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Bad Dog and Trouble with Mail

Ok, so I was babysitting this absolutely adorable little baby boy. His parents had been gone for like 3.5 hours. It was nearing 9:30, and they were already 1/2 an hour late. Then, the worst thing happened... the dog had to pee. The baby hates his playpen, but I had nowhere else to put him, so in he went. He started screaming, and I took the dog out. The dog finished his business and we came inside, I took his leash off, and he almost ran out the door. But I stopped him, and got the kid out of the playpen, as I let the kid start crawling aroun, the mailman showed up, dropped and dropped the mail through the slot, whcih then of course landed on... the baby. TERRIBLE night...
- Anonymous

I was babysitting 2 boys and they were fighting then the door bell rang i looked out the window to see a older man with a binder in his hand.i unlocked the door but left the lach on so it would not open all the way.he demanded my partents, i told him there were busy...and it went on and on and then he said are you sure they are home or are you a babysitter? i closed the door and locked it told the kids to go up stairs in their bedrooms and grabed the phone. then i opened the door again and said"if you do not leave the property i will call the cops" it worked but he was hanging around the street for a couple of hours. i also think he was drunk because it was 10:30 at night.
- Jalna

Ok well I was babysitting one day for these 2 kids. they where acting really bad so I told them that I wanted them to sit down and I asked them what they wanted to do. they said that they wanted to play with the blow pens. well it was a bad idea to let them. when I gave a pen to the one child he took it and blew the ink at the other child's face. he had ink all over him. it would not come off either. when there parents got home they had to help me wash it off his face because I could not get it off. I have not heard from them since.
- Melissa

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