# Don't point that thing at me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2002, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750 "2002-12-01T07:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/21 "2002-12-01T19:51:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blink178 \* > \*\ ***Libertarian** , I truly almost barfed when I read that! \*\* Thank you, thank you… I’ll be here all week. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/22 "2002-12-01T21:59:17Z")
I didn’t say a damned thing – I just sat there with my jaw in my lap and cooling processed food lying forgotten on my tongue. I was at a loss for words. (I’ve never been much of a stink-raiser. My fight-or-flee switch seems to favour “flee” most of the time. _“I’m gettin’ outta here, me!”_) Thanks to **Lib** , I have a stock answer ready should it ever happen again. God forbid. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/23 "2002-12-01T22:52:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\* I was at a loss for words. \*\* Perhaps if you had thrown up on her shoes she would have gotten the point 🙂 ? ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/24 "2002-12-02T02:45:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Perhaps if you had thrown up on her shoes she would have gotten the point See, where there is will, there is whey… ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/25 "2002-12-02T02:52:44Z")
Ugh. Diaper-changing and public restaurant tables do not mix. Especially when you don’t eat at said restaurant, but just use it as some “convenient” place to change your babvy. There _are_ baby-changing tables available at the facilities provided. (and if this doesn’t make sense, I apologize) One part of me wants to know which restaurant that was so I or my friends don’t eat there, even though I’m sure it’s been disinfected by now (but still there’s an oogy factor to it). Another part of me doesn’t want to know, just so I don’t have to think of this story if ever I pass the restaurant. I think I’ll settle for not knowing, in this case. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/26 "2002-12-02T07:47:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jwhee \* > \*\*\i changed my girl at the table before\ > and i might really get flamed for this, but i had just finished breastfeeding her in public! \*\* I hope you’re not equating the two! No one could possibly get any diseases from seeing you breastfeed an infant, after all. _ **Qadgop** addressed you directly, though - that’s worth the shame, isn’t it?_ ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/27 "2002-12-02T14:09:37Z")
Idiots. Farking idiots. I would NEVER think to change a baby’s diapers in public place such as a restaurant---- a bathroom is where that shit belongs. (yep. literaly) Stories like that totally amaze me. I mean, go into the farking bathroom changing table! Or change the damn diaper in your farking car!!! For crying out loud. Totally disgusting. Stupid and moronic. ---
**Author:** ![jujuju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@jujuju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujuju)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/28 "2002-12-02T21:49:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InternetLegend \* > \*\*I hope you’re not equating the two! No one could possibly get any diseases from seeing you breastfeed an infant, after all. > > _ **Qadgop** addressed you directly, though - that’s worth the shame, isn’t it?_ \*\* actually, my thought process was as follows: hmm, baby just ate, she’s gonna sleep for the next 3 hours. better change her. where’s the bathroom? hmm, let me check her and see if she’s stinky, nope. well, i’ve got this whole booth here, i’ll just lay her blankie down in the seat (not on the table, not even directly on the seat) and change her. now, i didn’t realize that changing a wet diaper with a blankie between her and any part of the furniture would be any less sanitary than laying her down with her diaper on. honestly. but qadgop corrected me on this, so it won’t happen again… equating the two was just 'cause there were exposed body parts that are normally covered. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/29 "2002-12-03T01:57:29Z")
There’s nothing wrong as far as I’m concerned with babies nursing where people eat. But the one general societal taboo thru the ages is to not excrete (or handle excretions) where one eats. Societies that violated that one tended to not thrive. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InternetLegend \* > \*\* _ **Qadgop** addressed you directly, though - that’s worth the shame, isn’t it?_ \*\* 😕 I’d better not be developing a following! I’m self-absorbed enough as it is. Besides, Cecil is the perfect master. This is his cult, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/30 "2002-12-03T02:07:44Z")
Larry the same thing happened on Saturday at lunch time in a shopping mall food quart, and it’s not a busy time of year at all. This lady walk around the tables trying to find a free one, settle on the one right in front me and started to undress her baby to change the diaper. Before she could get any further, I told her there was a facility about 20 feet away, she replied that this was an emergency… 20 FEET LADY, when she looked around and saw that people were staring, she sighed heavily and walked away… opposite direction from where I had shown here the facility was… I’m still trying to figure out what the emergency was??? ---
**Author:** ![Scruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/31 "2002-12-03T03:02:54Z")
To quote Jeff Foxworthy: \“When the box says 10 to 15 pounds, it means it. That diaper wouldn’t hold another ounce.” \ ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/32 "2002-12-03T05:57:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Princess Buttercup \* > \*\*…“THIS IS A RESTAURANT FOR GOD’S SAKE! People are eating less than two feet from your stinky, filthy, biohazard of a child. Take it into the restroom to change it’s diaper NOW or I will call the public health inspectors.” > > …The bottom line is, if no one ever tells the ignorantly oblivious jackasses of the world that they’re being oblivious jackasses, they’ll never figure it out for themselves. They’re too ignorantly oblivious. > > **[and my personal favorite]** > …It might take awhile, but we can train monkeys, you know?\*\* You- I like you, and only party because of your name. Welcome to the boards. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/33 "2002-12-03T06:05:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > **I like you, and only party because of your name.** You sure it’s not mosty because of her name? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/34 "2002-12-03T21:32:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\*I’m always serious. You can tell because I rarely use smilies. \*\* Hence the user name. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/35 "2002-12-04T05:36:52Z")
After she tossed the rolled up used diaper in the trash you should have dove in after it, then put it your coat pocket. If she looked at you funny say “Well you threw it away!” Trust me she would never change the baby in public again. ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/36 "2002-12-04T06:37:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > \*\*Welcome to the boards. \*\* You’re welcoming her to the boards because she’s only been here for 2.5 years? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/37 "2002-12-04T06:56:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cerowyn \* > \*\*You’re welcoming her to the boards because she’s only been here for 2.5 years? \*\* I didn’t even notice that, I only saw her post count. In that case, post more **Buttercup**! ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/38 "2002-12-04T18:15:34Z")
I’m reading this thread and I’m speachless. I’m as speachless as I was when I heard about someone who left broken glassware all over the floor of the BSL-4… I’m as speachless when I saw my co-worker working under the BSL-3 hood without safety gear. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/39 "2002-12-04T23:54:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > **😕 I’d better not be developing a following!** Well dammit, if I thought the “Hull” you meant was the one within travelling distance, I’d be slithering after you. [sub]Purely in the interests of science of course![/sub] But then it would depend on what sort of trail you were leaving… 😃 ---
**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:** [December 5, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750/40 "2002-12-05T00:15:36Z")
This seems like an appropriate thread for W.C Fields quotations: “I like children, but i could never eat a whole one.” “I like children - deep fried.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-point-that-thing-at-me/139750.md?page=3)