When my younger son was three years old he managed to get away from me in our local supermarket but was quickly found by a member of staff who said he was laid almost under an aisle freezer playing with a pussycat and that she would make sure he was ok. Thinking that this did not seem right i investigated immediately to find that my little boy was stroking a dead rat! What happened next should have been filmed - i pulled my son out, who not wishing to be parted with the rat brought it with him, however he lost hold and it shot into the air, minus its tail towards a group of staff who thought i was abusing my son as he was screaming. The resulting staff dispersal and screams followed by a major customer exit from the store had to be seen to be believed. The manager was incoherrant! A week later, following a major clean up operation, we returned to the store to find that my infant daughter of 8 weeks old had won a large cuddly toy in a competition for which she had not been entered!
2007-07-06 13:04:32 · 18 answers · asked by Helen S 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Hi jennanderton20 - this is totally true, the supermarket was a Grandways in Haxby near York and the big fluffy toy was a 'Bertie Bassett' which my now 23 year old daughter still has ! Hasn't anything funny ever happened to you ?
2007-07-07 05:53:30 · update #1
Two stories: one time when I was at the store with my parents I saw this guy who was rather large and said "Mom, that guy is FAT!" really loud...I don't think the guy was very happy, lol.
Another time at K-Mart we were on our way out and I decided to run out the door with my hands in my pockets. The floor was wet and a few feet before the door I slipped and totally ate it on the rug face first, no hands (they stayed in my pocket). LOL!
2007-07-06 13:40:33 · answer #1 · answered by Dan in Real Life 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thats really funny, but a dead rat YUK, I would be shopping somewhere else.
Its not as funny as your thing but the other day in the supermarket my son wanted to push the trolley hes 2 and a half, and to aviod screaming I let him with help, I had let go fo a inute to grab something and he ran the trolley into the shelves making slabs of softdrink fall everywhere, he only just missed some lady, I was soooooo embarrassed.
2007-07-06 20:15:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have 2 children - 11 months apart.
We were doing the weekly shop at Tesco, my eldest, Brenden, 2 at the time, had just started walking everywhere, while I had Bethany, 1, in the pushchair.
Beth started crying, so I bent down to see what was the matter, and stood up just in time to see Brenden shooting off up the aisle at top speed and shooting off round the top. As I ran after him, I heard screams or should that be shrieks coming from the next aisle (where he had run off to).
I came round the corner to the sight of a dear old lady trying to put her skirt down, as my son stood between her legs with his arms full stretch over his head, grasping as tight as possible to this woman's skirt, showing the whole store her underwear.
I promptly walked past, scooping him up along the way and quickly made it to the bottom of the aisle and round to the next one, where I put him down and had a huge attack of the giggles, I was laughing so much that once I had composed myself again, I didn't have th heart to tell him off.
Just another note - We now don't shop there anymore!
2007-07-07 09:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by colletteukuk 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If i was ther i would have been laughing!!
Mine wasnt in a supermarket but i had a pretty fun time in the ice cream shop.
I went with my sis, friend, and cousin and we got ice cream and ate it in the shop. Five minutes after we sat down to eat we heard an electric piano. We were all looking to see where it came from only to see that it was in the back where they have all the cones and freezers. It was the manager! Then my friend had his phone on him and called 411 and asked for the ice cream shop. The man answered and he goes " hello" and then hung up. Later he goes back to the back room and he started playing again. I was like "who did you call?" he goes "411" and i whispered so the guy wouldnt know that we called him " u called 411? " then he blerts out " Naw I just happened to be on the phone when he answered it" lol
2007-07-07 01:55:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I buy pasta in 1kg bags and picked up the one that I wanted from the shelf. Well to my dismay, the bottom of the bag split and the pasta went everywhere! The pasta was positioned at the end of the aisle, right by the tills! I wanted the ground to swallow me up! I still get really worried when I buy pasta now!
2007-07-08 06:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by chelle0980 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mate was in a supermarket a few years back and one of mummies little cherubs was standing in a trolley, The little darling threw a tin of beans at my mate and they missed him by a hairs breadth, he took the little sh*t and dumped him upside down in a chest freezer. The little cherub screamed at his mommy that the man had thrown him into the freezer, My mate replied they would get you hung wouldn't they as he walked away
2007-07-06 21:01:38 · answer #6 · answered by john m 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My son who at the time was only 3 was throwing a tantrum down every aisle we went down asking for something he didn't need. Finally after about every person in the store looking at me questioningly I looked right at him and asked "where is your mother"? I then walked off and left him there. He didn't know what to say so he quit and moved on to something else. It also had everyone else wondering where he had left his mother.
2007-07-06 20:11:46 · answer #7 · answered by lovely 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
talk about guilt, obviously the supermarket thought that would make up for their lack of hygiene, if i was you i wouldv'e told the paper that story! the strangest thing thats happened to me in a supermarket is no where near as weird as that its just the fact that my daughter screams as loud as a 6 year old and shes 2 its more embarassing really coz i cant get her to shut up
2007-07-07 08:12:50 · answer #8 · answered by MARIE S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
when my daughter was 3 or 4 she went through a faze of calling nipples elbows so my friend and i where out christmas shopping and we went in to marks and Spencer's so my friend could buy some new underwear and as we where standing in this very long queue in amongst the underwear my daughter turned to me and said look at all these pictures of elbows which i in turn replied there not elbows there nipples we argued about it for a few seconds then i walked away leaving my daughter standing in the queue with my friend when my daughter turned to my friend and said in the loudest voice you have ever heard "susanne look at all these NIPPLES!!!!!!"my friends face went scarlet and i ran away laughing she told my daughter to go get me but she wouldn't it was really funny iv never saw my friend look so embarrassed
2007-07-06 20:37:58 · answer #9 · answered by pollydoll 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What has happened to me, when my kids were little;
My daughter was about 3-4 years old. A little man walked by us in the grocery store... he was of normal proportions, but was really tiny. My daughter said very loudly, and very enchantedly,"Oh Mommy! Look at the little man!"
My other daughter was about 4 when the cable repair man came to our house. He was a very large man. She looked at him and said,"Wow. You are really fat!"
2007-07-07 03:36:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