Sharing Parenting Advice

(The supermarket I work at has small children’s trolleys that parents can give their kids to push around the store and put shopping in. To ensure that they are not stolen, we keep them locked together, and when a customer wants one, we unlock one for them. A customer walks up with her two children.)

Customer: “Hi, can I get one of the kid’s trolleys?”

Me: “Sure, not a problem.”

(I go over, and unlock one of the trolleys.)

Me: “Would you like two, so both your kids can have one?”

Customer: “Oh, no, that’s fine. They can share it.”

Me: *highly doubting this* “Are you sure?”

Customer: “Yeah, it’ll be fine.”

(Reluctantly, I hand the one trolley to the two kids, who IMMEDIATELY start fighting over it.)

Customer: *surprised* “Oh…”

Me: *not at all surprised* “I’ll get you another trolley, ma’am…”