Girlrocks
Brilliant_Rock
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Anyone remember my post a few weeks ago about my "friend" who gave me the 7 year old Ruth Chris'' gift card for my birthday?
https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/really-ticked-off-at-best-friend-what-should-i-do.117297/
I work from home. I had a teleconference on Thursday from 1:30-3:30pm. My friend has a 20 year old daughter who just had a baby about 6 weeks ago. I know that she needs money, so I asked her if she would be interested in taking my kids to the pool for those 2 hours and I would pay her. She agreed.
It rained. I called her mother to ask what plan B was, the mother said that her daughter decided she wanted to take them to a movie instead. Fine. I kept my youngest at home since that is nap time anyway. She had my older 3. I gave my 9 year old $50 for the movie, snacks, etc. I was planning to pay the babysitter after she got home. Off they go....
3 hours later they return. She didn''t take them to a movie, says they got to the mall 10 minutes after it started (I don''t know how, they left 45 min before the movie started and the mall is 20 min away). She took them to her grandmother''s house which has a large park next door to play at. Then she took them for an ice cream and came home.
I asked my daughter for the change, says she gave the money to the babysitter when she got in the car for the movie so it wouldn''t be lost. The babysitter did not give me any money back.
DH and I both believe that my daughter gave her the $50 when they got in the car, and she purposely did not take them to the movie so that she could keep the money. We all know that the first 15 min of a movie are ads and trailers, so going in 10 min late would have been no big deal anyway, had that really happened. How much could ice cream for 3 kids cost...$10 MAX, which means she pocketed $40 for 2 hours of babysitting.
I e-mailed my "friend" this morning to ask if her daughter had any change for me; her response "I have forwarded your e-mail to her." WTF??? Aren''t you her mother? (BTW...this entire situation was arranged by her mother and I; I never spoke to the daughter directly until she came to drop them off afterwards.)
DH is LIVID to say the least. He seriously wants to go over there today and tell this whole family off.
What should I do at this point?
https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/really-ticked-off-at-best-friend-what-should-i-do.117297/
I work from home. I had a teleconference on Thursday from 1:30-3:30pm. My friend has a 20 year old daughter who just had a baby about 6 weeks ago. I know that she needs money, so I asked her if she would be interested in taking my kids to the pool for those 2 hours and I would pay her. She agreed.
It rained. I called her mother to ask what plan B was, the mother said that her daughter decided she wanted to take them to a movie instead. Fine. I kept my youngest at home since that is nap time anyway. She had my older 3. I gave my 9 year old $50 for the movie, snacks, etc. I was planning to pay the babysitter after she got home. Off they go....
3 hours later they return. She didn''t take them to a movie, says they got to the mall 10 minutes after it started (I don''t know how, they left 45 min before the movie started and the mall is 20 min away). She took them to her grandmother''s house which has a large park next door to play at. Then she took them for an ice cream and came home.
I asked my daughter for the change, says she gave the money to the babysitter when she got in the car for the movie so it wouldn''t be lost. The babysitter did not give me any money back.
DH and I both believe that my daughter gave her the $50 when they got in the car, and she purposely did not take them to the movie so that she could keep the money. We all know that the first 15 min of a movie are ads and trailers, so going in 10 min late would have been no big deal anyway, had that really happened. How much could ice cream for 3 kids cost...$10 MAX, which means she pocketed $40 for 2 hours of babysitting.
I e-mailed my "friend" this morning to ask if her daughter had any change for me; her response "I have forwarded your e-mail to her." WTF??? Aren''t you her mother? (BTW...this entire situation was arranged by her mother and I; I never spoke to the daughter directly until she came to drop them off afterwards.)
DH is LIVID to say the least. He seriously wants to go over there today and tell this whole family off.
What should I do at this point?