You can have water at home...
Babymum was in the supermarket, and a young mother and daughter behind her had this conversation...

Daughter: Mum, can I have a drink please?
Mum: Yes love, go and get one
Daughter: Can I have this water?
Mum: NO! Get a coke, you can have water at home!

Common? Maybe. Irrefutable logic? certainly.
(babydad, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 8:05, 10 replies)

That's just bizarre.
I wonder what her reasoning was? The mother's I mean.
( Bats, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 8:17, closed)

Diabetic kids
= more benefits :)

Dunno, sounds well weird though, stupid mom
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 8:48, closed)

I can agree with that.
Bottled water is the most pretentious bullshit out there and one thing I begrudge paying for.
I pay my rates and can get it from a tap.
The coke was probably cheaper anyway.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 8:51, closed)

Neither, I'd say.
I abhor the idea of paying for bottled water.

The only water I drink comes from the tap, or directly from the spring.

@Jeccy - it's a myth that giving your kids loads of sugary stuff makes them diabetic. They either are, or they aren't.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 9:58, closed)

I wouldn't ever pay for still water
but a good sparkling water is the bizniz and carrying big bottles of it about all day has cured my Lucozade addiction and therefore my fat arse. Makes yer skin clear and helps stop you overeating, too.

San Pelligrino if I can get it, Perrier if I can't, Asda's 2 litres for 17p right now because I'm poor.

Still get called snobby for walking about it, though. Usually by the same people who say "Whoa, you look great! And you've lost loads of weight!"
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:06, closed)

not 100% sure
But I think type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity and is starting to occur a lot more in adolescents and children.
(twocoats, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 14:55, closed)

Hmmm
Reminds me of a mother I once heard in Tesco telling her daughter that she couldn't have any more books because they already had some at home.

GAH!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:44, closed)

I've said this too
"Read the 50+ you have already, first"

Kids will demand stuff they don't really want or need all the time.

Now, an adult saying "No, I already have some books" is stupid.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:09, closed)

perhaps it was......
.......one of this parents who gives food and drinks to their kids that has not been paid for.

I have actually seen parents open up multipacks of snacks and feed the kid and then put the wrapper on a shelf so they don't have to pay for it!!!

my friend opens drinks whilst she is shopping that she has not paid for, she does pay for them but I think it is really naughty!
(ickledoozer last played ball-in-a-cup on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:45, closed)

why?
when i was a kid my mum used to give me and my brother a carrot each when we were going round the supermarket. paid for them at the end (am guessing she just gave the cashier an arbitrary amount of extra dosh what with them not being able to weigh said consumed carrots) and that was that.

she had the right idea though, giving us carrots and not chocolate!
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 14:51, closed)