Bikes left outside tesco

[Sandra6]

On Saturday afternoon we popped to tesco - in the rain - and outside were a "family" of bikes including a child seat and trailer.
"Serious cycling family" says I - it was raining. " Idiots" said he.
I was on one hand fairly impressed at the commitment to cycling, but on the other feeling sorry for the children bundled onto the back of bikes in the freezing rain.
Sunday afternoon we popped in to tesco again - last minute change of meal plan -and the bikes were still there/ there again???
Mr6 is convinced they left them there and got a taxi home in the rain, and I think they had to come shopping again. Either way the bikes had gone when we came back out.

There is of course no point to this observation other than that it amused me at the time.
Almost as much as the scooter parked in the parent and child parking spot amused me!

 

[summerdays]

Well if you can have a change of plan ... so could they. The child might not actually be in the bike seat and the trailer could have been brought along to put the shopping in. (Just trying to think of alternative explanations.) When mine were little and we had to get somewhere they often had to walk in the rain/snow/wind etc if Mr Summerdays was at work with the car. They got used to it - now they are softer and even if I want them to walk, many of their friends parents will offer a lift instead.

 

[Night Train]

I was on one hand fairly impressed at the commitment to cycling, but on the other feeling sorry for the children bundled onto the back of bikes in the freezing rain.

Maybe the kids are tougher then that and are used to being out in all weathers on the bike. Especially so if it was their only transport experience.

 

[coffeejo]

No such thing as bad weather, etc etc

 

[G3CWI]

Children are remarkably tough. It's the parents that are often wimps. My kids have had lots of real adventures and look back on them fondly (when time has dimmed the reality). The nice thing is that as the grow up you eventually see them reap the rewards of those formative experiences.

My fifteen year old still talks of the time when aged six she and I managed a 27 mile bike ride with her on a little child's bike. She uses it as a way of encouraging herself to do things she thinks will be hard.

 

[Sandra6]

Well if you can have a change of plan ... so could they. The child might not actually be in the bike seat and the trailer could have been brought along to put the shopping in. (Just trying to think of alternative explanations.) When mine were little and we had to get somewhere they often had to walk in the rain/snow/wind etc if Mr Summerdays was at work with the car. They got used to it - now they are softer and even if I want them to walk, many of their friends parents will offer a lift instead.

I did wonder if the trailer was for the shopping - they had two adult bikes (one with trailer, one with seat) and a smaller bike -for another child??
I'm very nosey -if you hadn't noticed.
Mine have always had to walk, rain or shine, as I don't drive either. I wish I'd discovered cycling much sooner it would've been way more fun!

 

[Hitchington]

In Scandinavia they leave their kids outside to sleep in sub-zero tempretures. It's good for them apparently... so a little bit of English rain can't do any harm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21537988

 

[Sandra6]

I used to leave mine outside.
It gets harder when they can reach the door handle.

 

[beastie]

I used to leave mine outside.
It gets harder when they can reach the door handle.

Lock t'door.

 

[Herbie]

On Saturday afternoon we popped to tesco - in the rain - and outside were a "family" of bikes including a child seat and trailer.
"Serious cycling family" says I - it was raining. " Idiots" said he.
I was on one hand fairly impressed at the commitment to cycling, but on the other feeling sorry for the children bundled onto the back of bikes in the freezing rain.
Sunday afternoon we popped in to tesco again - last minute change of meal plan -and the bikes were still there/ there again???
Mr6 is convinced they left them there and got a taxi home in the rain, and I think they had to come shopping again. Either way the bikes had gone when we came back out.

There is of course no point to this observation other than that it amused me at the time.
Almost as much as the scooter parked in the parent and child parking spot amused me!

You should have done stake out to satisfy your curiousity

 

[subaqua]

In Scandinavia they leave their kids outside to sleep in sub-zero tempretures. It's good for them apparently... so a little bit of English rain can't do any harm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21537988

My mum and dad did the same for me. Only weather i wasn't outside in was fog . very rarely had time off school ill later and if i was off it was only ever a day or 2 , then would be back fit .

one of the best holiday experiences my daughter had was being on a glass bottom boat on the fleet in a torrential downpour , she was soaked and still talks about the fun she had.

kids are tougher than we think.

 

[Hitchington]

My mum and dad did the same for me. Only weather i wasn't outside in was fog . very rarely had time off school ill later and if i was off it was only ever a day or 2 , then would be back fit .

one of the best holiday experiences my daughter had was being on a glass bottom boat on the fleet in a torrential downpour , she was soaked and still talks about the fun she had.

kids are tougher than we think.

I think sometimes we forget that we're part of the animal kingdom with all the mollycoddling that's dished out

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I dont see why they are 'idiots' at all...hat's off to them..Im sure th ekids enjoy it way more than being stuffed into a car seat and suffocated by the heater...and not everybody can afford to run a car.

In fact I'd be totally cool with somebody putting me into a seat and riding me to the supermarket in the snow..just so I dont have to drive.....I could ride myself?? oh..yes...forgot

 

[CopperCyclist]

Children are remarkably tough. It's the parents that are often wimps.

Seconded. I remember once taking my young cousin to the seaside. He probably would have been about six? it had been planned for ages, and come the day it was cold and raining, and we had second thoughts about going, but he was so worked up and excited about it we didn't want to disappoint him, so off we went.

I still remember now standing on the edge of the sea, wrapped up in numerous layers, shivering in the drizzle while he happily charged around in the water barefoot squealing with laughter - his sense of fun just utterly overruled the cold!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Seconded. I remember once taking my young cousin to the seaside. He probably would have been about six? it had been planned for ages, and come the day it was cold and raining, and we had second thoughts about going, but he was so worked up and excited about it we didn't want to disappoint him, so off we went.

I still remember now standing on the edge of the sea, wrapped up in numerous layers, shivering in the drizzle while he happily charged around in the water barefoot squealing with laughter - his sense of fun just utterly overruled the cold!

yep - that brought back fond memories which perhaps confirm my madness, of a childhood swim in the atlantic or north sea (can't remember which now) where parents watched in horror as I went swimming with a layer of ice over the sea water (nothing dramatic, more almost frozen). think we often get caught up in the what is socially acceptable problems