When the Cat is Away, the Mouse will Play

The title exactly suits my hausmate's 12-yr old daughter. Her mom went to Manila to fix some things since end of Sept.. and suddenly I have to be the 'guardian' of this annoying mouse. Guardian meaning I have to sign her schoolwork papers, approval etc. if needed. So here goes 'the cat is away, the mouse will play' game.

In a span of two week's time, I signed 5 Letters of Absence due to her self-claimed 'sickness'. 'May lagnat ako, May asthma ako, Masakit ang ulo ko.' She'll hand me a pen and paper at night and tell me she didnt go to school that day, then ask me to write her teacher the letter for the guardian consent. Grrh.

In one of her absences, she asked for my salon contact to get a rebond. Uggh I dont know why a 12 year old girl has to go for rebond nowadays, I heard her kept nagging her mom for money on this before. (this will cost above 100sgd in SG) I had my first rebond only when I was working already! And wtf.. can't all this parlor stuff wait for the weekend? Grrrh.

She went for several sleepovers. She'll casually tell me on an fyi basis, saying her mom knows about it. Sleep where you want to sleep. I dont want to be held responsible for her.

She knocked on my room past 12 midnight to ask for acetone (for removing nail polish). Grrh ethics please, dont knock at my room past 12 midnight, I only entertain extremely close people.

She sent me sms past 12 midnight to tell me she's not going home. Dont disturb me for your nonsense. I hate it when you choose your own convenient time to bug me.

She took her friend to our house to 'tutor' her to cope up with her studies since she's having lots of absences. They occupied the dining table and the laptop was playing music aloud. I was hungry as it was dinnertime. Gee I dont like eating anywhere else in the house except the dining area.

This morning (Sat), I got a call at 9am from her teacher asking me where she is because they were supposed to meet for some activities. I think the mouse was on 'monitor' because of her negligence and frequent absences. WTTTTFFF I UBER hate being disturbed during weekend mornings when I am having my usual long sleeps (that sometimes end till 11 or even 12noon when I got nothing to do). Again, dont disturb me unless you think we're extremely close that you'd get a special treatment.

And another annoying thing, she'll always have this angelic apologetic face that says 'sorry ate leslie, blah blah'.... grrh what's the use of sorry when you use it without really meaning it. Before I've seen her being careless and broke plates and pans, and she will always 'mama sorry'. But she will still continue to be careless.

If only this person is a relative, I think I am about to do some spanking.