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AIBU?

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Original poster

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

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

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

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AnaisHendricks · 30/09/2013 13:16

I think she was joking. Grapes in the supermarket has been Done to Death

Meh84 · 30/09/2013 13:17

We do if there's no double trollies about, which at my local massive huge Tesco's is a common things. Smaller one in the seat, bigger one sits in the main part :)

LimburgseVlaai · 30/09/2013 13:17

Handwashing threats can get very heated.

LimburgseVlaai · 30/09/2013 13:18

threads even

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:18

PS - all the people who hate kids in trolleys.

so do they want little Jemima/Tarquin/Kevin/Stacey to be running round Waitrose/Asda tripping up everyone?!

cos i hardly see any angels holding mum's hand in our local supermarkets. mostly they're told - "go and sit and read and wait for me" - like yesterday in Sainsbobs - by his mum but then this kid was about 6 or so.

2tiredtocare · 30/09/2013 13:18

Have you taken my pair of willies on board too? Only then can I go and do my cleaning completely satisfied that I have contributed!

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:19

Limsburg - so my mum if she's shopping with me - sometimes she'll grab a Mars Bar - open it and eat and then pay at checkout??!!

because she needs the energy. should I flame her??

AnaisHendricks · 30/09/2013 13:20

I've never seen a heated hand-washing thread but I could easily score a hat-trick if I parked in a parent and child space with a six year old and let him eat grapes in the shopping bit of the trolley.

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:21

Anais - I'm fairly new to MN so not seen the grapes threads but have heard it elsewhere.

Petty to me TBH unless you are dishonest and don't pay for the grapes. Keeps kid amused and kid gets 1 of 5 a day. re the grapes.

win win for me.

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Feminine · 30/09/2013 13:21

Why is it either running wild or in a seat?

There are a few more options ...

Makes me think I've made too much effort?

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elfycat · 30/09/2013 13:23

I'm not sure about bare bums, but that's because I had to write an essay a few years back, which was about at what age you consider children to have/be worthy of dignity and it got me thinking. If you wouldn't do it to an elderly relative without capacity then you shouldn't do it to a child. For the record I would LOVE to be pushed round in a trolley so I don't think this is a dignity failure.

If I let my 2 loose I end up with a sort of supermarket-sweep affair. Of course they only do this in the fruit and veg aisles so I get to be a little smug while tearing my hair out.

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:24

Feminine - young kids I don't see (unless babies) at supermarkets TBH.

The rare parent with an under 5 I do see they're mostly in seats or running wild. or in a buggy if mum brings that too

NOT holding mum's hand. Maybe I go at a quiet time.

Where I work which is posher can't think what I see - oh yeah buggies and baskets.

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:26

elfy what age do you think a child is worthy of dignity? out of interest.

Beastofburden · 30/09/2013 13:27

Supermarket shopping is fun? I must have missed that part.

There was a very brief time in my DC's lives where they could be bribed with a lift in a trolley. With three very small ones I would put the little two in the double trolley seats and make the 4 year old walk but there was a fair bit of hair pulling.

Of course children ought to be able to behave by age 6 but honestly, supermarket shopping can be so insanely boring, I don't blame them for kicking off. Can't matter where they put their feet, the dirt is everywhere anyway but invisible thank god or you wouldn't eat anything that came from a supermarket

The minute home delivery came in, even the very early, very crap services that we had in the 1990s, I was onto it.

Anjou · 30/09/2013 13:30

My DS's are 2.5 & 7 months, so I haven't had to worry about them being in the trolly yet. It's crossed my mind though and, although I know that supermarkets don't want you to do it for H&S reasons, I can't really see it being a problem.

Re germs: the bar between the handle & the baby seats always gets a once over with a wipe before we start the shop but germs in the trolly? Everything's packaged or will be washed so .... not an issue.

I'm very grateful to supermarkets for having trollies with toddler & baby seats, sections for baby car seats etc. Something I wondered about the other day was why you cant gets ones with a 'buggy board' type platform on the back of them. I've not thought this through at all and I'm currently nursing my first hangover in three years after an awesome weekend, so there may be a completely obvious reason why they've not done this. Wouldn't that take care if the problem with kids being in the trolly and/or running around knocking stuff off shelves?

I need another coffee.

randomAXEofkindness · 30/09/2013 13:31

My kids get in whichever bit they want, if they get in at all. I'm just glad if they're giving me a bit of peace tbh .

I understand the extra risk from being in the bottom end, and I take it. The only accident we've had in the supermarket was when one of them was OUTSIDE of the trolley and dropped a massive tin of potatoes on her toe.

Anyway, you sound like loads of fun op Me and dh saw a couple (in their 20's) wiping the rim of a can of pop before sharing it once. Can you imagine the wild sex they were having?

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:32

Anjou - i direct you to Dragons Den.

and have some as a hair of the dog!

comingintomyown · 30/09/2013 13:32

I have attended several first aid incidents involving children who are in the main part of the trolley in the supermarket. Perhaps those who follow this practice would think twice before making their own lives easier were they to see some of these accidents.

I find posters like babydubs earlier very depressing really and indicative of the whatever suits me best and sod the rest of you culture.

TheBigJessie · 30/09/2013 13:33

Ah, that reminds me of the time I had one loose child (2 years) walking in the supermarket, and one properly strapped in. I turned round, and he'd just started eating a carrot!

I think I started putting them both in the trolley then, child seats or not...

Ifcatshadthumbs · 30/09/2013 13:33

I let mine do it, the only rule being they have to sit down. Honestly couldn't give a monkey's about the "reasons" why I shouldn't

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:34

Anjou - slight H&S flaw with your buggy platform - I think child would come a cropper at some point.

much as I appreciate your hungover enterprise I think supermarkets would not thank you if your child having come off said platform then trailed blood round the supermarket. I can see this as a sketchshow

elfycat · 30/09/2013 13:34

Hmmm MissDD1971. I might go start a thread about that.

Dignity - from birth!

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:35

oh random your poor kid - that's gotta hurt re the tin. another reason why trolleys are for kids.

and snigger re your pop wiping couple and the lack of sex probably at it like rabbits

Pachacuti · 30/09/2013 13:37

Hygiene is really a non-issue -- shopping trolleys are not hygienic anyway (one reason that you don't put food in direct contact with them) and if children sitting in them brings that to your attention then it's performed an important public service.

Standing in them is dangerous, mind you -- but a child sitting quietly in a trolley reading I can't get bothered about.

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:37

PS - is it me - I'm not a mum - but those contraptions where you can put a baby above a trolley (i think) - are they not dangerous? can't baby fall out?

or is this me being seriously anal and overthinking this??

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