Hello kids, this is Risk!

The show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and every Thursday we release these special episodes that we're calling

classic risk singles.

Each of these episodes features just one story from our earlier years.

If you're new to Risk, you should know that the podcast can be very uncensored.

This week, a story by Elise Petis that she first shared on the show in March of 2012.

Here is Elise now with a story we call Strangers in the Night.

When I was 13, I looked like the kind of girl that would make a responsible babysitter.

That's what my aunt and uncle thought when they offered me my very first job, they wanted

me to watch my younger cousins, Tom and Rebecca, who were age three and five, well they went

out to a party and I was thrilled.

It was 1974, it was the Hamptons and most of the adults I knew played hard and worked hard.

But when I saw them, they were mostly playing hard.

We lived about a mile and a half away from my aunt and uncle's house, so that night my

mom drove me over to about five, dropped me off.

The first big mistake I made that night was to ask my aunt if my best friend, Mousie,

could come over and help me babysit.

And she said, sure, my aunt didn't know my best friend, Mousie very well.

My best friend, Mousie, was so much fun.

She was so resourceful, but she was also so naughty.

Especially since she had moved to California and come back east with all kinds of grown-up

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