In the parking lot. 
We saw a mother changing her baby on the table in the lunchroom at our local zoo a couple of years ago. The lunchroom was full of people, as it always is. It was frigging gross - I don’t need to see or smell any poopy bums or poopy diapers while I’m eating (especially since we always have chili at the zoo!).
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You actually asked this question when the very text that you quoted said “…FULL OF PEOPLE HAVING LUNCH!!!” in all caps with three exclamation points?
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I don’t undersrtand why I missed that. I do tune out when people yell.
Even in text? That’s awesome!
:rolleyes:
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
I can’t hear people when they whisper (hard of hearing and all that you know)…
I just think this bears repeating. Part of the reason the last thread turned into an eleven page train wreck is that one set of people were defending baby-in-diaper-and-clothes being sat briefly on a table and the other side was attacking people changing poopy diapers in the middle of a restaurant. So the pro-baby-sitters were appalled at how germophobic the anti-diaper changers were, and the anti-diaper changers were appalled that anyone could defend diaper changing, which, as I recall, not one person actually did.
Other stuff may have happened later–I didn’t reread the whole thing–but that initial confusion is what raised the emotional stakes so high.
Reading the first page and a half or so, it’s pretty clear it got derailed early by certain assertions by a poster who will remain unnamed:
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[li]nobody ever really would change a baby on a lunch table or food counter[/li][li]if they did, the health department wouldn’t care[/li][li]nobody ever dresses their baby in a diaper and nothing else[/li][li]he never actually said any of those things he had just asserted.[/li][/ul]And as I recall, I didn’t read that far, he later asserted that diaper blowouts are rare. And that’s why that page ran to 11 pages.
No. It really was because some dumbasses objected to a clothing clad baby sitting on a table.
:eek: whether the lunch room was occupied at the time or not, is irrelevant! It’s disgusting to have poop touch a table, whether other diners see it or not.
While watching a circumcision and serving peanut butter sandwiches.
You forgot shaking somebodies hand at the same time.
The OP of the referenced thread clearly stated the rogue baby was diaper-clad. Baby wasn’t clothed. Baby was stewing in a loose-fitting plastic bag of urine and shit. As babies are wont to do.
If baby had pants, a skirt, or some other cloth barrier between said bag of excrement and still had it’s ass on the table the parents exhibited bad manners and poor taste, but this falls shy of exposing restaurant guests to a biohazard. The CDC and health department have determined that the open air of a food service environment is no place for exposed feces. I’m inclined to agree. Ever had a good dose of rotavirus? Guess how it is transmitted, and who the likely carriers are.
Babies should sit in chairs, like the rest of us. Babies should be changed in restrooms, where the rest of us go to relieve ourselves.
While taking HCG and praying during a Reiki session.
Hey, I’m in here with Juggs Monthly. Go find some other place!
billfish678, forgive me. I didn’t mean to imply that bathrooms should be limited to unpleasant tasks. By all means, do your part to keep the public restroom environment festive!
Festivus! It shouldn’t be just one day a year!
Festive restroom? Festroom?
And loudly asserting her right to declaw her kitten.
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Babies should be changed in restrooms, where the rest of us go to relieve ourselves.
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I have no problem with the OP or Troppus’ post. In fact, don’t all public restrooms have changing tables installed that enable you to do just that? I know that’s the case where I live.
You quoted me as if it were going to be relevant to what you had to say. It was not.
K, if by “dumbasses” you meant “persons rightfully overreacting to a perceived unhygenic act on an eating surface”, and by “clothing clad” you meant “sporting only a baggy diaper”, then you got me.