My favorite thing to do when I was a child was to babysit other children. I even started a kindergarten club, or a babysitter club. And it was me and a few of my friends. And we put like a sheet with our phone numbers and put it in a local store, so that people can just grab one of the telephone numbers and call us when they needed someone to take care of their children.
And I loved it. I took care of so many children during my youth and early childhood. It was the best thing I did. I remember specifically one child.
Now I can say she was my favorite. Her name was Hannah. She was my next-door neighbor. And the first time I babysit her, I think she was maybe one or two.
She was very young. I remember one of the times when she really pushed my buttons. Like, I was so pissed off. But at the same time, what can you do?
Well, I was feeding her and she was eating solid foods at this time. And I had put like a cup of yogurt in front of her. And I just turned my head around. I was checking something, probably the milk in the microwave.
And she grabbed the cup of yogurt and threw it straight into the wall. I screamed like literally I screamed because the shock of this, at first of all, it was a bang because she threw hard. She could be a pitcher for anything. She was a strong girl.
And second of all, yogurt. On the wall, on the roof, on the table, on the floor. It was everywhere. And I'm just thinking, oh my god, the parents will come home in two hours.
The whole kitchen will stink like yogurt. And who did this? It's on me. Of course, it's on me.
I need to clean this mess. And this horrible, wonderful, beautiful, extremely fabulous child. She just sat there laughing her head off. She was, she thought the thing was hilarious.
Like beyond hilarious. And what can I do? I just started laughing. I was laughing and washing and washing and laughing.
And because I lived next door, my mother called usually to check up on everything because she wanted to make sure that, yeah, everything was in order. And she called and she's like, well, how are you? And I'm like, um, right now, not so good. And I just told her what I was doing.
And I get here, her laugh like just from across the street. I didn't even have to use the phone.