21 Wild and Crazy Stories from Babysitters

In the 1991 dark comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, the babysitter obviously dies, forcing Christina Applegate to quickly come up with a plan to take care of her siblings until their mom returns from vacation. While most babysitters don’t die on the job, they are generally part of a lot of formative experiences — both in media depictions and real life. 

And according to these Redditors at least, such pivotal life experience is a two-way street. As babysitters, not only did they learn the ropes of what it’s like to have a job, but they also got some crazy stories out of it, too — like the one babysitter who witnessed a three-year-old urinate on a spider. 

Here, then, are some of the wildest things the babysitters of Reddit experienced on the job while the parents were away…