Vent UGGG got into it with a Dad at BRU....

emandbri

Well-known member
I went to babies r us today and couldn't help but walk down the car seat aisle. There was a dad there talking to a BRU employee with a tiny child sitting in a graco turbo. I was going to let the guy do his job but when the dad put two turbos in his cart I had to speak up.

I asked if he was buying the seat for that child and he said yes. I told him that Missouri law says kids need to stay in a harness until 4 and that his son needed to be in a harness instead. He asked where it says that on the box. I told him that the box says that kids can use it at 3 but kids really need to be in a harness longer then that and that Missouri law is stricter then other states in that regard. I told him I was a car seat tech.

He then asked what happened before kids were in car seats, I told him kids were killed in crashes.

I then pointed out that the box also says that kids can't use it until 30 lbs, I could tell he wasn't 30 lbs. The BRU employee then asks how much the child weighs, the dad says 26 lbs and says he is almost 3 :eek: The employee tells him he needs to be in a harness and points to the sign above the seats that says booster seats 40 to 80 lbs (I think it said 80).

I asked the dad what he was in now since chances are he would fit fine and he told it was none of my business. I told him I was just trying to help and he says that he didn't ask for my help. He says he has 4 kids and they are all perfectly safe and asked me to leave.

I am quite upset that the employee didn't ask the child's age, or weight, until I was there trying to help the dad. The kid was seriously tiny and he obviously wasn't 4 or 40 lbs.

I'm going to write a letter to the manager at BRU and tell him/her that the employees really need some training!
 
ADS

2BunniesMommy

Well-known member
How sad for that 2 year old.

I am actually impressed that the BRU employee agreed with you, even if it did take you speaking up first.
 

KaysKidz

Senior Community Member
It's a hard thing to do to speak up. Good for you. Maybe the dad will go home, even if he buys the TB, and do a little research. But he certainly sounds like the type that wasn't going to show he didn't know what he was doing.

As for BRU, I got into with an EMPLOYEE of the gear dept once...he said the MARATHON converted to a booster. I couldn't let that go. It got pretty heated, and I did go to the manager over that one.
 

Kat_Momof3

New member
man that dad sounded like he was being a jerk... the employee was probably just (wrongly) assuming the guy wouldn't put a kid who was too small and too young in the seat.
 

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