Woman Feels Cheated After Niece Offers To Watch Cousin, And Then Charges Her For It
August 24, 2020
The Bottom Line:
- A woman shares that her niece, who used to babysit her child, recently offered to take her child for the weekend
- When she returned the kid the niece gave her aunt a bill for expenses and babysitting
- The woman refused to pay because she didn’t agree to it, but the whole thing may have just been a misunderstanding
- Folks on Reddit have mixed opinions on how she handled it
- Source:Café Mom
A woman on Reddit is in the middle of a family feud after her niece demanded payment for spending some time with the gal’s kid, and now she doesn’t know what to do about it.
The woman writes that when her niece was 14 she used to babysit for her four-year-old cousin, and the OP would pay her to do so. Recently the now 19-year-old niece texted her aunt suggesting she take her cousin for the weekend noting the OP and her husband “have been pretty stressed out lately,” adding that she missed the OP’s daughter.
Well, as you can imagine, the OP thought that was a lovely gesture and took her up on the offer, but after the weekend was over the niece dropped off her kid and handed the OP receipts for the weekend’s expenses, as well as an invoice for her hours, charging the OP an hourly rate starting the minute she picked the cousin up.
Well, the OP was upset saying she never agreed to pay the niece and thought she was doing it just because she missed her cousin. The niece pointed to one line in the original exchange which said, “everything just like old times,” which she felt meant she’d be paid like in the past. The OP’s husband was about to pay the niece but the OP refused leaving the niece upset. When the OP talked to her sister, she agreed it seemed fishy and told the OP she’d take care of it, but now it’s caused family drama, with the OP’s husband saying they should have just paid her, although after seeing the exchange he admits it looks like the niece was “hustling” her.
In the end, most folks on Reddit agreed that the OP wasn’t wrong for not paying. Some suggested to keep everyone happy the OP should have at least paid the niece for her expenses from the weekend. But some did see the niece’s side, based on that one like about things being “like old times.”
- "I think it's just a 19 year old who was awkward in how she approached this which resulted in the misunderstandings I don't see it as deliberate," one person noted. "While I get OPs stance I also feel like both should give the benefit of the doubt to each other for the sake of family.”
Source:Café Mom