The lowering of Parental standards.

[Project 644]

When I was a kid, my mum used to push me and my sister around the supermarket in the built in seats of the shopping trolley, whilst doing the weekly shop. We used to get given half a crust of bread to eat as it would keep us quiet. We walked alongside the trolley once we got to around 2-3 and could be trusted not to run off.

Nowadays, I will open a bottle of drink and take a swig as I walk around a shop, I will then put it through the tills half drunk or whatever.

I am perfectly ok with these two things, but I saw something in the local supermarket today that made me mad for some reason.

There was a kid, around 7 or 8 and therefore too big (he was a tubby fker too) to fit in the trolley seats. He was sat in the main basket of the trolley with his mother (could have been grandmother tbh) pushing him around the shop. This I can cope with, not recommended and I wouldn't let my kids do this when they are that age, but not enough to tip me over the edge.
So with only luke warm urine I carry on my shop.

I see them on the next aisle and the little fker has got his pudgy mitts on a can of squirty cream and is squirting it directly into his mouth. His mother/grandmother/hag sees what he is doing and asks him if he is going to eat it all because if he is she will have to go and get another can of it. I can't help but comment as I walk past and say something along the lines of "If that's his idea of a snack it's no wonder he's turning into a fat little bd" Mother/grandmother/wicked witch of the east midlands turns to me shocked and says "How dare you say that, he'll get a complex"
I walk off saying that it might help him to lose weight in the long run.

Was I over-reacting? After all it's not my kid, it just got me mad.

Also does that make me hypocritical? Or does it make a difference because the kid is a future heart attack victim and I am an unlikely candidate (fit and healthy)?

[remedy]

Rofflecopters, everywhere.

Well done for having the nerve to say what most people think.

[Herbie58]

The irony of you telling a child it's a fat little bd then lamenting the loss of parental standards is not lost

[redtwin]

"We used to get given half a crust of bread to eat as it would keep us quiet...Nowadays, I will open a bottle of drink and take a swig as I walk around a shop, I will then put it through the tills half drunk or whatever."

Parental standards have lowered indeed.

As children we would never be given food in a supermarket before it had been paid for and we kept quiet because we were told to, not because we were given what we wanted. Because of that, I now wouldn't even think of drinking or eating anything in a supermarket while I shopped.

I won't even start on your calling a child a bd.

[Project 644]

Herbie58 said:

The irony of you telling a child it's a fat little bd then lamenting the loss of parental standards is not lost

My child was nowhere near me, so no issues for me.

[Neil H]

Project 644 said:

I can't help but comment as I walk past and say something along the lines of "If that's his idea of a snack it's no wonder he's turning into a fat little bd"

Superb! Fattys need to be told.

[Herbie58]

Project 644 said:

Herbie58 said:

The irony of you telling a child it's a fat little bd then lamenting the loss of parental standards is not lost

My child was nowhere near me, so no issues for me.

No, no, clearly you're a better class of parent, so calling someone elses child a bd is neither here nor there.

[anonymous-user]

Project 644 said:

Nowadays, I will open a bottle of drink and take a swig as I walk around a shop, I will then put it through the tills half drunk or whatever.

That's a bit 'low standards' really.

[paddyhasneeds]

My parents would never have let me eat food in the Supermarket, let alone squirting spray cream in my trap.

[KaraK]

Doesn't sound like there is much difference between you and the kid really.

[Bing o]

Project 644 said:

I'm chav scum, but I can't even see it

[remedy]

Neil H said:

Project 644 said:

I can't help but comment as I walk past and say something along the lines of "If that's his idea of a snack it's no wonder he's turning into a fat little bd"

Superb! Fattys need to be told.

We better go sit over there ------>

it's getting rowdy and we're on our own.

[limpsfield]

Project 644 said:

Nowadays, I will open a bottle of drink and take a swig as I walk around a shop,

Pikey

Project 644 said:

and say something along the lines of "If that's his idea of a snack it's no wonder he's turning into a fat little bd"

Pikey inventing things to impress strangers on the internet.

[BigBen]

redtwin said:

"We used to get given half a crust of bread to eat as it would keep us quiet...Nowadays, I will open a bottle of drink and take a swig as I walk around a shop, I will then put it through the tills half drunk or whatever."

Parental standards have lowered indeed.

As children we would never be given food in a supermarket before it had been paid for and we kept quiet because we were told to, not because we were given what we wanted. Because of that, I now wouldn't even think of drinking or eating anything in a supermarket while I shopped.

I won't even start on your calling a child a bd.

Indeed. Eating anything in the Supermarket before you have paid for it seems a little bit council to me.

[Mobile Chicane]

paddyhasneeds said:

My parents would never have let me eat food in the Supermarket, let alone squirting spray cream in my trap.

Absolutely. I can't believe the number of parents nowadays who seem to think this is acceptable.

[TheCarpetCleaner]

limpsfield said:

Project 644 said:

Nowadays, I will open a bottle of drink and take a swig as I walk around a shop,

Pikey

Project 644 said:

and say something along the lines of "If that's his idea of a snack it's no wonder he's turning into a fat little bd"

Pikey inventing things to impress strangers on the internet.

Agree on both counts, especially thr drink thing.

Only a chav or a pikey would take something that does not belong to them and consume it before paying.

[JakeS]

I was never allowed to eat in a supermarket - It was a "council" thing to do when I was a child and it still is! Supermarkets are for shopping not for eating.

[limpsfield]

JakeS said:

I was never allowed to eat in a supermarket - It was a "council" thing to do when I was a child and it still is! Supermarkets are for shopping not for eating.

I grew up on a council estate and none of us did that.

I think that makes it "gyppo"

[TheCarpetCleaner]

limpsfield said:

JakeS said:

I was never allowed to eat in a supermarket - It was a "council" thing to do when I was a child and it still is! Supermarkets are for shopping not for eating.

I grew up on a council estate and none of us did that.

I think that makes it "gyppo"

I grew up on a gyppo estate. I think that makes it more "Bracknell"

[JakeS]

TheCarpetCleaner said:

limpsfield said:

JakeS said:

I was never allowed to eat in a supermarket - It was a "council" thing to do when I was a child and it still is! Supermarkets are for shopping not for eating.

I grew up on a council estate and none of us did that.

I think that makes it "gyppo"

I grew up on a gyppo estate. I think that makes it more "Bracknell"

Ok that is a fair comment, It is not council/gyppo it is just scummy - Why consume what you have not paid for.