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February 19, 2013

WHY I WANTED TO HAVE THE PIZZA DELIVERY GUY ARRESTED!

Mom and Dad made me babysit Brianna on Saturday night, and it was a TOTAL nightmare!

She had a nasty cold, so my mom gave me really specific instructions: dinner at 7:00, cough medicine at 7:30, bedtime at 8:00, and absolutely NO getting off the couch before then.

I figured the last part would be kind of tough…Brianna HATES staying still. But I didn’t realize just how hard it would be!

My parents left at 6:00 and said they’d be home by 10:00. They told me they left me $20 for pizza.

That’s the ONLY good thing about babysitting…they refuse to pay me since I should “want to take care of the sister I love” (THEIR words, not mine!), but they’re not above buying my cooperation with take-out!

When the pizza guy came at 6:30, I yelled at the closed door, “Just a minute!” Then I told Brianna to stay on the couch while I ran to the kitchen.

I couldn’t find the money anywhere! After a few minutes, I was practically drooling and fantasizing about pizza slices dancing and calling my name.

I thought maybe my mom had left the money in her room, so I ran in there to look for it…but nope! It wasn’t there either, and I looked EVERYWHERE!

I was totally bummed because I highly doubted the delivery guy would consider this one pizza an act of charity. (Sure, I was hungry, but I don’t think I qualified as a “starving child”!)

When I got to the door, I saw it was open, but there was NO pizza delivery guy AND no Brianna!

I started FREAKING OUT!!! Clearly Brianna had opened the door and the pizza delivery guy had kidnapped her!

I ran outside and yelled, “Brianna! Pizza guy! Come back!”

I figured he couldn’t have gotten that far, so I hopped on my bike and started riding down the street.

My heart was beating a gazillion miles a minutes! It was super cold and I wasn’t wearing a jacket, but I was still sweating like a pig on a treadmill.

I wanted to scream, “WHERE ARE YOU, YOU SICK, SADISTIC PIZZA FREAK!!” but I didn’t want my neighbors to hear me.

If they did, they’d DEFINITELY tell my parents!

After a few minutes, I remembered Brianna was playing games on my cell phone. If she still had it with her, I could call her from my home phone and she could tell me where the guy was taking her.

So I rushed back home, ran in the door, and started looking around the couch. My phone WAS missing!

I ran to the kitchen to grab the cordless phone. I was so flustered that I dropped it right on my foot!

I screamed, “Ouch!”

Then I heard, “You okay Nikki? Have some pizza!”

Brianna was sitting at the table with sauce all over her face…AND all over my phone!

I was SO relieved to see her! I do love that little nut ball and I DO want to take care of her…but I was also super annoyed!

Right after I gave her a big hug, I said, “Why did you get off the couch?”

She said, “’Cause I had the money and the pizza was getting cold!”

Turns out she’d paid him while I was looking in my parents’ room, and then by the time I got to the door, she’d brought the box in the kitchen.

So then I asked, “Why didn’t you tell me you had the money? And why didn’t you answer when I called your name??”

She responded, “I didn’t know THAT’S what you were looking for…and I didn’t answer ‘cause my mouth was full!”

So the good news is that Brianna was fine AND we got our pizza. The bad news is that I got a nasty cold too.

That’s why I hate babysitting…it’s totally hazardous to my health!!

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