Summer Lawsuit, Part II and the Babysitting Marathon

So I went to court today and it went pretty much as expected.

The lady I’m suing went up there and made all these little points about how she could let me go at any time for cause, but the judge disagreed with her when it came to establishing my qualifications, saying he was sure that I was qualified for the job and that my qualifications weren’t the issue. He agreed with me, saying that the bone of contention was whether a reasonable person could have assumed from the interactions between the defendant and myself that a certain number of hours were guaranteed and then retracted.

He took the whole matter under advisement and he said he’d mail out a verdict. Now I get to play the waiting game. Andy, “as a betting man,” gives me a 70-30 chance of winning my case, and my father the lawyer gives me an 80-20 chance. I hope they’re right.

The whole thing made me think even more about becoming a lawyer. I communicated effectively with the judge, although nerves prevented me from performing quite as well as I would have. These litigating things take practice, but I guess I did well for my first time because the judge didn’t yell at me like on Judge Judy. ::hee hee::

It’s a hot day and I’m exhausted, so I think I’ll go lie by the pool and prepare for tomorrow, which is the day of marathon babysitting. I get to sit for one set of kids from 7:45am - 4:30pm and then for another kid from 5-11pm. That’s 15 hours of babysitting in one day! I’m going to be one exhausted cookie, but I gotta tote that bale and haul that load.

Off to the pool!