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!

Am snorting my tea at "it just looks so tacky and working class...for the sake of appearances desist".

Xenia I think I'm starting to like your pantomime villain act despite my better judgement.

Self policing society, that's what they .

People starving all over the world and then the apple incident . I worry.....

Oops could do the ^italics

Ignore my last two posts! Don't know what came over me/my typing but just to say its all pants

Xenia - ROTFL What sort of sentance do you think should be assigned to the bit of immeasurable bit of apple then??? Do you EVER apply any common sense to your argument?

Honestly, i know you are an intelligent woman but sometimes you simply come across as a troll!!!

It looks working class to let your children eat whilst in the supermarket??? Blimey, i always open a packet of ORGANIC crisps for DD to munch on whilst we shop, she looks forward to it. Ah but hang on i AM working class - WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THAT??

But then hold on, i bet you had the nanny do the shopping anyway, so have never had to traverse the isles of waitrose with toddlers in tow??

Arguments like that will mean people will stop taking you seriously - now im actually starting to wonder if Xenia is a SAHM who lives in a high rise council flat and she just likes to stir the mix

"It is like wearing a sign ......... we have children we cannot control"

Surely it is like wearing a sign - I know exactly how to keep my little nightmare in control in a supermarket!!! ??? (!)

Well, know you know, when she has had enough, leave it on a shelf like every other fucker does

Anyway it just looks so tacky and working class to see parents letting children take bits from the food shopping as you go round so for the sake of appearances desist. It is like wearing a sign saying we don't care about the law. We have children we cannot control. We have children who cannot wait until meal times to eat.

Ahhh thats it. The problems of society solved. You need to let G Brown know Xenia. Eating 2 bites of an apple subsequently paid for = out of control kids and wayward parenting. Of course.

Behave.

Your eyes are boggling at which particular load of nonsense being 'argued' on this thread?? :0)

"We have children we cannot control. We have children who cannot wait until meal times to eat."

I believe that Department of Health guidelines are that toddlers should snack between meal times Xenia , and speaking as someone who loathes shopping, I'd far rather share the experience with a chewing toddler than a screaming one.

bergen, I am about the whole thing, but it's certainly the 'out of control kids' argument which is in particular boggling my eyes.

Niceglasses -

The point you are missing is that the bites of apple were not actually paid for. The point that Duchesse was making further down the thread (in french which is prob why it didn't get the attention it deserves) is when is stealing not stealing?

For you it is a question of degree - a couple of bites of apple is such a small amount that surely it cannot be stealing, and it seems nonsensical to argue such.

But for some people (me) where right and wrong is ingrained, the issue is absolute. It's clear in law too - as the shop assistant told the OP.

As Duchesse says - he who steals an egg steals a cow.

What I'm interested in - here in shoplifter's corner - is where are your boundaries? The Elephant person thinks that fruit, sweets etc are a present from Mr Tesco. Where is the point where you acknowledge to yourselves that you are stealing? A banana? A tin of beans? A bottle of wine? A wii?

PMSL. I can just see the ideal scenario now - glassy eyed Stepford children, sitting in silence in the trolley, unmoving.

Quattrocento - do you buy a oxygen cylinder on your way out to replenish the atmosphere before you leave the store? Wouldn't want to be stealing the O2 now, would we? ;)

"But for some people (me) where right and wrong is ingrained,"

Well, for some people (me), a sense of perspective is engrained....

And really.... how much food can one toddler get through in a supermarket anyway??

Ai ai ai ai.

I'm sorry for the op getting stressed. Trying to shop with little kids round a supermarket is no joke, I realise. But this eating of things before you've paid for them seems to be quite a new thing. I don't remember anyone doing it when I was a kid... how come it happens now?

It was just a bite of a bleeding apple

Do you think businesses are holy than thou, I bet they're not

What is this perfect little world some of you seem to live in? Where is it exactly?

Ladyt, it has always happened, and i think always will,i can remember the first supermarket coming to our town, it was fair game to eat what you wanted whilst walking round, not stealing unless you smuggled it out in your pocket, bag or whatever, stomachs did not count

Pavlov, I think YANBU! Your daughter is not even 2, what does it matter if she takes a couple of bites out of an apple! Maybe it should have been a packet of sweets so that it had a barcode

Some people on this thread need to go and polish their halos methinks

FWIW when I take my 2 small boys to the supermarket (not often granted...way too much stress) I let them have apples from pre-packed bags and I let them have bits of baguette...shoot me now No-one has ever told me off (maybe I look too scary...or probably too stressed ) I'd rather let them apples and bread than sweets and often have comments from the cashier that it is nice to see children eating healthy stuff rather than the crisps and chocolate that most parents feed their children around the store. Anyway I am waffling.........

Crikey, I think I've been missing out! My mother would have made me spit it out and apologise if I'd eaten stuff before she'd paid and so would everyone else's Mum I knew. Ok, so little kids have got no self control and why would they, but I must admit it bugs me when I see adults putting through empty chocolate bar wrappers with their shopping. I just think, man: can't you wait until you get outside...

Quattro, sorry not missing the point. I get it. I just don't agree.

I always used to let my kids eat around the supermarket, the supermarkets know people do it, it's not an underground thing!

Hey, I always looked at it this way, kid nibbles, I can shop and for longer as kid is occupied with said nibble and the retailer benefits. I ALWAYS handed the package in to be scanned before anyone bleats.

"...it just looks so tacky and working class ..." and to which class should we all aspire to be considered a member?

It is awful isn't it when one has to share the supermarket with visibly working class people. Not content with scrounging off the state they steal unashamedly from honest hardworking family businesses like Sainsbury's, and they really lower the tone in the aisles. I think mumsnetters really ought to have the power to issue asbos in these circumstances.