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I babysat, but don't have any horror stories or even badly behaved kids.
My sister and I had live in babysitters for a week or so at a time, and a few of those were really strange and one put my health in serious danger. When my folks would go visit family in Europe they would leave us with babysitters - hired from a company, because we had to stay for school.
My Dad was a doctor and my Mom was a bio-genetisist (both now retired) which comes into play for both these stories.
The first was the weird one: The freaky about any hint of sex sitter. I was probably 9 and my sister 7. My Dad's name and another doctor's name is very similar - the other doctor is a gyno. Often calls for him would come to our house. You could tell when it was one of them, because she would get bright red and stammer. After she hung up I would ask what the medical problem was and she would refuse to answer as if I shouldn't know women in the world had babies. (Yup, lady and so does my baby sis - we were given the birds and bees speech at 6 along with an explanation of the double helix of DNA). My sis didn't like sleeping alone when these sitters were in our home - so she would sleep in my bed with me. This lady freaked and refused to allow it saying it was "unnatural" - we couldn't figure it out - wtf. If she had such a sick dirty mind - she really shouldn't have been around kids.
The second: Skip forward to the next spring. Different sitter for I think two weeks this time. I got sick the last few days - really sick. No school, chills, then fever. My Dad came home - took one look at me, threw me over his shoulder and sped off to the emergency room. I'd had Scarlett Fever for nearly a week and had a temp of brain cooking perportions, the sitter had never even taken me to a clinic or told my folks I was sick.
Needless to say, ever after that the folk's trips were moved to summer and we stayed with aunts and uncles.
My sister and I had live in babysitters for a week or so at a time, and a few of those were really strange and one put my health in serious danger. When my folks would go visit family in Europe they would leave us with babysitters - hired from a company, because we had to stay for school.
My Dad was a doctor and my Mom was a bio-genetisist (both now retired) which comes into play for both these stories.
The first was the weird one: The freaky about any hint of sex sitter. I was probably 9 and my sister 7. My Dad's name and another doctor's name is very similar - the other doctor is a gyno. Often calls for him would come to our house. You could tell when it was one of them, because she would get bright red and stammer. After she hung up I would ask what the medical problem was and she would refuse to answer as if I shouldn't know women in the world had babies. (Yup, lady and so does my baby sis - we were given the birds and bees speech at 6 along with an explanation of the double helix of DNA). My sis didn't like sleeping alone when these sitters were in our home - so she would sleep in my bed with me. This lady freaked and refused to allow it saying it was "unnatural" - we couldn't figure it out - wtf. If she had such a sick dirty mind - she really shouldn't have been around kids.
The second: Skip forward to the next spring. Different sitter for I think two weeks this time. I got sick the last few days - really sick. No school, chills, then fever. My Dad came home - took one look at me, threw me over his shoulder and sped off to the emergency room. I'd had Scarlett Fever for nearly a week and had a temp of brain cooking perportions, the sitter had never even taken me to a clinic or told my folks I was sick.
Needless to say, ever after that the folk's trips were moved to summer and we stayed with aunts and uncles.
Saddest part is video games would be to blame for that. Sorry, just, I'm a member of a political gamers forum and we see crap liek this al lthe time.
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