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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t think this is a weird or abnormal ask at ALL. I think you sound crazy and dramatic.

It’s one night, it’s not like she’s asking you to start doing daily after school care or something. If it doesn’t work for you, you tell her that and move on but candidly I don’t know a single person who would say no to this ask for a sibling / a spouse’s sibling, unless there was an actual schedule conflict - and even then, most people would really try to figure out a way to make it work. You are absolutely the strange one in this situation [/quote]

It’s not just one night though. There’s a lot of prior rejection and baggage coming with it. Take the family relationship out of it — if someone couldn’t be bothered to respond to your texts and showed no interest in ever being nice or helping you, then came to ask a favor for something totally indulgent like a night of drinking, most people would say no way.

FWIW OP, I hope you never take these people up on an offer of childcare should one materialize based on what you’ve shared about their lax supervision and drinking. [/quote]

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