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To actually be considering slashing this womans tyres?

108 replies

FlyRussianUnicorn · 15/04/2016 17:13

Wanted to get to a chiller cabinet in morrisons and someone had left a trolley with a baby in the way. So i moved the trolley forward so I could get to what I want.

Que mother attacking me for trying to run off with her baby. I moved the trolley maybe half a metre if that. It took 3 seconds and when she came over I was clearly looking in the chiller cabinet at the meat.

I told her to get a grip, I wanted to get to the cabinet and I moved the trolley so I could get to what I wanted. No idea whos trolley it was as I had come down from another part of the supermarket and just saw the trolley-didnt pay any attention to anyone around me. Que a 2 minute tirade of abuse- I just rolled my eyes and walked off in the end.

Went out to my car and was sat having a cogarette waiting for a friend to call about coming to meet me. The car park is owned by the council, not the supermarket.

Anyway the woman came out- and was parked in the P+C bay next to me (I have a blue badge before I am flamed because im child free)

I looked up from my car and the woman just gave me a filthy look and stormed off in the direction of the supermarket again. Next thing I know the supervisor is knocking on my window asking me to move along as im making her uncomfortable "watching her child". I explained the situation and that the supermarket have no right to ask me to move- its not their property, id paid for 2 hours parking and I would be staying until my friend got in contact. The supervisior then apologised, and went on her way.

the woman has gone back into the supermarket, no idea why- clearly im going to attack her and steal her child Hmm

OP posts:
MrsEricBana · 15/04/2016 19:09

She shouldn't have left her baby unattended in trolley at all, never mind blocking a cabinet. Yanbu.

Billben · 15/04/2016 19:11

Why should she have to wait a minute? If you are that precious about your child then take him with you. I would have moved your trolley whether you liked it or not and given you a mouthful back if you complained

NameChanger22 · 15/04/2016 19:13

I wouldn't move somebody's trolly, especially not with a child in. I would wait or go and do something else and come back. Some people can't wait a minute for anything.

I do think the woman was a bit crazy though and shouldn't have left her child unattended.

TheEmmaDilemma · 15/04/2016 19:14

If you're that concerned. Don't abandon your trolley and leave in the way of other people ffs.

YANBU.

TheEmmaDilemma · 15/04/2016 19:15

How many times I have to loudly say 'excuse me' as people have a little chat while block an isle etc. I'd had a good look around to see if anyone was watching over the baby and then moved it.

cleaty · 15/04/2016 19:15

Some people can't wait a minute because they are in a rush.

Flisspaps · 15/04/2016 19:16

motherinlaw** you beat me to it Grin it's only 'que' if you're Manuel from Fawlty Towers Wink

Flisspaps · 15/04/2016 19:16

The mother was crackers though!

cleaty · 15/04/2016 19:17

And honestly, some people act as if everyone else has all the time in the world, so can just wait while they block aisles or whole displays.

80schild · 15/04/2016 19:23

Just the comment "you have to be so careful" says it all.

To me that means the anxieties people have is based on very little. 99.99% of the population aren't paedophile / baby snatchers and most will at least attempt to groom the parent and the child. With the OP on principle but not with tyre slashing.

AugustaFinkNottle · 15/04/2016 19:24

It's a bit weird to go ahead and just move a trolley with a baby in it without checking.

No it isn't. It's perfectly normal: how does it hurt the child for the trolley to be moved a couple of feet? People who are that precious about their children shouldn't leave them unattended.

dotdotdotmustdash · 15/04/2016 19:25

If the same situation happens again just reply "Kidnap your baby? No love, I only take the cute ones"

RaspberryOverload · 15/04/2016 19:39

Well, I've moved trolleys with kids in before. I'll ask politely if the parent is with the trolley, but the ones I've moved, the parent has been halfway up the aisle.

I'm not going to waste my time wandering elsewhere in the shop until parent deigns to move the trolley.

BagpussOhSagpuss · 15/04/2016 19:55

If someone moved my trolley with my baby in it I would have said sorry for being in the way.
In fact, when I had three under five, I would have begged them to just keep on pushingGrin

Original poster
FlyRussianUnicorn · 15/04/2016 19:57

You lot make me giggle Grin

OP posts:
t1mum · 15/04/2016 20:02

*No-one knows if the trolley was unsupervised. The OP doesn't know - she never looked

I don't think anyone come out of this confrontation very well*

This.

TwentyCupsOfTea · 15/04/2016 20:03

If i had left my baby in a trolley unattended and in the way and came back to see it had been moved forwards I would have apologised. She sounds very pfb!!!

witsender · 15/04/2016 20:03

It wouldn't even occur to me that this was weird tbh. Unattended trolley in the way, nudge it to the side. I would probably have found myself apologised in a very British manner for the inconvenience!

But it seems I am a very lax parent however as I did leave my sleeping child in the car outside the farm shop yesterday while I did the shopping.

ImNotThatGirl · 15/04/2016 20:17

Why are people rambling on about leaving the baby unattended? You just made that part up!

witsender · 15/04/2016 20:17

The baby was unattended if the mother had left it in the trolley.

Ilovetorrentialrain · 16/04/2016 11:38

MTPurse I'll go, voluntarily, too. No need to criticise because someone kindly points out an error.

It happened to me recently in a shop where I mispronounced miso for miso soup. I was really grateful for the help and now I know. Not overly pendantic at all. Don't be so sensitive.

MyKingdomForBrie · 16/04/2016 11:49

would you move someone in a wheelchair, babies are people too - no I would politely ask someone in a wheelchair to move if they were in front of something I needed and not in the middle of getting their own stuff - OP could hardly ask baby to wheel itself out the way?!

cleaty · 16/04/2016 11:54

Honestly comparing a baby to someone in a wheelchair is laughable. I sometimes have to use a wheelchair. I am not a baby.
I would not ask a baby to make its own lunch, dress itself or work for a living. All things that I manage.

MrsSteptoe · 16/04/2016 12:03

I prefer Pedants Corner. Adjectival use of noun, not possessive. A corner characterised by pedants. Like north east corner.

If someone moved my trolley with my baby in it I would have said sorry for being in the way.
^ this

MidniteScribbler · 16/04/2016 23:39

Good grief. Trolley is in the way, trolley gets moved. Mum definitely needs to get a grip. If I'm shopping, I'm in and out as quickly as possible, I'm not going to wander around for five minutes until mummy decides which coffee she wants to buy and deigns to come back to her trolley. You should stay with your trolley and be prepared to move it if you are in someone's way.