Was this asda shopper being reckless or aibu!

[KickArseQueen]

HaHa!! I'm sure there will be plenty who think I am but here goes.

Went to Asda today, as I was going through the checkouts the lady at the next one had a 3 year old ish little girl and a 6 months old boy.

When we were driving out of the carpark I noticed the same woman loading her shopping into the boot of her car. I don't know exactly what sort of car it was but it was a big 4x4 thing and the sort where the floor inside is flat ( like in a galaxy - no sill to step over iyswim?)

Crawling about on the floor of the car with the doors open and about an 18 inch drop to the ground was the little boy! I was just gobsmacked that she had put him where he could so easily fall out!

Is this a common thing to do? I think shes absolutley bats!!! Why not just put him in the car seat?

tombliboob, I feel your pain! However ballet shoes in that size look adorable! And before you know it they've grown!

UANBU

dd is crawling and sitting up, is 6 months* and I am thinking of getting a catchers mitt and knee pads the amount of times I have to dive across a bloody room as she attempts to sit up in the most awkward place she can. There is no way I could get from the boot to the door to catch her if she went to the edge.

*no smug emoticon, more of a did you really have to learn that now emoticon.

I think YABU, if you were really worried then maybe you should have pointed out the risks to the mum, but I imagine that (like we all do) she had taken her own risk assessment and would have given you short shrift! I've realised that I border on too careful with my DS and hover about him when I think he might launch himself off the sofa etc. But, he doesn't, he has his own understanding of risk and is really quite careful. So, it is possible that I would leave him bum-shuffling in the car while I filled the boot and if some interfereing well-meaning person came up to me to point out the risk, I would probably just nod and smile and say fuck off thanks!

ASda?
A 4x4?

What is she like?

Well I have a kamikaze baby who would quite happily hurl herself out of a car at any given opportunity.

I would no way take the risk - there is no need

YANBU

Larks, had I been on foot I would have been that interfering mad woman! Unfortunatly I was in the car and dp was driving, so my face pressed up at the window looked like this as I gibbered at mr kickarse what I'd just seen and he declared too late now and zoomed off

Asda and 4x4s very common here. BMWs/Cayennes/horrendous twin cab pickups usually in black, driven by the local builders made good. It's essential if you want to display your wealth in as ostentatious a manner as possible.

haha! i do this all the time, my lot LOVE to play in the boot and it stops them whingeing and whining while i unpack the shopping

also, i don't want to strap them in and then leave them in the car if it's a long way to put my trolley back

they're not going to fall out when i am right there loading the shopping

But she was there to catch him. Wasn't she?

I think mum was loading boot, baby was in seat well - so she wouldn't have seen if baby made a bid for freedom.

Lets just see if I can paint this picture any clearer

Mum was at the back of the car - the baby was not! the baby was siting in the footwell in front of the second set of seats, the doors were both open( near side and off side passenger doors).

I'm starting to feel very misunderstood!

proudnsad

O-oh! I see. Still not feeling the outrage. But I am notoriously laissez-faire. I dread to think of the horror and indignation I planted in the breasts of well-meaning mothers over the years

Orm..... You don't shop at asda do you????