Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Babysitting Bustas

Parents can be a pain. Other people's parents, that is. This babysitter has provided childcare services to dozens of sets of parents and feels qualified to label some of them Bustas.

For example: (1) parent who expects said babysitter to chauffeur their child all over the city during record high gasoline prices and doesn't offer to pay babysitter's gas, or (2) parent who refuses to acknowledge babysitter's presence when she is in the same room as parent, or (3) parents who rounds down in calculating rate and pays in very large, nearly unbreakable bills, or (4) parent who is practically unreachable save through an assistant who is never fully informed, or (5) parent whose response to babysitter apologizing for being sick (because whether or not babysitter is sick is completely within babysitter's control) is, "[nervous laugh] Well, you know..."

Yeah, I do.

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