How To Make People Hate You
Let the kids push their own mini trolleys, often at high velocity, around the supermarket whilst all laughing and shouting.
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Too funny, went to Waitrose on a rare occasion, Madame smashed into the back of an old bitty's heals! The look she gave her….if looks could kill.
I do that with a full sized trolley… it hasn't got me banned so far (they want my money).
I know what you mean, we were getting some really evil stares. Hey, it could have been worse, I could have been making them be good and then they would have had to put up with the screaming and wailing tantrums after about 5 minutes.
The best thing about trolleys is that bar you can stand on and free wheel up the isle!
Wow, what a big emprty supermarket. I want to shop there! Mich x
Wow, what a spacious supermarket, even if the lighting and flooring does scream 'asylum'!
Silly supermarket! What kid could resist?
I used to groan when supermarkets introduced those mini-trollies for kids. My girls would always want one and I would end up with bruised shins and ankles after being bashed all the way round the shop. Thank god most of them have given up on that idea, and that my girls are older anyway and can safely negotiate their way around the supermarket.
I'd much rather see happy, smiling children pushing the mini carts than screaming, unhappy children any day.
LOL at least the place wasn't too busy!
Well they weren't in my supermarket so good luck to them.
Hell, I don't even take my kids to the store……ever. Well, okay, if we're shopping for school clothes or something I do, but grocery shopping has never included my children. Reason? I have a very thin rope of nerves, and just one, “Mommy, can I have…….???” is enough to send me into orbit.
Mine love those trollies – in all fairness how could a supermarket make those and not expect chaos lol
Ah yes. The mini trolley. Mine love them. LOVE LOVE LOVE them. They are not allowed them any more since they went mad swinging them in circles in the honey aisle. It wasn't pretty. It was sticky. I'm surprised the supermarket ever allowed us back!
wait until they are 12+ and doing the same thing with full size trolleys – then you get maximum embarrassment.
Those mini trolleys are what saves me when I take the kids shopping, and every other parent in the store knows it. Period!
… and I kinda wish I wasn't too old to run around like that with my big one.
I just need to know, if *I* do that, ya know, wheel around the store high-speed, whooping and yelling, then will everyone hate my *kids*? Because if they're hating ME, then I need to stop it.
Pretty much like the rest of Kuusamo, really. big and empty!
It is a little, erm, stark, isn't it? Maybe that's why it's so empty…
I know
My shins were just fine. not sure we could say that about everyone we left trailing in our wake though…ahem.
when I think of the alternative if i had said not to letting them have a mini shopping cart each…well, it's doesn't bare thinking about!
it rarely is to be honest.
And for that you ought to be extremely grateful!
Well, its either that or leave the chained to the radiators again…
You make a very good point!
Ack!
i know what you mean1 i love pushing my trolley by standing on that bar at the back and scooting along
it seems only fair that if the kids do it and you get hated on, that when you do it the kids should get hated on, doesn't it?
Mine don't come shopping any more. Damn. Can I borrow yours? I love being hated.
Definitely wish they had them in supermarkets over here, only ever seen them in wholefood-type shops.
I dunno about other ppl but I sure hate myself when I am stupid enough to cave into small demands to hare round IKEA propelling one of these at full speed ahead. Me or my kid anyway.
That looks like great fun! Wish they had that here in the States.
It scares the life out of me when my kiddos get hold of the mini-trolleys – especially when they have the flagpole thing on them, which so often wacks people as the kiddos whizz past !