- I'm pretty sure the person who decided to put these into the store was only thinking of the quiet, well-behaved children (they exist, I know at least one of them). Not the child who would run around like a crazy person, nipping people's heels, blocking entire aisles, picking up random food items to carry around, and then trying to escape the store with an entire mini cart full of groceries.
2. My child thinks a grocery store cart is a mini torture chamber.
- God forbid my child would have to be confined and strapped in to one place for fifteen minutes. All the while being force-fed bribery candy. What torture.
3. Leaving a cart full of groceries would probably be frowned upon by the establishment.
- I've only considered doing this once, but the embarrassment of having to bring my cart full of groceries to an employee and telling them I needed to go outweighed the embarrassment of my newborn screaming. Luckily people have more sympathy for a baby crying than a two year old yelling.
4. There is no cart specifically designed to hold a two year old and an infant carseat.
- Was the mother of two/three/four children not consulted when they invented grocery carts? Sure, I could put baby in the Bjorn and not have her carseat fill the ENTIRE cart, but that would involve disturbing my happy, quiet baby in her carseat. Thus increasing the chances of #3. So for now, I will continue to pile up my groceries systematically around the carseat, placing extremely light items in between her legs.
5. Unloading.
- If you live in San Francisco and you have kids, this needs no explanation. But for those of you who don't, read my previous entry about getting in and out of the car, and just add four or five heavy grocery bags to the story.
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