Aaaarrrhh. Toys R Us. I can't believe that somewhere for kids can be so un-kid friendly. Our son has been feeling under the weather so I took him to Toys R Us yesterday to buy him a little something to cheer him up. Well, we had just walked in the door when a prolonged coughing fit made him throw up - not much, but enough. It was down his coat, on the floor and he was naturally a bit upset. Behind us was a member of staff who promptly disappeared. I emptied by bag of tissues in an attempt to clean him up and clean the floor. Not one person stopped and asked if we were OK, not one member of staff came along - in fact, I couldn't even see a member of staff. What made it worse was that 3 mums with pushchairs completely ignored us - one even took one look at us and changed aisles to avoid us. There was nowhere I could deposit a bundle of sick covered tissues, no toilet in the store itself. I ended up putting the tissues in my gloves in my bag and walking across the car park to the Mothercare World where I could wash our hands and clean ourselves up properly.
Sorry, but this just annoyed me so much I wanted to tell someone. Next time you see a mum in need do please stop and ask if all is OK - it would have been a great help to me if someone had given me a couple of extra tissues or found a member of staff to tell them to fetch a bucket of water.
Finally, do others find some mums really unfriendly? Whenever we are out walking and I pass another mum with a pushchair or a child a similar age to ours I always smile and say hello. Some of them look at you like you are demented.