Mom comes through my line today with toddler daughter ... and STANDS DAUGHTER ON THE END OF MY COUNTER.
Where there is, of course, a moving belt -- although fortunately it doesn't move unless you step on a foot pedal (unlike the one at the front, which runs for at least a few minutes without prompting in order to bring groceries up to the register).
Toddler daughter is standing there, peering down at the groceries AROUND HER FEET, and occasionally stepping on the edge of one item or another ...
Yeah, lady, if your kid takes a header off that counter, it won't be a problem at ALL.
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On a brighter note, another mom came through my line with two daughters, one about 7 and the other about 5. One of them was asking the mother something but I wasn't paying much attention.
Mom: "You have to ask the lady!"
I look over.
Kid: "Can we play with the buttons ...?"
Meaning the foot pedal that moves the belt and the button that causes that entire segment of counter to be raised and lowered.
Me: "Oh sure."
I appreciated the fact they asked. I only found out about the raising/lowering capability a few weeks ago when a toddler found the button while I was ringing up the parents' groceries ...
The people who design these things don't give nearly enough consideration to the hazards of putting pushbuttons at toddler eye-level.
Where there is, of course, a moving belt -- although fortunately it doesn't move unless you step on a foot pedal (unlike the one at the front, which runs for at least a few minutes without prompting in order to bring groceries up to the register).
Toddler daughter is standing there, peering down at the groceries AROUND HER FEET, and occasionally stepping on the edge of one item or another ...
Yeah, lady, if your kid takes a header off that counter, it won't be a problem at ALL.
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On a brighter note, another mom came through my line with two daughters, one about 7 and the other about 5. One of them was asking the mother something but I wasn't paying much attention.
Mom: "You have to ask the lady!"
I look over.
Kid: "Can we play with the buttons ...?"
Meaning the foot pedal that moves the belt and the button that causes that entire segment of counter to be raised and lowered.
Me: "Oh sure."
I appreciated the fact they asked. I only found out about the raising/lowering capability a few weeks ago when a toddler found the button while I was ringing up the parents' groceries ...
The people who design these things don't give nearly enough consideration to the hazards of putting pushbuttons at toddler eye-level.
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