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walking past the wine aisle with ds who was about 4.

said very clearly, especially as he was having speech therapy at the time, "mummy that's your special drink". then when I stopped to look he pipes up " why not buy two, you like to drink it "

I refer to the checkout operators in my local store as ladies and gentlemen to the DC.

Three year old DC1 stood by the queue waving his groceries calling out "Lady! Lady!" sounding like he came from an American sitcom. Ah well.

Or DC3 who shrieked so loudly having a tantrum the aforementioned ladies came to help, thinking he had hurt himself, and I had to confess no, he was just having a strop.

Shopping with ds1, who was prone to carelessness, I asked him to get me some toilet paper. A safe enough request I thought, However I had failed to notice the pyramid display at the end of the aisle. before I could stop him he grabbed one from the bottom and the whole lot cascaded down. He got such a fright he started crying and the store staff were concerned that he had been hurt. I think they also assumed that it had fallen on him so we didn't have to confess to his misdemeanour.

I was once in the feminine hygiene section if the supermarket when a toddler walked past with his mum and said in an extremely loud voice "Look mum, there are those cigarettes you put up your bum"! Needless to say, she couldn't get out of there fast enough!

My 4 yr old waiting in line said in a loud voice 'why has that man got a sticky out tooth' about some old boy doing his shopping & before that 'why has that lady got such a fat tummy' when clearly heavily pregnant & 'mummy have you got a baby in your tummy'.

My daughter refuses to eat normal everyday vegetables. She will eat avocados and celeriac probably because they are the least likely veggies to be found on any kids menu!
However last time we where in a supermarket she decided to take bites out of carrots and cucumbers within easy reach. Once I realised what she was up-to I had to stop myself from yelling stop at her, and quickly pick up all damaged vegetable to pay and take home, which of course she didn't eat!

When my son was 3, we were shopping in our local shop. They had one of those large plastic charity collection tubs near the check out, in the shape of my sons favourite cartoon character - Sooty. He would always stand 'talking' to Sooty while I bagged my groceries and, after paying, I would always give him some change to put in him.
As I was about to pay, I reached for my purse, which i'd placed by the side of me while I packed, only to find it was no longer there! I turned, horrified, to see my son emptying the whole contents into Sooty!! Needless to say I couldn't ask for the money back, but could also no longer pay for my shopping as had come out without bank cards so had to apologise and leave red faced!

Not quite a supermarket, but while walking round B&Q last weekend our daughter decide to drop her pants and climb onto a display toilet! I grab her before she went, only for her to wee down my leg making it look like I'd wet myself.

My DD aged 3 was very interested in where food comes from...so she would ask "What animal is this meat from?" and I would say "That's pork...so it came from a pig." etc etc.

She kept trying to get me to explain what scotch eggs were...and I said they were eggs from a chicken and meat from a pig made into little balls.

Not long later on another day she was peering in to a lady's trolley examining things and telling a horrified looking child of about 6 "This is part of a dead cow you know....and these are pig balls."

Pig balls! The Mother of the child was giving me evils and she said "No, no they're not dead cows darling...of course they're not!" and shoved the trolley and her child away from my DD at top speed.