[Closed] Is it wrong to leave baby in car while you pay for fuel?

Tell the nosey woman where to go.

WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN

Course not - unless you leave the keys in there too, they might drive off 😀

Punch her in the face.

Punch her in the face.

Punching a 10 month old baby in the face? Thats a bit strict innit 😯

Silly person. The baby is male.

That is just ridiculous, nothing wrong with that fella and tell the nosey dogooder to do one!

had 3 kids, always left/leave them in the car - tell her to...

tell the nosey woman to get ****ed

oops freddy, I thought you were in the competition for world strictest parent then. I mean, even if the kiddie did try to steal the car 😀

Should be fine, as long as you leave it something to protect itself with.

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Sorry Zulu I sounded a bit curt. Am currently on the bog sporting a pretty good hangover. 8)

I think your child was safer in the car. Walking across petrol station forecourts can be quite a hairy experience, and clearly (from your evidence) there are mental people in the shop. Not to mention that never leaving your children is bad for them, and in my opinion abuse.

What's the point in disturbing them for the 2mins it takes to pay for fuel, I always do it, once they get older it's best to leave them in thcar or you end up arguing about the number of sweets they are not allowed to buy

i worked in a petrol station many years ago and i remember the boss not allowing anyone under the age of 16 to operate the pumps, because of health reasons. would the same reasoning apply to keeping a kid in the car?

Only if they have [i]really [/i]long arms.

It's only a matter of time until boffins make a baby with long enough arms to operate a petrol pump from inside a car. Mark my words.

Yeah, she should have probably called a social worker

You should have asked her where the clearly marked out path showing 'safe access' from the fuel pump to the pay kiosk was. In fact, I would have demanded that she produces her company's risk assessment on the procedure. And perhaps added that I wasn't prepared to pay for the fuel until she had done so.

It's only a matter of time until boffins make a baby with long enough arms to operate a petrol pump from inside a car. Mark my words.

won't somebody think of the face-ripping dogs...!?

i worked in a petrol station many years ago and i remember the boss not allowing anyone under the age of 16 to operate the pumps, because of health reasons. would the same reasoning apply to keeping a kid in the car?

What you mean because the petroleum spirit regulations make it illegal for a person under 16 to dispense fuel in a petrol station that this in some way affects leaving a child in a car - not dispensing the petrol? Is it the fumes that disable the brains of petrol station staff, or do they start off that way?

No, not wrong at all.

absolutely fine. I'd lock the car as I always do when going to pay. I don't have kids, but if I did I would leave them in the car whilst paying for petrol.

haha, thanks poly, the argument i was poorly trying to make was that the benzine etc fumes would affect something or other in younger people. and therefore perhaps it may be safer for a kid to be in the car than walking through the forecourt.

EDIT i just read the responses to my earlier comment and had a proper LOL 😆

Was it in case your 10m old started using a mobile phone?

You do need to know how your alarm works so you can lock them in without the risk of deafening them though...

Looking back I seemed to spend a large portion of my childhood waiting in cars whilst adults transacted some business or other.

As above, tell her to do one.

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Put the kid in the boot...?

I would tell her to do one. There is 'pay at pump' at some stations now though should you not want to leave your child in the car.

i think it is safer and easier to leave them in the car.

i certainly would not drag my three out the car and across the forecourt just to go and pay for fuel. it would be more dangerous for the kids than leaving them in a safe locked car.

I think it's just that some folks get all uncomfortable when you leave a baby unattended.

In future, to avoid argument put the baby in a cardboard box.

The distance from the door to pump one at the garage I use is probably about the same distance that I am away from my two boys now. I always leave them when I pay

I always make them put their fags out though. So I'm quite responsible really

OK,

If you spotted a car parked up, 50 yards down from a school entrance, with its engine running & the drivers door wide open!

& in the back was a baby in a car seat! No sign of an adult anywhere, the street was clear of anyone!

What would you do?

[happened to me last year & no it was not, you've been framed]

Slung the baby and nicked the car ?

Depends how nice the car was.

Thanks for a your opinions. I was expecting mostly " how could you " type replys, She must have looked closely through the windows as the rears are tinted very dark .didnt cross my mind that it may be wrong until she she shouted " excuse me you have left your baby in your car". I have now asked my wife if she does the same and she does . I didn't want to ask and be told of course you don't 🙂

In future, to avoid argument put the baby in a cardboard box.

I may have some experience in that department ...

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"excuse me you have left your baby in your car".

Could have shouted back "where the hell did that come from?" or "it's ok, it's not mine"

I always make them put their fags out though. So I'm quite responsible really

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Just do a drive-out, no need to leave the baby then 😉

I know people who, if the baby has fallen asleep on the way home in the car, will leave it there outside the house until it wakes up...

World is full of uptight arseholes shocker.

My mate left his nipper in the pram outside a shop once, which got him in hot water with his wife. She was only 2 weeks old at the time though! There were 2 sets of prospective parents in the room while this was discussed. 1 father said he'd do the same just not tell his wife. I was the smart one 😉

Anyone who thinks you need to be glued to a child 24/7 is likely to find parenthood much more difficult than it needs to be IMO.

An awful lot of common sense being spouted on this thread. What's going on? You do know its STW don't you?

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I know people who, if the baby has fallen asleep on the way home in the car, will leave it there outside the house until it wakes up...

Ours did that on Friday night. Still there as far as I know.
We left the window open a crack and there is fresh water in the bowl so she'll be fine.

Is that Beautiful Days yunki? I vaguely recognise it.

If so - I'm looking forward to next years 10th anniversary...

do you reckon this woman when shen is on her own in the house with her child for example, when she goes the toliet does she take her in the toliet with her !!, or goes into the kitchen to make lunch. as long as the baby is safe its fine, you can still see the car, so tell her to f off, me personally would say something alot worse !!

It was Beautiful Days.. we left yunki Jr at that sign for 4 whole days and he was still there when we went back.. very frustrating..

We've booked time off for BD2012.. 😀

But suerely its more of a problem for your 10mmonth old child to toddle accross the forecourt, and then find he is unable to reach the counter to hand over the cash, or woerse still he cant reach the chiop and pin machine, or recognise the numbers.

My parents used to leave me and my two sisters in the car while they went to the pub for a drink (if we where lucky they'd bring us out a bag of crisps), but that was back in the sixties and you where allowed to use common sense bringing up your kids then (my dad was a police sergeant at the time BTW). 🙄

I just noticed I managed to completely mis-type my last post. nevermind. I reckon Audi will be along in a minute with an in car baby monitor you can hear on your keys for only £600... I bet more babies get left in garages and supermarkets than get stolen from cars...