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?

DS was once fine when we got out the car but vomited just as we finished shopping (into my nappy bag 🤢). Yes I finished the shopping and checked out with a full trolley no way was I going to leave it at that point. Also don't think the store would have appreciated me leaving a £200 trolly of food to go to waste. The mam might have grabbed a bowl of the shelf if it was unexpected.

At the end of the day if it's viral he had already spread it around the store. I also then had to go home put the shopping away, clean the nappy bag plus the car seat and car. Felt more sorry for myself than anyone who caught the D&V he had quite frankly!

@SoOutingWhoCares yeah you weed wrong!

As previous PP said not all co-OPs offer that option.

HTH!

@SoOutingWhoCares and I've luckily never had to take a sick child shopping, My DH would be available to help as would my lovely neighbour or sister.........

But the thing about me is that I can appreciate that not everyone is on the same situation!

And sometimes things just go pear shaped with children and you have to cope in ways that don’t accord with your ideal standards. I had a toddler dc who suddenly needed the loo when skiing and we were at least one chairlift ride from any toilets. I told them to hold on but … they didn’t and ended up in the cold with sodden, wet ski pants. I couldn’t strip them off on the mountain so had to ride the chairlift back up and thd next person to sit on that chair would have landed in traces of pee. It was disgusting but I honestly had no alternative but to be Grotty Gretel. Not a proud parenting moment but these things happen.

Then keep him in the car until he feels better or settle him in the fresh air before you take him in.

Wait until his coughing fit and gagging has calmed down.

Don't drag him round carrying his sick (in a sick bowl, do people carry these round habitually for a coughing fit,
ready filled with vomit?), save him the humiliation. Save the shop and other customers the gross experience.

Are people really this hard of thinking?!

This thread is hilarious.

I'm sure the mum wasn't all alone - no contact with anyone who could help

Lucky you that you can’t imagine being alone. Many people are alone, some responsible for a child/children, and some not, for many different reasons.

Parenting is hard enough as it is without random strangers bitching about you on the Internet.

I'm sure this mum was doing the best she could with the situation that was dealt to her.

But I'm glad you're finding it hilarious 🤷‍♀️ each to their own.

Well, no it doesn't help as we don't actually know whether one of the local Co-Ops delivers or not. And I don't need help.

You come across as extremely petty and angling for an argument with everyone who dares to suggest there may have been a better solution than putting a poorly child through this.

Anyway. Good night.

@SoOutingWhoCares nite nite

Well your mum would have had a lot to say if she’d seen me throw up all over the conveyor belt at somerfields aged 10. Maybe she and you are a bit bored as I can’t imagine ever feeling bothered enough to even remember to report something like this back to anyone

I'm not finding the mother's situation hilarious.

I'm finding the ridiculous hoop jumping on this thread and the stories posters are making up to justify a kid carrying his own vomit round a supermarket in a bowl
hilarious!

Oh yes I saw that thanks Massive

but this persons experience is that she’s already got to the supermarket. So she got there somehow. With or without a car. The point of the posts was that it is kinder on her kid to use click and collect, with or without a car. MNs were pointing out you can use click and collect without a car as others had noted you couldn’t.

Did we all learn nothing from Covid and the Lockdowns…….Be Prepared

Have you got kids?

And it doesn’t count if you have dcs that are grown up because my mum and MIL have memories only if the days that went smmooooothly as butter.

I’ve no further clarity about the Mother and Child on this thread. Was she a selfish, fag-smoking, booze buying Mother - or a single Mum, having a hard time with no other options. Is this Mum even real, does she exist?! I don’t know.

What I DO know, is a shit load about click and collect. I’ve never heard so many people speak about it in as much detail as I have here today. It’s truly fascinating that this has become a very central point of this discussion.

Anyway, I’m off to do an online food order! Does anyone know if Tesco do C&C on the same day? 😜

No but co-op do delivery within an hour

Absolutely agree.
Its terrible dragging your kid around shopping whilst they are ill.
Theres another thread on at the moment about certain punishments being humiliating in schools, well here’s a parent doing exactly that to their own child.

There are no excuses for this.

👍

I have young kids. I also work with kids.

It's the kid I'm most worried about in this situation.

I remember being out with my mum and siblings - sister in a pram and I became ill. I was sick multiple times. None of my family caught it and I was too fpcussed on how I felt to touch or look at anything. I reckon this poor mite was too. How sad the supermarket couldn't have opened up the first aid room for him.

😂😂😂😂

Well sometimes they throw left field situations at you.

People are just giving suggestions of why she may have been there with a vomitting child. Lots of the suggestions are very feasible.

It's the opposite viewpoint to the people suggesting that she was dragging her desperately ill child around the shop when she didn't have too.

It's good to see both viewpoints.

You're only getting a tiny snapshot of this mother and child's life. It could be completely misconceived.

I don't see how that's hilarious to be honest. But if you find it funny, enjoy.

The kid arrived ill. Mum brought a bowl for said kid to throw up in.
They didn’t suddenly become I’ll in the supermarket !

Yeah it’s not funny; it’s trying to be compassionate when many of us have been humbled by dodgy scenarios ourselves.

Of course it’s entirely possible the child had norovirus and the mum just wanted a pack of fags and a chocolate bar.