'Beyond unhinged': Mum sends flurry of furious texts to babysitter who ordered DoorDash while watching her kids
The young woman, who has chosen to keep her identity private, took to social media platform Reddit to share a text exchange with a client after a recent babysitting job.
Sharing screenshots of the messages in the popular forum 'Am I Overreacting?', the babysitter wanted to know who was in the wrong in the scenario.
"I ordered DoorDash while babysitting because I hadn't eaten since lunch and was getting a headache and they were two hours late,' she wrote.
'The kids were asleep, the food was left on the porch, and I stepped outside for 10 seconds to grab it.
"The mum told me she was uncomfortable that someone came to the door and that I 'left the kids alone'.
'When I got home I was told they can't trust me anymore and I was fired.'
Screenshots from the exchange reveal the moment the babysitter's late night munching was exposed via the home's Ring camera security system.
"Hey, our Ring just showed someone at the door. Was something delivered?" the mum asked.
"Yes, I didn't eat dinner so I ordered DoorDash," the babysitter replied.
The babysitter then explained that they opted to order the meal because the mum, who was originally set to return at 8:00pm, changed her ETA to 11:30pm at the last minute.
"Okay, we'll talk when we get home, but I'm really concerned that you would do that without asking first,' the outraged parent shot back.
'I would never be okay with a stranger coming to the door while my kids are sleeping. I really wish you had asked me before doing that.'
The mother said she 'got why' the babysitter was hungry but suggested she should have 'eaten from the cabinet' instead.
Despite the mother's concern about her children's safety, the babysitter revealed that the concerned parent had originally contacted her for work via Facebook.
'Mind you, this is someone who found me on Facebook, barely asked me anything before hiring me, and had no issue leaving her two kids under two with a total stranger but a food delivery on the porch is somehow a big deal?,' she wrote.
Hundreds of commenters responded to the exchange with the overwhelming majority of users siding with the babysitter.
'They are majorly over reacting. You didn't leave them alone while you got your food, you opened the door, grabbed it, and then locked everything behind you,' one supporter wrote.
'That's beyond unhinged. I wouldn't sit for them again and I say that as a mum and former babysitter,' another user agreed.
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