River Island

shinkyshonky

Epiphone wrote:

I am, to get a point across. This week it's been idiots bringing their four year olds to the cinema, getting up for hte toilet every five minutes then the kids crying when it's loud. Pushchairs banging into me in the street then a filthy look because apparently it's my fault the slattern in charge can't use a pushchair and cellphone at the same time.

When a kid runs up to me with sticky hands and put cr*p all over me or breaks something then it annoys me.

Not kids fault, simply parents. There are ruls and laws if you have an animal. Seems to me anyone can breed.

Gah! Now I'm wound up again!

Wow....What a bitter person....rough childhood..?

cmjohnson_86

Becles wrote:

My son once vomitted suddenly in Woolworths. He wasn't ill, but we were wrapped up in winter clothes and the heating was overpowering, so I think he just got too hot. He'd put his hand over his mouth to try and hold it in, so consequently he had sick all over his face, in his hair, over his hands and on his jacket :eek:

I informed a nearby staff member about the sick on the floor and asked if I could use their toilets to clean my son up. She refused and said it was against company policy. I said "but he's covered in sick. I need to clean him up". She had to get the manager who also said it was against company policy. I complained and said it was disgusting that a family orientated shop was expecting me to walk through town with a child covered in sick, on a freezing February day. I commented that papers would have a field day with that story. They relented and let me use the staff toilets to clean him up, but a staff member had to stay in the toilets and supervise me at all times.

The town in question does not have any public toilets. A couple of stores have customer toilets, but neither are close to Woolworths.

Maybe they thought you would steal the toilet roll?

hollydays

In fairness,shops do get thieves trying to gain access to the back of the store ,in order to rifle through staff handbags etc..However both of these cases were self evidently just what they appeared to be.

Epiphone

Pink_butterfly wrote:

If you were in a film that a 4 year old was watching then i'm assuming it was a kids film, during school holiday?? What on earth did you expect?

It was Superman and POTC. Hardly kids films.

As for getting dirtied up, LOL, part of having kids i'm afraid. Not a day goes by that i'm not covered in biscuit/ice lolly/orange goop/chocolate/baby sick. I am an awful parent though - i mean imagine me letting my kid get dirty. Prison is too good for me.

That's fair enough, they're your kids. I don't like strangers not looking after their kids in shops, for example, (just an example, not a pop at the parents on here) then the kids covering my work clothes in filth that costs to get cleaned.

ethansmum

I went to Currys, heavily pregnant, and I too was denied the use of their beloved toilets! This was after 20minutes of discussing which new oven to buy with the sales assistant! Well they lost the sale because I had to go home to use the toilet and I've never been back since!....perhaps they were terrified I might give birth or something- I was quoted health and safety too!

LizD_2

OP,

Hope you and your son are okay now.

Sadly this is the world we live in. I've worked in several shops, and all had the same policy: customers not allowed to use staff loos under any circumstances. It's for all the reasons mentioned; security, compensation, etc. I do think there should be some discretion, i.e. a staff member goes with you.

Fair enough, you wouldn't claim and I imagine most people wouldn't, however, you can bet that the one time a shop made an exception, someone would slip on the stairs and wallop! a major claim against the company. Not that most of them couldn't afford it!

tigertiger_3

Thanks for your concerns peeps....

I know stores have their policies & procedures to follow but like you say a little discretion at times makes the world a happier place eh! and it is a shame that we live in this compensation culture....working at an A&E department the amount of people we see daily who you just know have come there to 'note their injuries' just goes to show!

Anger now over......went out for the day yesterday and took a little screw top beaker for emergencies which came in very handy!

rach1973

You can buy those Tommee Tippee Travel Potty's (got mine from Tesco's) they are quite expencive for what they are but they are a godsend for those emergencies.

Big hugs to you all.

grex9101

Epiphone wrote:

Like someone else said put nappies on the kid or plan your day better. Build in toilet breaks or something. Why do a lot of people with kids think the world revolves around their offspring? Grrrrr one of my biggest pet hates.

You are absolutely right - some folk think having kids gives them a god given right to get what they ask for. Mother and child parking spaces, "special seats" on buses and trains, paternity/maternity leave etc etc.

And guess who pays for it all? Us tax paying mugs. Where does it all stop?

grex9101

shinkyshonky wrote:

Wow....What a bitter person....rough childhood..?

Or perhaps just someone else with a level head who didn't get the "cotton wool" approach which seems to have evolved within the last decade or so.

A wise man once said "children should be seen and not heard". Too true.