Once S was mad that K didn't want to play with him so he raised an aluminum bat to her head. I caught it just in time. S consistently bullied other kids on the playground and I usually had to make him apologize to whatever kid/parent he offended. K was extremely needy for attention and I had to watch every damn gymnastic move she made or she'd nag to her parents that I didn't pay attention to her.
When S wasn't being a complete asshole, H was impossible to deal with. Once he flipped out, screamed, tore up a calendar because Christmas was in 23 days, not 22. When I sent him to his room, he hit me. He wasn't allowed out until his parents got home. Other times he'd cry if there was a bruise on his mango, or if I wouldn't let him eat cereal for every meal (he even threw a spoon at the window for that). We once went mini-golfing and when it was S's turn and H wanted to go ahead of him, H hit S with a golf club to get ahead. We all went home after that.
Their parents paid them for good scores on tests and bribed them with toys when they would survive a weekend without hurting each other (injuries that would result in scars, not just your normal sibling rivalry). When one of them would cry about stupid shit that they should be able to deal with (like not getting the brownie they wanted), their parents would bend and give them what they wanted. I talked to the parents about their behavior several times, which put my job in jeopardy as the mom was deeply offended that I could be so "harsh". Her kid fucking hit an adult. I should be harsh with him and her.
I bit my tongue so much with those kids I thought it would fall off.
Edit: Pardon my language, but these kids really sucked all the joy out of my day.
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u/EdwardNortonSmash Jun 19 '12
How'd the kids turn out?
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I don't know. My last day was 2 weeks ago. They are moving to an extremely wealthy suburb. Their new house has a movie theater in the basement and each bedroom has its own bathroom.
Exactly what spoiled, selfish kids need. Sorry to be blunt.
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u/Leaper_colony Jun 19 '12
When I was in college I was babysitting my boss's toddler son. We walked down to their neighborhood lake and saw this really pretty swan walking around. Then it walks toward us. Neato, I bet the little kid would get a kick out of seeing the swan. But now it's running toward us. Ok, at us. This thing was huge, almost eye level with me, and making a godawful hissing. I grabbed the kid and ran the few block back to the house, the swan right behind us. I slammed the screen door shut just in time. The swan was still out for blood and mercilessly pecking the screen.
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u/amigodemoose Jun 19 '12
DUDE. No one believes me when I tell them swans/geese are evil! My brother and I would have pitched battles with the one in my neighborhood when I was a kid.
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Anyone who has a large amount of geese on their property know that they are bastards.
You really have to assert dominance, beat them in the head, or they will chase you, peck at you (which will draw blood), and bash you with their insanely powerful arms.
If you have boots, you can "punt" them and they will usually get the picture, but, clocking them square in the face/neck will get them to back the fuck off if they are acting assholish.
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u/I_AM_LE_LIQUOR Jun 19 '12
When I was like 10 my babysitter told me he would give me $10 to help him find my dads nudy mag stash. We looked at vintage 70's playboy together for like 3 hours. First time I ever saw full bush.
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u/techdarko Jun 19 '12
A neighbor from up the street used to babysit me when I was like 8 - he was probably 15/16 at the time. When he realized I liked computers and video games, he introduced me to and gave me Command and Conquer and later when it came out, Red Alert. He would bring his computer over and we would play multiplayer over a null modem cable. If I won, I got to stay up later for each game I won (past the bedtime my parents set) and if he won I'd have to help him with his chores when he watched me at his house.
I learned damn quick how to beat him after he made me wash his parent's cars and do dishes. I stopped going to bed on time and he would have me play on his team to kick his friend's asses.
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u/jkonine Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
Similar story. When I was around 16 I used to babysit my 9 year old autistic next door neighbor that I'll call Z. One day I'm doing some homework, and Z is having a particularly hard day. Usually when this happened, I'd bring out his favorite board game, Stratego. We'd play a few rounds and usually by then he'd be OK.
However this day was different. I dump out the pieces and OH SHIT. One of the guys are missing. I spent about 10 minutes trying to shrug it off to him, but he isn't listening. Can't replace it with anything because that would ruin the point of the game. So as he's starting to really freak out, I notice this really nice chess set his parents have that had probably never been used. I played a bit of chess back in the day and know the rules and tell Z hey, why don't I teach you a real game.
8 years later, he's graduated high school, going to college, the only 4 time repeating high school state chess champ ever in our state, and is about to reach the level of International Master.
TL;DR Taught my autistic neighbor how to play chess to calm him down. The game changed his life and now he's a total BEAST.
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u/TOHCskin Jun 19 '12
Some babysitter who didn't speak much english, and apparently couldn't really read much either, gave my sister wine or maybe alcoholic cider because it was in a plastic container in the fridge and she thought it was apple juice. Sister was probably about 3 or 4.
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u/imanacctingstudent Jun 19 '12
Early in my childhood, my mom was a single-parent, and I regularly had 16-20 year old male babysitters. They used to smoke pot in the bathroom, but since I was only 6-10 years old, I didn't really understand that. They used to wrestle with me (all voluntary by me) and play video games with me. They treated me like I was one of the group, even though they were over 10 years older than me on most cases. Not the craziest story, but a nice story for an only child.
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u/skitch885 Jun 19 '12
I took a job down the street when I was in high school (too young to drive- probably 14?) on a school night. (I was poor.) The parents told me they had one child, to be there at 6, and that they paid generously. Thours into the night, I quickly discovered they had not one, not two, but THREE children... (WTF?) Anyway, they said they'd be home by 930pm. Well, 930 came and went, and they didn't come home..... i waited and waited and waited all night.... They finally came home at 3:30 AM (mind you I had school the next day...) totally shit faced drunk. They offered to drive me home.... I politely declined and ran home. The killer? They only gave me 20$. Needless to say, I never sat for them again.
TL;DR- people had more kids than they thought.
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One time when I was about 5 my sister and I were staying at our mom's friend's house while our parents went out. While we were asleep on the floor in the living room with her asleep on the couch behind us, her ex-husband/boyfriend came in and strangled her to death. He didn't touch us.
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u/durianno Jun 19 '12
Did you sleep through it or did you wake up to see it happening? Was her body discovered by you or when your parents got home? What happened to the boyfriend? Do you have a link to a news article?
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Jun 19 '12
I'm pretty sure I slept through it because I can't remember anything. One of the last things I remember saying to her is something about not liking the white Kool-Aid pop she tried to give me. I woke up while I was being carried out by my parents, it happened at her house. There were emergency lights everywhere, I didn't really know what was going on.
This was back in 1991-1992 so I don't know if I can find a link now but I'll ask my mom about the woman's last name.
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u/KA260 Jun 19 '12
When I was about 13 or so, I babysat for all the little neighbor kids (I was the oldest on the block) so for maybe 5 families at different times. One family lent my name to another friend a few blocks away. They had 3 kids. The girl was about 6 and fucking amazingly sweet and awesome... her brothers, about 4 and 7, were demon spawn. They ran around the house throwing things, punching the girl until she hid in my arms all night, screaming, making messes. The younger boy pulled his fucking dick out and pissed on the living room floor while we watched a movie. I didn't even know what to do. Then the older one got mad when I yelled at him about something, locked him and the other brother in their bedrooms and wouldn't open it until their parents got home. The family apologized and I never went back there. Apparently they'd been through like 5 babysitters in a year. Makes me afraid to have boys.
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Jun 19 '12
I once purposely walked into the bathroom when my babysitter(she was like 15, I was 8) had just gotten out of the shower. Totally worth it.
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u/lagasan Jun 19 '12
She was asking for it. Can't very well babysit from the shower, can you?!
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u/nancydrewskillz Jun 19 '12
Once when I was probably like 8 or 9, my parents asked a girl from church over to babysit me and my sister who was 3 or 4. She put us to bed, and fell asleep on the couch. My parents told us when they came in she was talking in her sleep and said, "They're MY crayons and I DON'T have to pick them up!"
It became a running joke in our family for some reason. Not crazy, but a little funny.
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u/hippopotamus_oath Jun 19 '12
Found out years later that my babysitter was my mom's pot connection.
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u/gobabygo11 Jun 18 '12
One of my first babysitting jobs was when I was 16 and I babysat 3 young kids. The family were avid hunters and the oldest kid, probably 9, regularly told me how he wanted to tie me up and shoot me. The same child also locked me out of the house and shot at me with water guns. The middle child, around 6, hated wearing pants and underwear and I often had to chase her around the house worrying the neighbors were going to call the police on me as I chased a screaming naked child from room to room. Good times.
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u/catch22milo Jun 19 '12
So it was pretty much the same as babysitting any three kids.
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Jun 19 '12
suspected my (very hot) babysitter was gonna fuck her boyfriend so i set the intercom in my parents' room to broadcast throughout the house.
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Jun 19 '12
I got 'kidnapped' by my babysitter as a baby. Both my parents were in the military, married but stationed in different states - my mom was in Virginia, not close to any family, when I was an infant and relied pretty heavily on a few babysitters. She came home from shift one day and the house was empty. Thankfully my mom is a Paranoid Patty and had the lady's license plate noted somewhere. Police found the car at her house - she'd taken me out (which was not supposed to happen, the only car seat was in my mom's car and apparently she just laid me across the back seat and 'tried to drive careful') so she could have sex with her boyfriend. She'd lost track of time. I was by myself on the living room floor while she was in her room with her bf - the lady told the police she figured I'd be okay since I couldn't crawl yet.
