Reason #9 – I bribe my babysitter with beer
Reason #9 – I bribe my babysitter with beer
May 30How horrible does that sound? It sounds bad even to me.
It’s like this: my super-cool friend said she was going out tonight with “the girls”, and invited me to join. I was gagging to go because a) she’s always great fun to hang out with, b) her friends are usually super-cool too, c) I haven’t been out with grown-ups (sans boy) in quite a while.
So I called my sister and begged politely asked her to pleeeeease look after C tonight so I could go out. She said “sure thing!…
…just bring some beer, please, we ran out.”
I stopped at the liquor store, and since C was asleep in his carseat I hollered my order from the driver’s seat and threw some cash at the clerk. Presto! Just like that, I created a drive-thru liquor store!
I got home, prettied up, and left the boy in charge of my sister, my cousin, and two six-packs.
Babysitters and beer? That could have gone 10 shades of wrong.
(Then again, she could have asked for tequila.)
I had a brilliant time, the girls were fabulous, the boys were cute (and WAY too young) and the drinks were, well, drinky. I’m home safe at a slightly-silly-but-not-ridiculous time and C sleeps like an angel in his cot. Let’s just for tonight pretend that all’s well that ends well, yes?
C goes to presumably at around 8, right? What else are they going to do?! I say— thumbs up:)
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ofthesea Reply:
December 10th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Heck, even *I* would enjoy spending nights with him if I downed a 12-pack! Hmmm… drink for thought…
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I’m not the only one that does this? Great!! I do this with my brother. I ask him to babysit my kids and I’ll pay with him beer. he says “brings the kids with the 12 pack then”. Hey I need some time to myself and my kids like going over to play with the cousins, so it’s a win-win for all of us.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 25th, 2010 at 9:15 am
To make it win-win-win, make sure you get a sixpack for yourself as well!
Of either type ;)
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It was a fun night, yes. But if I knew beforehand all the trouble you went through to go out with us, I would’ve made a better effort to really take you out on the town. We must do it again! I’ll pay for half the nanny beer.
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mofthesea Reply:
June 8th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Actually it should be a LOT easier now that I got non-alcoholic sitters. Damn, maybe I’m becoming a better mom? What will i write about then?? *worried*
Let’s go out soon so I have new writing material! ;)
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Great post! Really think the whole motherhood can be tough but it seems you are doing a fantastic job, and having fun while at it. Good Stuff.
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mofthesea Reply:
May 30th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Thanks! It’s all about keeping social services in the dark, I guess ;)
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