AIBU to think parents chasing each other round Morrisons is odd?

[HelloDenise]

I just saw a 30-something couple chasing each other around Morrisons whilst their young kids stood watching and giggling. AIBU to think this is mad?

And no eye contact with each other, only noise coming from pater, via a whistle à la Capt Von Trapp?

The hyperbole on here is much funnier than the supermarket tag team from last night.

Maybe there could be extra security guards at the entrance, grilling people on who they are with and their intentions? One adult one child per household only? And a holding pen for the children who don’t picked to come in and has no adult to wait with them?

Were they playing tig (tag, if your not Scottish)
Or was it more Benny Hill chasing? 😂

🤣 Is that still a thing? Had no idea, did watch it back in the day though, always thought I could do better than the contestants 😆

To be fair I would have found my friend and me annoying but the shop was empty so all good.

They could have played Tiggy on high on all the stacks of beer and lager, cereals, cat food etc.

🤣

Why did this take up enough of your head space
a) to remember it once you'd got home (let alone left the aisle)
b) start a MN thread about it?

Now that would be entertaining to watch, with some of the idiots that go into supermarkets, 😂

An essentials item? LTB immediately. To be fair though it's a lot easier in Waitrose, the aisles are so much wider.

Maybe an IKEA style ball park for the children, if IKEA still have those.

I got things done much faster when I shopped alone though.
The thing that really annoys me are people doing the shopping alone but on their phone to HQ all the time. I was wanting to get something from one of those useless chiller cabinets but some idiot was listing all the possible items on his phone and got annoyed when I tried to carefully reach round him, 'I've not finished'!

To paraphrase Billie Piper, because I wanted to.

But if I’m stood in the aisle with my husband discussing what pasta shape to buy and he randomly taps me and says ‘it’ what on earth do you think the correct response is? GAME ON.

You think it’s ‘really odd’ that a couple without kids might want to have a look at what’s on offer and talk about what they might cook that week? That feels like a very low threshold for ‘oddness’.

If you’re the sort of people who sit down and meal plan for a week in advance and write a detailed list of the exact things you’ll need and never deviate from that, fine. But my DP and I never do that. We go to the supemarket, have a look at what’s on the shelves and decide what we fancy eating based on what’s in season / on offer / is new / looks nice. Also, I can’t drive, so it would always be DP doing the shopping, but it’s me that does most of the cooking, and I wouldn’t really want to just be presented with a load of stuff he’d chosen alone and then be stuck with having to find things to cook with it.

Also neither of us really gives a shit about being ‘domestically useful’. I’ve never really thought ‘Ooh, if DP does the big Sainsbury’s shop, that’ll free up half an hour for me to do some ironing’.

In my 50 years on this planet I’ve never seen any of these things happening in a supermarket.

I can’t believe the number of people who actually think this is an ok thing to do. It’s just weird and could very easily be dangerous if they aren’t careful. There are plenty of places to be silly and entertain kids but a supermarket isn’t one of them.
and no, I’m not bitter, jealous or a fun sponge, just an actual adult who managed to raise two kids without acting like one of them.

We always used to do the weekly shop together until Covid hit. Then we started taking turns and have not really gone back to doing it as a couple unless we are on a cottage holiday in the UK or on the way back from a holiday abroad.

Competitive busyness.

This'll shock you - do you know that some people don't live their lives in the same way you do.

Are you suggesting their houses must be filthy because they enjoy buying the food they all eat together, together? That their kids can't do to any of the heducational, socially approved things that your kids do because they must spend all their time in the supermarket?

When did the term fun sponge become a thing? It's used to shut down discussion rather like Be Kind. Nobody said Be Kind like this before February 2020.

well no, because chasing is for supermarkets, whereas you play hide and seek in cinemas. Obviously.

There are rules for this sort of thing, it would be completely inappropriate to chase each other in a garden centre when everybody knows that's where you do the wheelbarrow race.

I mean, I can see it would be annoying if they're getting in other shoppers' way but I'd much rather see parents having fun rather than the usual snapping at their kids scenario I seem to encounter every time.

Got knows. But yes it’s used (on here) to shut people down who don’t agree with whatever the consensus is. Children can have fun and giggles without their parents disrupting what is a chore to most people, to be over as soon as possible.

All it tells me is that you have spent those 50 years living in a naice middle-class area and/or don't shop in large city centre supermarkets.
I moved from Home Counties to a city in the North of England - 4 years in and the culture shock hasn't subsided.

Not take a child to a supermarket? Seriously? Thank you, finally a new addition to my ‘most bonkers things I’ve read on MN’ list.