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aibu to hate seeing kids sitting in shopping trollies?

207 replies

mrsfuzzy · 23/04/2015 20:51

shoes that have walked in god knows what and in the trolley where food goes, never thought about it until i saw a trolley with mud in it at local supermarket !

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Rivercam · 23/04/2015 21:43

I agree that trolleys for children with additional needs should be developed.

Ruperta · 23/04/2015 21:43

Just wish supermarkets provided more trolleys with double seats. I have to do the weekly shop each week with a 1.5 & 3.5 year old. It's hard enough as it is, can't believe people are being judgey pants about this!

Pipbin · 23/04/2015 21:44

I can't believe the number of people round here who are obsessed with the hygiene implications of shoes.

It is funny about how some people can be anxious about stuff like that but then happily press the buttons on pedestrian crossings, ATMs and hold hand rails.

EponasWildDaughter · 23/04/2015 21:46

I was never allowed to sit in the trolly part as a kid. I let mine do it. The dirtiest bit of a trolly IS the handle. Yuk.

topseyt - Same here! My then BF and i were stopped by the police in the same situation. Two policemen in a marked car 'pulled us over'. It was about 2am. One was trying to be all serious telling us off, and the other was giggling and asking us if we knew what speed we were doing and did BF have a licence? Bad cop got seriously pissed of with good cop Grin

EponasWildDaughter · 23/04/2015 21:48

Oh and i think it's now been declared that the filthiest thing that we touch day to day is a petrol pump handle IIRC.

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 23/04/2015 21:50

Do people think food arrives on the supermarket shelves via a disinfected magic fairy and unsullied by human contact?

hazeyjane · 23/04/2015 21:50

If they are too big too sit in the trolley child seat, then they are old enough to walk around sensibly.

As others have said, not always.

Supermarkets need more of these style of trolleys. There is at best only ever one of the trolleys available, and then it has very often been trashed.

aibu to hate seeing kids sitting in shopping trollies?
CadieAgain · 23/04/2015 21:55

They aren't very well-designed for children with SN who are bolters either.

Still at least when my son is in one I don't have to worry about people judging me or him for being lazy and making comments about it.

hazeyjane · 23/04/2015 22:05

the straps are often crap, or broken. they have great ones in America called caroline's carts, the straps are proper harnesses, they fit adults as well as children and they are a much better design.

Topseyt · 23/04/2015 22:08

Eponas, yes, sounds like an almost identical scenario. Grin coincidentally, it was also 2.00am.

Young and relatively carefree then. I was about 20 at the time, so a bit beyond the toddler stage. As for my shoes, I assure people they were clean. I loved them. They were a pair of bright red stilettos.

Those were the days. Happy times.

CadieAgain · 23/04/2015 22:09

I was just thinking about Caroline's carts, Hazey, thank you. I've seen a link on MN before but couldn't remember the name Smile

BlackeyedSusan · 23/04/2015 22:13

ah yes, dd is old enough to walk around sensibly, she is, however, sometimes in too much pain. she also is not lazy in that she has to work at least twice as heard to do anything that involves her body, like sitting, walking, writing in school, remaining vertical. when the supermarkets get around to providing an adequate number of trollies that are adapted for children with walking issues, then perhaps we will stop putting her in the trolley. I would not use the one sn trolley when she can walk a little bit and some children can not walk at all.

EponasWildDaughter · 23/04/2015 22:19

Grin I was about 14/15.

God knows what i had on but i was vair vair drunk (blush) I think we had to just abandon the trolly.

Yes, happy days.

ShadowSteam · 23/04/2015 22:20

It bothers me seeing kids in the trolley part of the trolley.

I'm not overly worried about mucky shoes. It's the safety aspect that worries me. A child could crack their head open if they stood up and toppled out of the trolley.

hazeyjane · 23/04/2015 22:21

Blackeyed - If your daughter struggles with mobility, then she should definitely use the trolley designed for those with additional needs if there is one available. Flowers

motleymop · 23/04/2015 22:21

Someone upthread mentioned 'muddy shoes' - a term I have oft seen employed in the great shoes off/shoes on debates on mumsnet. I'd just like to say- it's not about mud!! Mud is harmless. Mud is soil and water mixed together. The worry is the amount of human excrement, urine, vomit, spit etc on the pavements!

Topseyt · 23/04/2015 22:27

Oh yes, we were drunk.

I never could walk well in stilettos and my feet were killing me, hence the trolley.

Not too sure how we got home after we had turned said trolley in to the police station (we parked it neatly in a proper space in the car park and informed the bemused desk sergeant).

DoraGora · 23/04/2015 22:40

Why don't you patent little wipey feet mats for trolleys, then?

TheBakeryQueen · 23/04/2015 22:41

Yabu no big deal.

TheWitTank · 23/04/2015 23:01

Please don't let your children sit inside/stand in or on the sides of trollies. I had to deal with the horrible situation a few years back when a little boy was standing on the side of trolley which over balanced and landed on top of him -his baby sister was also in the baby seat of the trolley and broke all her fingers on one hand. They seem sturdy but they really are not.

CapnMurica · 23/04/2015 23:04

I'll tell you what happens if a toddler falls out of a trolley - split open head, GA to have it stitched back up.

He just stood up and launched himself!

RedSoloCup · 23/04/2015 23:09

I won't let my kids do this (biggest two are too big anyway), even when they say but he / she is.....

I want to tell people off for doing this where I work!

Oly4 · 23/04/2015 23:10

My dirty toddlers sit in the trolleys with their shoes on and I don't package my veg in the plastic bags. Nothi. Bad happened to us so far!! It hasn't even occurred to me to worry about something so silly

MumoftheBoyandtheGirl · 23/04/2015 23:12

I can't believe the amount of posters that are ok with this! It gives me the RAGE. If I'm out wit my children and we see children in trollies like this they know that I will be glaring at the family. When did this even become a thing? My children are 17 and 12 and nobody did this when they were young. If I was the manager of a supermarket it would be one of the first rules I would put in place. Seriously, the trolly is for shopping, not for lazy parents or lazy children. Stop putting you children in shopping trollies!!!

Yellowbird54321 · 23/04/2015 23:17

Small children in trollies don't bother me at all, but I recoil from the trollies that have other peoples receipts or even worse [shudder] old crisp packets and the like in them! I do realise this is a bit irrational

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