Some idiot stuffed a nappy down the toilet of an aeroplane. That plane could not take off with a blocked toilet. Because that plane could not take off and the replacement has not arrived within 3 hours my SO is going to miss her connecting flight to Australia and will be stuck in LA (in a complimentary hotel room at least) for 23 hours.
One less day together of our precious few just because you couldn’t dispose of a nappy properly?
Some parents really should be forced to eat the waste of their young.
I hear you. At my hospital, where intelligent, presemably professional work there is a sign in an employee only bathroom that says “Please do not block toilet with paper towels”. What kind of freaking idiots do these things? Baffling.
Last time I was at an airport (August 2001, I didn’t like flying to begin with, and I’m never going back to one since the attacks) I saw a sign telling people what they couldn’t bring on the plane. It was a set of circle-with-the-line-drawn-through pictures of stuff you couldn’t take on board. For Christ’s sake, one of the pictures was of a ninja throwing star.
If people have to be told not to take a shuriken on board the plane, then I can no longer grant the flying public any semblance of intelligence.
Yeah, but a ninja wouldn’t read and obey the sign. The sign was clearly geared only towards law-abiding ninjas who wanted to follow the no-throwing-star policy, otherwise it would just be ignored.
When you outlaw ninja throwing stars, only outlaws will own ninja throwing stars.
Heh. What is about people and diapers? I once worked as a concierge in a big downtown building, and I saw a woman plop her kid down and change himi on one of the seats in the waiting area. The bathrooms were twenty feet away!
I think I can weigh in on this, margin, the diaper changing becomes so routine(many,many times a day) a person kind of looses that sense of, how to put it, social delicacy? This coupled with the fact that alot of bathrooms don’t have a changing station. FWIW I always try to find one or at least go to the car and do the dirty deed. Otherwise anarchy!
Ben
Oh, sure, be reasonable. Actually, it was a pretty ritzy building, and the bathroom did have a changing station. I don’t think it’s asking too much for her to have asked for the location of the bathrooms. I don’t know what she did with the diaper, either.
I heard a horror story from one of my relief people about a woman who actually plopped the kid down on the desk and changed him right there.
I just don’t get shoving the diaper down the toilet, though. There’s a garbage recepticle there, too. What the hell?
I hate it when people change their kids in the car - and then toss the dirty diaper out into the parking lot, rather than go through all the hassle of walking the dirty one to a trash can OR keeping something in the car to place the dirty one into and then disposing of it at home.
Stepping on an unseen dirty diaper in the parking lot=nasty
we were on a road trip, and stopped at one of those buffet steak houses, western coral or something? in macon, GA. not sure of the name. anyway, the reason we stopped is cause the sign clearly said that they had a seafood buffet every day of the week. our older son will eat just about any seafood, and i wanted him to eat something besides what we could find in a convience store or fast food. so we stopped.
they had no seafood. they didn’t bother to give us any indication of such either. and when we asked about it (you pay first, get your tray, and then get food) they were like, oh, sorry, is that sign up there already, next week.
the bathroom was nasty. i took the baby to the jeep to change her. there was no where to toss the diaper. not an ashtray or anything (like the little ashtray trash cans at the entrances of almost any establishment i can think of).
plus they were rude and the food was inedible, and no one else was there to step on anything anyway, and i sure as hell wasn’t walking back inside, without making a worse scene than a tightly wrapped diaper.
so there. (i still felt bad about it though).
but in the toilet? i wonder what such a person’s home looks/smells like? wait, no i don’t. some things are better left unknown.
I managed to raise 2 kids completely past the age of potty training without ever:
Putting a diaper on the ground, anywhere.
Changing a diaper in a public place (unless you count the back of my car)
And took them on TWO plane trips, from WA to GA and back, without once thinking to put the diaper in the toliet.
For the love of all that is good and decent…really.
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*Originally posted by margin *
**Oh, sure, be reasonable.
Fine! I’ll through the damned things wherever and whenever it suits me. Screw your delicate sensibilities, buck up and be a man. Plus I’ll be doing my part by not adding to the already overcrwded landfills
Buck up and be a man? Whoops, gotta schedule that surgery.
I used to have neighbors who would demonstrate their, er, contempt for people who disapproved of their home-based chemical retail activities by pitching diapers over the fence. Plus used condoms.
There’s just got to some sort of snarky remark there that I’m missing, but I’m sniffly and can’t concentrate. I’m all bummed now. That’s the lost punchline.
My dirty nappy story: One Christmas we went away for the holidays and stayed at a nice motel. We all got really sick with gastro which was explained one day when we saw a lady change her baby’s nappy beside the pool and wash the babys bottom off in the pool. GROSS!
Ok thats just NASTAY!! I have potty trained 2 and have one in diapers as we speak and have NEVER left a diaper out for someone to step on. Thats just fucking GROSS. I take my guy into the bathroom and change him on the changing table (After wiping it down with the convenient little lysol wipes they have come out with YAAAAY) I then wrap them in a plastic bag (also in a convenient little carrying roll made just for diaper bags) and throw them in a trash bin. If they don’t have a changing table I carry with me a changing mat (another lovely invention) that I can put on the floor (so my sweety won’t get nasty peepee germs on him) and change him. As far as the disposal… What kind of MORON throws them in the TOILET???
I have to piss at least three times a day, and it has become so routine that i now just whip out the one-eyed trouser snake and take a leak wherever i happen to be standing. :rolleyes:
Sorry, keep your brat’s shitty daipers where they belong.
