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Babysat tonight.
The kids are easy, I've watched them a number of times, and they go to bed at seven pm, so I have the whole evening to laze around watching tv.
Things went swimmingly. Fed the baby, listened to the five year old read a story, put them both to bed. Made myself a plate of pizza and salad ("Why do we always have pizza when there's a babysitter?" the five year old asked), poured a glass of soda, headed into the living room for some quality tv time.
Pretty much immediately spilled the soda all over the coffee table and everything on it. Including their laptop. D'oh!
I ran around like a mad thing to get it all cleaned up and not sitting in a pool of carbonated sugar water, then cleaned everything else up. Then spent the rest of the evening dreading the moment of explanation when they got home.
Turns out the thing is old, secondhand, and already mostly broken, so even if it suffered further damage they're not going to sweat it. Phew, bullet dodged. Still, it was a ridiculously boneheaded thing to do.
The kids are easy, I've watched them a number of times, and they go to bed at seven pm, so I have the whole evening to laze around watching tv.
Things went swimmingly. Fed the baby, listened to the five year old read a story, put them both to bed. Made myself a plate of pizza and salad ("Why do we always have pizza when there's a babysitter?" the five year old asked), poured a glass of soda, headed into the living room for some quality tv time.
Pretty much immediately spilled the soda all over the coffee table and everything on it. Including their laptop. D'oh!
I ran around like a mad thing to get it all cleaned up and not sitting in a pool of carbonated sugar water, then cleaned everything else up. Then spent the rest of the evening dreading the moment of explanation when they got home.
Turns out the thing is old, secondhand, and already mostly broken, so even if it suffered further damage they're not going to sweat it. Phew, bullet dodged. Still, it was a ridiculously boneheaded thing to do.
