to have not picked up the sweets DS chucked all over Sainsbury's floor?

[YoMoJo]

popped into local "convenience" store earlier today.

Long queue as always, which is directed along the aisle that is packed with crisps, chocolate & sweets.

More sweets & chocolates at till points.

DS (2.5 yrs) fed up of continuously being told "NO" he couldnt have any sweets/chocolate/crisps then proceeded to chuck about 10 Mars Bars on the floor whilst I packed & paid for my shopping at the till.

In protest at having to queue in the said aisle I left them all on the floor & walked out the store.

so AIBU

What's that advert on TV where the kid has a tantrum in a shop and throws something on the floor? Mother responds by having a tantrum too, child shuts up and mum walks away leaving the stuff on the floor.

Found it Vicks nasal spray:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uffJqLn8Rc&feature=related

Really annoys me!

Why can't you just exert some self control and tell your kid that they can't have a chocolate bar.

I've never bought one of those in my life and wouldn't start now.

If my kid had done it tohugh, he would have picked 'em up-not me.

"one-women-takes-on-the-world-of-global-commercialism"

Arse Biscuits, it was!

Please don't try and justify behaving like Princess Petulant now you've failed to get the universal praise you expected.

By all means make a valid protest against globalism but:

1. Leave your child at home

and

1. Don't involve people who have enough joyless, underpaid tasks to do without needing cleaning up after you to the list.

What? Why?

I can't beleive you think that's OK

Completely agree with SpiritualKnot - that ad has always irritated me too.

This has reminded me of when I used to work in a bookshop. One particularly awful day a tantruming child kicked over an enormous rack of bookmarks right in front of the till, spilling about 600 of them all over the shopfloor. Charming mother smiled at me said 'Well at least it'll give you something to do, won't it,' and left.

Still makes me angry thinking about it now! I know it doesn't relate much to this but just thought I'd share! I am soooooo glad I don't work in retail any more.

Beaker I have a similar story... I used to work in the joyous world of fashion retail when I was a student. One shift, I was shuffling through some clothes looking for a size for a customer and there was a middle-aged, white-jean woman shopping on the same rail. She knocked a silk dress off the hanger and then kicked it under the rail. I tutted at her quite loudly and she said "isn't it your job to pick stuff up after customers?" To which I did cat's bum mouth and told her that I could have her made to leave the store for willfully damaging merchandise to which she did a worse cat's bum mouth and flounced off. Self-important twat. Still makes me just thinking about it. I should probably let it go...

[shocked] Beaker!!

OP - your issue is with the store's management, but it is the shop floor staff who will have to clear up after you and your child, so you are being very unreasonable indeed.

And as others have said, you have taught your child a bad lesson today - you can have a tantrum and make a mess in a shop and mummy won't make you clear it up. That's not going to make the next shopping trip any less stressful for you, the other customers or the poor shop staff!

You're being thoroughly unreasonable and a bit pathetic. Call that a crusade against commercialism. If you didn't fashion a slingshot out of overpriced tights and fire the mars bars at the manager's head, then you just weren't trying hard enough. And your son is old enough and the right height to be trained to kneecap shop staff with an unripe banana.

Try harder.

Just to add my bit.....

.....YABVU

But I think you might have realised that by now

yabu. I'd have left my shopping and taken my kid out for a reet good talking to

Hmm, if you're fighting a "one woman fight against commercialism", why weren't you shopping in a convenience store rather than an independant shop ?

Or is te one-woman-fight simply a feeble excuse for "I couldn't be bothered"

cupcakes - 'benny' think that was on the list the other day of things not good to say because of the connotations.

Oops sorry, I didn't see the list. Why is it not good to use benny? I usually say "chucking a wobbler" IRL but used benny instead because I thought that that was less offensive.

Confused.com.

think it was something to do with benny being a man off crossroads who had SN? Never saw it so no idea.

why is wobbler bad??

We should probably sit in a corner on our own

I thought wobbler was bad because it had epilepsy connotations.

Bloomin' heck. If I prune my vocabulary to not offend the very sensitive, I will have no words

differentID "Morloth- I didn't dare type that, not having dc yet myself."

LOL, all kids have "Indigo Child" moments, what matters is what you do about it.

If you walk off and leave their mess for someone else to clean up for instance you are a twat and your child will probably also grow up to be a twat - it tends to run in families.

If you bend down tell them that that really is not on and they have just guaranteed that they will not be getting any sweets for a really looooooooong time, and make them pick them up and possibly make them apologise to the cashier when you get there. Then you are a hardarse mean mummy who ends up with nice kids who are more of a pale aqua.

Well, I am going to go against the grain here and......

no I'm not, you were a lazy mare

We do "Throwing a Wobbly".

YABU. Not only is it insulting to the store, it is sending out the wrong message to your children. Tho do agree it is unfair to have chocolates and sweets next to check outs.

This argument about sweets being by the till is a shite one IMO. You're not forced to buy anything. If you cannot say no to something just because it is right in front of you then that's your problem.

Some people might not like that the wine/beer section is right next to the tinned food section because they feel pressured to buy alcohol. I find it a struggle being in close proximity to cakes when perusing the bread but in the words of Diana Ross, I walk on by.

And anyway, some people like that the sweets are by the till so who gets the casting vote on these trivial very important matters?

I can easily say no ..not so easy for a 2 year old to be told no though is it

No. It's easy to tell a two year old no too. If they don't like it, it's TS.