Dream Scenario?
Rich family paid me 500 dollars (minimum) a night to babysit their 8-year-old son. I was about 18. I never set a price, just told them to pay me what they thought was fair. The kid was very polite and basically a young adult.
I’m not sure if he took etiquette classes or something but his face LIT UP when we played pretend ninjas for the first time. He slayed three of them in one slash. I was also there for his first skinned knee, and he took it like a champ. Just kept saying “Oh man, CalledFractured7, it hurts a lot!” But wound up extremely proud of it.
One night they called abruptly to have me come sit, paid me in advance, then left three hundred dollars “for pizza or whatever, you can keep the change, too.” Then they took off for three hours. They wanted him in bed an hour after they left but I gave him two and a half to play DK country. Overall, dumb, but such good money. 10/10 would babysit again.