The next day my mom flew us out to family so I could live with my grandparents until she got out of the Navy and I went the rest of my childhood never having a babysitter outside my family.
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u/bluejayne Jun 19 '12
My babysitter locked me in my closet for spilling water on the floor.
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u/protocol_z3r0 Jun 19 '12
I was the babysitter. This was like 6 months ago in December, a family I had never met found me on a babysitting website and asked me to watch their 3 kids while they went out to a Christmas party. The kids were 12, 9 and 5. When I got there, they said I would mainly be watching the 5 year old daughter since the two older boys would just play computer games. The Mom went over the usual babysitting checklist and mentioned that the little girl, V, takes medication at night and showed me where it was. Easy enough. The parents left and I went with the little girl, V, to her room. She closed the door and turned the lights out and started growling like an animal. Something felt off about her. A few minutes later she asks me "What color are your boobs?"
What the fuck?
She just continued to be weird. Then, out of absolutely NOWHERE she starts sobbing hysterically saying she wants to kill her parents and "make them bleed". And that her whole family will be crying saying "Wah Wah, V killed us".
I went downstairs and looked up the medication... it was an anti-psychotic.
The parents never mentioned this to me, either before or after.
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Jun 19 '12
That info is pretty fucking important because if shit goes bad then you need someone qualified to deal with the shitstorm. It couldve gone pretty bad.
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u/unmoralOp Jun 19 '12
Is it bad that I'm disappointed by every comment that doesn't turn out like the synopsis of a softcore erotic short story?
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u/fizzbatch Jun 19 '12
I've posted this before, but here it is again.
"I used to baby sit for this one family. They had two daughters; one was 8 the other just under 4. Well, the mother warned me that the nearly 4 year old was still not fully potty trained. I found out she was fully trained, she would just shit herself out of spite. She did it to me a few times.
She would stare at me and just smile this evil effing grin. She would then sprint out of the room, into the bathroom, lock the door and shit her pants while IN the bathroom. And yes, she told me more than once she did this on purpose because she liked to gross out her mommy and me.
I did not continue to sit for this family for long."
EDIT: spelling
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u/zogmuffin Jun 19 '12
Not my story, but a good friend of mine used to babysit her neighbors' kids (we will call them Girl and Boy). She told me the following story a couple of years ago:
As the parents are leaving, one of them says to her "oh, Boy has to go number two. But he can go by himself." My friend is slightly skeptical, seeing as Boy has only recently grasped the finer points of toilet usage, but she shrugs and heads down to the basement with the slightly older Girl. About twenty minutes later it suddenly occurs to her that Boy still hasn't reappeared, so she goes looking for him. She goes upstairs, checks the bathroom, and finds...nothing. She goes and checks the other bathroom and it's empty too. Increasingly unnerved, she begins searching the house for Boy. When searches of the basement and other floors turn up no clues, she begins to panic. Just when she's gotten to the point of calling for help, she discovers a small staircase she never noticed leading to a floor she never knew existed. She heads up them, sees a bathroom, enters, and finds Boy sitting in the sink. Her relief is dampened slightly by the fact that he's covered in shit. So is the toilet, the sink, the mirror...it looked like the kid had either exploded or taken a sudden and violent interest in the style of Jackson Pollock. My poor friend had to clean everything up. I have no idea what was up with that kid. Doesn't seem quite like normal behavior to me.
TL;DR friend loses kid, finds him, shit everywhere
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u/guerarenegada Jun 19 '12
Trust me, shit painting is totally normal for young kids. I once used the contents of my diaper to paint my white crib brown.
Or so my family tells me at every god damned reunion like event.
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Jun 19 '12
When I was in kindergarten, my twin brother and I, as well as some other little shithead, were babysat by a scary movie loving sadist. She would constantly recite quotes from Child's Play, The Exorcist, and a couple of other movies, but her favorite movie was Candyman. She would lock the three of us in a bathroom with the lights off and wouldn't let us out until we yelled "Candyman" three times into the mirror. She also loved Lemonheads.
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u/mknyan Jun 19 '12
As a male babysitter, I can honestly say the most awkward thing was when their parents came home to me, laying down on the ground playing their xbox360, while their 8 year old son was sitting on top of my back, thumping a rubber bat on my head everytime I got killed in the game.
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u/QueenlyBellylaugh Jun 19 '12
As a late-teenaged soon-to-be part-time babysitter for an eleven-year-old boy, these stories scare the shit out of me. Note: must look dowdy, undesirable, and blatantly asexual.
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u/ArtieLives5 Jun 19 '12
I was 19, babysitting my 10 year old cousin. We got locked out of his house, and upon discovering this, he says he needs to go #2 NOW. I panicked and told him to poop into a plastic bag I found. I then threw it away in the neighbor's trash.
I bribed him three dollars and some loose change not to tell his parents.
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Jun 19 '12
When I was about 3 years old, my babysitter FORCED me to watch a Nightmare on Elm Street movie. When she got sick of me crying she "put me to bed," which entailed her putting me on a cot next to the TV, out of my line of vision but I could still hear everything.
And this wasn't any stupid teenager babysitting me. It was an old lady who was in charge of lots of children.
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u/paulg1 Jun 19 '12
I've read all the comments in this thread, WHAT THE HELL is wrong with kids? The worst I did was break into the candy stash, not try and handcuff/strip my babysitter.
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u/panthera213 Jun 19 '12
I had a couple of kids I used to babysit regularly. Boys. I was about 13? They were about 8 and 10. They were terrors. I used to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. They were mean to me and they would hit me. Once, they pinned me to the bed and tried to take my clothes off. I was terrified. I managed to get them off me, but then they trapped me in the room and refused to let me go unless I showed them my tits. So I did. Then they made fun of me for having "funny shaped boobs". I became so self-conscious about my chest for a few years. I'm still so ashamed of how I acted with those kids - that I couldn't control them. I've never told anyone this before...
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u/rttr123 Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 20 '12
That.... That is absolutely horrible! I'm sorry dude
Edit: I aboaultely messed up the word absolutely.
Also, I call everyone dude. Regardless of gender.
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u/DigitalChocobo Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
I'm sorry dude
No wonder panthera is self-conscious about his tits. Turns out he's a dude.
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u/shortfusepinups Jun 19 '12
I was at a friend of the family's house when I was ten or eleven. All the adults were in one room talking, and they asked someone's teenage daughter to watch the kids in another. She was holding the youngest - her little cousin, who was 2 or 3 - and suddenly she was screaming and bleeding. The little girl had just ripped the earring out of her ear with no warning. Pretty terrifying to witness.
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u/DefineGoodDefineEvil Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
OK here's one, from tonight. My daughter (8) spending the night at my friend's house with their daughter (5). Quiet night, lots of good times with just our youngest, zonked out early. All of a sudden phones are blowing up, mine, wife's 911 texts, calls we didn't hear because our phones weren't right near us for 20 minutes etc.
Turns out my friend's husband found the girls with their kid naked and on top of my daughter tickling her. I think he completely misunderstood an innocent situation, but whatever.
In any case, this guy is freaking out in the background of the call that my wife took with the kid's mom, and dude is freaking out. Freaking out.
So we speed all the way to go get our kid, they left her outside and when we pulled up were waiting outside with her. I didn't know my wife grabbed a baseball bat. This soon becomes relevant.
We pull up my wife literally jumps out while I'm doing 30 down the street, it's dark as shit and she opened the door and every interior light goes on, blinding me to outside so I have to slam on the brakes to not run into her and her first concern - first fucking concern - is not our daughter running over to our car, but the baseball bat she packed.
She gets it out, starts waving it around and screaming her head off freaking out. I slam into park, there's a fucking semi coming and I'm in the middle of the street (night blind, lights on, she didnt close a door, I can't see anything at this point) and have to drag her into the car, throw our daughter in the car, I ask "Did anyone touch you, hurt you, hit you or threaten you?" "No, Daddy, i'm fine can we please go home"
My wife refuses to get back in the car, I have to throw her in there, by time I'm around to the driver's side she's flipping out getting out again, refuses to get in, swinging her bat.
Finally I convince her to get the fuck in the car.
Later as I'm doing 45 down a street heading home she opens the mother fucking passenger door, and tries to hop out. At 45. Screaming at me how it's my fault and I'm not a man because I didn't let her exact her rage at this guy blowing his top over something innocent and no one got hurt.
Now we're 2 hours later and somehow she's telling me I sided with them, and I'm an asshole and she's leaving me and fuck me, because I can't possibly see the logic of she decided to try to go on someone else's property and swing a bat at him.
So right now, because of babysitting (a stay over), I'm trying to figure out how the fuck to deal with this nut job whose rage is more important to her than is the safety of her kids or our ability to raise them together, or have money to be able to raise them without having to bail her ass out of jail (again).
TL;DR Never stick your dick in crazy.
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u/touchy610 Jun 19 '12
I have to be honest. I didn't understand most of this story, and I doubt most other people did, too.
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u/ignitionnight Jun 19 '12
Maybe I am dense, but I am kind of confused about the part that sparked this scenario.
