Babysitting and the parents have just called me drunk…

[ffsisthisreal]

45 minutes after they were meant to be home, steaming, from a club.

I can see this being a 2/3am job. I’ve got plans tomorrow and they’re family, so I do this for free.

AIBU to be raging?

They asked if everything was okay and when I said yes, they said they’d be staying out for another drink.

I’m struggling with this.

You didn’t tell them no because you need to be up early?

This thread is strange, including you saying they won’t be home till 3am.

Because what difference will it make when there going to anyway?

You could send a text and simply go to sleep in/on their bed but they'll probably wake you when they get home. Ditto if you take their duvet and lie down on the sofa. I really hope they are enjoying their last night out together in a long time. Please make any other family who might get asked to babysit in future aware of this behaviour.

I would be texting or calling them to say “We agreed 11pm finish, it’s now 11.50, I need you to be back midnight latest as I have to be up early tomorrow.”

What did you say when they said “one more drink” on the phone? Because if you just said “ok” then I can understand why they might think you’re ok with whenever. If you said “but we agreed 11pm” then they are very very out of order.

I wouldnt do it for free

I take it they have form? Well they've just shot themselves in both feet haven't they?

who says they were going to anyway?
If they were going to anyway, they wouldn’t have bothered calling surely. They called to see if you were ok with it. You aren’t ok with it but you said ok, it sounds like?

This. And is there any way to set a few alarms to go off at 30 minute intervals from, say, 6am??? 😂

You sound like an amazing person who the children will be very lucky to have as an older cousin in years to come.

They didn’t ask about staying out, they just asked if the kids were alright.

they’ve been known to have late nights before (but not with me!)

You need to stay over...the children are at risk

“Alexa, set a blaring alarm for 5:45 am” 😁😁😁😁

What's a convicted Netflix show?

No, they called to ask if the kids were alright

Do it!

Ffs, I meant convoluted

if anyone’s tempted by Unchosen - don’t be. It’s terribly confusing

You said they told you they were staying for another drink and you didn’t tell them no.

Yes but then they said ok we’ll stay out for another drink. That was your opportunity to remind them that they’d said they would be home by 11. I know they didn’t ask if another drink was ok exactly but you could have said it wasn’t ok?

If they aren't answering their calls then try calling the club you believe they are at and getting the message through that they need to come back NOW because you as their babysitter need to go home urgently.

Then ensure that you never babysit for them again. They are cheeky fuckers and are taking advantage of you badly.

Yes because who am I to tell two grown adults what to do? If I said no they’d laugh, hang up the phone and stay out anyway because they know I won’t leave the kids alone.

I wouldn’t be babysitting for free in the first place but I wouldn’t babysit for them again. They’ve lost their free babysitter, idiots.

Never babysit for these selfish CFs again. But definitely do set some loud early morning alarms if you can find any.

You've never come home drunk?

If I genuinely thought they were I would, but I’m not going to sleep on a sofa just to help their hangover in the morning

Oh stop it, really 🙄

Should’ve taught the kids how to make Alexa fart…