Show me where it said where she left without everyone knowing about it, and that it would be left for other kids to slide into.
Question for Zuma and WhyNot:
Either of you ever had kids?
Sorry, you’re wrong. Nowhere does she make that clear. It’s nothing more than your fevered imagination.
WhyNot is a mother AND a day care provider, and I’m sure she has taken the trouble to clean up her share of poop when the situation calls for it. The reason I jump in her to answer for her is because I think that kind of argument is a little weak…“if you have standards of behavior in a certain situation, it must be because you couldn’t possibly know what it’s like to be in that situation.” Please. I’m a parent, too, and it’s a lot harder than it looks, true. But that doesn’t mean I would leave a disgusting mess my kid made for someone else to clean up.
Yes, it is weak. I have to admit that. The post was just baiting the two of them. I should be above that, and I apologize because I wasn’t.
I still stand by my basic take on the issue, however.
The thread was about embarrassing things that your children have done. It wasn’t about incredibly irresponsible things she has done regarding things her children have done that she was unable to handle properly which she’s embarrassed about in retrospect. There are lots of those threads around. This wasn’t one of them.
Well, at least one kid paid to work at McDonald’s found it to be more than. . . “a day in the life of” type of activity.
As he posts in the linked thread to AngryIrishLass regarding this incident:
As for WhyNot, she answers that in this thread:
Post #8
That’s a pretty creative interpretation indeed. And I’ll be interested to hear whether AngryIrishLass is able to confirm this. But generally when people tell other people what happened and apologize profusely to the other party, they’re generally not too embarrassed to go back to that spot later. In fact, in many instances, they can go back and laugh about it with the people they would have interfaced with. For that reason, your interpretation seems less likely to me than the one that others are assuming.
Bolding mine.
Firstly, anyone who uses “interface” as a verb in everyday conversation to describe human contact needs to be facilitated into unconsciousness with a baseball bat.
I never said that my interpretation was the most likely. I merely said that there was nothing in the story to contradict it, and that those other people were making some pretty large leaps based on some pretty scanty information. You appear to be happy to do the same thing. I’ll reserve judgment until the person who was there gives a fuller description of the event.
Also, i can easily see how someone might feel too embarrassed to return, even if she had done the right thing and told management about it.
I wouldn’t be embarassed in that case. I don’t think she was obligated to clean it up herself, just notify someone. If she did in fact do so, her only wrong was letting a baby in diapers play somewhere she shouldn’t have.
Where is the Pittee?
I agree with the fact that the parent is responsible for the mess. That doesn’t mean cleaning up herself. As has been said, they have people to do that, and they can do a better job than you can.
I think that wiping it so that it looks clean is even more irresponsible than fleeing the scene. Leaving visible poop at least leaves a warning. Wiping it leaves invisible poop that people will roll on until mother nature does her thing at her speed.
The correct action would be to stay there and make sure nobody rolls on it while help comes to handle the situation.
I wouldn’t either. But AngryIrishLass is not me.
She also said that the other two kids made a point of announcing the crappy diaper to the whole restaurant, and i could see how that might embarrass someone, whether or not they did the right thing and reported it to management.
Her last post was just after noon (US Eastern time) yesterday, so just over 24 hours ago.
She might not have returned to the Boards since then, and so has probably not seen this thread. I know it’s hard to believe, but some people actually have lives away from the SDMB.
I’m sorry for giving you a hard time about it. I just see that argument a lot in parenting threads, and I guess it rubs me the wrong way.
As you are entitled. 
You’re having a cow over the word “interface”? It just happened to be the first word that came to mind in writing that sentence. Would the word “interact” work better for you or are you concerned with the number of syllables? Are you asking me to dumb down my speech to smaller syllable words to get.my.point.across.to.you? (even across had two syllables–getting my words down to one syllable might not be easy)
ETA: Just thought of this. What word did you want me to use?
