Fail Supermarket Trip, or How I Almost Severely Injured My 4 Month Child.

[wickedcherub]

Just came back from an awful supermarket trip.

I did not know what to buy since I'm not adding anymore processed sugar to our pantry if I can help it (TIM TAMS WERE HALF PRICE AND I DIDN'T BUY ANY) and I figured that probably also meant salty snacks were out of the question (I don't eat very much salt at all, but yeah, no one needs crisps in the house) and somehow still ended up spending a bucketload.

Going through checkout, Liam wanted to get down from the trolley to put money in the charity guide dog statue thing, so while I was wrangling that (he got stuck), super efficient checkout lady had finished scanning my items, making me that person that holds everyone up while I try to pay with my card, and stack all my bags back into my trolley. Just because all the goods fit in the trolley beforehand doesn't mean they all fit now that they're in bags. Actually I'm sure it means that they definitely won't fit. And it doesn't help that I had to buy two boxes of nappies and toilet paper.

Pushing the full trolley + Toby is always a bit of a struggle for me, but it's worse at this supermarket because the footpath is on a tiny bit of a slope. Liam wanted a sausage from the guy barbequeing out the front, so then I had to make the decision to either find a spot to put the trolley where it won't roll and buy a sausage, or strap the kids in the car and buy a sausage. The car is less than 10 metres away and in plain sight. But because I was silly and asked P101 what they would do, recently, I second guessed myself.

So, I parked Toby and the full trolley up against a pillar, against the slope, 1 metre away from sausage guy. I buy two sausages from him and give one to Liam. Liam promptly drops sausage on the ground.

I pick it up and stuff it back into his bread because I am a great mother.

Then because I am an AWESOME mother, I look up to find that Toby and the trolley are not against the pillar. They are in the carpark. Fallen sideways at 45 degrees. Up against the sausage guy's car. Toby is still happy as Larry, hanging out of the trolley, only hanging on by being strapped in by the seatbelt on the infant seat. (YES! I DID SOMETHING RIGHT!) If that car hadn't been there, Toby would have fallen smack bang onto the concrete with the force of the full trolley.

DID YOU KNOW THAT TROLLEYS HAVE A LOCK BRAKE LIKE PRAMS? I DO NOW.

While I'm saving Toby and he's still all 'oh hi mum!' Liam has dropped the rest of his sausage.

Yeah, picking it up off the ground twice is too much even for me. I told Liam to put it in the bin, so he just.. picks it up and hands it back to the sausage man :\

I go load the kids into the car when another car decides to wait for the empty spot next to me. Which he can't get to because I'm loading kids into the car. There are a million other carspaces but NO. He wants that one. Liam is crying for his sausage.

I still have to load my groceries into the car, and return the trolley. SERIOUSLY GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD OR LIFE THREATENING.

Comments

[science-of-life.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that must have been so scary! Thank god the car was there :/ A friend of mine didn't strap her son in to the capsule seat on a trolley recently and he fell out on to the round, so good work on the seat belt!

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a huge argument with Adam over strapping them into the trolley - Adam's always 'look they're going nowhere' and I'm like 'it takes half a second, you're not even losing anything by doing it'.

I WIN THIS ONE.

[science-of-life.livejournal.com]

We have the same fight with the pram straps!

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

You poor thing. Good that Toby didnt know anything was up (screw p101 on this one, though -- strap them in the seats first since you were right there). People waiting for my space while I'm loading groceries with the kid there makes me move twice as slow. Sometimes I smile at the person waiting.

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

Yeah Toby was all 'yeah, I'm supposed to be sideways, right?' :(

[momlovesnoel.livejournal.com]

OMG, heart attack city! I would have lost my marbles. It's terribly frightening but I had to laugh a bit at the trolly leaning and Toby being all calm about it.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Thank God you strapped him in!

LOL at Toby being very calm about it.

I hate those people who inisist on waiting for your space and look annoyed because you aren't moving fast enough. Sometimes I move a little faster. But other times I get prickly about it and take my time. If they don't feel like waiting, they can find somewhere else to park.

Stacey

[kahvi-elf.livejournal.com]

Holy Shit! I'm glad that nothing really bad happened. I would have a hysteric break down in your situation.
Life is never boring when you have kids :-)

[squeezles.livejournal.com]

eek. I did not know they had breaks either!