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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think that people should not let their children stand in supermarket trolleys

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IhavetowaitHOWlong · 02/06/2014 10:10

...with their grubby little shoes that have potentially tramped through dog shit and who knows what else. People put their food in there!

Pregnancy hormones making me very grrr today so everything is more irritating than normal, but still. It pisses me off that I'm denying myself all sorts of foods I like to avoid the slim possibility of complications (I've lost two pregnancies already this year so being super paranoid and doing everything by the book this time), but I don't know what contaminants are being introduced to my food trolley by people who can't say no to their kids. It's not difficult to explain that we don't put shoes in places where food goes. Bet they wouldn't let their kids walk around in their shoes on their kitchen benches.

Grrrrr!

...and breathe!

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Mrsjayy · 02/06/2014 10:54

Have touched*

javotte · 02/06/2014 10:54

My 18 m.o. can climb out of the seat in a couple of seconds. She cannot walk beside me - she would run away.
I cannot push a shopping trolley and a pushchair at the same time.
What do you suggest, OP?

idontlikealdi · 02/06/2014 10:54

If the supermarkets actually had enough trolleys with double seats I wouldn't need to put my kids in the main part of the trolley.

People using double seated ones when they have one child gives me the rage.

YABVU.

Aqualegia · 02/06/2014 10:56

I am chuckling a lot at all these mentions of "dirty, shitty shoes". I don't even know why.

Good luck with your pregnancy, OP.

ICanSeeTheSun · 02/06/2014 10:57

I don't know about most parents, but my DC don't go trampling through dog poo. If accidentally stepped in the shoes are then well cleaned.

chemenger · 02/06/2014 10:58

I didn't have an opinion on this either way until I saw a little girl fall out of a trolley and split her head open on a counter. Now I am anti children in trolleys, although I would never say anything to a parent who makes different decisions on risk from me. They can be tipped sideways by a child and it is a long way to fall with many hard surfaces and sharp corners around. There is a reason for the safety instructions on trolleys.

I don't really put anything into a trolley unwrapped except things like melon where you don't eat the rind so I'm not fussed about dirt.

Mrsjayy · 02/06/2014 10:58

I once saw a little girl sitting in a trolley I was worried the shopping was building up around her

MintyChops · 02/06/2014 11:01

I'm sure you should be more worried about the rat piss all over the trolley.

claraschu · 02/06/2014 11:03

As far as your kids not being allowed to do things that other children can do: kids have to get used to double standards, and they quickly adapt to people's different ideas.

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IhavetowaitHOWlong · 02/06/2014 11:03

Thanks for the dose of sanity ladies, I needed that!

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AlpacaLypse · 02/06/2014 11:07

yy idontlikealdi

There were three sets of twins (including mine) born in our small town in the spring of 1999 and only one twin trolley in the only supermarket - we used to ring each other up to 'book' it. I got serious rage whenever some cowbag had it and was using it for one baby and a handbag.

One time it was missing when I got there, so I stomped about, fuming and balancing a handbasket on the roof of the double buggy. But when I caught up with the perpetrator she had twins AND a tiny new born strapped to her chest so I immediately forgave her, exchanged phone numbers and we're still good friends now!

SuburbanRhonda · 02/06/2014 11:08

In the 14 years of being a mum I have never encountered any sort of shit in a trolley.

I saw some Dairylea Dunkers in one yesterday

wonkylegs · 02/06/2014 11:14

If you are worried about it from a germs POV then you are being daft for the many reasons mentioned before.
From a safety POV I agree. My sister has to have several stitches and nearly damaged her eye after coming out of one as a child. Mum stopped suddenly due to my brother running in front, sister toppled out and split her head open. At 28 she still has a scar. I understand why people often do it but they are not designed to hold kids this way and it's easy for them to come out and get hurt.

WorraLiberty · 02/06/2014 11:17

I've just had a thought (yes, it hurt!)

Why don't you use the smaller, lighter trollies that are too shallow for kids to stand in?

I use them anyway because they're much easier to steer.

HecatePropylaea · 02/06/2014 11:17

suburban

Slightly amusing story - when my first was born, I took him to the supermarket and he was in his car seat and I put that into the trolley (yeah, I know) and did my shopping. shoved it in the trolley around him (send the parenting awards this way...) and I was singing to him, talking to him, pulling faces etc and this woman edged over to me and peered into the trolley and then said in the most relieved voice I have ever heard "Oh, you have a BABY in there!"

Clearly it had looked like I was keeping my cornflakes entertained.

WorraLiberty · 02/06/2014 11:18

Oh wait, I've just remembered you've got a 2yr old so you'll need one with a child seat...D'oh!

SuburbanRhonda · 02/06/2014 11:22

Clearly it had looked like I was keeping my cornflakes entertained.

Bunnytheeggrobat · 02/06/2014 11:25

Hecate- I think it is almost safer to put the car seat in the trolley. I'm only 5'3 and my vision is completely obscured by the car seat on the high rack - I've nearly run over several children that way!

Softlysoftlycatchymonkey · 02/06/2014 11:26

Trolleys are teeming with bacteria , watched a shocking program on d&v bug transfer. Most of it is on the handles.

My dd was stood in the trolley this weekend - she looked like a pirate

Dp spoiled the fun and took her out

BeCool · 02/06/2014 11:26

Thanks for the dose of sanity ladies, I needed that!

CharlieSierra · 02/06/2014 11:28

My 18 m.o. can climb out of the seat in a couple of seconds. She cannot walk beside me - she would run away. I cannot push a shopping trolley and a pushchair at the same time. What do you suggest

Erm, a harness?

Andrewofgg · 02/06/2014 11:29

OP Every sort of luck with the bun in the oven. Don't worry about the Trolley Question.

MsVanRein · 02/06/2014 11:30

I expect most trolleys are absolutely filthy anyway, given they are kept outside and handled constantly by strangers - so children standing in them wouldn't bother me at all from a hygiene pov.

I expect it's one reason why any food that isn't washable is generally heavily packaged - the transportation process and trolleys that stock is moved about on probably aren't particularly clean either.

curiousgeorgie · 02/06/2014 11:34

During busy times in the supermarket trolleys with 2 child seats are like gold dust.

I have to choose between putting the carseat in the trolley and having almost no shopping space, or letting DD1 sit / stand in there, as she can't walk very well.

I'm doing a favour to the other shoppers by not having her dawdling along, moaning and screaming to be picked up

teenagetantrums · 02/06/2014 11:40

I work in a supermarket, trollies are dirty anyway, birds always sit on them outside, but I have seen two children seriously hurt falling out of them in the last two weeks , Its dangerous I have no idea why people do it, they put a helmet on their kids when on a bike but are are happy to let them fall from a greater height onto a concrete floor.

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