Why do parents let their children hang backwards on the front of a shopping cart anyway?

You know, the kid is facing forward, feet on the bottom platform typically reserved for beer and various forms of hard liquor, grabbing onto the front of the cart with his/her hands/arms stretched backwards....

Would they let Junior or li'l miss hang off the front bumper of the family car? Uh, no, I hope?!!

It's just dumb. DUMB! Didn't mommy or daddy remember the good ol' days, when they were single and hating it when they got to the end of the aisle and *whap* another cart hits 'em unexpectedly?

Or do they want the kid to be splattered, next to the ketchup because that's always where the ketchup is located?

Oh, here are two things that are just about as bad as what i described...

I wouldn't dare allow my kids to do that now, supermarkets are rough around these parts. It's gotten to the point where they need to install those mirrors at the end of every aisle as nearly every time there's almost a collision. People whip through like they're negotiating a war torn city.

It never fails, every trip I make to one specific store, I'm gonna see some kid standing up IN the shopping cart. Apparently, the parents have zero clue that the kid could fall out of that cart and literally be killed by the resulting head trauma. (It isn't like it takes a lot of imagination to see how that can happen...)

I have been known to tell the kids--in front of the parents--to please sit down, because they are scaring me to death. I tell them I'm worried they might fall and get hurt. I've had a couple of times where parents look horrified and make the kid sit down, but most of the time I get a sour look and they just push the cart away with that poor kid STILL standing up.

Darwin really DID have it right.


Laura

skull open?

When I was in Elementary school a kid was running in the halls and slipped backward and hit his head on a tile-over-cement floor. Didn't kill him but I think he gained a few stitches and lost a few IQ points.

crack your skull open and there will be brains everywhere! And I'm not buying you a new one if you do."

They don't count. You know, like we don't count according to Congress and the scum who own them.

shopping carts aren't carnival rides, people.

Stupidest Mom in America award.

Geez. This stuff isn't rocket science, Deja Q.

:P

how is it that kids have survived to adulthood throughout the ages? Sure seems like with all the risky things parents let or even encourage them to do, they ought to have all died off long ago.

Let alone in a shopping cart. In some areas a truck is considered the family station wagon.

we were "tomboys", and one week had decided we wanted to be paratroopers.

My dad used to take us horseback riding in the country and on the dirt roads out there he would let us jump out of the back of the station wagon (tailgate down) onto the road while he was driving along (slowly of course)!:rofl:

We both survived and are healthy, athletic women with a great relationship with dear old dad (and mom) who knew nothing about this at the time...

of our old Pontiac as he drove down the driveway after work.

isn't it?

and they know where their hands and feet are. They can also talk to them about the food they're getting, and the kid is involved. With the kid on the end of the carriage, they don't have to try to keep one eye on the kid, one on the purse and one on the prices/products. Whoops! That's one eye too many.

But yeah, you're right. Better the kid is NOT on the back of the carriage which might hit 1/3 mph, and God forbid you have to watch where you're going with the damn thing what with a child front bumper right? Better that the kid is who-knows-where, fucking with who-knows-what, getting in who-knows-who's way. Better the kid is running up and down the aisle or standing in someone's way (because we all know you can't ask someone's precious fucking snowflake to get the hell out of the middle of the aisle with their dancing or other sugar induced manic activity.

Proud ex-carriage rider here, who would certainly rather MY kid was on the end of it than running amok.

:thumbsup:

we used to crash loaded carts in the supermarket and take off in opposite directions to see who could beat who to the check-out line

as for what went on outside the store, I won't get into that now

i got bored once waiting at walmart for friends at like 2am.. So i decided to slowly creep up to carts in my car.. hit the gas real hard, then brake, and watch the carts go sailing. Granted i didnt do this while anyone was around the parking lot =p

:rofl: