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Dad Tells His Babysitter To Replace A $2,200 Guitar His 3-Year-Old Broke On Her Watch
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Dad Tells His Babysitter To Replace A $2,200 Guitar His 3-Year-Old Broke On Her Watch

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Babysitting is a job that requires a lot of responsibility, because you’re in charge of someone else’s child and often someone else’s home. The last thing you want is something bad to happen, but of course, accidents with small children are inevitable and they trip and get hurt or break a toy, which is understandable.

However, a dad on Reddit, with the user name RoughJury, couldn’t understand how his babysitter could have left his child alone for 20 minutes in which his daughter managed to break his $2,200 guitar. Now the dad is demanding that the babysitter pay for a new guitar, because he thinks it’s all her fault.

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A dad on Reddit is asking if he is in the wrong for demanding his babysitter pay for a valuable guitar his child broke on her watch

Image credits: Adam Campbell (not the actual photo)

The parents hired a babysitter for 3 hours because the dad was at work and the mom had to rush to her work for an emergency. This babysitter was already familiar with the child and the house rules, which were that the 3-year-old was only allowed in the living room, play room, and dining room (when eating). So it wasn’t the first time she had worked for the parents, but something still went wrong.

The dad explains that the babysitter had to take a call which lasted for 20 minutes and all that time, she was outside. Her reasoning was that she didn’t want the child to hear the conversation, as it was private.

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Then the story gets more intense. Apparently, the 3-year-old took the opportunity of being alone and escaped the living room, which was gated. She was able to climb over the gate by moving the couch to it and using it to break free.

This detail grabbed the attention of many readers and they were expressing their disbelief in such a small child’s ability to move a couch. It does make you wonder how did it happened and if there’s more to the story than what’s being told. Do you think that this sounds a little bit suspicious?

The babysitter left the 3-year-old unattended for 20 minutes because she had to take a phone call

Meanwhile the girl managed to climb over the gate, escape from the living room, and break a $2,200 guitar in the basement

If we take the dad’s word for it, then the little girl headed to the basement and pulled down one of the guitars hanging on the wall. The man found his guitar with a warped neck which needs replacing. But he doesn’t want to replace it because that would devalue the instrument, so he is asking the babysitter to replace the whole guitar.

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The guitar’s condition also was a topic of discussion in the comments. Redditors were wondering how the guitar could have a warped neck instead of a crack. The user Animalime introduced themselves as a music shop manager and said that it is more likely that the guitar got damaged due to improper keeping, assuming that basements tend to have higher humidity.

Now the dad wants the babysitter to pay for a new guitar, thinking that it was her responsibility that it was broken

Image credits: RoughJury

The dad probably came to Reddit to receive some sympathy and reassurance that he had a right to demand compensation. However, people in the comments were not that forgiving.

While redditors agree that the babysitter shouldn’t have left a 3-year-old by herself, they say it would be unfair to ask such an amount from a 19-year-old trying to earn money by watching other people’s children. According to the comment section, the blame here is to be shared and not put just on one person.

Other redditors agree that the babysitter was irresponsible, but also think that she shouldn’t pay for the broken guitar

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WilvanderHeijden
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The comment of the music shop owner says it all. The dad is trying to take advantage of a situation where a guitar, that was already unplayable due to negligence, got damaged. He sure is the A-hole.

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Dee Pond
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the fact that he was insisting on replacement over repair also supports this.

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not buying that a 3yo is capable of what he claims. He's TA.

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Fluffy Griffin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have some videos that prove you wrong. My twins were masters of environment manipulations at a young age. (Moving chairs/using stools / climbing on tables and this was at one year old). That said, he's still the a-hole.

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SirPatTheCat
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just imagining the toddler is an evil genius and actually did warp the neck, like over the past few years whenever the babysitter wasn't paying attention she went down to the basement and pointed a humidifier at the guitar for a couple minutes haha

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WilvanderHeijden
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The comment of the music shop owner says it all. The dad is trying to take advantage of a situation where a guitar, that was already unplayable due to negligence, got damaged. He sure is the A-hole.

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Dee Pond
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the fact that he was insisting on replacement over repair also supports this.

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not buying that a 3yo is capable of what he claims. He's TA.

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Fluffy Griffin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have some videos that prove you wrong. My twins were masters of environment manipulations at a young age. (Moving chairs/using stools / climbing on tables and this was at one year old). That said, he's still the a-hole.

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SirPatTheCat
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just imagining the toddler is an evil genius and actually did warp the neck, like over the past few years whenever the babysitter wasn't paying attention she went down to the basement and pointed a humidifier at the guitar for a couple minutes haha

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