To think that children really don't need to use their scooters in the supermarket?

[Pointlessfan]

Or inside shopping centres or any other place where there really isn't enough space and the rest of us have to keep dodging them. This is seriously getting on my nerves, every time I go shopping I have to keep jumping out of the path of children zooming about on scooters. Why can't they ride them in the park? I was brought up to be considerate of others and would never have been allowed to use a scooter, bike or roller skates in shops or any where else where I would be in the way.
Feel better for getting that off my chest! So is it just me or are others equally annoyed by this?

I have an ongoing battle with a child who goes to DS school. We will move over for any child who is walking and politely says excuse me. But the child who scoots up behind us at super speed I refuse to move for! He has now learnt not to try to squeeze between me and DS.

at my son's school i have seen cars park up and they all get out then mum takes the scooter out the boot to let the children scoot no more than 25ft to the school gates,i just wouldnt bother myself

I can't quite believe this - though it must be true I guess if so many people say so???

I shall go to a supermarket while we are in the UK mext week with the sole purpose of spotting children on wheels...

Here in Germany everyone would tell kids to take their scooters outside - its just bizzare, out of place behaviour, I would have thought. I'm all for active kids and find the seen and not heard brigade ridiculous, but the phrase bull in a china shop seems right here - its in nobody's interest surely, and I can't get my head around how large retail establishments with security guards (not easily intimidated lone shop keepers) are just letting this go, surely there are insurance issues for them?

Mr Tumble

It's true. Recent, not that common, but true.

Scooters have taken over everywhere in West London. I live near a primary school and have to run the scooter gauntlet every weekday evening - it's mostly small kids who don't have hazard perception and I have been knocked a few times trying to get out of the way of scooters coming from more than one direction.

Supermarkets and shopping centres are a joke! It is utterly rude and (dare I say it?) entitled to let your kid ride a scooter indoors. Nobody needs the chore of shopping to be made any worse than it actually is by having several scooting kids charge past you. I've been scooted into whilst casually perusing the tea selection and acquired a nasty bruise on the back of my ankle. Scooter dad just burbled a weak "Watch where you're going" to scooting child and left sharply.

I have seen some public spaces take action against scooters - Kew Gardens has a "scooter pit" full of abandoned scooters so that the poor lambs have to WALK around instead. In fits of real scooter-rage, I have been been tempted to destroy liberate all the scooters in the scooter pit, but that would be mean-spirited.

Oen1 As a school we actually do suggest and sometimes even encourage children to come to school on their scooters and bikes. It is one of the suggested methods of getting to school as part of the LEAs Active Travel schemes too.

We do however have bike and scooter parks in the playground and people are encouraged to use a padlock to keep them safe during the school day.

Mind you we have also had LEA arranged scooter training for Y2s in last couple of years and the intention is for that to be more widely done, and lower down school too.

I was told off by a dad a few weeks ago, when I shouted, 'oi watch where you're going' to a boy and girl scooting along the pavement. The boy had managed to knock over ds, who was lying on the floor in a heap. I was bloody furious, they didn't even look back.

There isn't anywhere to leave a scooter safely in our local supermarket, so we take it in with us, but it is always carried or pushed slowly.

I think that if is ok for children to ride bikes and scooters in a shop then it should be ok for us adults to do the same.

Why would you take a scooter to a supermarket?

I have to say I've only seen a scouter in the supermarket once, accompanied by yet another girl in heelies and to be fair that pair were looking where they were going.

I don't mind so much in our shopping centre if it isn't busy.

I hate fucking scooters with a passion . Scoot in a park if you must , or your garden , but do not scoot in a school playground filled with 350 odd kids , plus siblings plus parents trying to get home at the end of the day . Or if you do , don't be too surprised when people refuse to move for you . They've been banned by the school already , but there's just no telling some people . Mind you , this is the same family that bring their dog into the playground , which is also forbidden.

There is one woman who allows her three year old to scoot along a footpath accompanying his brother to school , whilst she fucks about on her phone. Or she did , until last week. When he got over 300 yards away from her , and scooted straight off the pavement in front of a car . By sheer bloody luck , I was waiting to cross with my lot , and grabbed him by the scruff of his t shirt , but he let the scooter go . Straight under the car . He started howling , and she ran up and had a go at me . To which my response was to bawl " at least you still have a son you stupid bitch . Would you rather he was where the scooter is now ?" She then realised it was under the car and burst into tears . Un fuckingbelievable . It'll be interesting to see what she does in September .

YANBU! Pet peeve of mine. In my neck of the woods it's overindulged darlings zooming about the narrow aisles of our local posh supermarket.

It puzzles me that so many of the parents look so harassed about it and spend the whole time telling them ineffectually to be careful, grabbing the damn thing's handlebars etc. I want to point out to them that if they left the scooter outside, the shopping trip would be easier and less stressful for them as well as for other shoppers.

Then get a bike lock and chain it up outside, or fold it and carry it.

Because the alternative would be a painfully or impractically slow walk?

So?

Or you could see it as a learning opportunity for your children to learn how to walk for a bit. I've got numerous friends whose preschoolers can manage a couple of miles easily. But then, they get the practice.

The thing is the 'slow impractical walk' won't knock over a wobbly on his feet 4 year old!

Is a scooter good for flat feet and muscle tone though? Wouldn't he just be working one leg? I'm probably just being a bit dim and he uses both legs.

I ask because I have flat feet and EDS and found the action of dragging my leg and constantly putting my feet down whilst scooting was really painful when I was a kid.

Oh I see. I might have to steal a go on one in the supermarket to see if it helps me after all!