Hello everyone and welcome back to Park Car Convos. I'm Maddie Mitchell and I am your host today and always because 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 look 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.'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

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

hear all I did an entire episode just with mine so that in and 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 do we especially 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 up 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 such a wild concept and not only are you

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