to get annoyed

[Debsbear]

when parents sit their little darlings in the back of the shopping trolley with their shoes on. I am going to put my food in that trolley and I don't want all the crap off the bottom of their shoes all over it. If they want to sit in the trolley why can't they use the seat provided?

Sometimes you CAN'T leave your DC at home or with someone else! Trust me, I'm not particularly keen on taking my 2 DSs with me to the supermarket when they'e not at their best, but sometimes you just have to.

They are usually very well behaved, but they do have bad days.

The tantrum doesn't last long!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Your DS may not, but my DS can keep a tantrum going for a good 45 minutes! (Mind you I would have thought he would have realised by now that he never gets his way with the tantrum, but he's stubbon and a slow learner in that regard ).

45 minutes is a short tantrum isn't it? ;)

He has been known to complain and whinge the whole way round but he doesn't get a choice in the matter!

Its such a small thing so i pick my battles.
We sit him and and whizz round. Really don't see the bid deal to be honest

Fair enough to me it's to dangerous and the fact shops specifically ask you not to is enough reason to not even consider it.

Its dangerous walking down the street but i mange that alright

mange = manage

Walking down the street isn't avoidable though so a rather stupid comparison.

"I suspect that parents put their children in the trolleys because they can't be bothered to control them if they are outside the trolleys. In other words, they have not taught their children how to behave when they are out somewhere so they have to contain them!"

I sometimes sit my 4 year old dd in the trolley when we go shopping. I don't do this because I have not taught her how to behave - I do it because supermarkets can be busy, lots of people are walking around with baskets at my daughter's head height and I feel it is safer for her. She isn't standing up or leaning over the edge, so I fail to see why it would be safer for her not to be there.

She also likes sitting in the trolley and I see no harm in making it as fun for her as possible.

It is also easier for me to concentrate on what I am doing and it enables me to be in and out asap.

Before anyone says she should be in the seat - she finds it uncomfortable. And before I get the MN perennial lecture about how children shouldn't be taken to supermarkets/how I should do internet shopping, I consider that she has as much right to be in a public place as all the other whinging (yes I mean you, OP) shoppers.

Trolleys are not bacteria free zones, contaminated by children's feet!

DP does the food shopping with DD and apparantly she always sits in the back, because they both think it is fun. He builds a mound of food on top of her. I don't approve, but then I am not there so keep my nose out. I have asked DP what the shop/customers do and he says they are fine and laugh at DD, ask him if he needs help etc. Maybe this is more about a "poor man" having to do womens work though, so another thread entirly

Nor are supermarkets for me.

Yes i could on-line shop but i only have £50 a week for 4 of us and don't want to waste £4 of that on delivery. Cant leave him at home because ss frown on me leaving him alone for a few hours while i go get carrots

Doesn't me my children are running riot with flick knives because i haven't parented properly, it just means why make it a shit experience when it doesn't have to be>?

me = mean.
Gah cant type fpr toffee today.

fpr = for

Supermarkets only ask parents not to do this because this is an increasingly litigious society and they are covering their arses against the sort of parents who let their dc stand up/lean over the edge/swing on the sides. Just sitting down is not dangerous.

DD2 stands sits nicely in the trolley - keeps her quiet and stops her running off. I pick my battles and have never seen unwrapped/food that doesn't need peeled put in a trolley. What foodstuffs are my DD's shoes going to contaminate?? genuinely

You do realise that fruit and vegetables grow outside, sometimes on the ground, where people walk to farm them ! They are also likely to be covered in pesticides and other nasties. That along with people (customers, staff, factory workers, farmers etc. etc.) all handling the food, many of whom may have sneezed and not washed their hands, been to the loo and not washed their hands etc. etc., A toddlers shoes being where you might put some probably packaged food hours later really is the least of your worries.

it's probably spent time in the canal too

I put both my kids in the trolley. 2 yr old in seat, 4 yr old balanced precariously in the back. Can't see an issue with it personally. Food is either packaged, or in the case of veg, needs washing anyway as a lot of it has come out of the muddy ground. I guess it helps that lots of mums do it round here, seems pretty much the norm really.

I can't see why it would upset people so much tbh. Unless they are children far too big to put in and cause an accident... there is very little trouble this would cause...

Would much rather people put their children inside the trolley than run over them repeatedly in the aisles... lol

Well thanks everyone, you have successfully put me off shopping trollies for life!
The thought of rats urine near my fresh veg makes me want to boak.

Lol.

I guess there are some things you don't need / want to think about. I hope I can continue to look at a shopping trolley in the same way, plus the tins that I don't bother to rinse because I had never considered rats pissing on them in the warehouse.