NWR: Mom Changes Baby At Table

southernbelle0915 · August 2014

GROSS. I can't even fathom circumstances where this would happen and I'd be like "oh, it's cool because XYZ". Just no.

There's a reason people don't shit in the kitchen or on the dining room table. Common sense should carry over to restaurants, too.

natswild · August 2014

I had someone do that in a cafe I worked at 20! years ago, she was changing a 2 1/2 year old in the middle of the restaurant, so freaking gross!! And I think her reasoning was to shame the child into potty training, I rather suspect the child was traumatized from that!

mysticl · August 2014

I will say I have only put my kid on the bathroom floor once to change him. He may have a pad under him but depending on the bathroom there is no way I'm kneeling on that floor to change him. I have used bathroom counters or the stroller.

AlexisA01 · August 2014

So now there are a group of particular individuals who are going around established fast food chains and even private owned restaurants to complain about how there are no changing tables and even changed their babies on a table while people were eating. This new social activist stuff showed up on my feed this afternoon after the incident.

I think it is gross to change a baby at a table. People should know that it is bad and has sanitary concerns. Some think that their speshul snowflake won't bother the other patrons that are eating.

This reminds me of when I in middle school.

There was a restaurant my family always had Friday night dinner when I was growing up. I remember the server was bringing my fathers food on the same tray as well as the table near us. They had a baby who was about 8 months old. The server gave them their food and was holding the tray to the right side with my father's steak sandwich on it. The woman handed the server their trash and placed all the scraps of paper with a dirty diaper from the table to the tray thinking he would dispose all their trash, even though that guy's food was on it. The server was confused and in disbelief because they put shit on the tray with my father's food.

The server took the tray and went over to my father and told him, "Sir, I am SO sorry, but we need to make you a new sandwich. This is unacceptable and I will not give you this with that on this tray". My father was relaxed but pissed that they had changed the diaper and placed the soiled material on a food serving tray. That experience was just wrong and violated so many health codes. The server was washing his hands by their station for a while because he disgusted.

lovedryn · August 2014

Human waste belongs in a bathroom period. Changing your child at the table that people are expected to eat at is just vile.

climbingsingle · August 2014

Disgusting! She had other options (car, floor of bathroom). I would have walked right out of the restaurant if I witnessed that.

southernbelle0915 · August 2014

natswild said:

I had someone do that in a cafe I worked at 20! years ago, she was changing a 2 1/2 year old in the middle of the restaurant, so freaking gross!! And I think her reasoning was to shame the child into potty training, I rather suspect the child was traumatized from that!

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That's actually really sad. I can only imagine the other types of shaming that parent participated in... *shakes head* Poor kid....

steph861 · August 2014

southernbelle0915 said:

natswild said:

I had someone do that in a cafe I worked at 20! years ago, she was changing a 2 1/2 year old in the middle of the restaurant, so freaking gross!! And I think her reasoning was to shame the child into potty training, I rather suspect the child was traumatized from that!

**********SITB*************

That's actually really sad. I can only imagine the other types of shaming that parent participated in... *shakes head* Poor kid....

That's really, really wrong. To willingly violate a child's right to privacy in order to "shame" them? That's crossing a major line.

raissyrais · August 2014

The unsanitary aspect of it really disturbs me...

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