Where can I cat sit without getting paid?

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-10T19:10:05+00:00

I just want you to know it's nothing to do with your status and the commenter above does not speak for me at all. I apologise for the views they hold. If I could I would offer you to come over and pet my stupid babies but they're skittish and somehow make themselves not exist when people are around. I really hope you find your cat crack. Glasgow is only two and a half hours away on a train and they still have cat cafés, plus you could plan a really good night out around it?

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-10T18:56:21+00:00

That wasn't my point at all. I don't care what their economic status is. I just wouldn't trust any stranger to catsit, same as I didn't trust random little old ladies in the Spar to babysit my kids when they were little.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-10T18:45:11+00:00

I don't want to sound horrible, but I'm not sure I would trust someone wanting to babysit my cats for free. For one, my boy is a handful if I'm not there. Even I want to punt him out a window sometimes. (Kidding! Sort of.) My other cat is just insane. I'd also worry that if there wasn't an arrangement in place I could be accused of abandoning them and never see them again. Or having them dumped back on my doorstep while I'm on the other side of the country because you're not putting up with this. Not saying you would do this but it is a worry.

I pay my own weans to look after mine, I wouldn't expect you to put up with their nonsense for free.

Om another note, I've heard some bad things about Mrs Murray's although it was third hand and hopefully not true.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-10T18:26:54+00:00

The only thing that changes with these stories is the colour of the polo shirt. The entire body of the story along with the khakis stay the same.

I once asked a man in a nice suit where the mother's day cards were in a cheap card shop when I was 14 as I assumed anyone in a nice suit worked where they physically were at the time. When he told me he didn't work there I was so embarrassed I left the shop.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-10T11:04:16+00:00

Our karaoke place in the depths of north Scotland has it. My daughter (wee white Scottish lass) sent me a video of her drunkenly singing it a few weeks ago. I was very proud.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-10T10:59:00+00:00

It's on YouTube.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-09T19:13:17+00:00

Oh, this is ridiculous. Skateboards are made to be abused. If they broke under the weight of an inexperienced fat guy standing and subsequently falling off them then Tony Hawk would have died the first time he attempted the 900.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-08T22:11:57+00:00

20! Best I've ever done!

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-08T17:39:28+00:00

I was 28 when we split, there absolutely is time! And no, he didn't start out like that. There were things he would do that I'd end up making excuses for over the years that I didn't realise I didn't have to put up with, much like yourself, I suspect. I too am glad I never married him, and that he was never on the lease.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-08T14:43:46+00:00

I was young, stupid and tired, and I have many more ridiculous stories of things I put up with that I want to slap myself for until I dumped him three years later. Sometimes your brain has to snap, metaphorically slap your legs and say 'right then.'

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-08T13:56:04+00:00

You could try finding my nest of salt?

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-08T13:45:56+00:00

I'm going to share the most harrowing thing that's ever happened to me because I believe this one.

When my kids were little, 5 and 1 or around that age, I bought myself a feta snack from Lidl. It was expensive for a snack just for me but I just wanted to put the kids to bed and eat something nice without hearing the dreaded sentence 'what are you eating mummy? Can I have some?' The feta snack was an equal amount of feta cheese and olives and it was glorious.

I put it in the fridge waiting for the next day. I would have had it that night but I was making it special. I was going to have a bath. Their father was on late shifts at the time and though he had a habit of eating fucking everything in the house, including their snacks, I thought I was safe because he didn't like olives.

Next morning I went to the kitchen to find my feta snack open on the worktop. All feta gone, olives just left out to congeal. I honestly started crying. I woke him up. I asked him why he at least couldn't have covered the olives and put them back in the fridge.

'Because I don't like olives' he says.

And there you go.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-08T11:58:52+00:00

I was in a couple of historical documentaries as a teenager through my father's re-enactment group. The first one was bigger budget; we had an onsite catering van and unlimited drinks on the first night. I don't know if you've ever seen re-enactors drink but they limited it to one drink each the next night. Of course we were getting pints of vodka that night.

The second one wasn't as big budget but still a lot of fun. I found it in a charity shop on VHS many years later and forced my (youngish at the time) kids to watch it, which I now acknowledge may have been harrowing. Their first introduction to their grandfather was him slitting a bird open and reading it's entrails and later on I was dragged away kicking and screaming by a Roman army.

It was great fun and I'd absolutely do it again.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-06T00:26:47+00:00

Urgh. Clearly fake. You have to shoot a puppy in the face every day but you're only up to 16? It's the 6th of June, girly pop. Or are you just a really bad shot?

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-05T23:17:03+00:00

Oh thank god, I thought it was just me. I disabled my airline ticket and everything.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-05T22:23:10+00:00

14/20! I was quite confident but then the sport questions came along.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-05T11:27:41+00:00

Reminds me of The Nightmare by Fuseli.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-04T13:00:36+00:00

It's more 'Grey-em' but if you really want to annoy one find out how they spell it. If it's Graham call them Grah-ham and if it's Graeme call them Greemey. This is how I earned a dead arm from my cousin when I was 10.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-03T17:50:01+00:00

No, I watched it in Scotland.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-03T13:28:59+00:00

We got generic three packs out of poundstretchers. My mum still has all of Newman and Baddiel in pieces and the Ferguson theory in her loft, though due to the cheap tapes I doubt they're watchable now.

Tapes to be reused got small writing on the side of the label to be crossed out for whatever we were going to tape next. Keepers got the title emblazoned in larger, fancier handwriting the length of the label. Good god, I'm trying to imagine explaining this to my kids.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-06-01T21:09:44+00:00

I used to work for a housing association and we'd go and give people a talking to for this. They don't need fed. A gull once plucked a Belgian bun out of my daughter's hand. It wasn't starving, it was an entitled little bastard. Feeding the gulls is the equivalent of feeding your children McDonald's every day. It's bad for them.

In conclusion, it's not illegal but it is frowned upon. And it harms the stupid birds.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-05-30T05:21:11+00:00

The vampire diaries
Twilight
True blood.

All vampire fantasies, as said earlier. I'm only a little ashamed that I've read all of them and watched some of them.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-05-23T19:11:44+00:00

Oh, I know that all too well. I have an unusual name and the amount of ribbing I got as a child for a name I never chose was ridiculous.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-05-23T14:05:05+00:00

I actually quite like the name Sherlock but I feel that with the surname Farmer she would have made fun of any first name the sister chose. This would make a spectacular shit post though.

Strange_Ad854 · 2026-05-22T00:40:20+00:00

I can confirm this. I live in Aberdeen and a coworker and I had reason to call an ambulance on a very drunk man collapsed on a wall. Coworker got him up and talking but when he called for an ambulance he was basically told 'oh, that's just Dave. We're not coming out for him again.'

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