A woman has been slammed as ‘selfish’ and ‘evil’ for refusing to babysit her friend’s children after the other woman had been hospitalised with cancer.
Anna* said that while she felt ‘upset’ about being unable to help, she simply couldn’t leave her dogs alone at home to go and look after her friend’s children.
‘My best friend has cancer and she needs to be hospitalised because she’s got an infection in her port. She’s been putting off going for four days because she has children and her [partner] works for both of them,’ she shared online.
‘I feel so bad because she needs someone to watch the kids and I can’t do it. I have dogs and I can’t leave them to go to her house.’
The friend offered to drop her children off at Anna’s house – but that brought on another set of problems.
‘[My grandmother] is saying no because she doesn’t want to deal with them. I’m upset now because I just had to tell my best friend of 10 years that no, I can’t watch her kids because my grandma thinks they’ll make a mess.’
After being called out for picking her pets over her sick friend, Anna claimed it was an unfair comparison.
‘[I’m picking a dog over my best friend who has cancer] because if it means I come back and my dogs are gone or they don’t get taken care of, there’s no comparison.
‘One is not more or less than the other. Just say you don’t value the lives of animals and move on.’
A woman has been slammed as ‘selfish’ and ‘evil’ for refusing to babysit her friend’s children after the other woman had been hospitalised with cancer
Hundreds were appalled by Anna’s attitude.
‘Wow, picking a dog over your best friend who has cancer is wild. I would drop that friend,’ one said.
‘I’d give anything to have some time with my best friend who passed away from cancer. She took herself out before she got any treatment, and I’d have jumped at the chance to help her like this. That woman isn’t a friend,’ another said.
‘That is so pathetic… this isn’t even my friend but if I lived close by I’d go support and comfort HER friend. Imagine spending decades supporting your friend only for them to leave you alone and scared as you die a slow death from cancer,’ a third pointed out.
A few pointed out how she attempted to blame her grandmother for the problem.
‘I love how they try to make the grandma out to be the bad guy when they themselves are putting dogs over their best friend in the first place. Also it’s strange to think grandma is very concerned about ‘mess’ but allows dogs,’ a woman wrote.
Another added, ‘Also, why can’t grandma watch the dogs? They live there? She probably lets them out often and probably feeds them… so? I don’t get where she thinks the dogs are going to go.’
*Names have been changed for privacy reasons.
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