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Its not okay is it? sitting/ standing in the shopping part of the trolley?

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Feminine · 30/09/2013 11:46

I'm sure this has been done many times.

I'm thinking about it today though Grin

If your child is too big to want or can't fit in the seat part you don't then let them climb in the other part of the trolley?

Filthy dirty feet where I'll put my food.

Standing up (dangerous)

I'm not being unreasonable to suggest that its the seat, or walk right?

I saw this with several families yesterday...it got up my nose Wink

Oh and I know there are germs everywhere... this makes it worse

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HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 20:51

Oh miss marple you are a card.

You exactly right. It's just the same as letting them run over kitchen work surfaces. I often prep a meal in a trolley, oh actually, I don't.

Sounds like you've had too many smarties yourself dear.

MakeHayIsAWhaleNow · 02/10/2013 20:55

Last time I looked I was perfectly grown up, thanks. Just don't feel the need to respond to a bizarre level of bile and vitriol about a subject that really is not vital to the history of the world. It's truly strange how upset people are getting about this. You sound a bit bitter and joyless, tbh - so I kind of hope you are trolling for a reaction, for your sake.

I'll leave y'all to it now, I think, and continue to make supermarket trips as fun rather than as miserable as I can....

AnaisHendricks · 02/10/2013 20:56

"it does seem to me like a handy way of shutting down a discussion"

It broadened the discussion, and if you read my posts I would prefer my son not to travel like this. Clearly it did not shut it down as the thread is still going and believe me, having a child with additional needs is in no way, "handy".

missmarplestmarymead · 02/10/2013 20:57

You're so right, harry=it's not the same at all.

I can see now that the fault is all mine. I should wash every packet of bread, box of tea leaves, packet of flour, packet of butter before I put it on my work surface in order to avoid the literal shit that may have clung to a child's shoe being transferred into my fridge, cupboard, work surface or fridge. Ho=hum. At least take their shoes off if you insist on using a shopping trolley as a child cage.

missmarplestmarymead · 02/10/2013 20:59

Anais. what bit of :
'my posts are not directed at parents of children with special needs' don't you understand?

2tiredtocare · 02/10/2013 21:00

Smarties are crap nowadays anyway

HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 21:00

Trolleys are not sanitary. Other people's hands are all over them. You have no idea what's been in them. You have no idea what person had it before you and what their hygiene is like. You don't know how safely they have been stored. You don't know if vermin have been in them.

HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 21:01

I really don't think people are putting children in with shit on their shoes either.

My DS is nearly three and he hasn't trodden in a poo yet, it's not that common.

AnaisHendricks · 02/10/2013 21:03

I understand it, but you failed to follow through. You addressed us directly, firstly by offering Smarties and secondly by saying we shut down discussion.

I have to admit, I don't understand your punctuation one bit.

2tiredtocare · 02/10/2013 21:05

Grin offering smarties!

AnaisHendricks · 02/10/2013 21:07

Well she did and I wholeheartedly agree with you 2tiredtocare, they're crap these days. What happened to them, I wonder?

HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 21:09

I just don't get it. Even if they sit in the seat you have their bums in the trolley and their feet will touch it.

The mother will touch the child and then her filthy mitts will be all over the rest of it.

Maybe we should send the filthy little things around in zorbing balls.

HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 21:09

They took all the E numbers out.

Very sad.

MissDD1971 · 02/10/2013 21:10

Just as an added extra evil Grin what AGE would you let your kids ride in the MAIN part of a trolley? PS - this is for kids who DO NOT HAVE SN! Smile

Is 10 too old?

Can a baby for example (1 years up) be placed in main part of trolley and allowed to crawl around it - and all that that entails (vomit etc...)?!

Yes I may be being a bit facetious (sp?) but they're valid questions?

shallow trolleys? yes or no? deeper ones? suppose the child with the old fashioned open ended ones (near the child SEAT) - you know the ones where the end used to open? what happens if child got its hand stuck there?

FWIW I think we should do as the Amish do - and have a nice CART for the kids, you know those home-made wooden ones, you can then plonk kids in it, drag alongside trolley and it's FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY!

runs

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Feminine · 02/10/2013 21:10

They changed the flavours. Ruined the tube...

I think you can still buy them?

You can buy 'smarties' in America too...but they are a totally different sweet-more like swizzlers!

Anyone remember those? I'm 42

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MissDD1971 · 02/10/2013 21:11

HaroldLloyd - ooh I think I was addicted to the E numbers as a child (and an adult) I'm raving I'm raving, wooh

MissDD1971 · 02/10/2013 21:12

Feminine - AMericans ruin EVERYTHING!

they changed the shape of Cadburys Dairy Milk and they were so jealous of our British candy and chocolate (cos theirs IS crap) that they had to buy Cadburys!!

I've been to the Hershey factory in Pennsylvania and BOAK

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Feminine · 02/10/2013 21:12

missdd the Amish are lethal when it comes to child rearing...I don't think I'd use any of their carts!

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AnaisHendricks · 02/10/2013 21:13

Did they? DD aged 13 will kill me if she knew. She's never been allowed them on my watch.

HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 21:13

I used to take smarties to get me through my Saturday job after a big session.

They were amazing.

And the tube is shite now.

Those were the good old days, you probably had 10 year olds smoking a fag in the trolleys then.

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Feminine · 02/10/2013 21:14

You can see the American influence in Cadbury chocolate now though.

That Willy Wonker 'range' I like it, but its def an American idea! :)

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HaroldLloyd · 02/10/2013 21:15

RUBBISH

LittleBearPad · 02/10/2013 21:16

They also got rid of the plastic lids and made the boxes a stupid shape. Modern smarties are a travesty.

MissDD1971 · 02/10/2013 21:16

Feminine - but the Amish kids and families have VALUES/MORALS etc - you know?! They raise the child the good old fashioned way! is there a sarcasm emoticon?! Smile

feck yeah the Amish SCURR me!

But you'd be helping a nice old fashioned CHRISTIAN values stuff by buying Amish/Brethren whatever.

runs before the cults catch me

AnaisHendricks · 02/10/2013 21:16

I was in the supermarket earlier and saw not one but two children in a shallow trolley. One older than six and the other about three. I'd been catching up on the thread in the car (DH driving) on my phone and did a double-take. I thought they were a plant Grin

Hershey chocolate is so far away from my idea of chocolate that it doesn't deserve the name.