to think that parents should not let there kids piss about in tesco wearing healies

[pud1]

i fucking hate those things. why do parents let there kids wear them on a saturday afternoon in busy supermarkets and shopping centres. i nearly got knocked over twice this saturday and at 27 weeks pregnant and feeling unsteady and fat i dont need it.( rant over)

[FluffyMummy123]

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[pud1]

i know i know i will be falling over by 38 weeks. feel like an old biddy

[Listmaker]

Yeah but supermarket floors are such a great place for heelying!!

[pud1]

dont i know it. i would slap the little shits if i could catch em

[callmeovercautious]

I had a rather large 8 or 9 year old crash staight into the pram when DD was about 4 weeks. I am rather pleased to say I didn't throttle him but picked him up and helped him find his Mum (he was crying!).

I think she is lucky my hormones weren't going full pelt that day or I may have been banged up for assaulting her and her Child!

[VictorianSqualor]

I dont think kid should be allowed them in any store of any kind, they aren't allowed skateboards or roller blades or scooters so why heelieys?
FWIW, my DD really wnats some but she will not be allowed to wear them shopping if she ever gets any!

[mumoffourandtwocats]

yeh they are a bit of a pain in the ass alright but I remember people saying the same about skateboards in the 70s (although admittedly they weren't inside the shopping centres, they were even worse on the street) and microscooters a few years back.

Where we live the supermarkets have signs up saying NO HEELIES (along with NO SCOOTERS, NO SKATES, NO BICYCLES, but sadly not yet NO MOBILITY SCOOTERS) and most of the security guys do stop the kids and make them take the wheels out. I think most kids just don't realise, just like the skateboarders, how much damage they could cause (to themselves as much as anyone else).

Suggestion: Go shopping at night. It's much more peaceful. 3am is best if you can find a 24hr tesco and at 27 wks you'll soon be awake all night anyway needing to pee.

Otherwise just think of all the fun you can have tripping them up with your pram in a few weeks.

[MegaLegs]

My mate and I were discussing how much quicker our grocery shopping could be if we had a pair.

[pud1]

i might het a pair and spend all weekend knocking kids over

[monkeybutler]

Work in Sainsburys and this persistent little heelies wearing shit comes in knocking y displays over all the time. Well, apart from the fact he broke his leg last week!!! Laughed myself sick.

One customer (an elderley gent0 was watching me do the safetl announcement about not wearing heelies in the store and came over ranting that it was polictical correctness gone mad. However, he had misheard and thought his wife woould have to take her heels off at the door. I explained we wouldnt be providing slippers. Bless him.

[Lainey38]

i hate them. there's just no need.

[kslatts]

I don't have a problem with them and let my dd wear them when we go shopping. I like seeing the children wearing them enjoying themselves instead of looking bored.

[stleger]

Aren't they last year's thing? The genuine ones are on sale here for 35 euros, last year they wer over 100. What a fashion blunder too!

[mindalina]

No you're not I hate the bloody things. All the kids in town seem to be wearing them and they all seem to be on the verge of crashing into me and my pushchair. I don't object to the idea but kids are just too careless on them. Also our local mall has signs up saying not to use them and people just ignore them. Do your shopping online, it's much easier and you're less likely to be arrested for assaulting a child

[paulaplumpbottom]

Its the parents who are being irresponsible not the kids. Their parents should be making their kids behave. I hate them, one brat took my four year old out flat. I didn't mind telling him what I thought an his mother was appropriatly embarrased

[ExpLEUSIveS]

I hate them! I always want to stick my foot out and trip them. I give lots of dirty looks.

I call them Heely Hoodlems.

[agnesnitt]

They're an ill thought out concept it has to be said.

Agnes

[macdoodle]

Mine wears them she is warned to be careful she does not go careening about and has never knocked into anyone pregnant or old or a buggy.....and I am 33 weeks pregnant ...haven't any of you ever been young or got kids of that age...gosh crack a smile it might hurt

[Oenophile]

I can understand why people who've nearly been knocked down by them (or their small DCs) have a problem with them, I really can, but speaking from an unrealistic, fluffy-Pollyanna sortof position, I can't help but love seeing children enjoying themselves in boring old supermarkets where you so often see them bored and whiney, and those wide alleys and smooth floors must be sooooo tempting if you've got wheels... any adult MN-ers got any, and are they as much fun as they look?!

[PeachyCosmicExplosion]

YANBU, I was nearly knocked flying by a kid in Asda, her MUM was PHSL- bit mean as it is bloody obvious I am pregnant!!

there was some numpty allowing their kid to heely around the waiting room at the hospital as well, a room that doubles as paeditric A&E and outpatients for the childrens disability unit- ie lots of kids who cant tell you are coming, cant move out your way and could easily be significantly harmed if injured.

[DarthVader]

Supermarkets are the perfect place to wear your heelies and make boring shopping more fun! I sympathise with both sides here.

[ScienceTeacher]

yanbu

[PeachyCosmicExplosion]

Oh and ignore the Evil Cod One, I'm 20 weeks and (presumably due to my breeder status- ie it being my 4th) my pelvis has already gone and I am very unsteady indeed!

[theslownorris]

Oenophile- what planet are you on? Supermarkets aren't meant to be fun. I'm all for children enjoying themselves but Tesco's aisles are not the place for it.
FWIW I've (thankfully) not been crashed into by some child on Heelies but it annoys me too.