…having your car hit in front of your house by your teenage neighbor.
Your teenage neighbor who charges you $50+ each time she babysits.
The one who doesn’t want this on a police report or an insurance claim.
The one who’s babysitting for free until she moves out and gets married. =)
Get out! How’d it happen????
Any damage? And holy crap…$50 to babysit? How long did you and Marti leave her in charge? An entire weekend?!
Ahhhh…yes. And her mother is your child’s kindergarten teacher. It gets better and better the more I think about it…
Well, I was parked on my side of the street, in front of my yard. I never park there, but I moved the van out of the way because I was cleaning the garage out and the kids were shooting baskets in the driveway from time to time. Well she’s a brand new driver (only a few months in) and inherited her mother’s 2006 Accord since the family got grandmother’s Envoy with all the bells and whistles. She simply backed out of her driveway and ran her left rear corner into my front right corner. I was in the garage and she came to tell me. She was soooo nervous and afraid about the whole thing. To be honest, I was too until I saw the “damage” done to my van. It was so insignificant that she had to show me where she hit my vehicle! I couldn’t even see it until I stood right over it from about 12 inches away! And then I looked at her car…. Gulp! Big ol’ dent/puncture about the size of a grapefruit. She called her mom and I talked to her to assure her it was okay on my end of it and that she needn’t report it. BTW, she really didn’t want to report it in the first place, since insurance was going to be twice as high on the daughter than it was on the mother, so the daughter was never listed as the primary driver on the policy (which she is) So I poked her dent back out and wiped it down so that it didn’t look so bad for her mother’s first look. No biggie.
Her mom came over last night to see my car for the first time and apologize for the billionth time. Really great people, they are. So Marti and I are probably getting a free night of sitting or two out of her.
Yes, Vick, you heard me right. $50 bones for a night (5 hours) of babysitting. That’s the goin’ rate ’round these parts. Three kids ain’t cheap. Add that to an average $50-60 date night and it almost makes Slim Jims, Kettle Korn & a 6-pack of warm strawberry Yoo-Hoo on the trampoline a viable alternative. =)
I’m glad you went easy on her… and enjoy the free babysitting! Whew on no damage to your vehicle.
Warm strawberry Yoo-Hoo is only for the very special occasions…
Glad that no one was hurt and nothing was truly damaged. I’m sure having that little fender bender early on in her driving experience will only make her a safer driver.
So – when are we all going out (sans kids)?
You name it!
And I even though I don’t speak French as fluently as you and Marti, I’m glad that you dumbed it down to such a basic French word so that I would know what you were saying…
Where that red crayon, anyway? Can someone direct me to the library?