to think that a potty in a trolley is a step too far?

[homeiswheretheginis]

Saw a woman with her two small girls going into the supermarket. She casually told the smallest to pop her potty in the trolley.

I felt sick. I try not to package vegetables etc, but rather put them unwrapped straight into the trolley in a bit to do my tiny bit for the planet. But never again. The idea of residual faeces in the trolley (having landed there when a potty was left there...) ending up on my food repulsed me.

AIBU or is that utterly revolting and unacceptable? Food goes in supermarket trollies, not receptacles for human waste...?

I completely disagree. Useful doesn't come in to it when your talking about comfort things. But hey I have as much information as you do and I just won't jump on the bandwagon. But you are entitled to do that if you like.

Good Lord - some mums are so entitled.

I would have called her minging to her face.

a comfort potty.

seriously

ffs MN HAS lost it today

😭😭😭 comfort potty

bloody hell

yes the portable potties with the PLASTIC bag bit is the safe thing to have as a comfort toy with a toddler..

Hahaha Giles you made me laugh with "comfort potty"...

Missbattleaxe: lAnd it's nothing to do with how dirty the unwashed fruit is in a supermarket. It's about saying the entire world has to put up with my child's excrement because I refuse to put them in pull ups for a short outing." I agree, exactly!

The crux of the issue is surely just that putting a potty (brought from home) into a trolley rather than in a bag, is gross? Bizarre how many people disagree...

Agree, homeis. The arguments on here are just silly.

Oh, you antibac your potty after every use? So that makes it cleaner than my bag or phone?

By that logic, I guess it's okay for you to plonk your potty on a cafe table like I do with my mobile, then.

No? Ask yourself why not, and you have your answer to this (apparently challenging ) trolley conundrum.

DD had an accident in tesco today. No public toilet in tesco or in the town centre. I didn't have enough time to drop shopping and run down the street to a cafe (where I would have to ask for the key). Wish I'd had a potty, and probably so do the staff who had to clean up and escort us to the staff toilet.
She's been out of nappies with no accidents for over a month. It was the last shop before we went home (10 mins away).

I do think that if a child is using it in a trolley designed for children then that may not be as unacceptable.

Yes, there is such a thing as a potty being a comforter, so to speak and some children do like to have them with them just in case. They do grow out of it, thank goodness.

I do think that if a child is using it in a trolley designed for children then that may not be as unacceptable. The trolley is primarily for FOOD.

Do people not realise that all the food sold sits in massive warehouses before going on shelves. ALL your food has been in contact with rat piss. I love the folk I see putting a 'bag layer' to protect food from trolley germs. The worst has already happened believe me I used to do stock replenishment in a major supermarket.

We once went to Pizza Express with a family we were great friends with. They got their daughter's potty out and she sat on it and did a wee we were all supposed to clap. They got the hump when other customers complained and the manager asked them to deal with it in the proper place! I was dumbfounded. He's a great dentist though...

However many rats and mice have peed on the food, it doesn't make it OK to carry your children's toilet in the shopping trolley.

Supermarkets should tighten up on food hygiene. At our local Sainsbury's I have seen shop assistants standing on lower meat counter in their outdoor shoes while loading upper shelves (reported to store manager who was frankly not interested) and regularly see children sitting just in nappies in shopping trolleys - as well as shoes of course. They really do need to take this seriously. But at least they don't have children riding round on scooters (and on one occasion a bike) like local Asda :[

Stopped shopping in asda got fed up with noise/filth/screaming kids/empty shelves/being called a c@&t blah blah. And of course near naked children just in nappies with nothing covering the outfall of sewage.