Yet Another One....

I thought I would highlight yet another “applicant” for our sitter position. (and by “applicant” I mean someone who responded to my ad on craigslist.com).

This lady lives in the next neighborhood over. We are very excited about her! Her son is the same age as my daughter and they will go to the same kindergarten next year.

So I e-mail her, and 2 days later she responds. We go back and forth a couple of times and I ask her if we can meet. A day later she responds saying she’d check with her family’s schedule and get back to me.

Since the first e-mail it has been about 1 week. Way too long given our situation (most respondents and I corresponded over a day or two and then met within the next couple of days). In one e-mail this lady tells me she’s sorry it’s taking her so long to get back to me, she’s been in bed with the “flew.” Now I’m willing to overlook the spelling mistake, but it did catch my eye.

So more days go by and she finally gets back to my with a phone number. I call – no answer so I leave a message. Nothing. I call one morning around 10:00 and it’s answered but then hung up. So I call again around 11:00, and a little kid answers the phone:

“Hello?”
“Hi, is Melissa there?”
“Who is this?”
“This is Happy Working Mom”
“What?”
(I say my name again)
“My mom’s asleep”
Silence
“Is your dad there?”
“no”
“Is anyone watching you?”
“no”
Silence
He says “good-bye”

So I e-mail the lady and told her about what happened and that I wasn’t able to get in touch with her and that I obviously couldn’t leave a message because her son answered the phone.

She e-mailed me back saying that the next night would be a good night for her to meet us because it would give her some time to get some things together for the interview. What “things” did she need 1 ½ days to get together? I think she probably had to clean her house.

She called me to confirm our meeting and I told her “no.” I didn’t feel like getting into it about how I talked to her son and he told me she was sleeping…I just wanted to be done dealing with her…waiting for her to respond was driving me crazy.

And just so you know, I really wrestled with this, because there have been times that I may have dozed off when I just have my daughter, or mornings that she’s awake before me and she watches TV in my bed while I might still be sleeping. BUT…if the phone rings, or if she moves from her spot, I’m instantly awake. There’s no way that she could have a phone conversation without me waking up. Unless she was in another room, which I don’t allow if I’m not 100% coherent. So my deductions were that this lady was soundly sleeping, and her son had free roam of the house while she was out. Not something I’m comfortable with.

Needless to say, we’re still looking.