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AIBU?

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to not want to leave my 5mo ds at tesco checkout?

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MamaChris · 16/07/2008 15:03

I was at the checkout in Tesco, and the cashier realised the cucumber I had picked didn't have a barcode. I offered to go back and change it but as I turned ds (5mo) round in his buggy to go get it she said "don't worry - leave it here - I'll watch it". I took him anyway. But when I came back she looked at me like I was a crazy mad woman who thought she was going to do Bad Things to him.

I didn't think that but I didn't want to leave him on his own either. DP does say I sometimes worry too much. So, was I being paranoid? The checkout was the other side of the store from the cucumbers - I wouldn't have been able to keep an eye on him had I not taken him with me.

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2luvlyboys · 16/07/2008 20:34

YANBU No way would I ever leave my baby with anyone I don't know ever no matter how kind and caring the checkout staff are I still don't know them and neither does my baby. He cries when I'm out of sight from him anyway also why coudn't the staff get another cucumber?

MsPontipine · 16/07/2008 20:35

Somtimes I take my trolley with me even if it hasn't got ds in it - it does have my £1 in it!

bergentulip · 16/07/2008 20:42

Have often left mine. I'd think you were slightly 'mad crazy woman' myself tbh. What on earth is going to happen if the checkout person said they 'look after' it/him/her for you?

One of my friends was slightly nutty, I believe, when she came over to mine. Her DD1 (1yr) was asleep in the car when she arrived, she popped her head in, told me this, and instead of coming in and relaxing with a coffee with the front door open - where you could see the car's flippin' chassis number it was so close, she said she was going to go and sit in the car until she woke up..... I mean, what the??

mamachat · 16/07/2008 20:59

I think you did the wright thing, I never leave my dd anywhere alone, if something bad happen I would never forgive myself..

So many bad things could happen within seconds of you being away...

cupsoftea · 16/07/2008 21:09

Why couldn't the checkout operator have called for someone to get the price of the cucumber - customer service is dreadful!!

bergentulip · 16/07/2008 21:13

9 times out of 10 it's just quicker and easier to go yourself.

luckylady74 · 16/07/2008 21:23

How do some of you exist in a perpetual state of anxiety that 'bad things' might happen - I know they do happen - they've happened to me, but not every day and not in the supermarket check out queue.

elmoandella · 16/07/2008 21:38

at my tesco when you forget something or the baby starts crying all the old biddies start fightingover who's gonna hold the baby.

i suppose there's a lot of older people on checkouts where i go. seriously, most of them are past retirement stage.

and i must admit i always pick the aisle with the old ladies now, just incase, as i know the will start haggling with each other over who's turn it is.

more · 16/07/2008 21:39

So "it" is the buggy, and she thereby did not offer to look after your child!!!? No problem then, you did the right thing.

monkeysmama · 16/07/2008 21:56

It must be something about Tesco - same thing happened to me today. Went to pay, cashier suggested I get another pepper as the one I had didn't have a barcode and told me to leave my baby (2 months in a pram with lots of shopping hanging off it)

I smiled politely and said I'd take the baby - she insisted "no, leave her here" at which point I wanted to run, with pushchair, to the exit. She sensed my shock and said "If you take the baby you might not come back"??!? I was so confused I said forget it and left her with the shopping basket.

EffiePerine · 16/07/2008 22:01

I wouldn't leave the buggy if I couldn't see it (have nipped off on occasion tp pick up something in same aisle). Then again, would never leave a sleeping baby in the car, even in someone's driveway

elmoandella · 16/07/2008 22:06

what if you could see thru the car window from your chair in living room?

i also seen a women take her baby out the car at a petrol station?

lenny101 · 16/07/2008 22:21

I'd say it's not about the checkout staff, it's about the baby and their mum. I wouldn't leave mine. Jeepers ds1 would shut the shop with his disapproval!

Berryred · 16/07/2008 22:40

yrnbu, I won't leave a baby/child, would leave a moody teenager though

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MamaChris · 16/07/2008 22:52

I'm new at this parenting lark, and just following my instincts. But glad I didn't leave him. Thinking about it more since, I guess it depends on your environment too, and this Tesco is not in the nicest part of town. Wouldn't leave my dog outside because I know it would get nicked round here. And when I remind myself of that I think I would be more like Mad Crazy Woman if I were prepared to leave my ds somewhere I wouldn't be prepared to leave my dog

monkeysmama - agree - something odd with Tesco today, it seems.

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hertsnessex · 17/07/2008 08:04

good for you mamachris. your little one looks gorgeous!

zookeeper · 17/07/2008 08:11

When my ds was five months old I wouldn't have left him

now that he's 6 with ds2 and dd1 being 3 and 4 I'd gladly leave them there .

All day if I'd get away with it

ChippyMinton · 17/07/2008 08:19

YANBU - tesco have staff to do this kind of running around on your behalf. Next time let the checkout operator summon one of her colleagues.

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MamaChris · 17/07/2008 10:58

herts

he's growing so so fast - he's going to be huge I think!

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mum2ds1 · 17/07/2008 11:07

why couldnt they have got a member of staff to go and get it for you its not ur problem there was no barcode

jojosmaman · 17/07/2008 11:22

When my ds was about this age I left him with the Post Office worker (she is a little old lady who just looks after the shop side of things in the PO). I had dropped £20 somewhere and was getting flustered (it was a hot day, i was in a rush and had a bag of shopping, big handbag and carrying ds) and said I had to go and check in the car down the road and she saw me flapping and said no problem, you go and get it and I'll look after your baby. Without a thought I said thanks, handed over ds, ran to car found the note on the floor next to my car, ran back paid for cards etc and took baby back and it wasn't until I got back to the car that I realised I'd just left my PFB with a complete stranger! No harm done though

itati · 17/07/2008 11:37

I had the opposite today in Asda. I left my money in the car and wwnated to go back and dget it. She wasn't pleased about that and told me ti take DS2 with me when I asked what to do with him.

To the OP, I would take no notice, your baby, your decisiom=n.

itati · 17/07/2008 11:40

If the child is then put in the care of the team leader I would be panicking like mad if they had moved from where I left the child. Would the team leader stay at the till, The HedgeWitch?

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