# Disgusting lunchtime experinece- diaper changing AT THE TABLE **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189 "2005-08-01T19:41:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/41 "2005-08-04T19:32:51Z")
> [@Padeye](#): > > Leaving a poopy diaper on the ground at a highway rest stop is not classy. Leaving one on a table at a restaurant is inbred hillbilly hick. This is a marginal step above\*\* poo flinging apes\*\*. _Silver lining_ At least she and her dinner companions didn’t start a game of catch. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/42 "2005-08-04T19:42:36Z")
> [@Atrael](#): > > In defense of the airplane changers, my wife and I flew just last month Airtran to Ohio to visit relatives. The first flight the bathroom didn’t have a changing table on it. Although it was only a wet diaper, not a messy one, there really wasn’t any other choice other than to change the baby at our seat. And I’m sure not 1 out of 20 people on that plane thought that perhaps there was a reason we had to change her at our seats. > > I am the first one that will tell my wife to change our daughter out of the public eye. It drives me nuts when her sister will visit and change her son’s shitty diaper right in the middle of our living room floor. I’d much prefer you take him at least into another room. My cousins always changed their kids right in front of everyone on the floor, too. I could never understand that. Here’s something else I don’t get: people trying to determine whether to change a kid’s diaper by bending down and sniffing the back of the pants. Whenever I babysat, I just pulled the waistband back a bit and peeked. Or if they had those little overalls that had snaps along the legs, I’d undo one or two snaps and take a look. I just thought it was far less unpleasant than sticking my nose in their crotch and inhaling. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/43 "2005-08-05T06:22:09Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > For the record, the zoo is extremely child-friendly; I haven’t paid a lot of attention, but I imagine they have lots of diaper-changing facilities. [They sure do](http://www.calgaryzoo.org/Admissions/other_services.htm): > [@](#): > > All washrooms have diaper changing facilities and a Nursing Room is available in Kitamba Cafe. Was that the Cafe where you had lunch? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/44 "2005-08-05T11:37:44Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Here’s something else I don’t get: people trying to determine whether to change a kid’s diaper by bending down and sniffing the back of the pants. Whenever I babysat, I just pulled the waistband back a bit and peeked. Or if they had those little overalls that had snaps along the legs, I’d undo one or two snaps and take a look. I just thought it was far less unpleasant than sticking my nose in their crotch and inhaling. I don’t get that, either. When I needed to know if one of my kids needed changing, I’d do the same thing - pull back the waistband and peek in. I’ve known lots of people, reasonably intelligent adults, who would stick a finger (or two) down the back or in through the leg opening and then shriek in horror when they got a fingerful of baby poo back. I mean, WTF? Why would you do that? And what were you expecting, rose petals? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/45 "2005-08-05T13:19:46Z")
I would just want to yell like George Castanza, “You know, we are living in a **society**!” ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/46 "2005-08-05T14:51:29Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > I mean, yeah, it was not the most sanitary thing for her to do… Yep. I definitely advocate keeping piss & shit in the bathroom. As for _something else_…that goes in the clam chowder. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/47 "2005-08-05T19:16:43Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > [They sure do](http://www.calgaryzoo.org/Admissions/other_services.htm):Was that the Cafe where you had lunch? It sure was. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/48 "2005-08-05T19:47:37Z")
> [@Padeye](#): > > This is a marginal step above poo flinging apes. Don’t you mean “apes flinging poo”? I hope never to see poo flinging anything…isn’t anthropomorphic poo one of the signs of the Apocalypse? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/49 "2005-08-05T19:49:46Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Don’t you mean “apes flinging poo”? I hope never to see poo flinging anything…isn’t anthropomorphic poo one of the signs of the Apocalypse? Well, _an_ apocalypse, maybe, not _the_ Apocalypse as far as I’m aware. I’ve seen an ape fling puke. Damn thing tried to hit me with it. It missed. I guess I pissed it off. Haven’t seen puke fling an ape. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189/50 "2005-08-05T22:34:54Z")
> [@MrJackboots](#): > > \ > \“Sir, ma’am. I’m sorry, but, we’ve concluded that you aren’t even trying to raise functional, well-behaved human beings here. In your children’s best interests, we’re going to have to remove them to civilized households. And… uh… you’re going to have to make an appointment to leave some bodyparts at the office. Don’t worry; the doc’s great. It won’t hurt much and you’ll barely miss them in a month or so.” \ Erm, excuse me, ma’am, sir. It says here that your reproductive organs have been reclassified. We’re going to have to repossess them. Now, if you could just lie down on this table… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-lunchtime-experinece-diaper-changing-at-the-table/315189.md?page=2)