To think you don't let your child push a trolley when the supermarket is heaving?

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

Or if you do, you watch them like a hawk!

I needed a few bits, so braved my local Tesco Extra this afternoon and it was packed. Never again! I saw no fewer than 4 children pushing the trolley. Now, it's lovely that they're helping but trollies are heavy and children are less able to navigate people and aisles. Hence, I got bumped into by a child whose parent/carer was further down the aisle. I don't blame the child, he said sorry straight away, but why wasn't his parent/carer watching him?

AIBU? (I'm young and use a walking stick which makes me feel invisible in busy places, people shove past me an awful lot and I really fucking hate it, so perhaps I am being oversensitive.)

Hose who think their kids are 'perfectly capable' of pushing a trolley.... Well they might be, but they are still in the way. Loitering at the bottom of the aisle waiting for mum/dad, causing a bottleneck. Or hovering somewhere getting in the way of shelves....or just stopping,starting,stopping suddenly and generally being slow

It's tedious

Can we also please ban parents who allow their children to use their scooters in the supermarket? Twice today I had lumps taken out of my ankles by one little darling.

YANBU, but bluntly I would rather BU on here in internet world than deal with the tantrum that my 8 year old DS, yes 8 years, would have if I said no to him pushing the trolley. It is one of the main reasons I do internet shopping or shop on my own when I can. DS is obsessive about driving and cars and this is in his mind a way of driving. I would again rather he push a trolley than try to drive my car :)

YWBU to brave Tesco on a Saturday afternoon candy!. I tell Ds he isnt old enough yet and he gets to sit I. The trolley chair anyway. Dd gets to push the trolley carefully/under supervision when we get near the checkout. Its hee reward if she's behaved round the store. (She's almost 8 by the way so not a tearaway 3 year old). I've injured my knee which has left me relying on a lot of support. I got one of those mini trolleys to limp around the local Morrisons and about got bodyslammed into the Swedes and Carrots. He was a very sprightly six footed Pensioner he was :(