To get irritated by children being allowed to play on self service tills?

[FudgeGirl]

Not irritated with the kids themselves, but the parents who let them "play shops" while everyone else is queuing.

In the supermarket the other day, a woman was letting her five year old scan everything through the till and it took forever.

Child was fighting when she couldn't scan something and mother tried to help, screaming that she could do it herself - all the time everyone in the queue is getting more exasperated at the time it's taking.

I've seen it so often, are some mothers just ignorant to everyone else wanting to pay for their shopping and get home? Or is it just me and should I cheer as their little darlings have a temper tantrum because they can't scan through a bag of pasta bigger than themselves?

Y ou would hate me then. I let mine scan AND pack and if someone tuts i take twice as long

*You not y ou

She probably thought that getting the child involved was going to make it easier and more fun. She may well have hated it as much as you when she realised it wasn't going to work but had to carry on because calling ahalt to the game would mske it worse.

What the hell else are children expected to think of those things? They are the devil's work.

YANBU.

YANBU when there is a big queue, its not ok to keep people waiting, but I wouldnt have a problem if it was quiet/there was a big bank of tills.

I was in a similar situation, queueing for the tills, two tills came free at once, and a mother with two young children is next in the queue, kids about 3 and 6. She takes the shopping to the first till and sends the children on to the next one to have a play.....

YANBU.

But when it comes to pissing me off in supermarkets it's dozey arsed students in their Jack Wills, being all kerazee with their mates, who are far, far worse than any child.

ds (6) does the scanning for me while I pack, but he's really good at it and if anything makes it quicker! He loves doing it.

When he was learning to help and slower I wouldn't have let him do it when shop was busy or people were queueing.

Tbh, I'd let my children do that. Or I would have done if there were any self scan tills around when mine were little.

But to let them play when they aren't doing the shopping is very inconsiderate.

YANBU.

Just say NO to your children fgs.

Mind you I never let DD scan the shopping - i want to play shops myself.

I wouldn't let DS do it if there were a long queue or I were in a hurry. But if it was quiet and I wasn't bothered, then I would let him have a go, I expect.

But YANBU in the circumstance you described.

But then, if my child was behaving like that I'd probably put the shopping down and march them out anyway. I don't like being held hostage!

I do maintain that those things are the work of the devil.

DD does it with me - she scans, I pack, but she is eleven, so maybe a bit quicker. Would take over swiftly if there was a problem/big queue though.

YANBU, why should other customers have to wait while another inconsiderate customers child plays

Waitwhat - would you let your child do it if there was a big queue building up? If someone was letting their child do the scanning, and it was taking ages and holding other people up, I would think that was very rude and inconsiderate.

And, for what it's worth, if my child was having a temper tantrum in an effort to be allowed to do something, there's no way they'd get to do it.

YANBU, I'd probably have said something to her but then I'm the sort of person who will actually say something to the people who "didn't notice there was a queue for the self checkout" and try to skip. I'd definitely have said something to the woman who let her kids play with a till while she used another one, especially if I was next in line.

YANBU never noticed anyone doing it myself. I'd make a complaint to the manager if a queue was building up it's their responsibilty.

These type of tills are meant to speed up the shopping experince so WTF do someone people do this type of thing 'oh look my child is learning, helping blah blah blah it's another version of the loud parenting style.
You know the sort 'oh no portia darling we only eat organic carrots now lets hurry darling or you'll be late for your prima ballerina in training class'

I would yes. He is 8 and super speedy and well passed the tantrum phase.
He is a maths wizz and likes to add the amount to the total before the till can(and 97% of the time he does)

Its no worse than people stopping to text as i frequently see

YANBU
I will admit that I have let dd1 have a go, but only when our little tesco express is deathly quiet, and we have no more than 3 items.

I daren't use those tills since I brought Sainsburys to a standstill with my 2dc 'helping'. DS was scanning everything too fast and dd was taking things out of the bagging area and putting them back. The automatic woman was doing her nut and the poor teenage member of staff became close to tears.

So no YANBU.

I think there are some people who lose all common sense when in shops with their children.

I used to work in a photogrpahic shop, with self serve digital kiosks, and some parents would actively encourage their kids to play with the machines even though there were people waiting to use them.

My 11 yr old DD is faster than me, so I let her do it. I keep telling her she can get a job on the tills when she is at college .