Pssst, scody Since you asked... I'd placed an ad on craigslist (mistake #1) for a babysitter. One woman sounded good, although she was flaky about references.→[More:]

We set up a time for her to come over and meet my kids, but on a whim I put the first part of her e-mail address into Google, and found out... um... that she charges by the hour for all sorts of things. She had her photos of her nekkid self on adult websites for all to see. Completely blatant, no pretending to be anything other than what she was.

So no babysitting job for her. It wasn't so much her being a prostitute that was my problem, as that she was so dumb as to use same e-mail address for both jobs.

(Yeah, I was exaggerating when I said I hired her. I'm not that bad of a mom. Just close.)