Nancy Takaishi stood inside her living room apartment with her cellphone pressed to her ear. She was speaking with her boss Mr Sato.
"Yes, I understand. I'll be there this Saturday bright and early," Nancy assured him just before handing up the phone.
Next Nancy called the number of a local babysitter who she head about through a friend at her job. After she spoke with the sitter and arranged for her to come on Saturday she walked to her son's playroom where a five year old TK sat and playing with a sack of blocks and told him of the news.
"A babysitter,' said TK not sure what his mommy was talking about.
The next day TK sat with a five year old Yolei in a three and a half year old Cody in a sandbox that resided behind Cody's house.
"My mommy got me a babysitter," informed TK
"A babysitter? Whats dat?" Questioned Cody as he finished building a sand castle.
"A babysitter! Not a babysitter!" Yolei exclaimed in terror.
"Whats a babysitter?" The little blonde child asked.
"I babysitter is a big grownup scary person who come into your home when your mommy and daddy are all gone and they sit on you and squish you! Me had a babysitter before and she was not nice. My mommy left me all alone with a babysitter lady and she was mean and scary and she put me in timeout all day! She didn't play wit me at all. She talked on her cellphone to some boy named Chad all day long. She was not nice at all!" Yolei explained.
"The babysitter squishes you," TK gasped in fear.
"They must why else would they be called 'babysitters," Cody remarked.
That night as TK lay in his bed he could help but think of the big mean scary grownup who would be squishing him tomorrow.
The next morning Nancy stood in the living room packing up her purse and TK pulled on her pant leg. He begged her not to go.
"Mommy don't go! The babysitter will sit on me!" TK pleaded.
Nancy slung her purse over her should and grabbed her car keys.
"TK your going to love your sitter I'm sure the two of you will have a good time," Nancy assured him.
The little boy started to protest until the doorbell suddenly rang. Nancy answered the door as her son hide behind her pant leg. He peeked out and saw that his sitter was!