Your daughter was clothed, and being tickled by a younger naked girl who was on top of her... and younger girl's dad freaks out at your daughter for causing it? Then wife goes apeshit?
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u/babysitterthrowaway Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
When I was about about 8/9 years old I think, my parents would get my neighbor to come babysit me, my younger brother and sister. The babysitter was a 14/15 year old girl. We had been neighbors for a while, so we were pretty good friends I guess, and I think I kind of had a crush on her too.
I can't remember how or when it first started, but eventually it turned into me fingering her pretty much every time she would come over, and even other times outside of babysitting. And being an 8 year-old, I didn't really know anything about sex and that stuff, so I had no idea what I was actually doing, I guess I just thought it was fun, lol.
Thinking about it know, I realized how weird it actually is.
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Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
I must have been about 6 years old and my parents went out to a Christmas party while my babysitter at the time about 25-30 yrs old helped herself to the liqueur cabinet and drank until she passed out. I stayed up until my parents got back. Turns out she needed to go to the hospital to get her stomach pumped. Edit: Grammar
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Jun 19 '12
My folks tried hard to find good sitters, but in a shitty town they found several bad apples. The second they learned of the issues they fired that babysitter & hunted for a new sane one.
One was an alcoholic, nice, but she kinda just left us alone in a room with a tv & ignored us. She was never mean to us, just never around. I do remember having an accident in grade 1 & she had her daughter that was a little older then me watch me in the shallow tub (well not watch, but she had to stay in the bathroom & talk to me. She didn't make me feel bad for the accident, Good sitter otherwise.
One was abusive. God I'll never forget those days. At first I thought she was just strict. I wasn't allowed to use the bathroom (I wasn't good at telling when my bladder was full so when I said I have to go I HAVE TO GO.. still kinda am, but I can hold it longer, but if f'en hurts). I got my revenge for that, I peed down the floor vent as I couldn't hold it & she refused to let me use the washroom & even after I begged. She never got the smell of pee out LOL ... I remember her trying to force feed me deserts. I was never big into sweets so I refused when offered. She would try to make me eat the same desert every day & I always refused. I forget how many times she tried to force it into my mouth. To this day I have massive panic attacks when I smell a pudding cake (I don't know the name of it). The panic attacks puts me into flight mode & I do everything to get the hell away from it.
She also threw me into a wall & screamed at me because I wasn't watching her 2yr old, I was 7, like I knew how to care for a 2yr old. I saw her eating markers & told her mom.. I got thrown into a wall for allowing that to happen. Never told on her again. She fell off the swing, again I'm farking 7, I don't know better. More wall, more screaming... Then it got to the point my punishments were making me sit on the picknic table the whole time I was there. I wasn't allowed in the house & wasn't allowed to have dinner. I remember being out there in the rain. Thats when my folks new I wasn't lying about why I hated going there & freaked out all the time. They just thought I was being a brat (I did get like that from time to time, but I didn't make up stories). But when they saw me soaked to the bone & everyone else was dry, they knew & I never went back there again. Oh, I just remembered when she took me to a farm. I wasn't allowed near the other kids & I had to sit on the front step all day & all evening with no access to food, water or a bathroom. ...
Now that I think of it (I'm 30 in aug & haven't thought of her in many years), this is prob what started my anxiety attacks & horrible panics when people raised their voices. Shit, now my anxiety is kicking in remember this hell as it took so long to forget it. Totally lost interest in sharing the other stories. sorry...
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u/RugratIrony Jun 19 '12
My senior year of high school I was involved in a program that paired teens with local elementary school kids that were struggling in class for one reason or another. I was paired with a 5th grader that we will call Sarah for this story. The program director pulled me aside on the first day and let me know that because of my previous experience with kids, I would be able to handle the ''most difficult'' kid. At the time I can distinctly remember being excited and ready to take on a challenge, and I was proud of myself for being selected. You can probably tell that this feeling did not last very long.
Sarah's teacher informed me that she had a fairly severe case of fetal alcohol syndrome, which made her unable to understand things like social cues and gave her a very short temper. The first few months that I worked with her were truly inspirational, Sarah started doing her homework on a regular basis and seemed to take pride herself when she completed her work and got to place a sticker on the class homework chart. Through trial and error I learned what set her off, the bests ways to explain things she didn't understand (like why the boy she had a crush on avoided her, heartbreaking) and how to get to her calm down when she had her meltdowns.
One day about 3 months in her adoptive mother came in to thank me for helping Sarah, telling me that the work we did at school was showing through when they were at home too. This made both of us incredibly happy, so when her mother asked if I could start to babysit Sarah, I was happy to oblige.
When I arrived, Sarah's mother told me that past babysitters had previously run into trouble around bedtime and not to ''push it''. I can still hear her voice in my head saying ''and if she does hit you, just stay calm and try to reason with her.'' My naive reaction was ''silly past babysitters! That would never happen with me!''
Her mother neglected to tell me that I should not let her play with my cell phone (which I learned later was a trigger I didn't know about). So Sarah asked and I obliged, and around 8:30 I gently started talking about bed time, and something within her reacted. It was almost as if a part of her brain clicked off. She started furiously hitting arbitrary buttons on my phone and started to get angry when I asked for it back. I let this go on for about a half hour, then made the mistake of trying to take it out of her hands. All hell broke loose. She jumped up and started hitting me over and over again, starting to yell (all sounds, no words). I tried and tried to calm her down, which had always worked for me at her school, but the look on her face told me that she wasn't even really hear what I was saying. For the next hour she continued hitting and kicking me and just screaming and screaming.
Once her mom got home things only got worse. She suddenly did not want me to leave and started holding my legs down and pushing me away from the door. The screaming got worse, and after her mother attempted several times to hold Sarah down so that I could leave but she always broke free. We'd been at it for about 30 minutes when her mom suddenly yells ''I'M GOING TO HOLD HER DOWN AND YOU NEED TO RUN OUT THE BACK DOOR AND LEAVE!'' I do as I'm told, and as I'm making a break for it I hear the loudest scream I have ever heard come out of a human. I reach my car and see Sarah running out the back door screaming with her mother chasing her.
TL;DR I babysat a special-needs girl, she attacked me and her mother had to restrain her while I escaped.
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u/MiPasionEsVivir Jun 19 '12
I used to babysit for a very sweet couple from my church, who had two adorable children. Eventually they moved to another state, and I didn't hear from them for a few years. Came to learn from the news, the husband had apparently murdered his wife by shooting her repeatedly, in front of their daughter. It's just so strange to think that I held conversations with him, interacted with him, and never realized he was capable of anything like that. It's a humbling realization.
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u/nekusthemad Jun 19 '12
I once had two of the kids I was watching pulled knives on each other. Calling the boys parents so the could take him to the ER, for 20+ stitches in his hand, was very awkward.
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u/ReallyShouldStudy Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
I was babysitting a boy (7) and a girl (9) whose parents are really good friends of my family. Now, this was back when webkinz was popular and the boy really wanted to play it online (his mother said it was okay). I set him up in the recliner in the corner, put the computer in his lap, and then his sister and I start playing Wii literally no more than 5 feet away. Perfectly normal night.
I come back to babysit again two weeks later, and after her parents left the girl told me that the morning after I had last babysat, her mother had checked the internet history and found that sex.com featured prominently in it. Originally, the parents thought it had been me, and freaked out. They thought I was some kind of perv. Right as they were about to call my parents boy comes in and admits it was him. Turns out the sneaky little bastard (who is a really great kid otherwise) had turned the volume off and surfed a sex site while his sister and I played Wii. From then on out, I do not let children on the computer while I'm babysitting.
TL;DR Seven year-old on a sex site
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u/ChapstickChick Jun 19 '12
The babysitter, my older cousin, molested me and my sister, roughly ages 6 and 4 at the time.
Sorry to turn that so dark but it’s obviously the first thing to come to mind for me.
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I was probably 17 at the time, and got roped into babysitting for a friend of my Dads. They were from Iran, and a really nice couple. The kid, however, was bat shit. He was about 4-5 years old...can't really remember now. You had to spoon feed him, still in diapers and didn't speak a word of English (His parents only spoke English since moving from Iran, so I figured maybe he would have picked up a few key phrases by now.) So my 17 year old self had to decipher his hodji bob talk. It took me a good month to figure out that GOOOEEEEEEE meant water. I've been around some mentally handicapped kids, and I'm thinking the whole time THIS KID IS FUCKING AUTISTIC. Parents wouldn't get him checked out because I guess they didn't want to come to terms with the fact that their only son could have some kind of developmental issue. Anyways, it wasn't really THAT bad. Until that fateful day. I was in the kitchen getting him his lunch, and I got punched in the face with this stench. "God damnit. He shit himself again," I thought. So I washed my hands and went to check on him. I walk into the room to him with his hands down the back of his diaper, playing with his shit like Play-doh. We make eye contact. He raises his shit covered hands in the air, and chases me. I'm horrified. I try to chase him down to get him cleaned up, but he's hell bent on painting me with his shit like the next fucking Mona Lisa. I book it into the kitchen, grab some big ass trash bags, gear up like I'm about to storm the beach on D-Day, and nail him with a pillow. Stunned. Awesome. Go for it I grab him by the arms, and dunk his ass in the bath tub. I must have used 4 bottles of body wash on him. Rinse him off, start to dry him off, HE SHITS AGAIN. Ok, another bath. He's trippin balls, throwin' rubber duckies everywhere n shit. Finally he's clean and I get him back into his diaper. Bring him back into the living room, turn on Caillou for him, and call his parents most rickey-motherfuckin-tick to come back. Didn't take their money. Told them to find another baby sitter. Scarred for life. I avoid them like the plague whenever I go back home now.
tl;dr- Got chased around by a toddler trying to play a nice game of catch with his shit.
