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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Puzzleheaded-Law4285 on 2023-07-28 17:34:26.
I (f19) have an older sister (f27). She has two kids, f6 and m1.
My sister and her husband both work night shifts and she asked if I could come over to their house to watch the kids overnight. I told her I have work the next morning at 9am so I need to be able to rest. She said they both sleep through the night and they go to bed at 7pm so they won’t be any trouble and begged and pleaded for me to babysit because she and her husband need the money, and said she’ll set up a bed for me in their living room.
I caved and agreed to babysit, I arrived at around 5pm and the youngest was just waking up from a nap!!! My sister said he has just been down for a “quick 3 hour nap”. I don’t even have kids but I know damn well he’s going to be up late. I told her absolutely not, I’m not babysitting tonight anymore, you said they’d sleep through the night and you know i have work tomorrow morning.
She got really angry and said I’m selfish for cancelling so last minute over such a stupid reason. I refused to argue with her and said she and her husband need to find other arrangements because this is not going to work, and I left.
She later texted me a paragraph about how it’s such a small ask and that the kids keep her and her husband awake all the time and it’s not a big deal for me to have just one sleepless night, that it’s hard for her to be sympathetic for me. She said I’m being dramatic and need to get over it.
Am I the asshole??