Name changed as chatted to husband and friend about this already...
I've tried to include all relevant details to avoid drip feeding etc...
Woman in car park annoyed me yesterday. I'd left baby in car to walk to ticket machine (at the end of the aisle next to mine, no closer spaces available). When I came back woman had parked next to me and getting her own children out.
She said 'excuse me, have you just left your baby in the car all on its own?' in an accusing way.
I replied I was just at the ticket machine, which she humphed at and turned away.
I felt pretty cross at her implication I'd done some awful dangerous parenting so I said I found her tone very judgemental.
She just said well you hear horror stories (and then said some confusing story about how some people have brain injuries and do weird things so you have to check). I just said you have to make lots of risk assessments as a parent of leaving baby in car vs lugging them through busy car park, she turned away and didn't answer.
Anyway, do people leave baby in car to get a ticket or is that just me being lazy??
And was she unreasonable to check or would you do the same? (to me it was pretty obvious I'd just gone to get a ticket rather than done a full shop, considering I'd walked past her car with ticket, put it on windscreen then was getting baby out).