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.
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