When her mother-in-law decides to up and leave shortly after arriving to babysit her grandkids, the woman and her husband are shocked to return home to their neighbor! But her mother-in-law won’t accept responsibility, and they cut ties with her.
Babysitting Preferences
Her mother-in-law always complains when she isn’t asked to babysit when she and her husband look for someone to babysit the kids. They didn’t want to put her out or think that it was expected.
A Long-Standing Issue
To her, this was an ongoing issue, however. The times that they did ask her, she always had other plans. It seemed much easier to just go ahead and make alternative plans.
A Painful Morning
One morning, she woke up to a swollen and bruised knuckle on her right hand; it hurt a lot, and she could barely do anything with her hand because it hurt too much. She had no idea what had caused it. She certainly hadn’t been in any fights!
Seeking Medical Attention
Her husband decided to take her to the ER to get it checked out, but being so late to call around to ask someone, they decided to ask the neighbor, who also happened to be a close friend, to watch the kids. Sadly, she wasn’t home.
A Failed Backup Plan
She then checked with her own mom, and she couldn’t do it as she already had plans that she couldn’t cancel. Usually, she’d have dropped everything but on this occasion, she had a special event planned with her book club.
Turning to Mother-in-law
So, her husband asked if he could ask his mom. She agreed but told him to have a backup plan if she said no. She fully expected that she’d be busy and had something else planned.
Surprising Agreement
It turned out she said yes! Her husband didn’t mention his wife but just told her they had an emergency and needed her to look after the kids. She was surprised she actually agreed to help out.
A Thankful Greeting
When she arrived, they were both incredibly grateful and told her how much they appreciated the last-minute request! She said that she was delighted to be staying with her grandkids.
A Two-Hour Absence
She and her husband were gone for two hours. When they got home, they found her neighbor/ friend in the living room with the kids. She said that the mother-in-law showed up at her door the moment she arrived home. That happened to be just half an hour after they’d left!
Unexpected Departure
Apparently, she had asked their friend to watch over the kids because she had been unexpectedly called into work. That would have been perfectly acceptable had it not been for one specific factor…
A Bored Babysitter
She had no job! Given that the kids were really well-behaved and very easy to manage, they both concluded that she just got bored and fully expected to leave when she wanted to.
No Notice
She didn’t even bother to tell them she was leaving either, which is what the woman found even more annoying. She should have alerted them about what had happened, regardless of the reason!
Demanding Payment
Not long after, though, she called the woman’s husband, her son, and told him to pay her for watching the kids. Her husband let her know she wasn’t getting paid and that staying just half an hour and expecting other people to watch the kids was unacceptable!
Defensive Reaction
Her husband said that she should have stayed until they returned! This caused her to freak out! She told him they were both being selfish and should be thankful for her being there when they needed someone. That she didn’t do anything wrong!
A Stern Ultimatum
Her husband told her that if she truly saw no fault in her actions, then she could no longer see the kids or them, and that until she realized her mistake, not to contact him.
A Desperate Plea
She tried to fight him and even cried on the phone! She begged him, adding that she needed him. He listened as she tried to backtrack, telling him it was wrong of him to be so cruel!
Another Chance
Her husband softened. He asked if she accepted that offering to babysit and then abandoning the kids with the neighbor without informing them was deemed acceptable behavior.
Wriggling Out of Blame
Unable to take the blame, she offered numerous reasons as to why she did what she did. ‘She thought they’d want her to do that! She thought the kids would like that! It was easier for everyone! She didn’t want them to have to make idle chat her with when they get home as they’d be tired!’
A Surprise Ending
What she didn’t expect, though, was to be hung up on and ignored whenever she tried to call back. Her excuses were ridiculous, and they’d have had more respect if she’d simply said, “I was really bored!”
A Drastic Decision
From that point on, they had no more contact with her. It was difficult as she wanted the kids to be around their grandmother, but equally, she couldn’t risk leaving her kids with someone that was untrustworthy.
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