2 year old banned from shop for wearing a hoodie!

[Hulababy]

On local news now.

Madnesss. He was 2 years old, and with his parents!

I know they have ruules, but surely common sense has to prevail sometimes.

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Was it a typo? do you think he may have been 12 or 22 and they missed a digit?

oh i see just a tot not a teen

Oh fgs, the world's gone mad. Well, this shop has, stupid people.

Arse, hope everyone sees the name off the shop and boycotts him.

jsut like that pub a year ago who made parents take a football shirt off a toddler. There are always idiots about.

Hmm - they are sensationalising it a bit aren't they. He was only asked to take the hood down, and it was the father who stormed out with him, rather than him actually being banned.

Am sitting on the fence on this one, as I can see both sides!

MADNESS!!

I was in a sports shop and after id payed and shop assistant put the things in a plastic bag, she stapled it all the way along the top. TBH I looked at her and laughed. I had my DD with me and she was dead embarrassed.

Both sides!!! grandad said No I am not taking my toddlers hood down, so they refused to serve him and he left. FGS

It was the owner who asked him to do this not a silly 17yr old shop assistant who didn't know any better. It is not a legal requirment it is a rule he has made up for his own shop, teenagers yes I see the point but a 2 year old, DUH!

Do you think the owner thought they might stuff his hood full of sweets or something without the tot saying "Oh gramps, leave the hood" and give the game away! Madness gone mad.

No, I think that the owner has a policy that he has stated and is sticking to.

So if he should make an exception for a 2 year old, should he also make one for a 3 year old, or a 5 year old, or a 7 year old.... Where do you draw the line - does a child suddenly overnight hit an age at which it becomes unacceptable? By being consistent with his policy he is avoiding the need to answer questions like this.

We all have house rules that we expect others to abide by, whether they would choose the same rules or not. It then becomes their choice whether to accept our rules or not come into our houses. Same principle in play here.

Not saying it doesn't seem ridiculous on the one hand, but think sometimes people are too quick to take one side without thinking about the other.

ds always puts dd's hood up when we go in the local shopping centre. haven't been stopped yet
(she is in a wheelchair)

I think the shop owner just demonstrated the stupidity of the 'it's my rule, you will obey it at all costs, there will be no negotiation' approach. You are hardly inviting anarchy if you allow a toddler to keep his hood on, for heaven's sake!

Sorry but no we do have to make exceptions and use commen sense with these matters, what about a pensioner with a zimmer? Should we make her take her hood down if she chooses to keep it up?

I work in a job where I often have to enforce rules that people don't like and sometimes don't understand, I get called all sorts inc Hitler and a Nazi. So yes I do see it from both sides. If anyone of my staff enforced a rule like that on a 2 year old I would seriously have to consider if they had the intelligence to carry out the job.

Have youever tried keeping a hood down if a toddler wants it up (or vice versa).

Absolutely ridiculous.

that's just ridiculous!

Utterly ridiculous. Rules may be rules but when a TODDLER comes in accompanied by an adult then to enforce such a rule it, IMO, lunacy.

Of course exceptions can be made.

it is, IMO, lunacy.