Parents who let their kids stand on seats in public

[Maryquitecontrarymary]

Restaurants, cafes, airports, public transport... I see it everywhere. Young kids standing on the seats and their parents just smiling indulgently, even encouraging it.
It's disgusting. People have to sit on those seats after your kids have had their grubby shoes on them. Shoes that could easily have stood in spit, dog poo, mud and anything else on the pavement.

Children standing in shopping trolleys annoy me too. I am putting food packets in those trolleys and the packets then end up on kitchen surfaces that are used for food preparation.

Erm, these packet have been on the floor and touched by a million people, childrens shoes are the least of your problems.

But OP yanbu, kids shouldnt be standing on chairs.

Erm, these packet have been on the floor and touched by a million people

They really haven’t. Automated production lines means they are barely touched by human hand and shops don’t put packets on the floor, they all come in an outer box/tray for ease of sliding on to the shelf.

YANBU op.

I loved it in Japan, seeing parents removing their children's shoes before letting them stand on the seats. A Finnish friend said it's the same there and across Scandinavia.

So long as there’s no visible mud, I don’t really care. I sit on seats in my clothes and make a concerted effort not to lick them when I take them off at night, so have managed to avoid the dreaded lurgy.

See also, people that let their dogs sent on seats in public.

self entitled and rude.

I hate it, I don't let my daughter stand on or the dog sit on seats in public. No feet on seats is the rule here.

Self entitled, indulgent who think their own precious children can do what they want, fuck everyone else.

Yes but I assume you go home in same clothes and sit on your own furniture? Therefore you are transferring remnants onto your own furniture. Traces of dog poo. Yuck

I also sit on the grass in the park, occasionally on public steps and other hard surfaces. I touch things that others will have touched after going to the loo without washing their hands, and then I touch more things with those contaminated hands. There will be microscopic traces of all sorts of unsavory things getting transferred all around. It isn’t worth being up tight over.

Grownups put their feet on seats too

I can't remember the last time I stood on the chair to drink my Starbucks

You are not wrong OP, so many parents seem to have lost the ability to say 'come on Timothy, sit down' - god knows what they must be like at home

It’s not about that though is it. I’m not fussed about dirt and germs, in fact I’ll eat something that’s been in the floor and I’ve sat down in some questionable places over the years. However kids shoes being on the seats is just bad manners.

Dorothy z, on trains they do

Oh it’s rank. I don’t let my kids do it and I HATE shoes in supermarket trolleys. Either sit them in the trolley seat or teach them how to behave.

I won't let my kids do it. They try but they are told in no uncertain terms to take their dirty feet off of the seats, it really annoys me.

Right, so how relevant on this thread about children standing in seats in various locations do you think 'adults put their feet on train seats' is? Oh yes, not at all. I would suppose the kind of parent who puts their own feet up is also the parent who doesn't stop their child standing on a seat, but apart from that 'adults do it too' isn't much input here.

It’s such bad manners. I had to stop going on holiday with a friend and her family because eating out was incredibly embarrassing. Kids standing on seats, sitting on tables, food everywhere, eating with hands even in posh restaurants.
These children were old enough to know how to modify one’s behaviour depending on the environment but they had just not been patented to do so.

I was responding to the OP’s response to my previous post (thought I’d quoted it, but apparently not) where she emphasized the nastiness of microscopic dog poo particles.

For what its worth, I don’t put my own shoes on the furniture and I didn’t let my own kids put theirs on, because I recognise that many people don’t like it and I’m not in the business of annoying people while out and about for no real gain. But I’m not bothered when I see kids standing on seats if there’s no visible muck on their shoes.

I didn’t notice that, apologies.

^^^ This.

If you are think our roads and pavements are clean then 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Those packets have been in warehouses with rats and mice running over and peeing all over them. You do realise that, don’t you? Good packaging is not at all clean.

YANBU. I bit my tongue the other day in a takeaway restaurant where a mother watched her precious child climb all over the seats with his filthy shoes on, then made zero effort to tell him not to or to clean the seats after he'd done it. What is wrong with people?!

I hate this too OP but these days we’re just supposed to tolerate these things because nobody has any manners or consideration anymore.

Don’t get me started on how many parents I see putting their child nappy-bum down on counters, tables and conveyer belts. 🤢

This.

I have started taking my 3 year old to toddler screenings at the cinema this year, and he’s tried to stand up on the seats a few times to look at the other kids behind him. Obv I ask him to get down straight away.

However, I also at one of these screenings, lost my credit card and saw how absolutely disgusting in and underneath the seats were while I was looking for my card with my phone torch. Trust me, those seats haven’t been cleaned in years. So I stop worrying about things like shoes on seats.