Taking a sick child to a supermarket carrying a bowl to be sick in

[Auburngal]

My mum saw this at the supermarket. Child was about 6 at a guess. He looked sick and was carrying a bowl with some sick in it.

Supermarkets are open longer, have food couriers (Just Eat etc) and supermarkets' own food couriers - Sainsburys ChopChop, Tesco Express Whoosh and now supermarkets offer later day deliveries. Plus the mum could have messaged a friend, relative etc to pick up some food items to tie her over til child is well enough. I know the food couriers charge a lot more. We had a customer a few days ago on the food courier service we have ordering one loaf of bread costing 80p in the store and cost them £4.10!

I'm sure the mum wasn't all alone - no contact with anyone who could help. Plus there are local FB groups - Spotted.... I bet someone would respond to her pleas.

Fellow shoppers and my mum were horrified with sight. Not sure if anyone said anything to the mum. My mum was worried that people could pick up the bug the boy was carrying. Mum doesn't know if he touched anything in the store.

Would you drag your DC if they were throwing up in a supermarket?

You’re so sure that a Facebook plea would have worked.

Yet your mum didn’t care enough to say, “oh the poor thing, why don’t you sit yourselves there and give me a list, and I’ll get your basket ready for you?”

I’m thinking that her bloody sick child still needs to eat, needs medicine, maybe mums on her period. No one takes their sick child out if they don’t need to.

the was my polite answer, I’ll stop typing now.

Oh bore off. Maybe you run out of loo roll when the household is poorly.

No one takes their sick child out if they don’t need to.

Sadly this isn’t true.

@cardibach are you so slovenly you don't wash your fruit and veg!

Really, how vile!

🤮!

Are you sure?
Or might some people be so selfish they don’t care?

Let’s just assume the Mum doesn’t give a shit then and isn’t desperate. Yup she’s an awful person. Probably as awful as all the judgemental, ignorant people posting on here.

I’m as sure as you are. Neither of us know at all do we? But I’m not a judgemental person jumping to the worst conclusions of others.

I’m neither judgemental nor ignorant thanks.
I just have basic standards.
Vomit in a food shop is unacceptable. The end.

Irrelevant whether I do or not, isn’t it? It shouldn’t have vomit on it n
And if you think it’s essential to wash everything all the time I’m very surprised you think this is ok.
How am I supposed to wash bread from the bakery, incidentally?

We literally have no way of knowing. Shit parents exist and desperate parents exist… everyone on here is guessing which she was.

@cardibach the vomit was in the bowl! Not on the celeriac!

I’m neither judgemental nor ignorant thanks.

1000000000000%

Or on the sourdough!

People handling that bread have sneezed on it, coughed on it and likely at times vomited near it!

It absolutely fine to do click and collect without a car

This is definitely a good reason to always be prepared and keep some a stick of essentials at home.

Apologies. I’ll try that again 🫤

This is definitely one good reason to always keep a stock of essentials at home.

Followed them? Did she not have anything better to do? 🙄.

Its defo grim, but I have had to do this on the school run when my eldest was sick and I'd just moved to a new area.

Many reasons why she may have had to

The school run is not the same thing at all

Well your post got the usual virtue signalling, poor mum you don't understand her difficulties responses that I've come to expect from MN
Let's get real, no matter how difficult your personal circumstances you don't take a sick child into shop (or any other public place bar a GP surgery) with a bowl to throw up in.
Not acceptable - ever

Perhaps she wanted to get herself talked about on MN, and the papers, and filled a bowl with cartoon vomit.

Oh that’s ok then. Perfectly ok to add another one.
There are pretty strict rules in most food production sites, incidentally. I know people who have worked in bakeries, specifically.

@cardibach so have I k ow people working in bakeries...... including myself some years ago.

You're deluded

The people saying she should have left her 6 year old in the car or on a bench if they were vomiting, isn’t that much worse?!