PSA: do not ever eat out, anywhere, ever again

princess_cal · April 2012

It is a bizarro world over there. The fact that some of these people are procreating scares me to death.

foundmylazybum · April 2012

caden:
Sibil:
There was more than one airport post on this. One was about changing the child on the tray table. The other was about changing on the floor at the gate instead of going to the bathroom. IIRC, the latter was the one that blew up into a you don't know my lyfe.
Uh oh. I've done that. (on the ground, away from people, using my own changing pad) Is that really bad? Sometimes bathrooms aren't close, and once you hand the stroller off to the airline it's a PITA to move kids + luggage anywhere. I'd get more defensive but I know I'm approaching "you don't know my lyfe" haha

I've seen this before and I can say I've not judged. You had the changing pad ::shrugs:: everything you are saying makes sense Caden..some stuff with moms seems hard..like wheeling around a stroller in a bathroom.

JoeLies · April 2012

Don't people know the link between contact with fecal matter and viral meningitis? All it takes is some residue...

ridesbuttons · April 2012

I don't get how the people who decide to change a baby at the table because chainging them on the bathroom floor is too disgusting...don't get that changing the diaper at the table is double disgusting!!!!

How do they not get that?

Also, frankly, the bench seat in a restaurant booth likely is germier than the floor of the bathroom in a non-traffic area.

Either way....wrong, wrong, wrong. And I am laid back about most *** (pun intended).

tartaruga · April 2012

What do you want to bet these are the same people who would never breastfeed in a toilet stall because "would you want to eat your lunch in the bathroom?"

lyssbobiss · April 2012

Confession: I once changed my son's diaper on a table in a restaurant restroom that held like spare toilet paper and paper towels. Reasons: 1. There was no changing table and 2. That was a rank-azz poop and I figured it was better to get the stank out of a joint where people were trying to eat.

Bad form?

At least it wasn't a Taco Bell.

I'm serious, you guys. That is some grade D meat.

I'm done now, I swear.

Taco Bell is gross.

tartaruga · April 2012

lyssbobiss:
Confession: I once changed my son's diaper on a table in a restaurant restroom that held like spare toilet paper and paper towels. Reasons: 1. There was no changing table and 2. That was a rank-azz poop and I figured it was better to get the stank out of a joint where people were trying to eat.

Bad form?

At least it wasn't a Taco Bell.

I'm serious, you guys. That is some grade D meat.

I'm done now, I swear.

Taco Bell is gross.

Table in restaurant restroom == table in restaurant.

jenniloveselvis · April 2012

Ewwww! Should not have opened this post.

Two*True · April 2012

foundmylazybum:

caden:
Sibil:
There was more than one airport post on this. One was about changing the child on the tray table. The other was about changing on the floor at the gate instead of going to the bathroom. IIRC, the latter was the one that blew up into a you don't know my lyfe.
Uh oh. I've done that. (on the ground, away from people, using my own changing pad) Is that really bad? Sometimes bathrooms aren't close, and once you hand the stroller off to the airline it's a PITA to move kids + luggage anywhere. I'd get more defensive but I know I'm approaching "you don't know my lyfe" haha

I've seen this before and I can say I've not judged. You had the changing pad ::shrugs:: everything you are saying makes sense Caden..some stuff with moms seems hard..like wheeling around a stroller in a bathroom.

Caden you aren't alone. I've done it at the airport gate too. With my own changing pad, against a wall, and tucked behind our luggage. Since 95% of the flights with DD have just been me and her, I just did what I had to and sometimes that meant not lugging all of our cr@p halfway through a terminal to find a bathroom. ::shrug:: I will not however change her on a restaurant table nor an airplane tray table (frankly I wouldn't think those things were sturdy enough).

StrawberryBlondie · April 2012

2Vermont:

x a million.

