Fuss over a shopping trolley in a basket queue

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

Grumpy xx, I agree with you about screaming babies in the supermarket. Several times I have nearly had to give up trying to get my shopping done because of this problem. The sound makes me very tense and unable to concentrate, it's truly awful!

How the mothers put up with it I don't know, unless they are deaf!

Your fold up bike causes no problem for anyone else so I don't see how anyone can complain!

Let me disagree there- a baby screaming it's head off in Tesco I can expect, after all that is what babies do and Tesco even have trollies designed for the carriage of said babies.

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.

Grumpy xx, you have told us all about 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 it started to become a bit boring and predictable.

In Tesco, the other day, a baby was screeching her / his head off. It nearly busted my eardrums, the sound was so high pitched and piercing. It was as if someone was blowing a whistle directly into my ears. Everyone was looking around, clamping their hands over their ears and giving the mother filthy looks.

Once you've experience that, you realise that a bike in a trolley is a very welcome alternative and really not a problem to anyone - basket queue or not.

As it is, I have quite a few followers on this issue now, in the shops that is, and even on here, unlike before, when I first posted this article, when some contributors made me out to be nearly as bad as Dr Harold Shipman.

Well, I have to say I've been guilty of pushing a trolley through a self-service till which is meant to be baskets only - although the sign doesn't specify that (it says 'xx items or less' instead). But in my case, it was because I had my child with me in her carseat, and the trolley in question had one of those racks on the top specifically for fitting carseats to. Despite the obvious need for a trolley in this case - I was on my own and there was no way I could have carried carseat, baby and basket around a supermarket - I STILL got filthy looks from some less than understanding individuals. I wonder, is it more or less frowned upon to take a bike shopping in a trolley than a baby? Perhaps, since the bike isn't at risk of screaming, throwing things, or causing sudden pungent odours, those individuals would have preferred me to leave my 2 week old daughter alone in the car...I think not!!

My brommie in trolley routine is starting to attract attention in Sainsbury now. First it was Tesco, now it's Sainsbury.

Luckily, all the comments are from cashiers who seem to see the funny, amusing side to my shopping routine. None of them mind at all. I got chatting to another cashier who said what a good idea it was to push my Brommie around in a trolly. It turns out she used to have a blue Brommie herself. It's certainly a conversation starter.

I think I should give my Brommie a name now. It's as if people are commenting on a mother's infant - only this time it's a heap of folded metal and rubber instead of a gurgling baby.

I think I might call it Origuru or 'Ori' for short (a cross between Origami - the paper folding craft and Marc Bolan's song Metal Guru, a seventies favourite of mine. This sums up the folding and the metal characteristics of a bike that was clearly the handiwork of a genius, whose invention is worshipped worldwide.

Or can anyone think of a better name?



As for the lock comment from ghigh - you're the silly ass. Brommies get nicked all the time and a lock won't guarantee it'll be there when I get out. Why do you think I do this Brommie in trolley routine? It's the only way I can safeguard my bike, that's why.

ghgih you probably have a crap bike - did you think of that?