amych, HAAHAHAH! So true. Unless oldest child in Nanny Ad family LIKES being infantilized?
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Jul 28, 2008 1:02:46 pm PDT #35 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Toddson - Jul 28, 2008 1:02:50 pm PDT #36 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yes, but further away would mean having to do his own laundry and dry cleaning (and who knows what else).
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 1:03:32 pm PDT #37 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
If I were the oldest child in the Nanny Ad family, I'd've picked a college a whole lot further away than just across town.
Why would he when his "nanny" will do everything for him if he stays?
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2008 1:04:29 pm PDT #38 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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I disapprove. It's not natural!
Kat - Jul 28, 2008 1:04:40 pm PDT #39 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
This part also cracks me up:
My family and I will review these as they come in and will contact you with in 24 hours if we'd like to move you further along in the interview process. Please make the subject of your email- Nanny of 10 Position
It's a family of 10 (5 kids, 3 animals and the two parents). It's like this overt acknowledgment that if you take the position, you are also nannying the adults too.
Cashmere - Jul 28, 2008 1:07:56 pm PDT #40 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
No way would Laura run an ad like that. And she has six young kids.
Ah. You're right!
Jack and Kelly had a nanny/assistant when The Osbournes were on Mtv. Same sort of situation--someone to parent them when their parents weren't there.
Honestly, I think that this position is a two-person job. She could have an honest-to-goodness nanny for her younger kid and a part-time assistant for her older children. Trying to pin on poor human being down to do all of the tedious chores for every one of her spoiled kids is just asking for high turnover and an expose with your family's dirty laundry written somewhere.
Toddson - Jul 28, 2008 1:08:22 pm PDT #41 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
From that description, I don't know if there's enough money in the world for that job. It's basically 24/7 for what sounds like a bunch of overprivileged brats (of various ages ... and species).
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 1:08:53 pm PDT #42 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, I thought of you especially over the weekend, msbelle, as I huddled in my darkened cave. I was watching an episode of The Outer Limits where NF plays the Bogart character in an SF Casablanca (the Nazis are aliens) and he wears lots of smudged eyeliner.
I shouldn't have deleted it.
Scrappy - Jul 28, 2008 1:09:54 pm PDT #43 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Speaking of laundry, I remember my dad telling me that when he was in college, everyone mailed their laundry home and they had special boxes for it. Your mom (or the maid) would do it and mail it back to you. There was even a special postal rate for it. I had never heard of this, but it was apparently common practice. Oh, that damn Greatest Generation and their lazy laundry-mailing ways. Why, when I was in school, we had to do our OWN laundry, and carry it there ourselves!
Calli - Jul 28, 2008 1:25:17 pm PDT #44 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I remember my dad telling me that when he was in college, everyone mailed their laundry home and they had special boxes for it. Your mom (or the maid) would do it and mail it back to you.
I'm trying to imagine my mom's reaction if I'd tried to do this. I suspect that I would have heard the laughter from 60 miles away, followed by a rain of dirty clothes, drop-kicked back from same.