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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your neighbor may find that complaining about last minute sitters makes it hard to find last minute sitters. [/quote]

I was a reluctant last-minute sitter for the family across the street twice.  Once I watched only the older baby who cried himself to sleep because he didn't know me.  I tried to comfort him but he didn't want to be held by a stranger.

The second time all the kids were home and had been put to bed.  Parents had a date night.  I sat in the living room and read.

5 minute before the parents came home, the three year old got up and I met her on the stairs and sat there talking to her to figure out why she got up and what it was going to take to put her back to bed.  Parents came home and found a kid out of bed with me and were grumpy about it.

I later found out they paid the teen boys across the street more per hour than they offered me for emergency babysitting.  I never agreed to babysit for them again.

Don't do favors for unreasonable bosses.[/quote]

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