Hello, everyone and welcome back to Parch Car Convo's. I'm Maddie Mitchell and I am your host today and always speak as well quite frankly this is literally my podcast so

who else is going to host it happy freaking Monday I hope you had a fabulous weekend if you celebrated

St. Patrick's Day this weekend I hope you had the time of your life and I hope that you're doing

well this morning depending on what those festivities looked like. I hope you and your spirits and your

health are well. And I don't think that that's asking too much from your favorite podcast host.

I hope you guys are ready to have a fabulous week. I think it's going to be a good week.

What do you guys think? I feel in the air that spring is on its way to us. It's getting ready.

It's headed our way. And I am

eagerly, eagerly awaiting that. I'm excited for this week's podcast episode because we're talking

about babysitting horror stories. And you guys had a lot to say. You had a lot to say a lot of trauma

is kind of like laced and littered within babysitting as a as a job as a kind of

career path and I have I've done my own episode on babysitting horror stories that you guys can

go back to and listen to to to hear all I did an entire episode just with mine so that in

of itself I feel like goes to show how traumatic this is as a

as a thing that you do for like minimum wage, which is crazy. But the more than I was thinking about it,

and the more I was reading these stories, I was like, the concept of babysitting is crazy.

Because first of all, all of you guys that wrote in were so young for the most part like some of you were like 11 and 12

when you were babysitting and like with all due respect like who was letting an 11 or 12 year old

in charge of their children like their babies like that's just like not making sense to me that's not

personally adding up and then also it's crazy to just like be existing in a stranger's home

like late at night. Like I get scared in my own house late at night. Like the thought of being a child

and being like left to fend for yourself in a stranger's home is like so crazy. Like that's just

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