Monday, October 16, 2006
Between 3:30-4:00 PM
Tall, thin, plain white nanny pulled up in silver Honda CRV and went through the hassle of getting two little girls who were likely sisters out of the car. Took them to playground equipment for I kid you not, less than 5 minutes. Then said, something like "wow, time flies when we are having fun. Did you enjoy your day at the park". Then the nanny took the little girls and walked back to the parking area. And loaded them back in the car. Tell me this isn't suspicious???
Well yes, nannies can be plain in appearance and are often quite hard on the eyes- but that is one of their more admirable qualities, yes?
ReplyDeletemarge- you seem like you could use some help.
ReplyDeleteAs a nanny, I do this frequently---we have 5-10 minutes to spare so we swing by one of the many parks on the way to where we are going. Now I don't say anything about enjoying our day at the park since that is not my intention but rather than sitting around and just wasting the 5-10 minutes we spend it outdoors at the park.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to put in my 2 cents....
As a nanny if we've got 5-10 minutes to spare we almost always swing by the park on our way to where ever it is we are going. The girls get in a few minutes of time to run and we aren't just sitting around. However I wouldn't try and plant the idea of spending the day at the park in their heads if we were only there for 5 minutes.
ReplyDeletejust thought I'd put in my 2 cents....
You actually put in your 4 cents because you posted twice, idiot...
ReplyDeleteIf I only had five or ten minutes to spare, I'd not take the time and effort to get the kids out of the car and pretend they were going to have sufficient time to enjoy themselves at the park. Quite clearly, this nanny spent the afternoon at the mall when she was supposed to be with the kids at the park and then covered her a** by implanting the notion in the children's minds that they'd been there all day. She probably did mention to her employer that she'd also "stopped by the mall". Poor deluded employers and even more sadly, poor kids.
I'm all for swinging by the park for just a few minutes if you need to kill time between appointments or whatever, but you don't make strange comments about how you've been there all day unless something is up.
ReplyDeleteIt definitely sounds like this nanny spent the day doing something not on the parent-approved agenda and then planted the idea that "they spent the day at the park" in the children's memory. Terrible. Regardless of where she was instead of the park, it's deceptive and manipulative.
To anon poster at 9:01:
ReplyDelete"quite clearly", she had spent the day at the mall???? Who the f-ck are you, Miss Cleo? Idiot.