sleeping baby in car

[grumpykat25]

Please don't shout- I'm veerrrrrrry tired and emotional.
So, dd is teething/had mmr jab and mini-measles/staying awake screaming all night and I've stayed home with her today. My mobile (damn thing) is broken (again) and had to be dropped at the nokia repair shop on a retail park . After popping to the docs, dd finally falls asleep in the car, and so I drove over to said retail park. When I get there, she's still asleep. Not sort of sleeping, but head back, fly catching and snoring sleep. I parked my car RIGHT OUTSIDE the shop and stood in the doorway, having let the guy know that I needed to speak to him. At no point could I not see happily slumbering dd.
A car park attendant noticed her sleeping and peered in at her then wandered off. 30 seconds later there are three of them with a walkie talkie so I popped my head out and said "don't worry, she's mine, just a couple of minutes" etc. He told me that he'd rung security, they were on their way and if I didn't get her out of the car RIGHT NOW then they'd have social services out. WTF? AIBU to think that was a little extreme ?
So poor dd is hoiked out of her sleep and the car for the further two minutes it took to sign my phone in and then wailed all the way home.
Why do people always think they know best? Or am I too tired to realise that IABU?

I would have told them to mind their own fecking business.

IMO YANBU, as you could see her the whole time! Certainly abit extreme.

YANBU. I'd have done the same. If you couldn't see her, that's a different matter, but right outside the shop is fine, imo.

very extreme of them. she was probably as near to you as when she's sleeping upstairs and was in your sight. wf did they think would happen? you showed you were in sigh by noticing them straight off. intefering twats I say,

I would have said, go on, call them then, and get the fuck away from my car as well.

But you do know you're going to get people on here to tell you how YABU because the car could have gone on fire/bit hit by a runaway freight train/picked up by a UFO, don't you.

Well someone better call ss for me as well ds is asleep in his pram in another room and I can't see him from here in the kitchen

No YANBU

Grumpy Cat I feel phyically sick reading this not because of anything about you put but for Christ sake never do this again. I used to do this regularly we live on a farm hence no stranger danger no traffic ect When I came back from shopping I often left kids asleep in carseats for up to a hour. UNTIL the day a electrical fault on the dashboard set the car filling with toxic fumes and smoke if Monty our old yard dog hadn't gone mad barking I could of lost my twins. It is one of the worst memories I have, the day I nearly kippered the kids. I haven't posted this to upset you as I think you are doing it hard every good wish and it does get easier.

YABU. You could have dropped your car keys down a drain and then you'd have had to break a window to get in. The glass could have then grazed her.

This is the number one cause of grazing in sleeping infants in the UK. I personally know someone who grazed their child like this and the child is now afraid of people smashing windows in front of them. It's dibilitating.

She could see the car though!

I accidentally locked my DD in the car when she was about 1. I hadn't left her, but I'd left the keys on the front seat and hadn't realised the central locking had come on when I shut her door before trying to get in to drive! Anyway, called the breakdown people out (who arrived very quickly as a child was involved) and they were able to prise open the window. No smashing of glass required. Not that this is the point of this thread, but just thought I'd point out that it isn't necessary to smash a window to get into a locked car.

YANBU if you could see her throughout the time she was in the car.

I think they chance of you dropping your key down a drain is smaller than the chance of you dropping her a grazing her!! I have never in my life dropped a key down a drain!

See?

YANBU at all - that's totally OTT. I quite often leave my DS in the car when he's asleep. Sometimes parked outside the house and I look at him through the window.

yanbu

Reality

YABU
I once left my son sleeping in a car and a localised black-hole opened up directly beneath the car and swept it away through a wormhole to the far side of space.

It took bloody ages to get him back and the RAC were no help at all.

Really? Has AIBU got to the stage where someone would actually read my post and think I was serious?

Must. Try. Harder.

Of course YWNBU, OP.

Not yours Psammead, the other one I think!

Reality and Pannda

Yanbu. I do this when I am getting petrol or getting money out.

kungfupannda yours gets funnier every time I read it.

Quote of the week, please!

HAving re-read Psammead's post, I can see I was well and truly taken in....baby brain in gear.

I can't believe you are not taking me seriously.

It was really traumatic. And it could happen to yoooooou!