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Internet Backs Babysitter Who Called the Cops After Mom Didn’t Come Home

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A babysitter who called the cops after the mom didn’t come at the agreed time, and was unreachable, has received widespread support online.

The 28-year-old shared a post to Reddit as she debated if she did the right thing, explaining the mom had a history of being flaky. The dilemma, shared on Wednesday, has been upvoted more than 20,000 times, and sparked a fierce debate.

Posting under Electronic_Professor to the site’s Am I The A****** forum, the woman, thought to be in the U.S., revealed she babysat on weekends to “make extra cash.”

Explaining the dilemma with the mom, who she worked for for about a year, she wrote: “My issue is, the mom is never home on time. She used to not give me return times but finally I started asking as it made it impossible to get anything done on the weekends. I’d go babysit so she could go to ‘brunch’ but she’d be gone from 11 AM to 7 PM. My whole day was gone. After that, she’d start giving me times but never stick to them. She wouldn’t even call to tell me, she’d just stay out.”

The babysitter agreed to watch the kids, aged 3 and 7, on a Saturday night from 6 p.m., with the understanding the mom would be home by 9 p.m., as she had plans later on.

But the evening didn’t go as planned, as she explained: “Of course, 9:00 rolls around and she’s not home. I call her, no response. Text, no response. Another hour. Nothing. Still calling and texting. Finally, it is midnight. By this point, my plans are long ruined but I’m pissed and exhausted. I call her and leave a voicemail saying if she’s not home in the next hour, I’m considering the kids abandoned and calling the cops.

“I also text her this. I try calling her 30 minutes later and it goes to voicemail on the second ring, I text her again and she leaves me on read. If she had reached out saying ‘Hey, I’m staying out until x time,’ I would’ve stayed. I

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Internet Backs Woman Who Slept in Her Own Bed After Roommates Put Drunk Friend There

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Having a roommate in college often requires understanding, compromise and respect. It can be difficult living with someone else in college, and boundaries may be crossed. Redditor amithebadddguy posted to “Am I the A**hole” to ask if she was wrong to sleep in her own bed after she found her roommate’s friend sleeping in it.

She explained in her post, which has received more than 15,000 votes and nearly 2,000 comments, that she lives in a triple dorm with two other roommates. She said her two other roommates have gotten to be close friends and they have a large group of friends that hang out in the dorm room together.

“I’m not so close to them or their friend group plus I’m in a crazy demanding degree so I really just come there to sleep,” the Redditor wrote. “Often I also sleep at my girlfriend’s apartment so I’m not even there at night.”

One night, amithebadddguy got back to her dorm room late and was ready to get some rest in preparation for an exam the following morning. However, she found another woman asleep in her bed. After unsuccessfully trying to wake her up, the Redditor decided to go to sleep.

“I felt like it was super rude they put her to bed in my bed without asking me but whatevs, I’m too exhausted to deal with it,” she wrote. “I had an exam first thing in the morning and had no time or energy to deal with whatever was up. So I just roll her over into the corner by the wall and go to bed myself.”

As amithebadddguy was getting ready the next morning, her roommate’s friend woke up and was “weirded out” that the Redditor slept in the same bed. Her roommate’s friend said that she was told the bed would be empty and became upset, saying that she should have woken her up.

The disagreement continued when the Redditor’s roommate woke up.

“My roommates and this girl were upset with me for just getting into bed without waking them up, my roommates said they would

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