Fuss over a shopping trolley in a basket queue

Mr Retail,

You are so ignorant. Have you any idea how many bikes are stolen from bike racks each year? Bromptons are easy targets and sell at near retail price. Locking it outside is not an option. Why shouldn't I buy a bike? It's good exercise and we should be encouraging more of it.

I use an old, large plastic shopping bag, which prevents any direct contact of bike wheels with the trolley grids. So there is no hygiene problem at all. And, no, I don't put shopping in the same bag.. It is used solely for this purpose and is kept in the pocket of the bag. Clearly you hate cyclists, or perhaps you are jealous because you can't afford a Brommie. Whatever your reasons for your post, it has no rationale at all. Just a pointless piece of vitriol.

Leave your bike outside the supermarket and lock it. If you are not prepared for the possibility of your bike being stolen; you should not have bought it. Basket and trolleys are for items that people buy from that retailer....not to be used as some sort of ad-hoc pallet truck for bikes with god knows what on the wheels. How magnanimous of you to waste bags or do you then put your food into the bags with the dirt on from your wheels?

Turn this story the other way round. I was in a basket-only queue, when some athletic harridan was checking out and paying for a standard supermarket basket filled with about 40 to 50 items piled high. I say she was cheating too. She and her shopping kept the queue waiting for 10 minutes whilst all her stuffed was shoved intro plastic bags.

Allie

I assume that by dinks you mean the out dated term "dual income no kids".

So, in your weird world people who choose not to have children and are paying huge amounts of tax to pay for your child benefit and other costs are responsible for the bad behaviour of your children?

The population does not need maintaining - it needs reducing. There will be more wars and they will be about food security, clean water and fuel.

Before you ask, yes I like (most) children - some parents , not so much.

HSK, it's attitudes like yours that have created the need for immigration. DINKs and child-haters selfishly off-load the responsibility to procreate and sustain the population onto the shoulders of others. If immigration is out of hand, it's precisely because there aren't enough home-grown "brats" to sustain your pension and health service when you retire. And badly behaved kids are the result of lousy parenting, probably from would-be DINKS who were too undisciplined to maintain their status.

I am one of those who has very low tolernce for children who throw a tantrum, no matter what age, I'll tell it to shut up, these mothers just fall on deaf ears, they should take there kid out of the store til it calms down, but, no, they make us all suffer through the screaming, they say you were a kid once, I'll say I wasnt that bratty, I hate kids, who scream and run around the store
causing problems for other shoppers, not every likes to shop with kids around,

I work for a supermarket and we have lots of people that bring trolleys in a bsket till. The only problems is notg the number of items its the trolley as the basket only tills have a small ilse so you cant get a trolley round very easierly and a lot of people with trolley dont look what ther doing so end up banging in to people. Basket only is not designed for a small niumber of items its designed for a small basket of shopping for those who dont want to use a pound for a trolley. Very few supermarkets have an item limit.

Lol!! Poor you.. I can imagine that it's annoying. You could always take a basket in your trolley and then if someone complains, say you have a basket only. :)

"However if I ever saw someone wheeling their bike around in a trolley, that would probably shock me more as I have never witnessed this before."

It's more a point of discussion and amusement now, not complaint. I was cornered last week and practically forced to give some Chinese woman a lesson on how to unfold the bike. She'd never seen a Brommie before.

I endorse GOW's views on here. Shrieking babies can pearce your eardrums and it causes stress to staff and customers alike. Haven't these mothers ever heard of dummies?

"457 times that you do your shopping with your fold up bike in your trolley, at first it was very interesting but im afraid that after the 243rd time"

First it's 457, then it's 243. Jeez! Make up your mind, you grouchy old fusspot. I doubt that it's even close to that figure. Probably about 6-7 times maximum - not that I've counted. I've got better things to do - like going to Sainsbury to push my bike around in a trolley.

[there, that's another one to tot up)

Oh yeah...I should point out that the filthy looks I got weren't because my baby was screaming; I have one of those children who nods off the minute the car starts moving and she doesn't wake up again until we're safely back home. So I know the looks were because I used a trolley.

I too hate screaming kids in public places btw :-P