Pick Up The Toy!

[Dips]

Am I the only one who is thinking that letting one's child play with a toy on the floor of a busy hospital corridor is a bad thing for the child's health?

You've got all kinds of people walking all over that floor and you don't know where their feet have been.

[Emrld]

note I did see the parts by the poster that she was "at work" at the time of incident so she has an extra set of don't piss others off to deal with . . .and current mobility may have prevented what I would do.

If I see a kid doing something like pushing a car down a hall keeping the hand on the car and staying with adults they are with . . .then I am ok with it.
Sounds like the kid let go of the car and had it zoom toward our poster. If that were me and I was able to bend that day . . .I would have picked up the car and handed it to the parent. If it was a day I couldn't bend I would have spoken to the parent. something along the lines of "I have a hard enough time being mobile . . .I know I don't need moving objects in the hall way and I am sure in a hospital I am not the only one with mobility issues"

[laundryhater]

Reply to Aethian

There are signs everywhere that say "Keep Your Head Up" with a picture of someone reading a chart while walking with an X over it and a picture of someone carrying the chart while walking upright and looking straight ahead and watching where they're going.

So no, I would not have lost my job if someone else was reading a chart not looking where they were going and tripped over the car. More likely the person reading the chart while walking would lose their job for not following hospital policy. That's a huge no, no that not only puts them at risk but others as well. This policy is also covered in our twice a year safety test everyone must pass.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I would have done like Retailworkhorse and kicked the car, but then I'm a total bitch and I don't like kids.

For the record, I don't buy the bleeding heart "Oh, the mother was obviously worried about someone so had better things to do!" and "The kid was just being a kid!" Would that still apply had the child thrown his car at the OP or torn someone's chart off the end of their bed or something mega distructive? I'm pretty sick of people trying to excuse things by saying that a kid is being a kid. There's a time and place for a kid to be a kid and it's not in a hospital corridor. The mother should have corrected her child and taken the toy from him if he couldn't carry it without sending it rolling towards other people.

[Sheldonrs]

I would have done like Retailworkhorse and kicked the car, but then I'm a total bitch and I don't like kids.

For the record, I don't buy the bleeding heart "Oh, the mother was obviously worried about someone so had better things to do!" and "The kid was just being a kid!" Would that still apply had the child thrown his car at the OP or torn someone's chart off the end of their bed or something mega distructive? I'm pretty sick of people trying to excuse things by saying that a kid is being a kid. There's a time and place for a kid to be a kid and it's not in a hospital corridor. The mother should have corrected her child and taken the toy from him if he couldn't carry it without sending it rolling towards other people.

I agree with this. I know parents get distracted and all that but, much like freedom, the price of parenthood is eternal vigilance. In my opinion, when you decide to have a kid, you give up the right to be too tired, too distracted or too lazy to be able to control your kid.

[auntiem]

Am I the only one who is thinking that letting one's child play with a toy on the floor of a busy hospital corridor is a bad thing for the child's health?

You've got all kinds of people walking all over that floor and you don't know where their feet have been.

That is exactly what I was thinking - I got a smack for crawling around on the floor of an airport or grocery - a crawl on the floor of a hospital probably would have gotten me autoclaved!