{"id":2875,"date":"2009-08-18T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2009-08-05T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T23:50:10","slug":"ysac-vol-397-childhood-is-priceless-childcare-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"YSaC, Vol. 397: Childhood is priceless. Childcare, not so much."},"content":{"rendered":"
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need a sitter for 11:00 – $20<\/h2>\n
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sitter fell through earlier and i have to be at work at 12. my friend will be off at 5 and will come get my son right after. my son plays well with other kids. everyone tells me he’s an angel. and if you dont have kids of your own dont bother calling . and if youre a weirdo, you should be scared. i’ll only trust another mother. if you could come get him that woiuld be great, but i’ll make my way to you if theres no other way. and my name is xxxx by the way. thanks xxx xxx xxxx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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  1. You’re offering someone $20 to watch your kid from 11-5 pm. In other words, the price you’re putting on your angel-child’s well-being is $3.33\/hr.<\/li>\n
  2. Oh, that’s right, you’re also offering to let a stranger pick your child up and take him away with them.<\/li>\n
  3. I didn’t realize that mother<\/em> and weirdo<\/em> were mutually exclusive categories.<\/li>\n
  4. For extra bonus hilarity, you posted this at 9:30 am, and you think you have the ability to be picky.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I didn’t think it would be possible to find a worse offer than that, but of course I did. This one was from kijiji.com:<\/p>\n

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    Childcare needed<\/h2>\n
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    Hi, my name is Zxxxxxx, I am looking for a babysitter for my 15 month old daughter. Must be willing to work 10-12 hours and Fridays and Saturdays from 8am-8pm. $20.00 a day. Experience and references perferred. please feel free to call\u00a0 if interested at (xxx) xxx-xxxx. I stay in [location]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    You want someone to watch a 15-month old girl for twelve hours<\/em> at a clip, and you’re going to pay them $20? You do realize that that’s $1.66\/hr, right? For childcare at an age when you can’t leave them alone for a second or they’ll be under the sink chugging the Drano?<\/p>\n

    Or, you could try to find someone who will do it for free, and couch it as a service:<\/p>\n

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    charming grandson seeks grandparents<\/h2>\n
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    We are wondering if there are any grandparents (or future grandparents) in [location] longing to spend time doting on our beautiful 7 month old son<\/p>\n

    For many different reasons grandparents and their grandchildren are not easily accessible to each other these days, so we’re looking for surrogates<\/p>\n

    A good match for our family would be a couple over 50 who live in [location], who love doing grandparent-ish things, holding him in their lap, stroller walks, picnics, reading books together, showing off photos to their friends, delighting in new teeth, new words, new abilities, generally taking joy and making a fuss the way only a grandparent can!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    That’s right, if you need your fix as a grandparent, we’d be happy to loan you our 7 month old son — though we could only do that while we’re at work, of course.<\/p>\n

    Thanks to Sylvia, Jami from DateWrecks.com<\/a>, and Valerie for sending these in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    need a sitter for 11:00 – $20 sitter fell through earlier and i have to be at work at 12. my friend will be off at 5 and will come get my son right after. my son plays well with other kids. everyone tells me he’s an angel. and if you dont have kids of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,37],"tags":[25,61,7,52,9,43],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc-jobs","category-services","tag-maybe-its-just-me","tag-punctuationally-challenged","tag-speeling-prolbems","tag-this-can-only-end-badly","tag-unclear-on-the-concept","tag-unrealistic-expectations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}