Weirdest thing NF has ever accused you of?
It’s been a long time since I was a nanny but I’ll never forget the nanny family that made me quit after 10 years of doing it professionally. This story isn’t the straw that broke the camels back but it definitely made me finally start to consider a career change.
I had a MB accuse me of stealing her husband’s sunglasses…but not outright. The conversation went like this:
Me: walks into work with sunglasses on my head like I do every morning
MB: stares angrily at said sunglasses Nice sunglasses!
Me: Thanks! They’re my favorite confused at the angry stare
MB: My husband lost a pair exactly like that a few weeks ago
Me: Oh? Around the house? I can help look for them!
MB: We’re not sure. But they look exactly like the ones on your head.
Me: pulls them off head to show her the major scratches on the lenses from 4 years of constant use Exactly like these? Are they beat up like mine?
MB: They weren’t when he lost them…. still staring at me angrily
Me: Oh…ok. Well I’ll keep an eye out!!
MB: I’ll tell DB you have a pair of sunglasses exactly like his. How bizarre! When did you say you got them again?
Me: I didn’t. But about 4 years ago, I wear them daily. They’re great sunglasses I’m sure DB is definitely missing his!
MB: He may just steal them back!
Me: ummmm what? laughs nervously he doesn’t want these beat up old things!
MB: Scoffs and storms off
UMMMMM. The audacity!? They were an old wire style of Rayban sunglasses. The family was very well off so I’m sure DB had a newer, nicer version. Mine were seriously beat to hell, a friend ran over them with their truck and I had to bend them back into place but I LOVED those things. Wore them every day and came in with them on my head every morning and sat them on the counter next to my coffee mug and keys every day from the very beginning. I was sooooo shocked that she accused me of stealing them but in her passive aggressive way she always communicated with me. To this day I wonder if he ever found his sunglasses and if his wife ever felt like an ass for the way she treated me. I made sure to wear them on my head every chance I got around her just to prove I had nothing to hide. I actually quit a week later when they got crazy mad (had the grandma I never met call to berate me?) because I couldn’t accommodate a last minute schedule change. That family left such a bad taste in my mouth I never went back to nannying, just found a new career.
Anyways… any crazy stories?