DD just got so scared in Asda she wet herself (angryangryangryangryangry)

[sherby]

Firstly tell me if you think I am being unreasonable and then help me write a complaint letter, I am so frigging incensed I can't think straight

Went to Asda to get a globe (on special if you want one) and they have all the Halloween stuff out. DD is 3 and seems to be quite sensitive atm so I avoided going near it all and went to go get some milk

Walked around the corner and straight into a 6ft odd animated monster/vampire thing that they had nowhere near the Halloween stuff just randomly at the end of the milk aisle . I am not exaggerating when I say this thing looked so bloody real and its eyes were flicking back and forward it was horrible. DD screamed and I mean bloody screamed, I picked her up and she wet herself , she has been dry for over well over 9mths odd.

An employee came over and said 'so sorry that is the second child in 10 mins to scream at that thing'. DD was clinging on to me and asking if it could walk and it was going to get her. So I went to try to get out of the store and she was so upset, saying she could hear it coming.

All day she has been asking me over and over where it is is it still in the shop can it drive a car, can it walk

So AIBU to think that given that most of their customers in the daytime have preschool children that they should have thought slightly about scaring the frigging wits out of them.

I did complain to the cs people but DD was screaming so much we had to leave. They just said oh yeah we'll tell the manager

I saw the Halloween display in ASDA yesterday (next to the baby and toddler food aisle!) and it is gruesome

Fortunately my DD is only 8 months so isnt scared of things like that yet, but I almost was. Horrible stuff

Not unreasonable

How awful shergy - call & complain. I hate all the halloween rubbish

I am very sorry for the poor terrified children...but can't help finding it a bit funny that ASDA have managed to get it so wrong and scare the bejeezus out of their valued customers....

Must dash down there with (older) DS before they all (quite rightly) get removed!

that is a shame, they should have a section for Halloween that you have to enter like a Xmas grotto but halloween, then you choose to enter. As for helping to get rid of her monster, I used this for my kids and ot worked loads of times, buy an air freshner spray, Make a label the size of canister saying, Monster be gone and spray it under beds in closet etc. It works..and she will not be scared anymore also explain that it was a toy for adults not real.

your poor little girl! I hope you are both okay now.

oh god!

i think i know what you mean? was it the 6ft butler?

we ran into it last week and dd2 was not impresed at all!

I'm sorry but I do think YABU. Your dd's oversensitivity is hardly Asda's fault!

I've seen it, one of my dts wasn't too keen on him and kept his distance. dt2 thought it was hilarious and knocked the rat off it. They are three.

I think you need to address your dd's sensitivity personally, and have a chat about things that aren't real. Overeacting by going into a rage, complaining and leaving the shop is just reinforcing her idea that there is something to be fearful of!

It is September still - that is the most scary thing of all GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

YANBU - I am a right wuss Probably will wet myself in asda now!

yanbu

sad that loads of kids wouldnt be scared by it these days

because the majority sit watching SAW drinking alcopops at 9 probably

ooh I didn't know you could buy them! Would I be unreasonable to put one on my doorstep to get rid of the trick or treaters?

chopstheduck i thought about buying it for the doorstep so that all the children knnew we were celebrating halloween and to knock but i think it would have the opposite effect.

YANBU at all! I was in Asda on Saturday after reading this thread, and lo and behold there was a little girl, about 3 or 4, crying because the hideous frankenstein butler thing BY THE TILLS has terrified her! The customer services lady rushed over to try and placate her and said to the mum that it kept happening!

It IS a freaky horrible thing. Until I saw it for myself I didn't quite appreciate its grotesqueness, but it freaked ME out too!

I felt so angry and sad for the little girl crying at it (and for you DD, too). If it KEEPS scaring children to the point that customer services literally lie in wait for the next victim, WHY is it still there?!

I remembered this thread on Sunday - saw this thing in my local Asda, it is pretty grotesque.

I can remember being frightened out my wits by things that no doubt would seem daft to an adult or an older or even less 'sensitive' child.

Hope your DD is OK now sherby

I hate Asda

Err...I forgot to tag on a bit there about 'when I was a child' - honest guv

It sounds horrible - some of the Hallowe'en stuff in the shops now is really nasty.

I bet ds1 is the only child to have had a fit of screaming hysteria about a Christmas tree though, isn't he? I was having my hair cut - he was about three - and I was almost done so my Mum had brought him into the hairdressers to wait for me. He wandered over to this little, innocuous looking tree and it suddenly opened its great big googly eyes and its horrid red mouth and started singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas!" He didn't stop shaking for about two hours and was really wary of Christmas trees for years afterwards - he wouldn't go near them until he'd checked "does this one have a face?"

That is horrible! I'm so sorry your little one was startled into hysterics. They really need to move this display.
Do explain to your child about Halloween though as it can have a positive side and the month hasn't begun yet. It may well be that this won't be the only place that holds surprises.
I've friends with little ones that got startled by dogs (they now scream when they come to our house as we have two very gentle dogs) and whenever they encounter other dogs.
The wetting herself is an instinct reaction of being very frightened. It is intended to make oneself less desireable to be eaten so you know it frightened her to the core.
When my son was little he was afraid of same. We had to do a little made up ritual (since this is just imagination) to get him reassured that the monsters wouldn't come in the night until he was old enough to realize it is just make believe.

I thought it was inappropriate too - DP and i decided that it was there so that parents of tantruming children could use it to calm their children down "Shut the fuck up or the scary man will get you" kind of thing. Horrible. The one in our Asda's moves and is realistic, thankfully my DD didn't see it as she would have been terrified.

I find the whole halloween thing a bit naff and shit anyway.

Ive seen this in 2 seperate asdas and both times it was NO WHERE near the Halloween stuff!

Its ahorrible, my mum was scared of it!

Oliveoil I saw the mosquito at the trafford centre too, my DS was watching it from afar but didn't want to walk past!

there was an 8 foot tall dressed-up creature in the Asda near us last year - although it was the week before Halloween.

he lurked near the store entrance, and jumped out in front of people; he did it to a woman walking through the store on her way home from work.

she screamed, and instinctively hit out.
she punched him in the stomach.
then she turned to run away, and her work bag smacked him in exactly the same spot.

lots of people clapped and cheered.

didn't see the creature again.

I would have hated it as a child; wasn't too keen on it as an adult.

Stupid idea for a supermarket - boycott Asda until it buggers off.

PMSL HC!

I hit out when scared too!

DH has learned that the painful way... he doesn't jump out on me anymore!!!

YANBU. The one in our Asda is at the entrance, no avoiding the bloody thing!

I hate Asda, and I hate hallloween even more.

I love Halloween.
Just not in my face when I'm buying my carrots.