To think scooters should not be ridden in shops / cafes?

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Stopped for some food in a GDK. There was a 10 year old riding his scooter from the counter to a seat, his mum following behind him on foot. People carrying food navigating their way around him.
Then I popped into M&S, and there's a five year old riding around the aisles of the food hall adding an extra obstacle no one needed or wanted.

IABU - This is normal now, Just get used to having your ankles rammed into.
IANBU Scooters should not be ridden in shops and it's very annoying when it happens.

YANBU but I would have said something at the time.

Neither of your options are ones I would vote for, I have never had ankles rammed into and am not annoyed by it in general

No they shouldn’t be allowed and I’m surprised no one said anything - I remember there being a big deal about banning heelys in shopping centres for example. Scooters are much more likely to cause an accident, especially in a restaurant! Bonkers that the parent allowed it.

I thought about it but everyone else was acting like it was normal, so I wasn't sure if I was being uptight.

Even my 3-year-old gets off and pushes his scooter or balance bike in a shop without being asked now. No-one needs small children moving at speed around while they're shopping.

Nope they should be in neither place. I am quite surprised that the restaurant allowed it. What were either parents thinking but particularly the parents of the ten year old.

That was a reply to @Yikesafhutt dammit!

I remember heelys! Everyone seemed really OK with it (or they were all seething inwardly like me but not saying anything)

Literally what is the point of this thread?

if you’re not prepared to say something to (a) the child, (b) the parent or (c) the cafe manager/staff and do something constructive, why even raise this on MN?

stop posting about ridiculous behaviour in your cafe and say something to stop/discourage it.

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I just ignore this kind of thing because otherwise I'll yell at the parents and it won't end well.

they should be banned from everywhere except the park IMHO.

Haha
Its not my café though, it belongs to the GDK franchisee.

It's so dangerous and frankly rude. I'm always kinda askance when I see parents let their kids ride them through the shops. Would they ride a bike through?

Ha ha, well obviously it’s not YOUR cafe… you’d have said something to the customer… 🤣😂

my message read harder than I intended, sorry. But nothing changes When we sit and inwardly seethe.

I have had a kid ride a mountain bike into me in Sainsburys. (I did go straight to customer services to complain and they had the security guard remove the family.)

Completely ridiculous behaviour. The only wheels appropriate for a cafe are wheelchairs/other mobility devices and, where space permits, pushchairs/prams.

IABU - This is normal now, Just get used to having your ankles rammed into.
IANBU Scooters should not be ridden in shops and it's very annoying when it happens.

Neither. I've never been rammed in a shop and they don't annoy me that much.

They are surprisingly dangerous to the rider though. Two friends had ankles smashed to pieces by their scooters when they were popular in the early noughties - it's basically a design flaw.