What do you do with baby when filling up in garage

[R3b3kah]

Do you leave baby in locked car? Take baby in with you?

My Bank card never works at pump, so I have no choice but to go in.
I’m quite a new driver and I’ve not had to fill up on my own when I’ve got little one in the car with me.
What do others do?

People have really strong opinions considering that nothing bad is going to happen to anyone no matter what you choose!

Mine are my 100 percent my priority so no I don''t leave them alone in a car at any point.

Ah I see. Didn't give a shit about mine so I used to leave them in the car, in shops, at the top of tall buildings, especially tall building without rails around the edges. Several times I tried to leave them in the lions' enclosure at the zoo but some nosy bugger always managed to get them out before they were eaten.

I always take my DC out of the car. It's a pin in the arse but I'd rather not take any risks with them.

pain, not pin!! 

I leave her in the car, I always go when it's not busy, I can see her though the window..

I wouldn't with a new one..

busybarbara huge difference in those scenarios though. In your scenario, my child wouldn't be strapped in and unable to move much. I can't see the room they are in at all times and there's a number of accessible hazards.

Ummm,you're doing it wrong!!
Monkey's cage.
Toss them into the monkey's cage next time girl,lol!!😉🤣

I would get a new card and pay at the pump if possible...

When baby was in the small baby car seat I used to carry her in but now she's in the big one I leave her in the car (probably would have made more sense to do this previously rather than breaking my back - but I didn't really know what the right thing was)

I try and park as close to garage as possible so I can see and then literally run in and out x

3 kids under the age of 5. Two of which require carrying, I try my best to make sure hubby leaves car with plenty of petrol or I send him to fill up. On the rare occasion I would have to fill up I would leave them in the car. I think it would be more destressing and unnecessary to build a double pram and put two children in it (it takes me 6 minutes to do this, I timed it) and have a 4 year old walk next to me, pay for petrol and put kids back in car and unbuild pram. That's like a family outing. Lol.

Driving a car is a risk in itself.

Even being at home is a risk in itself: it's probably more dangerous carrying a baby upstairs, than leaving a baby in a car while you pay for petrol. Carrying a baby upstairs doesn't "feel" dangerous because it's a familiar activity, which you'd do much more often than getting petrol.

@Snooky1 that did make me chuckle 😂

Too late Mymon they're all grown up now. I do have grandchildren though.

I’m in the US, but you absolutely can’t leave a baby In your car here while you go in to pay. The concern isn’t spontaneous combustion or other freak accident. The big worry is theft. Even in my extremely safe city, the police have made it clear you do not leave little kids in the car for this reason.

I would get a new bank if the card from your current bank never works.

I take my DS with me, he's 15 months and always have done.

It only takes 2 mins for something to happen, granted the chances are minimal, but I just know I would never forgive myself if something happened whilst he was alone in a locked car.
I don't see any risk of taking him with me just a little bit more effort.

Everyone has to do what they can live with, I couldn't live with something happening to him whilst alone. That's not to say i would judge anyone who did leave their kid.

Could you not fill up when get is not with you if it's a concern ?

Purpleartichoke how will someone else steal the car? Virtually all cars (in the UK at least) have an immobiliser now, and that's been the case for quite a while,, so you need the key to take it. I take the key with me when I pay (as, I'm sure, does everyone else on this thread). You can't start the car without it, so, genuine question, how will someone else take the car.

I've always taken my child with me!

I always take my DC out of the car. It's a pin in the arse but I'd rather not take any risks with them.

Taking them across the forecourt is a risk. So, it's not that you don't take any risks, you simply assess them differently to some others.

So, it's not that you don't take any risks, you simply assess them differently to some others

It's like whether it's OK to go to the postbox across the road and leave a sleeping baby in the house alone for a minute or two.

Some would argue that it's far better for them to come with you and risk getting run over than it is to stay in the house, where in that minute that you are gone, they are going hang themselves in their cot, get eaten by a fox or burn to death because the house will burn down the second you leave the house.

The risk of a locked car being stolen off a petrol station forecourt, well covered by CCTV, is probably lower than someone being run over while dodging all the moving vehicles.

Fill up when you are not with the kids, so of an evening when both (if there’s 2 of you) or get pay at pump bank card working.
I’ve got to the petrol station and pay at pump is broken so I’ve gone home again and gone back that evening when I could go alone. I don’t get this taking them out or leaving them when there is another clear option.

You'd seriously abandon a trip to the petrol station because you couldn't pay at the pump, and come back later?

Just pay via an app. BP, Esso etc all do it and it's easy.

Funny you say that about Natwest! Mine didnt work after a while. My new one works for now but im guessing once its been used a while it will be the same as its so thin!

I would chose the car than exposing a baby to the fumes