She called security on me for toddler in car.... WTF??

[JustWantedPetrol]

Left my toddler in the car to pay for petrol - I could see him while paying - and a stupid woman called security cause my 3yo was crying and shouldn't be left in car...... Eh??
WTAF? She's never seen parents leave kids in the car to pay for petrol? WTF is that about?

Well she was right to do so. Your child was crying and how was she to know you were going to be back soon?

It's a petrol station forecourt FFS, she's hardly likely to be slipping off for a SPA or something is she??

I mean the chances are she's .......gone to pay for petrol!?!?

I mean FFS, what do you honestly think she'd be doing!

I love the crazy reasons kids cry (admittedly mine is too young for it yet so it might drive me crazy in time)

OP to be fair, it doesn't sound like she called security on you, just that she wanted you to know your child was upset. I don't think that's so unreasonable?

I've never seen anyone get small kids out of the car to pay for petrol, no chance I would let my 3yo out - too risky.

When my dds were 3 one cried because her twin vomited and she hadn't

That was a fun day

Never ever have I ever seen anyone or know of anyone who walk or carry kids out of a car to pay for petrol. and my youngest are 18 and have grandchildren so seem a lot of parents.

Is this a new level of precious snowflake AP parenting

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He is very disappointed with my parenting skills. You could see his heart break when he finally understood I really couldn't do magic and create him a talking zebra for a pet, no matter how much he promised to be good. and that's before we get on to my insane refusal to accept that ice-cream is a breakfast food

OP to be fair, it doesn't sound like she called security on you, just that she wanted you to know your child was upset. I don't think that's so unreasonable?

Ok so I assume I'm the first she come across who left a kid in the car crying for couple of mins while paying up and was genuinely scared for my 3yo.... Nahhhh, she was looking for trouble, she was gutted the security chap let me go! She did it so quickly I bet she's a pro at calling security guards!!

Oh Wecks beat me to it. Cutted.up.pear

Interesting that if someone posts that they can see a child alone in a car it's all 'phone 101/social services, my child would never be left in a car in case something happened, poor child doesn't deserve a parent like that' etc etc.

Not if the car's in a petrol forecourt to be fair Livia

When I was looking after my niece (wasn't a DM myself yet) I took her out of the car to pay for petrol
Worst. Decision. Ever. Woke up the kraken (2yo) and it was raining but I thought that was "what you had to do", couldn't possibly leave her!
Now I'm a mum and I know better!

On a petrol forecourt livia anyone reporting that I would see as clearly unhinged

Be honest OP had you done your weekly shop in there and were exiting with a trolley.
Or am I the only one that goes a bit crazy in an M&S or Waitrose petromarket? It's like I see Percy pigs and olives with entirely new eyes

Actually I did get a chewing gum while in the queue

Children don't normally cry without reason

They actually do. My 8yo cried / whined this afternoon. Because I'd said he couldn't stroke the horses in the field we were passing. Ergo, without reason.

OPs DC was going to be two minutes max, unless of course she was in a Tesco garage where everyone seems to pop in for petrol and a weekly shop at the same time then the woman may have had reason

FFS. If she had nothing better to do than report you for that, then she clearly is a busy body with nothing else more important to occupy her time with.

After that 3 year old went missing from a car at petrol station I haul my kids out

What about the baguette and skinny latte OP

I believe in some states in the US it is illegal to leave a child in the car while you pay for gas.

I like to live dangerously.

Why do people pay in the kiosk? Why not use pay at the pump, much easier, and you don't get tempted to pick up sweeties......

FFS! It is a petrol station! Pretty obvious to most people that a parent or carer would be in the garage paying for their petrol and would be returning to their car asap. Interfering witch!

Do we really now live in a world where we cannot leave our child/children within sight or hearing distance alone for a couple of minutes? The world has gone mad!

Kids cry for all sorts of reasons -3 year old cried today because she was not allowed to go to nursery wearing one welly, one croc stripey tights and a sundress!

Am I drunk because this thread is a ride?

I always left dD in the car to pay for petrol. Safer I think and much quicker. You can see the car from any of the pumps I normally use. And it takes about 2 minutes, maybe 5 if it is exceptionally busy. If she were crying, I would just hurry. Nothing horrendous will happen in 2 mins. Likewise if I saw a crying tot I would assume the parent is just paying for petrol, and it's probably safer to leave a tantruming tot in the car than haul it across the forecourt.

I'm sure I'd be suitably outraged if someone did that to me but I'd rather live in a world where people cared enough about children to intervene when they're concerned rather than ignore it. It isn't obvious that you are just going in to pay for petrol if there's a shop / supermarket attached and the queues are often a lot slower as people pay for their groceries in the same line as the petrol one. I have definitely seen people use the petrol pump and then gone on to do a food shop while leaving their car at the pump. People aren't mindreaders.

Well she was right to do so. Your child was crying and how was she to know you were going to be back soon?
Where the hell was she going to be? Sat having a coffee?

Children don't normally cry without reason.
Have you met any kids?

I wouldn't leave my daughter in the car, she's primary school age.