The emergency contact was Ann’s sister Jenn, who stayed at the house to watch the kids and get a hold of Ann while he went home.
Thankfully Ann was alright. She said she had gone out stargazing and got lost in the countryside with no reception. She didn’t get home until around midnight that night.
The next morning, Ann was at his door to pay him. The cost of watching the kids for over five hours and the added “crisis pay” added up to $57. But that morning, Ann handed him an envelope with only $47 in it.
When he reminded her that he had to call one of the emergency contacts, so he should be receiving the extra $10, she claimed the situation wasn’t a real “crisis” because she had only gotten lost for a while.
Once again, he reminded her that the deal was if he ever needed to call one of her emergency contacts for any reason, he would be given $10.
Then, Ann got snippy with him and said, “Look, just take it and be happy. A kid like you doesn’t need that much money for five and a half hours of screwing around on your phone.”
Their conversation ended there, and he was very angry.
A few weeks later, Ann contacted him and asked him to watch her kids again while she went out for a girl’s night. He told her he would, under one condition, that he gets the $10 she owed him.
Ann tried arguing with him once again and said she didn’t cause a “real crisis” that night and therefore didn’t need to pay him.
For some reason, she simply refused to give him the $10. He put his foot down and told Ann that he wouldn’t babysit for her if she didn’t pay him the rest of the money.
“She says that she really needs this break and calls me entitled for refusing,” he explained.