First and last time baby sitting for cousins
My mums family lived in Perth and we lived in Sydney, so sometimes we would all pile onto a plane and fly 4 hours across the country to visit.

By the time I was 15, I thought I was too old to go on family holidays but, my parents (quite rightly) thought I was too young to stay home alone but, I was old enough to do a little free baby sitting for the younger kids (12, 10, 8, 6, 3).

So the first night they head out and the younger kids acted up a bit. And I did eventually snap and give the 6 year old a smack on the bum.

Next day the children formed a small union and took their complaints of my babysitting methods to the parents council. Not only did the smack on the arse get mentioned, they fabricated a whole lot of other abuse such as hitting them with bats and refusing them their pudding and yelling and swearing at them.

I was asked to explain this clear violation of their human rights, and because I was a surly teenager, rather than deny the allegations and explain the challenges, I said.

"There not fucking dead are they, if you want me to be nice to them you're gunna have to pay me, you got what you paid for".

I was not requested to provide baby sitting services again. Next time they went out they hired (thats right payed an outsider) a 17 year old hot chick for up the road to baby sit. Which really was a win win situation for me, until she decided I was a 15 year old show off twat and spent the rest of the night ignoring me.
(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 8:40, Reply)