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AIBU to think Toys R Us is not a play area??

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Mayqueene · 05/02/2011 20:55

Or am I a miserable old bat!!Grin

I've just been to Toys R Us with DD who is 11 to buy some presents for DS3 who is 6 this week.

We're traumatised!

There were bikes and scooters being ridden at top speed round the store crashing into displays, toys pulled off shelves and then discarded on the floor, toys with the packaging ripped and the contents strewn around.

The best was a couple of little lads who looked around 7/8 playing on one of those motorised baby swings-the creaking noise it was making was terrifying!

In every case the children were with their parents who appeared to be looking fondly on as their little darlings wreaked havoc. One lady who had a toddler asked one of the scooter riders to be careful and was told she should put her child in the pushchair if she was worried by the other mum.

Now believe me, I most certainly am not a believer in children being seen and not heard, and as a mum of 3 boys and a girl am most definitely comfortable with boisterous play, but am I really unreasonable to believe that some parents are simply not bothered about teaching their children about how to behave?

Do they really think it's ok to allow children to remove toys from packaging, throw them around, then leave them broken on the floor?

Is it an overinflated sense of entitlement?

Or am I really a miserable old cats bum face? Grin

Ps lesson learned , back to online shopping!!

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NorthernGobshite · 05/02/2011 21:11

Bit of both maybe?
The opening of packaged toys is not acceptable but flying around on the bikes is IMO! Smile

fifi25 · 05/02/2011 21:13

Thats what toys r us are for. Try b4 you buy Grin

porcamiseria · 05/02/2011 21:13

oh get over it! toys r us is well pikey IMO

Suchffun · 05/02/2011 21:22

Toys r us is hell on earth, traumatisation is all part
of the experience.

A1980 · 05/02/2011 21:25

Ripping open packaging isn't accpetable. Trying out bikes fair enough, but not at top speed, they could injure themselves or others.

It isn't just in Toys R Us though. I was in a good department store today. I wanted to get something off a lower shelf in the food deaprtment. My friend's birthday is soon and she's American so I was going to buy some of the imported American goodies they have there to give her along with her present. Hugely expensive but no one elses sells them.

Three girls sitting on the floor, aged about 9. Eating McDonalds food and drink off the floor while putting there ketchup covered hands all through the stuff on the shelf. Messing it up, no intention of buying anything. I said excuse me please girls, politely. They sat there and laughed. I then said I'd like to get to the shelves there please. No response. They're blocking up the whole aisle and people can't walk past and a lady had t go around the other way with a baby in a buggy as she couldn't get passed and they ignroed her too. I finally said to them, would you get up off the floor and allow other people to get to the shelves please. Another couple also said yes, we also wan't to get to the shelves. They wouldn't move and "fuck you" was the answer from one them followed by laughter. So I walked off and said something along the lines of go home and ask you parents to teach you to behave in public.

Then I heard "LETS GET HER" being shouted and then turned round to seem them running at me one of them with her fist up. I laughed my arse off at her and said to her you're half my height, what do you propose to do to me, I'm not scared of you. No response and they walked off. I then saw them being thrown out by the security guard for eating food in there. I gave them a huge grin as I saw this happen.

Honestly, why the fuck can't parents teach their kids to behave in shops. Their parents probably allowed them to run riot when they were children.

Original poster
Mayqueene · 05/02/2011 21:45

A1980 how funny!

Of course its fine to try bikes etc (we do) -its just not very ok to hurtle round crashing into things and narrowly avoiding toddlers (but not my legs grr!)

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fifi25 · 05/02/2011 22:20

Had the 9yr olds of been in Tesco nothing would have been said. How dare they put their Tesco covered hands on M&S produce Shock especially in the expensive isle

fifi25 · 05/02/2011 22:21

Not tesco covered hands but ketchup covered hands??? Wine anyone?

A1980 · 05/02/2011 22:23

It wasn't M&S, do they sell American imported food?

It was a big department store in London.

fifi25 · 05/02/2011 22:28

Sorry just assumed you meant m&s

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