SO PISSED. Thursday I get a call from a daycare that says "we have a spot open for August 31 and were wondering if you're interested" August 31 is earlier than I'll need, but only by a few weeks so I called back and told them I was absolutely interested, but that DH hadn't seen that particular place yet and would it be OK if I brought him by before committing to it. They say sure, and I make an appointment for Friday. We get there Friday, it's a different lady, and she's looking through our information and says "looks like our earliest opening is January or February" I kindly mention that I got a call saying they have an opening and she says "oh, someone else already took that spot" WTF?!?!? If I had known it was a take it now or lose it type thing I would've taken it right then and there. I'm soooooo pissed now.
Silver lining: I saw one of my neighbors (just graduated from college) is working there in the infant room - which means she has all the CPR/SIDS/infant sign language training. I'm going to get in touch with her and see how much they pay her and maybe I can just steal her away from them. (insert evil laugh)
Re: Daycare vent