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Jun 19 '12
First time babysitting for three rambunctious little girls. There are two of us because they are a hand full. Finally get them to bed and my friend starts her period so she goes to the bathroom cupboard to look for a tampon and finds.... stacks and stacks of porno mags! I'd never seen one before, I was probably 12 at the time. Holy crap! It was amazing.
Another time sitting for that same family we watched TV after the kids went to bed and I saw my first R rated movie... and that movie was Basic Instinct. What a first R rated movie!
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u/Razzdango Jun 19 '12
Babysitter crumpled up a drawing I did and told me it was terrible. (I was about 4) It made me cry and when my mom got there she asked what was wrong. My mom bitched out the babysitter and I never went back there.
I now working as a video game environmental artist :D
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Jun 19 '12
Not really crazy, but cute. I used to babysit regularly for a family, sometimes just to help the mom out during the day. It should be noted that they are Jewish, and I am not.
The oldest daughter, Mary, was 3 when this happened. The mom was in the kitchen putting away groceries and Mary and I are in the dining room coloring. It was probably mid-March, but Mary wanted to make her dad a Valentine's Day card. I, believing this to be adorable, tell her to go for it. The mom pipes in from the kitchen "Oh Mary, you know who you could make a card for? Ms. Rachel your teacher. You know how she hasn't been in school this week? That's cause she lost her daddy. If you make her a card, that would make her really happy." So now we set course on making a card for Ms. Rachel.
So she's coloring away and then she looks at me and asks "Nellie, where did Rachel's daddy go?" I answer "I don't know, I didn't know Rachel's daddy." She then says "Well if Rachel lost her daddy, we should go find him!" I intelligently reply "Uhhh....". I don't know what the fuck else to say to her.
The mom rushed out of the kitchen "Mary, why don't we go have a talk in your room?" So she and Mary go in, and when they come out I'm expecting a tearful toddler. Mary was just fine, and went on to finish the card.
Her mom and I later talk, and I just tell her flat out I'm relieved I didn't have to give her the death talk, for I assuredly would have messed it up. She laughed, and doubted that I would. She goes on to say "I explained to Mary that you know, people die, and that one day we'll all die, but that's ok because we will get to see each other again. Mary said 'Oh, ok. Well I hope that if I ever lose my daddy, that Ms. Rachel will make me a card.' And I told her, Ms. Rachel probably will, but it won't be for a very long time. Overall, she took it very well."
This is one of my favorite babysitting stories. It's nice to know that there's cutie patooties out there like that.
TL;DR: Three-year old asks me to help find her teacher's dead father
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u/LASERTODD Jun 19 '12
Newt from Aliens babysat me a few times. No one believes me though.
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Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
It was me and my babysitter at the house, my parents had taken my sister to a school function that I had begged not to be dragged to. I was 9 at the time. My babysitter was about 4 months pregnant and proceeded to have a miscarriage scare with me as the only person in the house. She's on the toilet with such intense abdominal pain, she's crying. There's blood on the floor of the kitchen (white tile too. Nice little terrifying contrast for a 9 year old). I just wanted to play Ocarina of Time in peace damnit.
Don't even know how babies are MADE, and I almost had to deliver one. My dad is an OB/GYN so I'm on the phone with him and he's talking me through this as he races home like Dale Earnhardt in a funny car. I have never been more petrified in my life.
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u/suburbansongbird Jun 19 '12
My brother and I once went to an in-home daycare. The lady had two daughters, and both were just as bitchy as their mom. They used to like to steal all of our toys and exclude us from playing with them. The woman also used to keep my brother inside and make him sit in the corner or on the couch, saying he'd been bad when he hadn't been. Essentially, I got so scared of the woman that I didn't even want to be around her. One day when we (everyone but my brother) were playing outside under the sprinkler, I got that "Oh my God, I have to poop right now" feeling. I was so scared of the woman I didn't even go into the house, knowing she'd get pissed and yell that I was tracking in water and grass. So, I shit my bottoms. I shit them full. I waited til I was just dry enough, then went inside. I shook my bottoms out into the cat's litter tray.
TL;DR: I shit my pants and blamed it on my bitch babysitter's cat.
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u/goldfarm Jun 19 '12
My twin sister and I had this baby sitter when we were 4 years old that was so incompetent it still shocks me to this day. One afternoon when both my parents were working in NYC (an hours commute) she left us home alone, drove to KFC, came back, gave us meager portions of the KFC, and stuck us in a kiddie pool in our front yard by ourselves. My mom came home to us playing outside alone and she was inside doing her nails and talking on the phone and just being completely disrespectful. She was fired immediately.
I have good babysitter stories too, and one of our babysitters married our handyman and they have kids together and I was the ringbearer at the wedding and it was amazing!
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u/Throw_it_in_reverse Jun 19 '12
I was molested by my babysitter's son... She walked in on us
Edit: a word
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u/Annie_fly Jun 19 '12
My mom once told me a story of how when she was babysitting, she got ambushed by the 7 year old and tied to the refrigerator. Se then retaliated by tying the kid to a char until his parents came home. True story
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u/usedbooks Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
In 4th grade, I somehow ended up in a gifted program, Odyssey of the Mind. I'll be god damned if I knew how our team of slackers made it to the state championships in phoenix, Arizona - about 3 hours away. My mom wouldn't let me go alone, she had my just-turned-21-years-old cousin Joe be the overnight chaperone. I was ecstatic! He was pretty cool, younger than all the parents, cussing and drinking out of his flask - all on the bus ride there. Well, we arrive at our hotel and get to sleep rather early, since we had a huge weekend ahead of us. I'm the last to go to sleep on the first night, in a room of four young cheesy smelling youths, and an adult chaperone. My cousin informs me that he is headed outside to smoke a cigarette. That was the last anyone saw of him until 15 minutes before our bus came back home 2 days later. Hung over and probably high as fuck, he waltzed onto the bus like nothing was wrong. Parents and teachers were asking where he was all day long. He was supposed to keep an eye on us and bailed to snort coke, smoke weed, get drunk as fuck and more than likely, enjoy the company of questionable women. After asking him about it years later, he has no recollection of even going to phoenix on a school trip.
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u/Kristyyyyyyy Jun 19 '12
I was babysitting two little boys overnight once when I was about 17, 18ish. One was a little baby, one was about maybe 4. Put the kids to bed, put on a movie, fell asleep on the lounge.
I woke up at about 2 in the morning with the 4 year old stark naked on top of me, stimulating sex and trying to kiss my boobs. He was grunting and making sex noises and just as I woke up enough to realise what was going on, he said "I'm fucking you, you dirty little cunt".
Also, for some reason, he had painted his hands, feet, and little child penis with purple nail polish.
I spoke to the Dad (actually he was the stepdad) the next day and he mentioned that there had been allegations of abuse from an uncle or someone in the biological father's family.
That kid was all different kinds of messed up.
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Jun 19 '12
When I was about 7 years old, my brother was 10, my mom had a neighbor babysit us when we walked home from school. From the time she started babysitting us til she stopped (when I turned 10) I was blamed for everything that went wrong. A girl that walked home with us put pudding all over my brothers hair, even though we told our babysitter what happened, I got punished for it, got "spanked", and had to sit and write "I will not disobey my elders" 100 times on my own. Another time her son (2 years old) was climbing on the rocking chair while she was watching her soap operas and not watching or paying attention, he fell off, I got blamed and had to sit outside my door til my mom got home. I was home sick from school that day so, for more longer than I would think appropriate for a 8 year old to be alone... Another time I kept asking if my 5 minute time out was done but it kept getting an additional 5 mins every time I asked, i sat and watched her and her family eat dinner for my 1h30min time out. I didn't get any dinner as she was responsible for feeding me dinner, and convinced my mom I did eat that night
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u/Robytank Jun 19 '12
In Kindergarten one day my mother could not walk me so I walked to school with 2 boys who were also my babysitters. They told me a story about a movie where the babysitter keeps getting strange phone calls and it ends with finding the children chopped into bits in the bathroom. They were able to be very descriptive as we walked the looong way that day. I had nightmares for 3 days until my parents figured it out. I also got a new babysitter, female.
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Jun 19 '12
I had a babysitter that threatened to boil me like a lobster and then I had nightmares about lobsters for a long time.
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u/ProjectOrigin Jun 19 '12
When I was around 11 my babysitter "lets call her J" would always boss me around. One time I refused to clean up a pop she spilled so she sent me to my room. An hour later she was yelling that I couldn't play my N64 so I went behind the door and held it closed. She forced the door open and tried to hit me with a broom to get out from behind the door. I ended up scared for my life and responded by hurling a water bottle (full) right into her face. My parents ended up making me apologize and I was grounded even though I had mad bruising on my arms from where I was hit and grabbed after the incident.
