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!

Bloody hell, i don't think yabu, 2 bites of an apple can happen very quickly! I never thought that i'd be giving my child food in the supermarket but last week when she had a complete melt down all he way there and I had to get tea I headed for the baby ailse, ripped open some rice cakes and amazing quiet, happy baby, such a relief after 20 mins screaming! Really whats the big deal??

I don't get why people are sticking up for the arsey cashier.
It was half a penny's worth of apple. The shop probably throws out hundreds of pounds worth of edible food every day.
Really, it's all a matter of perspective isn't it?
Child takes a tiny bite of apple - let it go.
Child takes apple and slips it into his/her pocket - challenge them about it.

I never let the children do that. It is theft, plain and simple until you've paid I'm afraid. The sooner children realise the importance of the law the better and how much you respect it. What if you'd got to the till and not had your purse on you etc?

But really an apple! Gawd I saw someone blatently stealing in morissons yesterday, that is wrong and its theft, but a child biting an apple?? Really not a big deal imo.

'I never have salt on my food. Its bad for you'.

'I never let my vegetables touch my meat'.

sorry, just ever so slightly reminded of Moody Margarent from Horrid Henry there for a moment.

The words lighten and up spring to mind.Presumably if she didn't have her purse she would have come back to pay for it. She sounds pretty honest to me.

Theft is theft. There are no degrees.

Cutting the stalks off: pmsl - my brother flicks them off tomatoes too! He's also worked out that it's cheaper to buy spring onions from the salad bar than whole!

Sheesh. I give up.

how can it be theft? She paid for it.

I don't believe you are all so sanctimonious. I think you are all just doing it for a larf.

YABU perhaps she was a little rude about it, but I'd have taken another similarly sized apple, or asked them to get me one instead of weighing a drool covered partially eaten apple.

And not talking about the OP here but allowing one's child to eat even a few grapes and not paying for them later is theft.

Besides they'll be unwashed, pesticides anyone?

well, OP could have found an apple of equal size and shape, matched the shade with a paint chart while checking the stalk was the same length (that could tip the balance) before explaining to the cashier the situation in full, that she/he was to weigh this apple as a match for the one currently being munched.

Or, of course, OP could have been watching her every move like a good mother should and the issue of how one pays for the toddler sized mouthful of apple would not have arisen. Oh to be as good a mother as some.

oh, cross posts, Falcon

though I was taking the piss but I concur that would be a solution

and then the toddler would have the joy of finishing the apple, but this would of course teach him that stealing is wrong

and the resolution might tempt the mother to repeat the mistake of ventuing to the supermarket without snacks.

Oh, pur-lease. I'm sure we would all rather the OP was let off the 1 or 2 pence than have her man-handle a piece of fruit she was not going to buy, just for the sake of having it weighed.

Heaven forbid

And that wasn't meant as a slight on you, Pavlov - just don't like to think of fruit being touched more than is necessary

Ah, sorry MrsC, didn't detect the sarcasm in your post

Yhe cahier could also observe unwrapped bakery goods and accost people who touch rolls but don'r buy them.

OMG it is continueing in my absence!

I sent my 23 month old to bed with no tea as punishment. She wont be doing that again!

Oh, did I tell you the cashier was a man?

Pavlov this is very funny

Have a cup of tea

I also object to the cashier touching food my daughter was going to eat, after touching dirty money/scratching his balls and god knows what else. With no gloves on!

you did, pavlov, several times

boys - I have not even been here for ages, everyone is getting in such a state about it!

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MrsCarrot just wondered as people still call him her or she or similar!

Frothing is the word for it Pavlov.

Heh heh heh

More importantly Pavlov, did you leave me a shopping list?