There’s nothing in the story to contradict that Jesus swooped down from the Heavens and cleaned it up Himself. But that’s not the interpretation I’m likely to be making.
If you’re waiting until no other interpretation could be made with absolutely no inferences (yes, that was a big word too, wasn’t it?) , you have a very long wait.
And while you’re waiting, could you also reserve judgment on my posts until there are no other interpretations that are remotely possible? 
I can too. It’s just not as likely.
How dare they?
They don’t really.
mhendo is probably just doing one of those. . . it’s conceivable in all possible worlds that something like that could happen. But it hasn’t been proven conclusively in the real world that it actually does. 
mhendo, is that too many big words?
That’s what I was thinking. If your kid is in diapers, it’s almost guarateed that you’ve got baby wipes (and the Huggies ones are so awesome we take them camping and use them for all sorts of things from wiping down pots in an emergency, to wiping scat off our picnic table).
If the diaper ends up in one of those tunnels though, and you can’t get to it. You want to warn the other parents and then alert the staff so that someone can do something before it gets out of control. My buddy’s kid puked all over some climbing equipment once, during a parent/teacher night, and he had the older kid standing guard to warn other kids “Look out, BARF!” until a janitor was able to come with woodchips and a dust broom.
Actually, i think that using the word “interface” as a verb, especially when referring to contact between people, IS dumbing down. Interface might be a useful verb for technical and computer-related issues, but for describing human interactions it’s a stupid word.
Also, i was just having a dig at you anyway, as evidenced by my use of the term “facilitated into unconsciousness.”
Big words i have no problem with. It’s the stupid corporate-speak i don’t like.
The only inference i can draw from this post is that you’re an idiot.
I dunno. What’s wrong with “talked to?”
Anyway, this pitting is pretty stupid. Her kid takes off his diaper and gets shit everywhere, and you all assume she just grabbed the kid and booked it for her car? Well, I’m not a parent, but if the kid got shit everywhere, I’m guessing that includes “all over the kid,” and even assigning AngryIrishLass the most selfish of motives, I doubt she’d want to put a half naked, shit-smeared kid into her car. Seems to me that, in that situation, the smart (and responsible) thing to do is clean up the mobile shit vector first. Wouldn’t make much sense to go contorting yourself up into a play structure to clean up one pile of shit, while the kid who made it is off spreading that shit all over the restaurant, right? Anyone with their own sprogs disagree with me on any of these points?
So, what do you expect the McDonalds employees (who, as a reminder to those who value outrage over reading comprehension, know what happened thanks to the other kids’ gleeful announcements) to do while AngryIrishLass is cleaning and re-diapering her kid? Again, smart money is on, “Go clean up the shit in the play area so other kids don’t get into it.” By the time AngryIrishLass is ready to clean up the play area, there’s almost certainly going to be a couple of pimply-faced teenagers already working on it, and using better cleaning supplies than are likely to be found in the average diaper bag.
Now, sure, I don’t know that’s how it went down, no more than the OP of this thread knows that the pittee did the hundred yard dash to the minivan at the first opportunity. But I think my scenario is at least as plausible, and has the added benefit of not automatically assuming the worst in another person, without giving them the chance to fully explain the situation.
I think the pittee needs to chime in and tell us what happened or at least expand on the end of her story.
I also think that anyone that makes a mess in a public place should either try and clean it or tell an employee what happened so it can be taken care of.
In no instance should it just be left there no matter how embarassing the event was.
My point, exactly. Thank you for that superb summary. There is no mention by the Pittee that she attempted to clean it up. There is no mention that she did not, although there is an implication. I questioned whether she had just left the diaper etc there and not told anyone–we have not heard from her. Given that she mentions her embarrassment, I would think that she would also mention her telling an employee about the mess. She did not post as such, so it seems that she did not. If this is the case, she is right to not set foot in that McD’s again. I understand her discomfort. I don’t sympathize with it, but I understand it.