Ok, I have never written about this before because I always try to look at the brighter side of things. 

We have neighbors, that are nice, but take advantage of us all the time.  They have a 7 year old daughter, M, who spends A LOT of time here.  By A LOT of time, I mean she comes over as soon as she crawls out of bed.  Often it is before 7 AM and she is still in her PJs.  I think the parents are still asleep and do not know. 

M comes to our house when she gets home from school as soon as she drops off her book bag.  In the summer, she is here 24-7 - more waking hours than at home.  To say that I feed her dinner 3-5 times a week is an understatement. 

The mom works a lot - not cause they need it but cause staying home drives her nuts.  The dad is home with M when the mom is working, but he likes to go drinking at the bar, so that is how we get her most nights.

M and my kiddos love each other and play and fight like siblings.  So I have just taken M into our lives and treat her like on of my own.  She gets hugs and love and reprimands and everything in between, just like my kiddos do.

Well today M wanted to come to the foodstore with us.  So of course I said yes.  Well the mom was getting ready for work and the dad was supposed to come home at 10 to watch M.  We left for the market at 9:30 and I said that we'd be about 45 mins.

While there, I got M a beanie baby bunny just like my kiddos and said no to all the sugar and crap that she and Sam said she wanted.  Both she and Sam were telling me what they wanted me to get for the week to make them for dinner.  It was fun.  But we got back at 10:30 instead of 10:15.  Also, they have my cell in case they need to get a hold of me.

Well when we got back from the foodstore, neither mom or dad was home.  I didn't say anything to M cause I didn''t want her to feel badly.  I checked to make sure that neither car was there and they were not there.  So I called the house phone a few times and no one answered.  So after 1.5 hours, noon, I finally called each of their cell phones.  Of course, neither of them answered so I left a message, "Uh hello.  It's Wendy.  We've been back from the store for a while now and neither of your cars are there,  So I was just wondering what's going on.  Please call me and let me know."

Five minutes later, the dad pulls in.  By this time M wanted to go home.  When she saw her dad's truck, she got her stuff and said she was ready.  I just let her and shut the door because I really did not want to talk to the dad.  Especially cause I am pretty sure that he was at the bar drinking.  I mean is if there was an emergency, fine, call me.  But there was no call on my cell or at home.  I think they just thought, Yeah Wendy will watch her.  Wendy is the free freaking ride. 

That is such crap.  Am I crazy?  It is just unreasonable crao, right?