Really, it's so hard to find good help these days! Delivery men who shit in your hallways are only the half of it. An imploring email went out recently on a Park Slope parents' listserve from a father who has just had it up to here with his nanny's incompetent ways—she's now "lost" two toy strollers that belonged to his son. (Somebody's been listening to a lot of "William Wants a Doll," apparently.) Not only did they cost a whole $10 each, but this poor dad actually had to bring the stroller all the way back to Park Slope from the Union Square Toys R' Us ... on the weekend! Oh, the horror. After the jump, the email in its gloriously horrifying entirety.

On two separate occasions, our nanny lost our son's toy stroller. The most recent time was today, Monday, the first(!) day he had used it with her. In fact, I only realized it was missing because I was going to put our name and number on it tonight and it wasn't anywhere to be found. When she lost his other toy stroller, we didn't charge her for it, but this one is just really all the more aggravating because of the prior history and the circumstances. (The circumstances also included us schlepping the stroller in from Toys R' Us Times Sq on the weekend). Can we take the $10 out of her pay, or is that being petty? I am inclined to, because I am just really angry about the whole thing. Oh yeah, if you found a brand new looking red and grey Graco doll stroller in JJ Byrne park yesterday please let me know via email, my son would love to have it back and it would make me a lot less angry at our nanny. That would be the best situation I could hope for.

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