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just be consistent and diligent with it
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Uh - huh .
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and , um ,
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It 's , uh , is your cat an indoor cat or an outdoor cat ?
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Yeah
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he 's indoor and all declawed because I know the , uh , average life span of an outdoor cat is 18 months .
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Somebody just told me that
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Yeah .
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because of the leukemia ?
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Yeah ,
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that and also just , uh , getting hit , I guess , or getting beat up .
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And the average life span of an indoor cat is 18 years
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Wow .
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So ,
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Quite a difference .
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Yeah .
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What , uh , what kind of climate do you have ?
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Well , uh , it 's , we just moved recently
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so now we 're in the , uh , Dallas area
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and it 's very very nice
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Oh .
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and ,
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The only experience I have ,
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I do n't have any children
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but I 've , uh , I was a baby - sitter in high school .
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And then , just recently , after we were married , I baby - sat for a dentist while she worked .
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And I just , uh ...
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< talking > Yeah .
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That 's the only thing I 've ever done also , is baby - sit .
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Is it ?
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ery faint .
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But , uh , I 've heard people that I work with talk about , you know , child care .
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Especially , I guess it 's even harder on single mothers .
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Oh , yeah .
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The expense .
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Yeah .
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Having to pick up the kid by , you know , 6 o'clock
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or it 's 5 dollars for every minute you 're late .
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And stuff like that
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Uh - huh .
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Which is understandable .
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I mean , these people ca n't , you know , stay there till 8 o'clock because somebody has to work late .
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Just sit around
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That that 's true .
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but
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See the lady I did it for ,
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that 's why she picked me is because I would go to her house so she would n't have to get her little girl up .
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So she could sleep in .
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And , uh , then she could be at home
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and then I 'd bring her to my house for a couple of hours if I wanted too or whatever .
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But , uh , she paid , I think it was 2 or , I think it was about 2.50 , 3 dollars an hour
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and by the time I paid taxes on it , it , I was getting like 80 cents
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and that was n't counting food or gas or anything .
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Oh , no .
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Yeah .
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It 's hardly worth your time .
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Yeah .
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Yeah .
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That 's pretty bad .
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The only time I baby - sat was in high school
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and it , you know ,
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of course you do n't
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I did n't pay taxes on that ,
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so .
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Right .
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It was easy , you know , go over to some , uh ,
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it was these people that lived in our neighborhood
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and I 'd just go over there .
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Every Thursday night , they went to the theater .
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They had permanent tickets
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and they 'd give me ,
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it was supposed to be 2 dollars an hour for 2 kids ,
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but they would usually give me like 5 dollars more at the end of the night .
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Oh , wow .
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And , I mean , they 'd , you know ,
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it was great .
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I 'd go over there
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and there would be like , uh , you know , there 's , we have these videos over here .
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Watch , whatever you want .
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And there 's some Oreos in the , in the cupboard .
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And there 's some Coke
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and you know , just help yourself to anything .
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So it was , it was , you know , the best ,
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Wow .
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that was a long time ago
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and that was only for a few years .
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Just once a week .
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Yeah .
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But I do n't know .
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I think people that treat their baby - sitters like that get a lot better baby - sitters .
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Oh , yeah .
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That 's true .
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And they stick around for longer .
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Because I mean after I figured out I was getting 80 cents an hour , I said bag it .
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And I quit you know .
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Yeah .
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I was just like but I 'm wasting my time .
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Yeah .
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I really liked the little girl and everything
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but I thought ...
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