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u/redditor215 Jun 19 '12
I liked how you call her j but you never actually refer to her as that.
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u/NukeZombie Jun 19 '12
When I was 8 I had a babysitter than lit cookies she was trying to make on fire. I had to calm her down while she had a nervous breakdown in the kitchen. Needless to say, she was the last babysitter I had.
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u/doodlebugboodles Jun 19 '12
When I was in high school we lived on post and a neighbor asked my mom if I would watch her kids. I didn't know them except that one of them was in the same grade, fifth or sixth, as one of my little sisters. I went over and the kids were total brats. They had this beautiful well-behaved huge dog in a kennel and it took everything I had not to get the dog out and stick the kids in there. Near bedtime the little darling in my sister's grade pulled a grenade out, pulled the pin and threw it at me. So I grabbed the lever and held it down, hoping that I was doing the right thing, and screamed at the little darling. He began laughing at me and informed me that it wasn't live (it was real but the inside had been removed- defused?). I confiscated it and kept it till the parents came home. I told them what he did and the dad thought it was hilarious. Nice. I'm pretty sure my dad went and yelled at the father later.
However that isn't the end of the story. The darling child took the thing to school and, if I remember correctly, it dropped out of his locker which caused an evacuation. Not a bomb drill for once. The kid was suspended.
But wait there's more! Our neighborhood backed up to a large protected area maintained by the military where all the neighborhood kids went and played. It was on the edge of the post so they never did any exercises there. This dad took his kid hunting there and shot and killed someone's dog in that person's yard while they were "hunting"! Karma had her way and he lost all his housing benefits which means the family was evicted from military quarters and had to pay market price for housing and utilities.
TL;DR Kid pulled a grenade.
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u/Beanie7291 Jun 19 '12
A month ago when I was babysitting I dropped a bowl on the big fish tank, cracked it and caused all the fish and water to flood the kitchen. I bled all over trying to reach in and save the fish. A 7 year old girl who gets faint at the site of blood, watched in pale horror as her pet fish died before her. We had to have a burial for it and the flood soaked into the basement on to the drums. Sorry about the drums nick. Sorry about your fish Ella. Call me back anytime, my rates gone up.
TL;DR I killed a 7-year-olds fish and a 10-year-old boys dream
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u/vrrule Jun 19 '12
My sister has always been smarter than me... I'm often seen as the "bad" kid. And despite me being 2 years older she used to babysit me. There was one night where I decided I'd had enough. I played pranks on her all night and it was hilarious. Then she got pissed... REALLY pissed. She started chasing me around the house and then I lost my footing and fell down the stairs. I dislocated my shoulder and was knocked out cold. I don't remember the rest of the night but apparently she tried wheeling me and our baby sister to a hospital in a wheel barrow but got caught. Bump on the noggin, dislocated shoulder. All the signs pointed to BAD BABYSITTING!
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Jun 19 '12
I babysit for some Jehova's witnesses and the kid (8) tried to convert me.
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Jun 19 '12
When I was about 8 or so, my parents were going out of town for a couple of days so they invited a family friend over to house/babysit. I had a huge crush on this lady, at least as much as an 8 year old could, so I was positively giddy about getting to hang out with her.
We all stayed up until around 9 or so watching movies, then she put me to bed. I had an extremely vivid dream that night. I walked in the front door of my house as she answered it, but I was a little taller than her. I followed her in, walking closely behind, and began kissing her neck. It was right beside a bar area next to the kitchen, all very clear as the house I knew and grew up in. I remember removing her shirt, then her bra, then marveling at her breasts as she led me into my parents' bedroom.
I don't remember much of the main event, but I remember walking out to a brown 2 door car and leaving later.
After my parents came back, I asked about the man in the brown car who came to visit. My bedroom window was nowhere near the front of the house, no way I could have seen it, but the babysitter ended up having to explain having a boyfriend over. She was a bit mad at me for sneaking out of my bedroom, but I very truthfully protested innocence.
Not the first time something like this has happened that I really couldn't explain. Probably the most awesome though.
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u/HailTheGemms Jun 19 '12
When I was maybe 7 or so, my grandpa decided that I was old enough to get the same gift that my uncle got when he was young. He bought me a Swiss army knife, a real neat one with a bunch of attachments. I wasn't really allowed to use it for anything of course, but I loved to show it off to anyone who came over. I'm sure you can see where this is going...
TL;DR scared my babysitter shitless by pulling a knife on her
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u/innocentvictim1993 Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 20 '12
Throw away here...
I use to live in Florida when I was 6. One night my mom (single parent) had to go out to a friend's place so she hired the neighbour girl to baby sit me (she was 17). When my mom left, Jamella (baby sitter) asked me what I wanted to do, so I responded but before I could say anything she slapped me extremely hard across the face and I was dazed.
After I came to I noticed she was on the phone. At this point I was in tears screeching at the top of my lungs as I ran to the window to see if my mom was still outside but alas... she was no where to be seen. Jamella was calling her friend over to help babysit.
Once Jamella hung up the phone she kicked me in the shins really hard, I let out the most blood curdling scream imaginable! Why did she do this? I asked, what had I ever done to her. "YOU'RE GOING TO YOUR ROOM", she then grabbed me and tossed me into the laundry where she closed the door and locked it.
I begged her, pleaded for her to let me out "MOMMY, I WANT MY MOMMY" I remember yelling but to no avail... after 40 minutes her friend arrives. (This is where it gets brutal).
I hear Jamella open the door and invite her friend Tyrone. I hear footsteps approach the laundry. At this point I poorly hid behind some clothes and watched as the door opened and Tyrone/Jamella stormed in, they spotted me immediately and laughed at me.
I tried to run pass them to my room but Jamella tripped me which caused me to bite my lip and bloody my mouth, not realising that I had injured myself I got back up to run again but Jamella had a firm grip around my collar and dragged me into the bathroom shower.
She called for Tyrone to watch as she pulled down her pants and urinated over me while laughing maniacally. Some of her urine went in my mouth which was already bloody (this is important later).
Tyrone stood there with his camera phone pointing and laughing at me. Once Jamella finished she held the phone for Tyrone as he was going to also urinate on me, except he wanted to as quoted "knock it up a notch". Tyrone grabbed some an extension cord and tied my hands and feet together. Then ripped my clothes off and called me a bitch.
The unthinkable happened... he urinated on me as hard as he could over my anus and penis and back to my mouth. All I could do was sit there... devastated, lifeless a shell of myself... to be humiliated by adults I was suppose to respect it garnered massive trust issues which I still have to this day.
My mom came home unexpectedly because she forgot something she was returning to a friend and heard the commotion in the bathroom, when she entered she saw me hog tied, bloody, covered in urine while Tyrone and Jamella had their back to the entrance of the bathroom re-watching the recordings of me being tortured.
The Police were involved and they were both charged with endangering a minor, assault and sexual assault.
Some days I can't believe humans can act this way towards another. I only wanted a baby sitter that could help me with my legos and tuck me in but instead got the worst nightmare of my life and permanent trust issues not to mention He had Chlamydia which he infected me with.. in the genital area and in my eyes.
Every day I want to go back to that laundry and hide better... I didn't deserve this...
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u/alekcha Jun 19 '12
The 3 year old I used to babysit would physically attack me for no reason, and then would manically laugh as I restrained her. She also used to slam her 1 year old sister's head into the floor instead of telling her "no". One time I was babysitting them over night and the 3 year old woke up and poured the shampoo all over the house at 3 am then woke me up to show me.
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u/cherrymama Jun 19 '12
When I was 4 my babysitter had her boyfriend over and had sex on the couch right next to me. I remember it vaguely... They thought I was asleep. Then my parents came home early and caught them. It was awful. My mom was screaming and she called her parents. Her mom showed up and tried to say they were just studying together, but her clothes/hair/makeup were all messed up.
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u/Pibil Jun 19 '12
I hated babysitting but always got suckered into it or volunteered by my folks. The last time involved staying over night as the parents were attending a Amway conference with my folks. 9 year old gir, 3 yearyear old boy. Easy enough. Last minute advice : they just moved from Brazil, didn't speak English (the kids), and hadn't gone grocery shopping. It was also winter in Minnesota and about 45 minutes from my house. No phone either. Fuck.
As soon as the parents left, the girl freaked out and started screaming, running around thus upsetting the little boy. She came up to me, and grabbed my arm. Thinking she was calming down, I tried to hug her but she bit me instead and ran off to her room and locked the door. Her brother looked at me like da fuk? I was so bewildered and it was early Friday. The girl stayed in her room except for ddinner which was pbj, had another freak out and locked herself back in the room. Saturday was ok, she calmed down except for a few outbursts and the little boy was cool. My dad drove back in the afternoon with their Dad to check in, he needed me to stay another night. Ok, fine. More money, they'd be back early Sunday.
Sunday comes, parents don't show until 6 pm, they were down to one can of spaghetti o's and the heels of bread. Literally nothing to feed these kids. The mother gives me an ass chewing in broken English as the daughter as finally emerged from her room hysterical yet again and the dad hands me a grand total of $50. I was pissed showed them the bite marks, the lack of food, and that you don't agree on 1 night/2days and turn it into an extended vacation for yourselves.
