Time Travel Tuesday ~ Babysitting edition
This week we are traveling back to our first babysitting jobs. Annie says:
“Travel back to your first few babysitting jobs, were you a teenager?
Were there any interesting, scary, or neat experiences you remember?”
You can view more Time Travels over at Annie’s blog.
I had so many different babysitting jobs in my teenage years, from watching my own siblings to cousins and so on. But I think the most memorable one that sticks out the most was when I was babysitting for one particular family. I would get there right after the kids had dinner, so I didn’t have to mess with that. We had our fun playtime, then it was time for baths then bed. I got them all tucked in for the night and headed downstairs to watch TV until the parents got home. Of course their house was out in the country, with no other houses around… I kept hearing strange noises. At first I brushed it off as just the wind brushing the branches against the house. It would stop for a while then start back up, it was freaking me out. I headed back upstairs, hoping they would get home soon. I got out a book to read, but was still on edge.
Finally in walked the parents and asked how things went (all the while looking very guilty). The dad asked me to run down to his office and grab his schedule for the next week (mind you I have known this family for a while and knew what a prankster he is). I knew something was up, but couldn’t figure it out. I went down there, only to be scarred out of my mind. There stood Jens (pronounced Yens ~ a guy I had dated for a while before he went home to Finland (he was an exchange student at my school and had stayed at this family’s house). The parents had went to the airport to pick him up to surprise me.
I was ready to throttle them! I loved the surprise, but dang, what a way to freak out someone. The whole time I kept hearing noises it was them. They thought for sure I would go look to see what it was. NOT! I couldn’t believe the kids didn’t let on to what was going to happen, as they knew the whole time!
February 19th, 2008 at 11:11 AM
UGH!!!!! I would have wanted to kill them also.. though I would not have been able to keep from looking out to see what the noise was.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Talk about going the gamut of emotions! You poor thing..what a rough night that was. Hopefully your time with Jens made up for it.
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February 19th, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Wow! Fun surprise but I don’t like to be scared either!
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