Is it me, or should they be consigned to the seventh circle of he'll....... iPad playing wheels on the bus loudly in sainsbury

[Miaowing]

Was shopping this morning ........

On entry, heard "wheels on the bus" - ok, thought it was from the display of toys ...

no, kept hearing it, on repeat...... sometimes louder, sometimes quieter.

I was going mad. Thinking it was me....

Got to the tills.

A mother had decided to give her (looked like twins) progeny an iPad playing wheels on the bus over and over and over to entertain the little cherubs.

No head phones.

No volume control.

AGH!

Really wouldn’t bother me. Can imagine shopping with twin toddlers is a nightmare and it’s not like a supermarket is a place of relaxation. Unless you were following them around I don’t see how this could be more than a passing irritation.

Wouldn't bother me honestly, Rather wheels on the bus than the sound of two bored screeching toddlers!

I do often give my toddler my phone whilst out and about or on public transport, I do make sure it's a reasonable volume though.

I wouldn’t let any of (my 3) children do this as I think a supermarket is something children need to get used to, but I’m not bothered if others do. In a restaurant though, no headphones is rude.

It’s selfish of the mother. Wireless had phones were invented for a reason.

Argh head not had

Again, wouldn’t bother me. Shopping with one toddler can be difficult enough. I’d imagine the mother in question thought it would be kinder for them to listen to nursery rhymes than having them screaming around the supermarket.

Do you prefer the sound of screaming children?

YABU. It's probably a nightmare shopping with twin toddlers. It's not like you go the supermarket for a rest, or for peace & quiet. Wouldn't bother me.

Must have been a really small and extremely quiet store for you to hear this as soon as you walked in the store

Shopping with twin toddlers? Whatever gets you through

Fine in a supermarket

I wouldn't do it in a restaurant but I have to hold my hands up to having done this previously in the supermarket. Shopping with 2 under 2 is not fun, and this can be the only way to get round the supermarket without a screaming match! I mostly do online shops though for this reason.

Yes, one of my twin toddlers used to poke the other in the eye, when she was bored in the buggy - cue her sister screaming her head off, and us parents flocking round to comfort her! Broke the monotony presumably?

Would you prefer to hear screaming toddlers, while WWW III breaks out?

Shopping g with one toddlers can be challenging to say the least, shopping with twin toddlers well the parent has my upmost admiration. Whatever gets them through it. If you don't like it learn to ignore it.

I think this is fine in a supermarket, its hardly a peaceful place of relaxation! Anyone in a supermarket with twin toddlers should be allowed a fair amount of leeway anyway.

If whoever has suggested wireless headphones can explain to me how to keep them on my son, save stapling them, I would be most grateful!

supermarkets are not quiet places.

Also if you could hear it all the way round it must have been a tiny supermarket or you were following them round. In which case you move away from them and get something you need from a different aisle.

I’d rather The Wheels on the Bus than synchronised screaming to be honest.

Wouldn’t bother me at all. Supermarkets are noisy anyway and if it keeps the children happy rather than bored and morning then let them be. It’s not like you have to listen to it for a long time, is it? Less than an hour and you are out of there.

Meeehhh find something better to moan about. If it keeps the kids quiet and gets the shopping done, who really cares?

Headphones on toddlers can be a PITA in their own right. Cables getting pulled, headphones slipping off, headphones that don't fit. Coupled with the issue of trying to plug 2 sets into one device.

Sounds in a supwrmarket
1.People chatting often in high voices

1. Many announcements over the tannoy
2. Staff talking to customers and each other often in high voices
3. Trolleys rattling
4. Music playing over tannoy
5. Beeping of checkouts
6. The occasional crash of something falling from a shelf
7. A baby crying
8. A child shouting

Etc etc and so on. Does a song really annoying you that much muffled under all the other noise? Really?

It would depend which version of the tune it was, the correct one where the second "round and round" is monotone and the third one goes down in pitch or the other one which I can't bring myself to describe because it's just completely wrong.

I think you’re being a massive dick. You don’t know the circumstances surrounding this at all - the twins might be awful in social situations so she does it to keep them quiet so she can get her shop done. You’d probably have started a thread if she was pushing them around the supermarket screaming.

I’m a mum to twin toddlers and I will say YABU, if you were in a museum or something, then I’d be on your side, but headphones won’t stay on my DC’s head long enough because they don’t like things on their head, I sometimes have no choice but to go at peak times to the supermarket and if my twins are having an off day, I’ll do what I can to keep them calm whilst tear-arsing around the shop as quick as I can manage to get what we need!

If it was a restaurant I'd have sympathy but in the supermarket ....

They're hardly havens of calm and quiet are they? Trolleys banging, loud chitchat, tannoys blaring, checkouts beeping ... here, I think I have a grip somewhere you can have.

YABU it was a supermarket, not a Spa 😂