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Original poster

Allowing kids to sit on the conveyor belt at tills :o

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kitchenemergency · 02/12/2018 15:13

I'm notv a great fan of kids in the main part of trolleys (especially when said kid is 5+ and clearly too big for the seat) but letting them sit in on the belt - WTAF?

Other people seem to think this is fine and great because the kid was enjoying it but to me it's not only unsanitary but dangerous.

AIBU? Since when did kids making memories/ having fun trump everything else?!!

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Rattinghat · 02/12/2018 15:17

Their clothes could get trapped in the belt.

Another thing that pisses me off in supermarkets is people (usually old-trendy dads I have to say) entertaining very small children by giving each of them a pull along supermarket basket with a few things in it.

bestideaeva · 02/12/2018 15:17

Hows it dangerous? In case they get sucked in and pop out long and flat?

Unsanitary for your packed food or for the child?

I seem to remember reading how dirty shopping trolly handles are. Filthy!

I say we boil all children in their own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in their heart!

CleanBee · 02/12/2018 15:19

Hows it dangerous? In case they get sucked in and pop out long and flat?

Tiny fingers could definitely get caught. Can’t say I’ve ever seen a kid on the belt though.

MickHucknallspinkpancakes · 02/12/2018 15:19

When I was a child my mum worked in the Coop.

We went in one day and my mum and her friend on the checkout put me on the conveyor for a ride. It got to the end and the skin on my leg jammed between the metal edge and the belt. It really hurt. I wouldn't recommend it.

PushItRealGood · 02/12/2018 15:21

I've never seen that but I think it's disgusting that so many parents let small DC stand on seats, as if their little angels' shoes were somehow exempt from being covered in the same dog shit, spit and dirt as the rest of us mere mortals'.

I just don't see how they could possibly justify it. If you wouldn't like to see an adult's dirty shoes on a seat you want to sit on, why would it be any different just because it's a child?

ChocolateTearDrops · 02/12/2018 15:21

The conveyor belt is for groceries not children! It works in the opening credits of The Simpson's but you don't do it in real life. Hmm

StressedToTheMaxx · 02/12/2018 15:22

What if their clothes got trapped?
I didn't even know this was a thing. I am so glad I have never seen this.
I would be silently panicking until the child was back on the ground Shock

GimmeGimmeHellYeah · 02/12/2018 15:23

I have never ever seen kids on the conveyer belt.
I think it'd be quite amusing. I feel like I'm missing out.

Elfinablender · 02/12/2018 15:24

In our B&Q they don't have a belt but a run of rollers that items slide down at speed. I'm not sure if there would be jamming issue but it would be worth it.

Rattinghat · 02/12/2018 15:25

If clothes get trapped in a conveyor belt or an escalator it can cause strangulation, de-gloving (tearing off big pieces of skin - don't google it), or a broken limb, or scalping if hair is involved.

Rattinghat · 02/12/2018 15:26

A kid died at a spanish airport after being placed on the luggage carousel.

Belindabauer · 02/12/2018 15:27

I've never seen this.
I have seen a child 's clothes get trapped in an escalator and I had to run over and press the emergency button. It was years ago and I still remember it.

As an aside can I please remind parents ( and it is mostly dads) to hold onto their child in car parks!!!! Seen so many men allowing their young dc to wander into the path of incoming cars it's ridiculous.

lozster · 02/12/2018 15:29

It’s 25 years plus since I worked in Sainsbury’s but yes, I remember parents doing this. I was always ??? And asked them not to as they simply aren’t designed to take the weight quite apart from the danger to the child. If you’ve ever been forced on a checkout with a bust conveyor, leaning over to grab stuff down it, you’d be pretty keen to keep it in working order.

Perfectly1mperfect · 02/12/2018 15:29

I've never seen anyone put their kids on the conveyor belt. I imagine they would be told to take them off pretty sharpish by staff though.

I am guilty of having put my kids in the main compartment of the trolley though when they were younger. I imagine my children's shoes are no dirtier than where most of the food is stored in warehouses and during transportation. I have heard some stories about that.

6triesbuttingout · 02/12/2018 15:33

I’ve never seen kids on a conveyor belt but those little trolleys drive me mad

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kitchenemergency · 02/12/2018 15:37

This genuinely happened - it's all over a local FB Page where the mum put photos up of her child happily sitting on the belt pushing shopping through.

Anyone who has commented that it's not hygenic/ dangerous has been shouted down and called a miserable killjoy.

It seems dangerous to me, I wasn't even thinking degloving but just getting a nasty pinch from the side of the belt.

To my mind if your child wants to scan shopping, take them to the self service till where they can stand up in front and do it, not have to sit on the thing!

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ItIsChristmasTime · 02/12/2018 15:38

I’ve also never seen or heard of children doing this.

mypoosmellsofcinnamon · 02/12/2018 15:41

Coming back from holiday this year there was a family with at least 4 adults and one small child, small child was playing a game of leaning on the baggage carousel and letting his arms go round with it then jumping back. All the adults just stood there chatting amongst themselves, DH and I were horrified and tried to tell them that it was dangerous, just got ignored by the whole family who looked at us as though we were mad Angry (And yes the family were English speaking so it wasn't a lack of understanding of what we said)

Singlenotsingle · 02/12/2018 15:43

When my DS was little we were queuing up at the cinema, and it was just like a little ticket office with a glass screen and a small counter. The woman in front of me sat DD3 on the counter, but DD put her hand through the glass to catch the ticket, and it chopped the tip of her finger off!

MissConductUS · 02/12/2018 15:43

I have never seen or heard of this happening in the US. The belts are becoming a thing of the past here as more stores move to self checkout with scanners,

Snowwontbelong · 02/12/2018 15:46

Dc in the actual trolley really bugs me!!

HeresMe · 02/12/2018 15:47

Probably same reason people bring their kid to bar in a pub and sit them on it, I find it bizzare especially when the other parent is there and say waiting don't bring them to bar.

MrMeSeeks · 02/12/2018 15:47

Yanbu but it doesn't surprise me Hmm

ItIsChristmasTime · 02/12/2018 15:49

Dc in the actual trolley really bugs me!!

Better than the child running off, pulling things off shelves or generally being a liability.

ADastardlyThing · 02/12/2018 15:51

My DS is a bit big now but he used to love having a ride on the conveyor belt egged on by the assistant who would also scan him in

He still sits in the main bit of the trolley though.

Meh.

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