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

[ModreB]

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.

Is it a full moon or something?

Where do people find all this time to get wound up about FA?

OP... I'm concerned that a) you've even noticed this happening and b) you've clearly spent too much time thinking about it.

Please do get a hobby.

WOw proper dejavu (is that how you spell it). I am sure we have had the exact same thread before.

I had to check the date to make sure it wasnt a revived one.

Even the reasons why the OP hates it (didnt cross my mind re poo etc before the last thread) are the same.

SOmeone please tell me I am not going bonkers...

TFMD - only at least once a month

It's right on up there with P&T parking, Disabled Toilets and SAHM v WOHM....

At my local Tesco the baby/toddler trolleys are kept out back because they don't need a token so if they're in sight people use them first then parents can't use one, so you have to ask. Everytime they get me a trolley they clean the baby seat before they give it me because they're kept in an inside carpark. The filth that comes from an apparently clean chair is shocking!

My point is, that the trolley is not clean, even just the fumes from the cars, what a child has on their shoes is nothing, clean what's not wrapped in your trolley!

oh well at least when the trolley tips over, you won't have to worry about getting a dirty trolley dirt

Why would my trolley tip over?

I am pretty lax, I have no longer any toddlers, I am sure mine probably did stand up in a trolley. But I did witness a trolley tipping incident - toddler reached out across the freezer to get something and it tipped over. So that would be in my judgey brain, not the dirty shoes.

i work in a supermarket [and im not a spotty yoof ]

i've seen many kids injure themselves by trapping their fingers between shelf and trolley, pulling stuff off shelves, climbing in and out fo trolleys, falling out, and one terrible incident where a little boy cracked his head open, and it is well known at work that a little girl died a few years ago falling out of a trolley.

i had 3 under 5s at one point, and they all sat down in the trolley, and if they tried to stand up and were playing up i would stand there for 20 minutes bribing/threatening them to sit down.
trolleys arent playthings, they are equipment. i understand perfectly how difficult it is to keep kids in one place, so keep them sat down in the trolley. dont let them stand up for gods sake. i've seen some horrible things.

i wouldnt worry about dirty shoes, have you ever seen the back of a supermarket warehouse? and the old people who finger every piece of fruit before they choose one?

germs are good. probably.

realised i sound a bit snippy there.

can i replace my above comment with

'do what you like, but if you arent going to put your child in a childseat, for fucks sake dont get a trolley with the baby carriers attached, leave them for someone who actually needs one'

like i did all those years ago.
sniff.

i almost miss DD1's tantrums in the baked bean aisle...

arghhhhhhhhhh deja vu! this topic is done to death op

My nearly 3 year old no longer fits in the seat. Well actually she does but I can't get her back out again with help from a stranger The last one being a trolley boy who suggested sitting her in the trolley "coz little kids love it innit".

So she sits in the trolley on her daddy's crate of beer and helps me with the shopping, you know passing me stuff we don't need and sneaking stuff in the trolley when I say no

Yes she could walk as her legs work etc but I'd much rather endure the dirty looks from people because she's sitting in the trolley instead of walking round getting runover by them. Or worse because I somehow lost her.

Definition of a trolley - a wheeled cart pushed by hand: a wheeled cart that is pushed by hand and used for transporting things

In my case, that includes children.

TMDV - I'm sure you're right and it ended up as a bunfight about how dirty kitchen surfaces, and the bottom of handbags are.

Padmehum -

i have done it once but ds2 was not standing was sitting but he had his leg in plaster from thigh to toe and at 6 could not fit in seat and wa sbefore time of sn trolleys and there wano wheelchairs as been knicked and to be fair since he could not bend leg would been no good .So was forced to sit him in trolley , mind this was before home deliveray option to way back when .

But as a rule i seen few toddlers its more the ekk dont dive out in front of me i worry about

In reference to the poster who asked why do people let their chidlren do this when the supermarkets say not to for safety reasons, well, I am responsible for my children's safety. Not anyone else.

I fully appreciate their perspective and indeed POV, but trading off between toddler in trolley and toddler running around like mad thing dodging other people's trollies with absolutely no regard for what might be coming around the corner, MY trolley wins.

ditto riven

what riven said

YABU - seriously, get a life! You must have little to worry about!

Riven

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Are you seriously suggesting that Mums push a toddler around in a buggy as well as push a trolley around, so they don't put their todders into the trolley?

WTF for?

full moon definitely.

what on earth is going on that apparently rational grown women think a supermarket trolley is spotlessly clean until some dirty child's shoes touch it?! gibberish.

YABU and ridiculous

this is absolutely ridiculous
SHIT is used as fertiliser

Riven

You could shop on-line, so no, you don't have to.

I am sorry that you are in a position that your DD is in a wheelchair and isn't able to be simply put into a trolley and that your life is necessarily more difficult. I understand that your life is much more difficult than a lot of other peoples and I feel for you, with the struggles you face on a daily basis.

However, just because you 'need' to do this doesn't mean other people should choose to do this. You chose to do this when you had a double buggy and walked to the shops - fine. Other people drive to the shops and don't chose to do this - why is your choice more acceptable than theirs?

What exactly is the problem with putting a toddler/small child into the trolley?