to get annoyed at people who let their DC stand in supermarket trollies?

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I just think that it is disgusting when you see people letting their DC put filthy feet and shoes (which could have walked in poo) inside the trollies where I am going to be putting my FOOD instead of sitting them in the seat or letting them actually use their legs and WALK.

The trolleys are dirty anyway, they dont exactly get cleaned on a regular basis, so no it doesn't bother me, on the few occasions Ive let DS in the trolley he's never stood in it anyway that would be fairly dangerous if the trolley was knocked and he bashed his head, so I'd be more concerned bout that then a little extra dirt.

Mind you looking back when dd was a toddler I would not have let her stand in thr trolley - she went in the seat.

Mind you she never screamed as a toddler, she did what she was told at all times

Have to add, when I worked part time in Tesco as a checkout girl after school the trolley boys used to search for lost trolleys - pull them out of rivers, skips, ditches etc.

Don't ever remember them going through any sort of trolley wash. Straight back into the row of trolleys.

Perhaps take some domestos wipes with you.

Should I even tell you about the school trip to the local Waitrose where the kids all ran into the chilled storage room and started picking up all the fruit and veg with their sticky little fingers.?

Scurry that is a Friday night in Gloucester

with a traffic cone on their head

" What about the fact the supermarkets say you shouldn't let them? I always thought it was for safety reasons?"

I don't let him stand in the trolley he sits in the main part, no I don't know the difference between sitting in the proper seat and sitting in the main bit but apparently to a 2 year old it matters.

getoffmoiland you tedious twat you

Far rather a child standing in the trolley than running around the shop or even worse dashing about on those heelie things. They are the root of all evil I swear.

lolol at being called Tedious Twat.

I feel a namechange coming on...

Think it'll suit me.

Haha, i might take it for myself actually!

Never met my DS have you? He starts out in the seat, nicely harnessed in. Somewhere near the nappies, he manages to get the clip undone, he's climbed into the main part of the trolley by the time we get to bakery and has progressed to the thin bit at the front by the time we've finished wth fresh produce.

If I put him back in the seat he screams his head off until all the old ladies are muttering "poor little mite, someone should call social services" and we leave the shop with enough food for only 24 hours which means we need to repeat the whole ghastly process daily. And then he undoes his car seat harness on the way home. He's 2.

I do my best to shop without him or order on-line but on occasions there is no alternative so YABU IMO. I'm doing my best.

YANBU

And to the parents that say oh my darling child won't possibly behave if they don't get their own way - learn to control your children.

Either they sit in the seat in the trolley, or they hold on to the side of your trolley and walk nicely with you. It is not difficult.

If for any reason your child is too big for the seat and doesn't have the social etiquette (or you the self control) use the trolleys for SN children, and sit them on the large seat.

I think in response to poppincandy I would say 'pick your battles' is a rule that most of us live by. If they want to climb in the trolley, we let 'em.

Right, because your chicken (or someone else's) never leaks into the bottom. Or that spray bottle of cleaner never does.

Oh and they don't sit outside all day in all sorts of weather. And they get washed.

Uh huh.

Safety, sure I agree. But cleanliness? FFS!

Well, never thought it would stir up such a hornets nest. For the record, Imisssleeping, yes I am new, do have kids, 3 x ds, middle one ASD, big one now over 18, smallest still at primary school so might just know a little bit of what I am doing (but still learning all the time) lol

Letting my 3 year old walk round the supermarket would be an unmitigated disaster. On the rare occasion I see some poor cow struggling to chivvy a young child around not in a trolley I praise my good sense not to attempt such a foolish manoeuvre.

The cleanliness aspect has never entered my mind and I don't live in a hovel by any means.

I once saw a big fat boy about 10 years old lolling in the trolley eating a birthday cake out of the box before it had been paid for

OP, you would have shit

Personally I dislike it and I never allowed my children to do it, however I have learnt never be shocked by what people do in supermarkets

poppincandy - there are 2 SN chairs max in our supermarket, are you suggesting non SN use them for real? Or are you trying to make a sarcastic point?

I also prefer having my 110cm high son out of the way of people wheeling overstuffed trolleys into him, bumping him over and crushing him because they can't see over their multipack crips, ironing boards etc.

The last time I asked him to hold onto the trolley he got his hand crushed rather badly as someone else span their trolley blind round a corner and crashed into him.

"And to the parents that say oh my darling child won't possibly behave if they don't get their own way - learn to control your children.

Either they sit in the seat in the trolley, or they hold on to the side of your trolley and walk nicely with you. It is not difficult."

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*wipes tears of laughter from eyes.

don't the kids sit on your purchases? i bet you lot put back the squashed items your dcs have flattened

Aww Libra and Avril don't be unreasonable. Children like that do exist...

They are always the kids who have to live with a wasps nest in the house, because they can't upset the balance of Nature.

And wear a lot of home knits....

Eh - I am sure I have seen exactly the same OP before.

Yes YABU. Etcpp.