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!

Still think its funny that people don't read posts properly. People make such assumptions based on incorrectly digested information! Like, me letting her take it, the cashier being a woman.

anyway I don't believe you, how can the anaemic looking stalk be more nutritious than the lovely dark green florets with the stress on the rets.

Bellivita - funny you mentioned bar codes, as the male cashier asked, in his normal ever so polite manner 'where is the sticker for this?' Er, maybe she ate it? Is that extra?

Watch out for extra bits in her nappy!

Pavlov - to be fair though, you did let her eat it.

niceglasses - its my local shop, a mini supermarket, but a 'brand' one, at least locally (coop). So, I am often in there, and they know me. This jerk cashier knows me. Its not something he has witnessed before, the theft of an apple by my DD.

In fairness, the cashier on the next till stood up for me, told him 'you trying telling not to touch to a toddler and see what happens!', and smiled at me, while the long queue behind me made up their own assumptions.

Oh, and did I mention he was a male Cashier?!

Why does it matter that he was male?

Ladies ladies! Calm down!
I think we have established the facts:

The stolen item was an apple (though other offences involving grapes may be taken into consideration).

The cashier was male.

He didnt want to get baby spit on his hands (neither would I actually, or old man spit or any other kind of gob)

The moral of the tale is....... explain to your two yr old that you don't take and eat things in shops until they are paid for. Most two year olds will understand that. Up to you then, as the responsible adult, to enforce it.

Sorted

DirtySexyMummy - I point out that he is male,

1. as lots of people on this thread assumed it was a female.
2. Once I pointed out she was a he, people kept on referring to the cashier as a female, so I felt it important to re-iterate the very fact that she was a he, so that stereotyping could be corrected.

TheHedgeWitch - anyones child can swipe something in a flash - cmon that was a bit mean.

I remember DS1 swiped a wooden train out of the ELC when he was in his buggy. I did not realise until after we had been in about four other shops.

Pavlov did pay for the apple.

I'd imagine she was smoking crack cocaine at the time, that tends to take my mind off what my toddler is doing

she probably wasn't even in the supermarket, were you in a hotel somewhere with your fancy man pavlov?

I think F&Z by the sounds of it, she was probably so busy stuffing unpaid for goods down her jumper that she didn't see her Artful Dodger of a daughter.

Stone her.

THW - I was in the alcohol section at the other end of the store. She was running riot all on her own.

Really - I was putting back the yoghurt that she had tried to open.

I had no trolley.
The apple was in the veg section, at toddler height.
We had no pushchair - been to park, I was getting the paper, which is next to veg section.
She can move very fast.
She is not a robot.
She understands not to touch things, sometimes - she just choses to ignore said instructions, sometimes.

Some mothers are clearly saints, able to never let their children touch things, eat things, run off, stay quietly and calmly in a trolley whilst calm serene mother potters around the supermarket.

I am not one of those mothers!

I am not a saint either pavlov - join the club

supermarkets bring out the worst in children
they sense they have a superb audience for any misdemeanours and that mummy is already stressed and will probably freak out entertainingly

ds SHOUTED once as we went past the alcohol aisle

"mmmm WINE, Mummy, I LOVE it when you give me WINE"

neither dp nor I drink, and ds has never ever tasted wine or anything like it

LOL Franny - I was reluctant to admit those bits!!!

I am actually starting to enjoy this thread!

Puts feet up and reads posts, whilst popping corn, DD watching some horror film somewhere in the house.

Broccoli stalk is lovely, much sweeter than the floret as well. My daughter always specifically requests to be allowed that bit, uncooked instead of cooked broccoli.

Calm, serence and unknownrebel in the same sentensce just doesn't go.

lol at DS Franny.

really, duchesse, is it sweeter? Ok, maybe I will try it.

It amazes me how perfect some mothers are. I think they should have their own little section on mnet, the perfect topic. Then they can start threads saying AIBU that my toddler behaved perfectly the whole way round the shop and I did not get a gold star.

broccoli stalks are the best bits!!! i dont allow my kids much of it as i liek it so much!! but they always stand in the kitchen with me asking to try bits of raw veggies!! DS likes raw mushrooms but not cooked!!! how very strange of him!!!

well, I always thought dh was a bit weird and you're all at it, you, you stalk munchers.

but I AM the perfect mother and ds STILL shouts things about wine

MrsC stop letting the veggers down here
you're making a show of yourself