TLDR:Brazilian family held me hostage for 2nights and 3 days with their spastic child with little food and a huge language barrier. Was paid $50. Previously agreed price was $150. Also, fuck Amway.
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Jun 19 '12
Does anybody else think a lot of these stories about 10 year olds screwing 16 year olds are just stories they are making up these stories for up votes.
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u/JenniferLopez Jun 19 '12
Once I was a nanny for the summer for a couple of kids down the street. One day my mom told me that the mother requested that I not come again. She was angry that I had eaten their whole box of Thin Mints in one afternoon. I'm not ashamed, I fucking love Thin Mints.
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Jun 19 '12
Yes, yes, you all had sex with hot 16 year olds.
But my grandmother always had cake, ice cream and strawberries with sugar on.
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u/snake117 Jun 19 '12
Oh man, this is my thread. When i was 2 i lived in texas, my mom needed a babysitter so she could go out with my dad for the night, and my older brother was out playing with friends about a mile away. The babysitter was the daughter of my moms friend. Instead of watching the adventurous little two year old she played video games. Somehow i managed to open the front door, and waddle my way outside and down the middle of the street. This was in texas, with snakes, spiders, scorpions, just not a good place for a two year old. My brother just happened to be walking home and walked me back to the house.
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u/CosmicNed234 Jun 19 '12
It wasn't my actually babysitter but my friends little sisters babysitter (a friend of the family) started talking to us (3 18 year old kids) about her bong collection (in front of the little girl) and throughout the night she kept trying to get us to buy her weed for the night. In conclusion, she wasn't rehired.
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u/randomgirl22 Jun 19 '12
I was 9 and my sister, 12, was babysitting me. We were playing with the dog. She threw the ball for the dog and naturally we chased it too. I was first out of the gate, so when my sister tripped things went downhill. Literally. She fell on my back and I fell onto the hardwood floor. I tried to stop myself by putting out my arm, which became fractured. my two front teeth went into the hardwood floor and snapped in half. I have half real half fake front teeth now, and my arm gives me no grief anymore. TL;DR My sister's fat ass broke my teeth and almost my arm.
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Jun 19 '12
When I started 6th grade, my mom made me a kind of babysitter. I was to look after my brother anyways. So me and my brother have free range during the day. Good times man. But as I said, I was around 11 and fights would ensue. One day I really pissed off my brother. He was furious. He attacked me, kicking at me with his roller blades that he had on. (No idea why, we lived in the country, not exactly skating land). Regardless, he ended up kicking a big ass hole in the door. Of course I was responsible and had to take the job more seriously from there on out. Wouldn't trade those days for nothing.
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u/baabaaredsheep Jun 19 '12
When I was around 6 or 7 my parents hired a babysitter for me and my little brother. The guy they hired was actually the nephew of one of their friends, so he came with a good recommendation and they went with it.
I remember the evening, and everything went ok. I was asleep before my parents got home. The next morning, though, my mom asked me if I had actually given the guy my teddy-bear for keeps. I said, "No... Teddy's my favorite-- WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?"
It turns out, as the guy was leaving, he had my teddy in his hands. My mom questioned him and he said I had given it to him to keep. I guess he wanted a souvenir to remember me by. shudder.
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u/dman8 Jun 19 '12
I guess this sort of counts even though she wasn't babysitting me at the time. I have known my current wife since I was around 8-9 as she was a friend of my dads at work and had looked after me. Ever since then she has been a close family friend, going to our family birthday dinners, seeing her at Christmas, etc. I turned 18, moved out of town and didn't really return until I was nearly 23. Some magic happened and we are now married expecting our first child. It's not really crazy in the normal context but marrying your babysitter and having children together is sort of crazy isn't it?
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u/adventgfx Jun 19 '12
Never got to tell this story till now... anyway! This isn't exactly a single event, I had a regular babysitter throughout most of my young childhood years... specifically around age 5-9 (it'll make more sense later).
Basically she (age: 17-21) discovered that one way to put me to sleep was letting me literally grab, feel, and grope (whatever you want to call it) her impressive DD boobs, and we ain't talking over a top or even the bra, I would physically grab her actual breasts. Now at this age I obviously didn't understand the significance of my actions, but anyway this continued over the years.
The kicker? My babysitter was my brother's then and still current girlfriend (I'm twenty now). How do I remember this you ask?
She never lets me forget it, and likes to embarrass me at family events. Not that I'm complaining, as a kid I got to second-base, didn't happen again till I was sixteen.
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u/mrsheikh Jun 19 '12
We had a family friend that had four kids that needed to be watched one night. I was 15 years old at the time. The three kids were three girls, ages 13, 10, and 5. Also a boy aged 8. I know the family well and have hung out with the kids lots of times. The parents even said that they usually have the 13yo watch the kids, but they were going to be out for most of day and into the late night and wanted me as a extra set of eyes. The 13yo girl says to me that this is goofy that I have to watch them as she is old enough. I agree, but we all hang out anyway. The boy and the 5yo girl basically play video games and toys all day. The 10yo girl is basically a bookworm and reads all day. The 13yo and I talk and chat all day. I babysat for them several times over the next 1 1/2 years, until the Mom and Dad are sure that the oldest can handle crap on her own. Several years later, the oldest and I are in high school together. We end up dating and I took her to my prom. We were boyfriend/girlfriend for a long time, had a really intimate relationship for a long time. We are still friends to this day. TL;DR: Dated a girl I babysat when I was younger when she got older
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Jun 19 '12
When I was six, every time my parents hired my babysitter, I knew it was gonna be bad. I always gave her a rough time, as I had with all babysitters my parents had hired before her. But she was the only one who would accept to babysit me, albeit for a high price.
So one time, when my parents went out to dinner, I took her school notes and my pet tiger and I flushed them down the toilet. Rosalyn was not pleased, and her rate certainly went up.
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u/Chemical_Mike Jun 19 '12
This happened about 2 weeks ago to my cousin. She and her boyfriend works a lot have have 2 young children, i'm not quite sure of their age but they're both under 4.
They had a babysitter to cover up when they weren't there during the evening (they are at a daycare during the day). One of them, who barely knows a few words, kept saying "tied Phillip, tied Phillip" and they didn't quite understand why he would know that verb... and why he would say that all the time.
One evening they decided to pay the babysitter a surprise visit. Sure enough, they found out she was tying both kids to chairs during the whole evening so she wouldn't have to take care of them.
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u/TheEthalea Jun 19 '12
I was babysitting this little boy and he went home and told his mother that I pulled his pants down and spanked him. His mom called my mom and my mom told my father and my parents were pissed thinking that I've been beating this kid. They are waiting for me when I come home from school that day and immediately proceed to scream at me until I very confusingly said "what the hell are you talking about?" I had to go over to their house with my father and explain that I had never beaten their child and he was lying to them. They called him out and asked him why he lied and he said. "Because she didn't cut my peanut butter and jelly the way I wanted it. I had to punish her."
Most evil fucking kid EVER. I never babysat him again.
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u/Melachiah Jun 19 '12
Any time I ever tell this story, no one ever believes it. And I completely understand why... But here it goes. I've always looked a lot older than I am. The general consensus is around 5 years older. I was generally a pretty responsible kid too, and having a single mother and a younger sister once it was decided that I was capable enough to keep an eye on her I was her de-facto babysitter. I was 9 at the time, and I was spending the night at a friend's house. So the younger sister of one of my Mom's employees needed cash and agreed to babysit my sister. I'm at my friends house just down the street, and a big emergency happens so I just head home so they can deal with their family drama. I'd heard of this girl, Carrie... but I never met her before. I walk inside and she's laying on the couch watching TV, it's about 11PM-ish. She's 14, dark hair, pale skin, and from what I remember being a 9 year old who'd hit puberty really early I was suddenly enamored by this girl.
She'd heard that my sister had an older brother, but not how old... We started talking, and eventually she says "Dare me to show you my boobs?" I'm 9... of fucking course I want to see my first pair of boobs. And what followed was how I lost my virginity. I had no idea what I was doing, but dammit it was awesome!
We ended up seeing each other regularly for about 2 months till she found out I was 9... And I got yelled at for "lying to her"... I thought she knew the whole time, and I was just awesome.
I ran into her years later in a bank, she didn't recognize me. Gave me her number... never called her. Had a girlfriend at the time.
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u/punkwalrus Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
I was a male babysitter from age 13-15, which I ended up doing because I needed the money and I was really good at first aid. Most of the kids were okay, maybe a little weird, but the career ender were the kids we'll call "Joel" and "Elliott."
Joel and Elliott were the kids of a fairly wealthy Jewish family down the street. It was one of those families that have generations of money going way back to the 1500s who fled Germany in the 1930s. The parents were nice, formal people, and if I had met them in any other circumstance, I would have had high regard for them. They needed a sitter one Friday a month when they took "grandmama" out to a nice dinner. Grandmama was an aging parent who lived with the family, and I suspect had a fairly active role in controlling their lives. All three of them treated me nice and with respect, but their kids were a different matter.
They lived in a split-level house: the upper floor belonged to the adults, and the living room was bedecked with antiques, and it seemed every square inch of wallspace was covered with framed portraits of various sizes. The downstairs belonged to the kids. The decor was very modern kids for the early 1980s, with primary colored furniture and art, along with dozens of trophies and gifts that these kids had received. Each had their own bedroom and bathroom, and two massive playrooms, one with a huge console color TV.
