Thursday, September 25, 2008

A funny memory!

Tonight was our first night of small group, so today I was preparing the house for the babysitter(see previous post about cleaning out the junk drawer). While I was doing so, I was thinking of all the babysitting I used to do, how much I got paid, (1.50/hour, a good family paid 2.00/hour), and some of the terrible kids I got stuck with. This one memory came to mind and I've been laughing about it all day.
In high school I worked at a day care, and would often make babysitting jobs from day care clients. This very eccentric family had moved from England to the US for job reasons, they lived near my family, and their kids went to the day care I was working at. One Friday night, my friend Jill came along with me to babysit at this families house. We were hanging out while the kids were sleeping and looking for some movies to watch...you can see where this is going, right? They had this big grandfather clock in the living room that had a drawer in the bottom, Jill pulled it out to see if there were movies in there...oh yeah, there were movies...porn! a drawer full of porn! We were probably 16 or 17 and Jill and I were the funniest 2 girls to find porn, because we were so clueless. For the rest of the evening we would peek in the drawer and make fun of the covers...I mean, neither of us had seen a naked man before, so to us this was HILARIOUS!!!
We didn't watch or even want to watch any of the videos, but can you imagine what it was like for us to have to face this couple when they came home. We were so immature and clueless, we could hardly keep straight faces while talking to them.
That memory has been buried for about 12 years, and today it came up and I've been laughing about it ever since...
In case you're wondering, my biggest fear was having the sitter find my good chocolate...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

funny!
imagine working for $1.50 now days. hard to believe we're old enough to be talking about the "good ol days!" ha!
Bethany