DD and I have just been into town to buy a few bits and bobs to make halloween biscuits. We went into one store (Cook Shop, I think they are national chain) to look for some halloweeny biscuit cutters. The shop is a little over stocked and it is a bit of a nightmare to navigate due to narrow aisles etc.
Anyway, DD knows not to touch things, I'm forever telling her, but alas she is 6 and therefore most of the time it goes in one ear and out the other.
Most of the sharp knives in this store are kept in cases and are therefore not a risk, but there is a display rack running down the middle of store which is at waist height. In this open rack there are alsorts of things, peelers, wine stoppers etc. Unbeknownst to me there are also knives, sharp knives, blade of about 5". These knives are very brightly coloured and they do have pull off knife guards (which is something I suppose).
Before I have a chance to even spot what she is doing (we are walking in single file in the shop and she is right behind me), she had whipped a knife out of the display and took the guard off to see what it is. Blade slices the heel of her hand, cut is not deep but it is bleeding.
Staff member spots us and asks if DD is ok. I say she is fine but could we have a tissue/plaster or something. Staff member goes off to find first aid kit and accident book. Whilst she is away another staff member at the till says nonchalantly 'Oh a little boy did the same thing a few days ago'. I was a bit gobsmacked at that one, then she went on to say 'It's so difficult for them [the children] to resist, what with them being bright colours'. By this point I am &
I know that as her mother I am partly responsible but AIBU to think that the staff are stupid/negligent to put sharp, brightly coloured (therefore bound to grab the attn of a small person) at child height ? Especially given that another child did the same thing and the staff did feck all to move the knives out the reach of littlies ?
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....To write a letter of complaint to a cookware shop after DD cut her hand on a KNIFE ?
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NomDePlume · 30/10/2008 11:40
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