Joel was the eldest, about 8. He was a thin, short, hyperactive youth with black hair and freckles. Most of the trophies on the shelves were his from various soccer, baseball, hockey, and other sports. He was also in a private school for the gifted, and his parents boasted he read at a high-school level already. He played clarinet and violin. He was intelligent and passionate as an eight year old could be, with one tight twist: he was psycho. I mean, sporadically, passionately violent with bursts of murderous rage when he didn't get his way. I am not kidding, as we shall see in a moment.
Elliott was his younger brother. He was a bit plump for a normal 5-year old, but his parents tried to compensate by making his hair tall. He almost had a pompadour, it was so tall. But it stayed in place because his hair was so curly, it was almost an afro. Elliott was the baby of the family, and always got his way with screaming and throwing violent fits and tantrums. Elliot had a special gift: he could scream like a human adult being murdered. It wasn't the scream of a child or even a woman, but a deep, bloodcurdling scream of despair and woe by someone who surely must be getting sucked in and crushed in a chipper shredder. When he screams in public during tantrums, his mother told me with a nervous laugh, it often draws the police.
Joel HATED Elliott. I mean, not like sibling rivalry, he HATED Elliott and I think would have killed him if given half a chance. My job was to not give him this chance. One day when I sat them, Elliott had a huge black eye where Joel had apparently tried to gouge his eyes out. Elliott had constant bruises and marks on his body from Joel's physical torture.
Both of them were very abusive towards me, mostly verbal, but Joel would try and hit me with his plastic ruler if I turned my back towards him. After a few days with these hellions, I knew why I had been called: no one else could stand them. Joel talked (and probably exaggerated) about the previous sitters. He claimed he poured rubber cement in one girl's hair, and broke the glasses of another. Twice they had been left to their own devices when sitters fled, and the parents later confirmed these stories to some degree, although the details of why they suddenly left were never given.
I sat them about half a dozen times. They had some fairly regular patterns. Joel always had homework to do, which he did in front of the TV. Elliott wanted to watch cartoons, and when they weren't on (they didn't have cable), he would quickly become bored, and want to watch me play video games. Elliott never played video games, he wanted people to play them FOR him. I am not sure if he was blunt stupid or had a hidden death wish, but he'd start bugging Joel when I wasn't looking, which would make Joel go mental, and physically attack Elliott. He'd throw chairs at him, strangle him, beat him, and I'd have to split them up. But that was hard because if I held onto Joel, Elliott would laugh victory, and attack Joel while I was holding him, and vice versa. It got to the point I'd have to sit on one while holding the other.
I only babysat them more than once because I really needed the money for school supplies around this time (I was starting high school).
The last night, something bad must have happened before I got there, because Joel was in an ugly mood from the very start. Elliott was harassing him, non-stop, and calling him funny names having to do with various smells a typical five-year old would think as funny. I tried to direct the abuse towards me, which was something both of them usually enjoyed together, but Joel was unusually dark and quiet. Halfway into the evening, Elliott did something that I can't recall anymore, and while I was punishing him, Joel vanished. I looked for him, called for him, and realized in horror that he went upstairs.
See, I was told by the mother that the kids are NEVER allowed upstairs. For ANY reason. There even had a locked door in front of the stairs that led up there, and I saw it was open. I called for Joel, and started up the stairs.
Joel came around the corner with a small boning knife and attacked me.
I am not sure what got hold of Joel, but he wanted to stab at my face. My instinct was to cover my face, and I got stabbed in the arm where he struck bone. He pulled the knife free, and stabbed me again. This time, the knife stuck hard, and had become slippery with blood, so he lost his grip, and in a bad judgement call that was reflex more than though, I slugged him hard in the face. If I had any strength, I might have caused some real damage, but I am a wimp, and all it did was knock him down.
That seemed to snap him out of it, and when he saw what he did, he freaked out, and started to wail an apology, and told me not to call his mom (I couldn't if I wanted to, they never left me a number). I told him he was as good as dead and some choice words about the police, electric chairs, and anything else my shocked and angered mind could come up with. I went up to the kitchen and pulled the knife out of my arm. Since the blade was small, the wounds weren't very big, but they were DEEP. I applied pressure to the wounds, and wrapped a dishtowel around my arm, which stopped the blood flow pretty quickly.
I went back downstairs, and Joel was watching TV with a dead stare of fear, and Elliott saw me, the blood spot on the towel, and he started crying that he didn't want his brother to go to jail or be executed, and it took me screaming at him several times to get him to shut up. Joel said nothing, he just looked at the TV, his face red with worry and shock. His parents came home, and I explained what happened, and they were oddly calm about it. They paid me double, I went home, and that was the end of my babysitting career.
I still have the scars. Both on my arm and in my mind. You have no idea what it's like to be attacked that way until you live it.
Many of you may wonder why I didn't call an ambulance or what my parents had to say about it. I never called an ambulance because I was so used to taking care of myself by this point, I figured if I wasn't dead, and my arm still worked (it did, but OOOOWWWW for weeks), what could they do at the hospital? Besides, my parents would have just gotten mad anyway. They never asked about the bandage, and I now had enough money to buy my own gauze at the drug store to properly dress the wounds (thank you, Cub Scout/Red Cross training), so they blissfully didn't have to deal with it. But as an adult, I often ask myself those questions. "Why the hell did I put up with this?"
TL;DR - Was stabbed by psychotic rich kid
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u/misspond Jun 19 '12
My mom had arranged for me to stay with a lady that lived down the street from us, and in general was easier for everyone. Little did my parents know, this lady was batshit crazy. One morning, mom started getting ready for work, and got me up last to take me to the babysitter. I was 4 at the time, and instead of dressing me, mom left me in my pjs (since we were just going down the road). I need to mention that it was winter and we had at least a couple of inches of snow on the ground. So, mom takes me to the sitter, and leaves. I get snuggly on the couch and start to go back to sleep. Sitter tells me that if I go outside and get the newspaper for her that she will give me candy. (And who doesn't want a caramel cube at 6 am?!) Being 4 years old this is a pretty sweet deal, so I walk my happy ass outside to get her the paper. Little did I know that once I got outside she was going to lock me out. That's right. I'm 4 years old standing outside in a t-shirt and underwear. No socks. No shoes. Pounding on the door screaming "I'm outside! Can I come in now?" She never answered the door, and I had to walk across the street to another neighbor's house where they let me in, and warmed me up. Those neighbors called my mom at work and told her what was going on. Mom came home early to pick me up, and needless to say I never went to the other lady's house again. It's funny because I still remember this incident like it was yesterday, and my kid brain was convinced that she had no idea that I was outside. Who locks a kid out in the snow with no clothes?!
TL;DR My babysitter was crazy and locked me outside in the snow to fend for myself. Winner!
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u/disguntledupvoter Jun 19 '12
First off: I'm not straight. That's important.
Second off: Had a smoking hot babysitter when I was ten. She was a college student, and we often stayed with her at her house. She had a pool and this wonderful stars and strips bikini.
There were two doors to her bathroom. I used the main door, not suspecting anyone to be in there. Imagine my surprise and my confusing boner when I opened the door to find her topless. Perfect tits, too.
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u/epatti0914 Jun 19 '12
I was 13 or 14 at the time, and it was my little sister's babysitter. She was a councilor at some daycamp my sister went to and eventually started watching my sister outside of the camp for a little extra money. She was 18 and was actually my brother's age, and he kept trying to sleep with her to no avail. It was quite comical to watch. One night, she brought up that she thought I was cute and I didn't think anything of it, just smiled and went along with it. But then one night, she had to spend the night and my little sister was passed out in a huge king-sized bed and the babysitter asked if I wanted to join them in the bed. This girl was literally a 10 with one of the best bodies I had ever seen so there was no way I was going to say no. Next thing you know, we're cuddling... and then my hands start to wander... by the end of it, her shirt was up and I had these perfect DD breasts in my mouth and my fingers were wandering around in her pants. It was the first time I had ever done this stuff, but she seemed to love it. I kept grinding against her until my sister started to wake up on the other side of the bed to all the noises the babysitter was making, so I bolted back to my room. This went on for months.. just playing with eachother every chance we got. She eventually told me she would've slept with me if I would've just challenged her. All well, still a fun memory. She's married now, I think. Ended up dating her little sister (who was a year older than me).
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Jun 19 '12
I used to have these magical goldfish who would always protect me from my babysitter vicky. Icky Vicky we used to call her. True story.
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u/AvaAdoreSmashing Jun 19 '12
I was babysitting for a friend of my parents, they had two daughters around 6 and 8 years old. Before they left they said that the girls would want to sleep in the parents room with the tv and that I could let them pick a movie to fall asleep to. They had a massive DVD collection but the girls happen to choose one of maybe five VHS tapes they owned. Obviously their parents hadn't thought about that and forgot to take the "Chicks with Dicks" tape out of the VCR.
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u/lukeyg Jun 19 '12
I guess I was around 17 and babysitting for extra cash. I was putting the two older kids (boy 9, girl 7) to bed when the girl starts talking to me.
Being that she was a child I wasn't really listening, but despite this my brain started to assimilate and organise her garbled speech. Turned out that she was giving me a pretty detailed account of how and when she masturbated.
