Babysitters
Dazbrilliantwhites asks: You've had them and maybe even have been one. Or maybe you were once babysat by someone who is now a notorious serial killer. Tell us your stories.
( , Thu 28 Oct 2010, 12:15)
Dazbrilliantwhites asks: You've had them and maybe even have been one. Or maybe you were once babysat by someone who is now a notorious serial killer. Tell us your stories.
( , Thu 28 Oct 2010, 12:15)
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The last resort is often the best.
Mum and Dad used to go out at least one night a week, their so-called "Date Night". My sister was often assigned to babysitting duty and complete control of the television remote against my complaints that I was missing Courage The Cowardly Dog.
So imagine my surprise when my sister had arranged to spend the night at her friend's on my parent's night out. Cue the 16 year old grunge girl from down the street, hair dyed green and all.
She was awesome. After her initial success at winning me over, she replaced my sister as supreme babysitter. She let me watch all the cartoons I wanted (at least until ten o clock), smuggled up those little fun-size bags of Haribo in her bra, introduced me to old horror films at the age of 8 (They're coming to get you, Barbara!) and in the later days of her babysitting me before she trundled off to Uni for some sort of physics degree, she started bringing her N64 up with her under the pretence there was homework in that bulging bag and we went tooth and nail at each other on Goldeneye and Mario Party.
She's partly to blame for my taste in films and music, and I try to copy her so much when babysitting my niece and nephew (We're often in a versus match on Left 4 Dead and my 9 year old nephew royally handed me my ass on Perfect Dark last week. I'm so proud.)
They don't make babysitters like that often enough, do they?
( , Mon 1 Nov 2010, 20:12, 6 replies)
Mum and Dad used to go out at least one night a week, their so-called "Date Night". My sister was often assigned to babysitting duty and complete control of the television remote against my complaints that I was missing Courage The Cowardly Dog.
So imagine my surprise when my sister had arranged to spend the night at her friend's on my parent's night out. Cue the 16 year old grunge girl from down the street, hair dyed green and all.
She was awesome. After her initial success at winning me over, she replaced my sister as supreme babysitter. She let me watch all the cartoons I wanted (at least until ten o clock), smuggled up those little fun-size bags of Haribo in her bra, introduced me to old horror films at the age of 8 (They're coming to get you, Barbara!) and in the later days of her babysitting me before she trundled off to Uni for some sort of physics degree, she started bringing her N64 up with her under the pretence there was homework in that bulging bag and we went tooth and nail at each other on Goldeneye and Mario Party.
She's partly to blame for my taste in films and music, and I try to copy her so much when babysitting my niece and nephew (We're often in a versus match on Left 4 Dead and my 9 year old nephew royally handed me my ass on Perfect Dark last week. I'm so proud.)
They don't make babysitters like that often enough, do they?
( , Mon 1 Nov 2010, 20:12, 6 replies)
They weren't fun-sized
Haribo bags in her bra, they were gel inserts. "Chicken fillets", I believe, is the term I am looking for.
( , Mon 1 Nov 2010, 21:18, closed)
Haribo bags in her bra, they were gel inserts. "Chicken fillets", I believe, is the term I am looking for.
( , Mon 1 Nov 2010, 21:18, closed)
Yes
Indeed they are, within a fairly wide range. It is possible for them to be too big or too small, but I was alluding to 'fun sized' as being small, like fun sized Mars bars.
( , Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:09, closed)
Indeed they are, within a fairly wide range. It is possible for them to be too big or too small, but I was alluding to 'fun sized' as being small, like fun sized Mars bars.
( , Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:09, closed)
My cousin was that kind of babysitter
She used to do ouji boards with us as well.
( , Tue 2 Nov 2010, 14:35, closed)
She used to do ouji boards with us as well.
( , Tue 2 Nov 2010, 14:35, closed)
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