Entitled Mom Angrily Venmoed Her Sister-In-Law When She Went To A Concert Instead Of Babysitting For Her For Free

"Why are you talking like she's your ex wife and you have joint custody?"

Chelsi

• Published in Interesting
• May 15, 2023

"No good deed goes unpunished," or in this case, without a Venmo request. A Reddit mom has a standing child-care arrangement with her sister-in-law.

OP's sister-in-law has been babysitting OP's 7-year-old son ever since OP's husband passed away. OP started working when her husband passed away.

OP gets out of work at eight in the evening, while her son gets out of school at three in the afternoon. Her sister-in-law doesn't work and picks up OP's son from school.

They then go to her sister-in-law's house to deal with homework or play until OP can fetch her son. On Wednesday, OP got a call from her sister-in-law.

Her sister-in-law and her husband got last-minute concert tickets and will not be available for babysitting. OP was pissed as she was already at work.

She would have understood if she had been given advance notice. She was not given enough time to make alternative arrangements for childcare.

OP told her sister-in-law to reconsider going to the concert. She made a commitment, and breaking it is unacceptable.

To no one's surprise but OP's, her sister-in-law had a grand time at the concert. OP left work six hours early to pick up her son.

OP felt that those deductions were caused by her sister-in-law. OP believed that she must be reimbursed for her missed work hours.

So, she sent a Venmo request to her sister-in-law

Her sister-in-law did not take that Venmo request kindly and hasn't been avaible to babysit her nephew since

OP thinks her sister-in-law shouldn't have broken her commitment just to go to a concert and drink

Her sister-in-law does not provide a paid service for OP to demand a reimbursement. She was babysitting OP's kid out of the goodness of her heart.

OP took her sister-in-law for granted and she will soon find out just how expensive her sister-in-law's efforts are. Someone did the math to start OP's accounting.

If OP's sister-in-law comes across her Reddit post, there is no chance in hell that she will ever babysit for her even with pay

Does OP have no plan if her sister-in-law ever had another reason not to babysit?

She shouldn't expect her sister-in-law to babysit for her ever again after the way she behaved

OP got too complacent. For how long did she expect this arrangement to go on? Just because her sister-in-law is a stay-at-home wife, she's not allowed to have a life outside of OP's needs?

OP will be welcomed with ridicule and jeers in the choosing beggars and entitled parents subreddits

There was no sense of gratefulness anywhere in OP's post no matter how many times you read it

Either OP has some terrible friends or they were scared they'd be Venmoed next for refusing to babysit.

Where did OP source the audacity it took to Venmo her sister-in-law and then write a wildly ridiculous post about it? She fully expected her sister-in-law to free her schedule from 3 PM to 8 PM indefinitely so she can babysit.

Hopefully, the replies to her post were enough for OP to evaluate her actions. She needs to apologize to her sister-in-law and be ready for that apology to be rejected.

Chelsi