Wednesday
Today was my most embarassing baby-sitting job yet. I was scheduled to baby-sit Danny Dawes from four to five, just an hour's easy sitting job right? Well I guess maybe I was a little wrong because I totally spaced out and forgot about the job. I'm really, really, sorry guys. I must have picked up this bad mind habit from my mom. I'm tellin you, I am very sorry with all my heart.
Sure enough, at Wednesday night's meeting, Karen discussed Suzi and Myriah's "accidents" endlessly, but before I get into that, I'll tell you what happened with Suzi and her job on Wednesday afternoon.
Firstly, Danny Dawes is only eight years old and he and his mom, dad, and older sister Nancy, who's Karen's other best friend, live right next door to Karen's mom's house. Karen was out that day with her mom, step-dad, and Andrew so of course, we gave the job to Suzi because she's never even sat for Danny before.
That morning, Suzi, and all her siblings had to pitch in and clean up the kitchen to get their weekly allowance. Suzi told me it took a long time. They all had to sweep the floor, wipe the table, spray the fridge from sticky stuff, wipe the counters, and do the dishes. I would've been wiped out after that. At around three, all her siblings were off doing things, going over friend's houses and such. Suzi was alone and so she decided to do a bit more cleaning for extra cash. She cleaned up the livingroom by vacuming, dusting, and throwing away old newspapers and other papers. She told us she was so caught up in cleaning, that it was four fifteen when she saw what time it was and remembered the baby-sitting job.
Suzi hopped onto her bike and rode over to the Dawes's as quick as she could. Needless to say, Mr. and Mrs. Dawes acted just like Mrs. Papadakis, excused Suzi and left. So, at five when they came back, Suzi was paid a little less than usual, but she understood why and didn't say anything about it except, "I'm terribly sorry." I felt bad for her. How many things could go wrong for the new Baby-Sitter's club? I wasn't sure and I didn't want us to make any more mistakes. I sure hoped I wouldn't make any!