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz · April 2012

Vanessa Doofenshmirtz:
Bh2720, oh this reminds me of meeting a friend for lunch with my son at around age 2. So it had been close to a year that I'd ever needed a spare outfit and I'd stopped carrying one. Of course. I realized he was dripping with poo (must have been sick) and whisked him to the world's smallest bathroom to deal. No changing table, no paper towels (only hand dryer), so had to clean kid and floor and high chair back at the table with wet wipes. Wrapped clothes in restaurant trashbag, wrapped my coat around my kid, wearing only a diaper, not even shoes at this point, and carried him to the car, wearing only a diaper, in February. And I was 7 months pregnant. Fortunately we'd already settled the bill, and I threw in plenty more on top of my usual toddler surcharge (and notified server, offered to mop, etc). I'd forgotten all of this, and this is the crap I NEED to remember now that hubs wants a third. Dude has never dealt with half the shiit, literally, that I have.

And to the changing of diaper in restaurant, no excuse. Drivers seat, stroller, standing on bathroom floor...

EW, just reread my post and realized it sounded like I cleaned him at table. Noooo. Used endless wipes to clean child IN bathroom, then returned to table with trashy, but clean, toddler wearing only a diaper, THEN cleaned floor an highchair with wet wipes and asked server if I could mop or wipe with bleach myself, he said no thanks. It was all rather horrifying.

penguingrrl · April 2012

Ewww, that's nasty. I've changed diapers in some inconvenient places. Many restaurants in the city don't have changing tables in the bathroom (and it's not like you drove there and can go to your car), but I kneel on the bathroom floor while the kid is on the changing pad (which I always have with me on the floor until they're old enough to stand up. That belongs in the bathroom, period. There *are* options.

I've also changed many a diaper on the front seat on my car. It's a real PITA but manageable. I've also used the changing pad in my stroller with a blanket draped around for privacy if we're at the park or somewhere else that I can't find somewhere else to go. Whatever you do, you find somewhere as private as you can and never near food.

loislayn · April 2012

Two*True:
foundmylazybum:

caden:
Sibil:
There was more than one airport post on this. One was about changing the child on the tray table. The other was about changing on the floor at the gate instead of going to the bathroom. IIRC, the latter was the one that blew up into a you don't know my lyfe.
Uh oh. I've done that. (on the ground, away from people, using my own changing pad) Is that really bad? Sometimes bathrooms aren't close, and once you hand the stroller off to the airline it's a PITA to move kids + luggage anywhere. I'd get more defensive but I know I'm approaching "you don't know my lyfe" haha

I've seen this before and I can say I've not judged. You had the changing pad ::shrugs:: everything you are saying makes sense Caden..some stuff with moms seems hard..like wheeling around a stroller in a bathroom.

Caden you aren't alone. I've done it at the airport gate too. With my own changing pad, against a wall, and tucked behind our luggage. Since 95% of the flights with DD have just been me and her, I just did what I had to and sometimes that meant not lugging all of our cr@p halfway through a terminal to find a bathroom. ::shrug:: I will not however change her on a restaurant table nor an airplane tray table (frankly I wouldn't think those things were sturdy enough).

Yes It's a PITA to get settled in at the terminal only to find out she deuced and have to pack up everything again and haul it to the bathroom where there is not enough room for my stuff in the stall.

Mjmksb04 · April 2012

I can't get over the ick factor of laying a baby on the floor of a public place to change a diaper Ick!

The floor of a restaurant? Ew.

Kasi80 · April 2012

Ewww

sabrina69barnes · April 2012

Heather R:
Some women on 12-24 think it's totally fine to change kids' diapers, even dirty ones, at the table in a restaurant-- booth, chair, or whathave you.

::crawls into Adamwife's sterile tent with her::

I changed DS1's diaper at an airport gate on the floor. I did have my own changing pad and we weren't right next to anyone. I had just changed him 20min before and then he had a blowout. It was just us flying and we could have missed our flight if I had to take him all the way to the bathroom and take our stuff so it wasn't left alone. My options were airport floor or on the plane and I figured the floor would be kinder to those around me.

The restaurant table is completely different. Anywhere but a bathroom in a restaurant is gross and IMO there isn't really an excuse.

PSA: do not ever eat out, anywhere, ever again

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