to want to try on clothes while ds sleeps in buggy?

[mrsflux]

i was out shopping today and ds fell asleep in his pushchair. i took the chance to have a quick shop in h&m. surprisingly i found 5 things to try on so went to the practically empty fitting room.
the girl gave me my number thingy so i went in, all cubicles were tiddly small with proper doors on them but there was a huge disabled (i'm guessing) one at the bottom. i asked if i could use it and was told 'no as it's full of boxes'!

i gave the stuff back saying i couldn't try them on with the buggy there and left.
wasn't till i got home that i thought about it and thought that was a bit off as although it was annoying for me is it not worse for disabled shoppers not having anywhere to try on stuff?

I think they could probably get in a lot of trouble for that, actually. Not because of buggies but what if someone in a wheelchair came in?

that was my thought tee. i was a bit miffed but i got over it pretty quick!

If it was empty why didn't you just leave the door ajar?

The buggy would have blocked the way and tbh I'm not exactly keen on comunal changing Esp when male members of staff are busy moving stuff about.

I used to always go shopping with a dc in the pushchair, when they were sleeping it was the easiest, if i couldn't find a disabled one I'd just leave the door ajar! But I understand what you mean about the male members of staff, I think I may have been put out then.

The bloody cheek of them stuffing the disabled changing room full of boxes. As Tee said, what if a disabled person actually came in.

Tee, they wouldn't get into trouble, disabled changing rooms/toilets are not exclusively for use by disabled people but can be used by anyone - shops etc are just legally obliged to have them, not to monitor who uses them. I often use the disabled toilets at our local shopping centre when I am out with the buggy as the alternatives are 1 - leave sleeping child in buggy in middle of ladies toilets while I go into a cubicle or 2 - use toddler toilet in baby change. Neither appeals and as Im 8mth+ then I can't hold it till I get home. I've also used disabled changing rooms - am more that it wasn't available to use at all!

That's what I meant mum2all. That they would get into trouble because it was unusable, not because they would let someone not disabled into them.

If someone who was disabled needed it, they could be reported to what ever organization monitors such things and, I think, be fined for not being disabled accessible.

Just to change the topic a little.. Whatever happened to those horrid communal changing rooms shops used to have? When did they disappear? Were they not just awfull.

I would have bought said items, tried them on at home, shared them with all of Mumsnet and then taken them back

easy peasy.

Aaaah I understand now Tee, thats what I get for skim reading