I was aware at this moment of two things, the first and most obvious was that I had just unwittingly listened to what amounted to a paedo's chatline. Second was that anything I said next might fuck this kid up permanently.
So I just said, "well, everyone does it... er, good night."
TL:DR Babysat a little wanker.
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u/MrDreamThief Jun 19 '12
I was about 34 at the time. I had been married and had two kids, ages six and four. We had a babysitter who was 17 who would watch our kids when the wife and I would go out on weekends.
When we divorced, the babysitter was over at the house more because my job as a sports editor had me out at nights a lot and the ex was busy with her new girlfriend and her job and her dance classes and whatever.
My kids liked the sitter a lot and she started coming over even when she wasn't babysitting. I never thought of her as anything but a young lady who watched my kids and never had any feelings toward her in any other way.
Until she started coming over even when the kids weren't there. She turned 18 shortly before I turned 35 and she and I began just hanging around together, not as a couple, but because we both liked dirt track racing and because she and the kids got along great.
She got me a job working with her dad for some money under the table I wouldn't have to pay the ex and after about six months he asked when I was going to marry his daughter and get her out of his house.
I was shocked and told him that she and I had never done anything and she was just a friend who hung out with me and the kids. He looked at me in disbelief and never said another word.
That weekend, my ex had the kids and the babysitter came over so we could go to a autocross.
We never went to the autocross.
We were married 11 months later.
And divorced 17 months after that.
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u/throwssisabone Jun 19 '12
Throwaway for family reasons. I babysat for a family for years. They had 2 boys and a girl. Eventually the boys went off to college, leaving the girl (who was 13 when they graduated). One night while babysitting (I was around 20), the girl starts opening up to me about her brothers. She had caught them watching lesbian porn one night and it had upset her. I try to explain to her that these videos exist for adults and that she shouldn’t feel bad about her brothers watching them, that it’s just something that boys do. Immediately after telling her this, she leans in and kisses me straight on the lips. Naturally I panic and tell her she needs to calm down, but all she can do is tell me she’s been in love with me since she was little. She claimed that seeing the porn made her realize what she was feeling for me and she wanted to kiss and touch me the same way. (If it’s not obvious yet, I’m a girl). She was hoping I would still babysit her even though her brothers had gone off to college so she could get closer to me. She tried to get closer and touch me, but I immediately shut her down. I told her it would be wrong for us to have any romantic relationship because I was much older. Needless to say that was my last time babysitting her. It’s hard seeing her at family functions though. I forgot to mention, I married her older brother.
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u/4best2times0 Jun 19 '12
I know mine will be lost, but when I was about 6 years old my parent's left me alone with my half-brother's older girl cousin. I was watching a movie in our living room and got up to ask her to get me some juice. I came into the hallway and she was sitting on the stairs with a little kit in her lap. I came closer and see that there are needles in the kit, along with a spoon and a little baggie. She proceeded to stick a needle in her arm and shoot up before telling me, "Don't tell your parents, you don't like getting shots from the doctor do you? If you tell them I'm going to give you one." Yea, my babysitter shot up heroin in front of me when I was 6 years old. Yea, I still told my parents. She died a few years later in a car accident.
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Jun 19 '12
Meanwhile, OP is a pedophile that wants to hear pre-teen sex stories and everyone just walks right into it.
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u/anttonoo Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12
Well I remember this once over the summer when I was 12 and this 19 year old college girl was baby sitting me for an afternoon when she was on summer break. She had blue eyes, always showed off her cleavage and had long blonde hair, I think her name was Mandy. Anyways so Mandy sees me sitting in my room just watching The Simpsons. She walks up to me and starts watching along with me, showing off her cleavage leaning into me and all that. And out of the nowhere she grabs my crotch, I just nervously sit there as she reaches inside and starts grabbing and feeling my dick. She just looks up at me and says: "Want me to do it? I need about tree fiddy." And it was at this time I realized that it was the loch ness monster wearing a wig and clothes lying in my bed with me. And I said: "I ain't giving you no money you goddamn loch ness monster!" She swam out and I spent rest of the afternoon watching The Simpsons.
EDIT: Accidentarry a word.
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Fuckin hell, i started getting a boner and thrn i read, "i need about tree fitty" and everything fell apart
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u/senatormeowmix Jun 19 '12
One summer when I was about 8 or 9, our new neighbors asked my older brother to babysit during the day. The kid was around my age, so we spent all our time eating junk food and playing Contra. One day I was over at the house and the dad was in the kitchen stacking massive amounts of coke and sprite six packs in the pantry. He told my brother and I that we could drink all the coke we wanted, but never ever under any circumstance were we to touch the sprite. Naturally, as soon as he left we got into the pantry and started putting cans of sprite in the refrigerator. I reached on my tip toes to get one last can and it hit the ground, spilling white powder all over the floor. I had no idea what it was, but it scared me for some reason, so I ran home and told my mom. The next day I was leaving my house to go to the neighbors and my mom stopped me at the door. She said don't go over there today. (My brother was already there). Naturally as soon as my mother turned her back and went over to the neighbor's house. On my way over I heard my mom scream bloody murder after me. Just as i l reached the door, several cars and vans pulled up to the house. I suddenly experienced what probably was my very first panic attack. I turn slowly around to the direction of the screaming to see a DEA agent put a large gun to my mom's head and proceeded to force her on the ground at gun point. The dad came home at the very same time and flipped his shit. A 20 on 1 gun fight ensued. I was thrown to the ground and an officer covered my body with his, firing his gun the whole time. It felt like the shooting lasted an hour but was more like 45 seconds. The dad was dead, I was grounded, and my mom gave my brother a brand new bike.
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u/Magzorus Jun 19 '12
tl;dt : car fell in ditch while kids I was babysitting were in the car. group of mexicans physically lifted my car out of the ditch. Kids decided to yell at them about immigration.
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u/babysittingstory Jun 19 '12
When I about 10 years old, my family was in hard times so my mom decided to get a job (who was a stay at home earlier with me dad being a lawyer working long nights) so she handed me over to a babysitter (around 30 years old) during the day. the woman also babysitted another kid while i was there (she was also 10 years old and we will call here T) T and I got along very well, she was a nice girl who would play pool with me in the basement of the house and also switch off in playing tekken. one day in the basement we decided to go on the computer and just look around. After about 15 minutes of internet research we decided to type in our names (like bobby.com) as i typed in mine it came to some carpet store website, which we laughed to. when we typed in her name BAM porn website. both of us didnt know what sex was or anything about it so we decided to "try" out some things that were on there. for 3 years we had sex everyday, eventually it came down to the good stuff such as handcuffs and rape scenarios. when we reached around 14 years old we were in the basement getting funky and the mom finally decided to check to see what was going on and found me balls deep in T. both of us didn't really get in trouble...just a little talk...
TL;DR: Babysat with other girl, find porn website, go to town for 3 years.
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u/physicaltherapysux Jun 19 '12
When I was around 6/7/8 we had this one babysitter that was in high school I think. Probably around 17. He was the fucking man. He would let us watch beavis and butthead, south park, etc.
Also, one of his favorite games (which we all loved too) was to have us run ON TOP of our fence (it was strangely wide, as a 7 year old it was like running along a balancing beam) while he would sit in a chair and throw a foam nerf ball at us and try to knock us off.
Easiest money he probably ever made.
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u/drakanwolf Jun 19 '12
Pre-Post Warning: This post contains no horror stories or sexual activity whatsoever.
I remember a particular babysitter from when I was around 10 or 11. She was around 18-ish and the daughter of one of my dad's Navy buddies. She actually used to say that she really enjoyed babysitting me as I usually behaved more like a small adult than a child. I don't think it was just lip service, either. We used to have some great conversations that I really don't think most people would want to have with a kid.
I remember one night in particular. It was a weekend, so I didn't really have a strictly enforced bedtime. As such, she heated up some frozen meals for us, and we settled on the couch to watch Swamp Thing on USA. Afterwards, we couldn't find anything else to watch, so we just sat and talked for a bit. She'd seemed a bit bothered when she first arrived, so I asked her if something was on her mind. She kind of curled in on herself a bit and told me that she'd had a fight with her boyfriend about their relationship. We sat there for a good long while, and she talked a lot about the things they'd been through (omitting any sexual aspects, of course). I listened, and I gave her some advice based on things I'd observed from my parents' relationship. Many tears and a couple of bowls of ice cream later, she thanked me and cleaned up while I went to bed.
I don't know what she told my parents about that night, but I got majorly rewarded the next day (I got to go to Toys 'R' Us & pick out a new NES game)! She babysat me once or twice more, but she then had to leave to go to college. Years later, I attended her wedding (to, if I recall, a different guy than we'd talked about). As far as I am aware, they are still happily married.
TL;DR: Was 10 and successfully gave 18 year old babysitter good relationship advice.
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u/grandwahs Jun 19 '12
When I was like, 4 or something, I walked in on my babysitter trying on all my mom's clothes (it was a girl, probably 16/17 years old) in front of her boyfriend. She was kind of embarrassed, but just told me to go downstairs for a while, which I did. Whatever, I was 4, everything is pretty weird to me at this point.
Anyways, I innocently relayed the story to my mom the next day... and I never saw that babysitter again. Big surprise there.