Karen Kilgariff

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · MFM Minisode 419 · 20 Jan 2025 podcast

Back in the summer of 2018, my brother and his wife came to visit our family and our older brother came to see us all too. They wanted to get a beer in the evening after dinner at a local bar slash restaurant. Our daughters, Carly and Julia, were 11 and five at the time.

And we had just started leaving them at home for Carly to babysit for short periods of time during the day, like a trip to the grocery store. So the 11 year old is babysitting the five year old. It's just roll those dice. Why not? I mean, it's like you've got to start giving them some. you know, freedom and responsibilities. That's scary. But it's okay. It's totally okay.

Like, you have to let her. Now she gets to choose wherever she gets to go. Don't do it. Okay. And then it says about the grocery store, always paid, of course, because I was an unpaid babysitter to my half sister when I was young. There you go. Yeah. We were just planning to be gone for an hour or so back at home by 830. And we were only going a few miles away. Plans to drink never last an hour.

It's never. You're never. No, no, no.

The better, the more you have, the more you, the more, the better you get at it. What's the one is too many. A thousand isn't enough. Like, come on.

Okay. We would be home before dark. If they needed anything, Carly had a device she could text us from and we still had a home phone. Everything's fine. Great. I'm a rather forgetful person and I'm always leaving things behind, especially my phone. I realized after we got to the restaurant that I had left my phone at home, but my husband had his, so no big deal, right?

And at this point, you'd have the husband text the daughter and be like, yo, text me if anything comes up, right?

Yeah. They didn't do that.

That sounds so good.

It's like, where's my Long Island iced tea? I don't care about anything else. I have one hour to party out of my way. We ordered some munchies, potato skins, and had a couple of rounds of drinks with my husband as designated driver. We were all having fun and of course completely lost track of time. Just before 10, my husband got a text message from Carly asking when we were coming home.

He said we were on our way and we rushed back home. We felt guilty about being gone so long, but it got so much worse when I picked up my phone at home and saw a series of missed calls and texts from her like, when are you coming home? Should I put Julia to bed? I put Julia to bed. Are you guys coming home? Of course, she sent all of these to me before she bothered to text or call her dad.

Of course. Yeah. Then Carly told us how she and Julia climbed into Carly's bed to read some stories and there was a spider in her bed. That might not sound like much of a problem, but I have unfortunately passed my arachnophobia to my daughters. So that is a big deal. So she had to kill a spider in her own bed, no doubt with five-year-old Julia screaming the whole time.

Needless to say, I felt like the worst mom ever. Actually, we felt so bad that after I overpaid her for babysitting, both of my brothers paid her too. She made over $60 in those three traumatic hours. Yes, girl. So it wasn't for nothing. That's right. That's all that matters if you can get a little money for the trauma. Like acknowledge my trauma monetarily. That's all we're asking for.

That's how we make up for it. That's what suing people is. Our Carly, who just turned 18, has never let us forget the time mom and dad were only going to be gone an hour and just abandon us. But both our girls have turned out pretty great. Y'all are the best. I'm a year one listener and really loving the MFM Rewind episodes. I was a skipper for the first few years, but I'm a skipper no more.

Stay sexy and don't forget your phone. Lori, she, her. P.S. I got an Elvis do you want a cookie tote bag for Christmas that I love picked out by Carly. My third MFM tote bag. Aww. Maybe I have a problem. No, you do not. I have... Oh, the plate.

Totally. It's like a merch plug at the end of the set. But it is good because I'm always like, do we have to... Do we want... I'm always like, do people want more totes? Yes. Everyone wants totes.

It seems like three hours maybe. Oh, that's fucking nothing.

How dare you? 11 these days is like young though. We were smoking fucking cloves already, but these days.

Yeah.

It's like you can step inside. Yeah.

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