Naked boy in the supermarket...

[pookamoo]

On the way in to our local supermarket, a mum was with her two DS and one of them was having a wee in the flower bed. No problem with this, DD often has to do this.

However, a little bit later I saw them come into the shop. The DS who was about 3 was naked from the waist down. His mum put him, and his brother, into the food basket part of a trolley, and her DP proceeded to push them round the shop. They didn't put any food in there, the mum was shopping with another trolley.

I am a bit about children in the trolley anyway but I know that is a whole other thread. But a bare bum and willy going around in the trolley? He wasn't sitting on anything, and he wasn't sitting still either.

I paid for my shopping and was waiting for DH and DD who had popped to the loo, and while I was there I was thinking "do I say something" and in the end I mentioned it to the checkout supervisor.

Was I being unreasonable to do so? I felt a bit bad, because after all, most DCs have accidents, but the supermarket does sell pants so if nothing else they could have got him a pair of pants to put on first...

ABF My 6yo DS shoots straw wrappers too - I have no idea where he got it from

I did put his tshirt on his lap whilst he was eating his dinner but it didn't stay on very long and as soon as he tried to walk with it, it fell off straight away. I did have spare clothes with me, but they were in the car, which I couldn't get to until my friend came out of the changing room. For this same reason I also couldn't go straight home, unless we went on the bus which would have meant his todger being on show for even longer.

For my DS a trip to the supermarket is a treat and often an organised one. As in we will do X (something he doesn't really want to do) and then we will do Y (sometimes a trip to a supermarket and he gets to pick which one - supermarkets are his "thing") There is no way I would then make him stay in the car and not get his treat. I was thinking perhaps the parents thought if he was walking around it would be more obvious but if he was sitting in the trolley it wouldn't be so obvious or would somehow be less in people's faces? Perhaps they could have at least fashioned something out of carrier bags though. My friend's little girl can only wear 100% cotton clothes, she is allergic to anything else including elastic. If she had been that child there is a high possibility none of the pants in the supermarket would have been suitable for her.

I don't think there was any point in telling the cashier. I doubt anyone would have wiped it afterwards knowing all the different kinds of germs trollies are already exposed to.

whatawitch - hilarious!!! (nearly wrote hiralious! thanks to prescription painkillers and a glass of wine!)

and whoever it was that said they'd just go catbumfaced, that was hysterical!!

Might even have another glass of wine now, well it's almost Friday!

my dad showed me how to shoot the straw wrappers!

It's not 'offensive' but I would have viewed it as trashy and undignified. Nothing to complain to staff about.