This Point Pleasant, N.J Twentysomething Will See Taylor Swift With Your Kids - So You Don't Have To

Yes, that’s really Shellie Wass, the Point Pleasant Boro native, the one who offered through Craigslist to take your kids to a Taylor Swift show if you really, really don’t want to go yourself.

Yes, she’s the one Time magazine talked about. And, yes, she’s legit.

Yes, just like she says in the ad, she really does know all the words to the songs. (Uh, oh - Trouble, Trouble, Trouble!).

No, no. She’s not up to no good. Not even close.

Shellie Wass, a Point Pleasant Boro High School graduate who now lives in Philadelphia, just never thought her offer to babysit anybody’s kids and take them to a Taylor Swift show at Lincoln Financial Field in June would get this big, this fast.

Even with all the publicity, not a single person has taken her up on her offer. But the 25-year-old is seeing something happen that others - like her friends, for instance - wish they thought of first: Making a Craigslist ad go viral.

“I came home and my friends were like, ‘Shellie! You’re on Time right now!’ “ said Wass.

Truth be told: Wass, a professional dog walker who has done plenty of babysitting, is doing it for her own benefit, too.

“What happened first is that the presale tickets sold out quicker than my Internet could load the Ticketmaster website,” she said. “And then I remembered what it was like at the last large concert I went to - Miley Cyrus - and it was a lot of parents that were there just for their children, and they all looked so unhappy and out of place.”

“I jokingly said I would do this,” she said, “and then I did.”

But, no, she’s not joking.

In the post, Wass says she’ll not only go, she’ll buy your ticket from you and, not like you, will sing along with your kids.

“You get $100+ back to do whatever you want with,” she wrote. “Woah, think of all the extra pies you can buy for Thanksgiving!”

You don’t have to go and be bored, wearing earplugs, she says. “I will be loud and singing along with them and forcing them to have the best time ever.”

She said she’ll take photos of them so they don’t have to “wear out their arms with #SELFIES!” But she won’t embarrass them, either.

“(I’m) also completely OK with them standing there and ignoring me and pretending we aren’t together at all, and then escorting them to your car so that you can take them home,” she said.

The 25-year-old never ever thought that the ad would get so much attention. A friend of hers posted it to Reddit soon after she posted on Thursday. A few hours later, it was on the second page of Reddit “which I hear is really really good.”

Then, a few days later, Time magazine reposted it. Time magazine?? Seriously? But Time actually got it.

“Time was the first to understand the lighthearted tone of it,” she said.

Time magazine went so far as to have a Twitter chat with Wass. “The famous dog she mentions is a really special pug named Oliver,“ wrote Time. “Also, she confirmed that while nobody has responded to the ad, she was not joking around.”

She did think that at least one person would take her up on her offer. She doesn’t take it personally, however. There are a lot of scared people out there. And maybe people don’t want to bother reaching out to somebody who, they believe, doesn’t exist.

But on Reddit, at least, Wass is getting more attention by the hour, with more than 130 comments posted. Some are nice; some not so nice at all.

Either way, it’s all very flattering.

“If somebody would respond to me, I would definitely do it,” she said.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Want proof that Shellie Wass exists? Patch New Jersey and Pennsylvania editor Tom Davis is best friends with her uncle and remembers when she was born).