Stepdaughter vs. Babysitter

Rodney Cox is not happy to hear that he is going to have to stay late working at his shitty job tonight, especially since his wife is out of town on business and that means finding a babysitter for the kids. Of course his first thought is his stepdaughter Lindsay, but as was more and more common these days she is entirely unhelpful.

"Hell no, Rod, I've got plans tonight," she snaps dismissively when he calls for her help. "Deal with it." Lindsay shares with her mother an angelic face with blue eyes, long and wavy brown hair and an amazing rack, but her attitude is now total teenager. Even though Rodney and her mother have been married long enough to have produced their own now elementary school-aged children, Lindsay still seems to regard him as an intruder into her house. He couldn't help but feel it was because her father has been replaced by a black man.

Rodney knows there was no point in trying to contact Lindsay again--she knows how to use the 'ignore' button on her cellphone--but he does remember that the high school had a babysitting service who provided good service and were happy to earn the money. When he calls and is confirmed that Michelle Svensen would be at his house at 4:30, he thinks that name sounded familiar, but it wasn't until after he hangs up the phone that it strikes him: this was one of Lindsay's friends, no, ex-friends, who had been over to the house a couple of times a few years ago but not since they had some kind of falling out over some no doubt foolish bit of girl drama. 'Not my problem,' Rodney muses. 'Lindsay had her chance to help, so she can deal with it, and if she hates Michelle, it's probably because Michelle's a nice girl.' Seemed like the perfect solution!