Some Parents Are Way Too Comfortable Leaving Their Kids With Strangers, Part 2

Around fifteen years ago, I managed a fast food chain store with a playground. A customer came up to me.

Customer: “Could you watch my daughter while I run to the airport real quick to pick up my husband?”

The little girl she pointed to was four years old at maximum, and the closest airport was over an hour away.

Me: “No, ma’am, I won’t. And if you leave your daughter here, I will be filing a police report for an abandoned child.”

The lady flew off the handle at me.

Customer: “Your service is terrible! I’m going to have to tell my daughter she has to stop playing, and she’s going to cry, and it’s all your fault!”

I watched her until she buckled her child into her car and drove away, and I recorded the license plate just in case.

Fast food does not equal babysitter.

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Some Parents Are Way Too Comfortable Leaving Their Kids With Strangers