To be furious that a cashier at supermarket told me off for DD eating a bite of an apple...

[pavlovthecat]

... which I paid for?

Apparently, it is paid for by weight, so could I not let her do it in future? No please. Nothing else.

She is 23 months old. So charge me the extra f**king half pence then tosser!!!

It came to 21p. She had taken two 23 month old sized bites. Which is why I was buying it in the first place!

Well I think I am being serious - or half serious anyway - it's difficult to explain - mine and thine were concepts so firmly and rigidly instilled - for instance whenever I stay in hotels (which is frequent) I agonise about whether or not to take a couple of small bottles of shampoo/conditioner for dd's bathroom - she loves the little bottles - i mean they are there for me to consume not to take home, aren't they? You light-fingered lot would probably swipe the towels as well ...

I have just been reading through some posts to catch up
Xenia - you are funny pmsl.

Mummytubb - do you really tie your children into the trolley?! With what? Rope? My DD is a little hudini, she gets out of all spaces, tied in or not with straps, is very slight, and very supple, she sort of bends her arms inwards to get out of her pushchair straps, leans forwards, and slithers the rest of her body out. We had to stop putting her in her highchair with straps, got a booster seat thingy, as she kept getting tied up in the straps after getting out of them, and its easier and safer not to use the pushchair when out as it means pushing it and chasing her!

Anyway, why strap her in when she can walk. Surely she will learn quicker about respecting things that are not hers by learning, rather than by being strapped in like a pet? Different parenting styles I guess.

I've missed this whole thread, shame I don't have time to read all 224 posts!

YANBU, BU would have been to have put it back with the bitten sides hidden

I do tend to buy most things in ready weighed bags and Tink has been known to have a feast walking around Tesco (the only place she will eat at times) but it is stuff that will get paid for. I once had a cashier ask if it was already open, I said no that I had taken one out, then thought and said "I should have said yes and got a free one when you swapped it".

My sister used to work on the check out at Tesco and was telling me about a woman who let her son wee on her shopping, it was at the till, not sure what side though. Everything soaked through. She insisted that they replace everything in her trolley, which they did! My sister said well over £100 worth of stock!

Quattrocento little bottles go in the bin when you leave. The towels go in the wash to be used again.

Big difference.

Quattrocento - I never agonise over taking those little bottles of shampoo - if you pay the ridiculous prices for hotels in the first place, they are not gratis. You have already paid for them! Unless the little book of rules in the hotel room clearly states that they are for the consumption in the room only .

TinkerbellesMum - next time I will dive across room to save apple/other fruit she might eat, and put in back, spit and all! Least she would not have eaten it, and its gonna have matey boys dirty fingers all over it anyway.

I like your technique of getting your LO to eat!

*Quattrocento - you say you agonise about taking the bottles - but what do you actually do?

*THW - one bite while I was not watching, the second bite, as I was telling her to hand it to me. With that look of a child doing something she should not...it was quick enough as most people here understand. They were not huge gaping bites that took her ages to chew, she is 23 months, not 3. She took slithers of the skin!

I was not really in the alcohol section at the other end of the store!!!!

i wish my children ate apples

Well sometimes I take them and sometimes I don't. It depends on whether or not they are (a) pretty and (b) not heavily perfumed (DD's skin easily irritated). If all the circumstances are right it has been known for Quatt to filch the bottles ...

I never use them myself - always take my own stuff - so I feel this hotel, this particular hotel - owes me for all the times I've never used them. Which is of course entirely muddled and self-justificatory thinking

lol then they lose even more than half a penny as they go in waste you should have asked her that!

THW fair enough, but £100's of stock is a little more than breaking something. Can you imagine being the poor member of staff that had to sort it all out, empty the trolley and find out what it all was so you could replace it? Heyeeek!

You are ALL NUTs about this.

When ds was 2 I would pick out a lttle lonely ripe banana and give it to him saying' THIS is a gift from Mr Tesco.' Kept him occupied for the duration of the £100 trip for the week's shopping and I only occasionally got the cashier to price it up (and then only as a result of dp's mortified embarrassment of my fiddlededy ways).

Worse to come Mners! You know where they cynically put sweeties on toddler level? Well, said ds used to grab one on his waddley way *and I ignored it. My grounds being ( and yes total mortification from dp so no support here!) that I Never bought sweets for him so if they put the blardy stuff at his level what do they blardy expect(?

yanbu

har har elephantsbreath, you are going to get caned here

Oh, an out-and-out shoplifter. Gosh. Tell me, Elephant, when do you propose to teach your children that stealing is wrong? Or don't you propose to teach them any such thing? Because their adult lives might be a touch difficult ...

Out and out shoplifter?
Get a grip!

So busy giggling with shock and horror over a gift from Mr Tesco, that I forgot to ask if he gave you any presents? A nice bottle of bubbly at Christmas, say, swiftly tucked away into a buggy?

oh do get real people and grow up !!*

Quattrocento, have you been on the bubbly yourself tonight*??

Ewwwww! Think wee would be worse for me, chicken fat not far behind but would that be over £100 worth of stock? I like hearing the stories my sister tells and just being grateful they're not me!

My sister (checkout team leader) met her husband (garage manager) at Tesco, they were both pushed out. He hated his new job and was headhunted back. More fool him! I found out that at my local store a cashier met her hubby when he was the store manager! But that's digressing.

i stole some spoons from tesco

Custardo you nutjob >

you'll hav'em *shrieking on here

OK, so I haven't read all 11 pages but WTF?! This has to be a wind up. I am with Elephantsbreath on this one! I can't believe so many of you are horrified and think Pavlov is being unreasonable!! Her baby ate a couple of mini bits of apple, she paid for it and she got told off! Pavlov, YANBU. I would be annoyed. Sheesh, people, relax.