Don’t be so sure. I work with county government and closely with Enviermental Health.
Changing a baby on an eating surface would get their attention real, real fast.
You actually dispute this? You think there’s a magical, supernatural connection that happens from people just looking at each other?
They do that with every regular inspection anyway. It’s their job.
I never said people don’t change babies at tables, nor did I defend it.
What the fuck is “enviermental health?”
I worked in restaurants for 10 years. One call of that nature would not get their attention at all.
No, they wouldn’t. Dio hasn’t seen it. It doesn’t exist. QED, man. QED.
My apologies for any confusion. Points 1, 2, and 3 from that post were stating a general position; they weren’t aimed at you specifically.
Still, maybe I’m misreading you, but your comment that I quoted seems to be condoning changing babies on tables. I’ve read through all your posts in this thread, and can’t see anything gainsaying that.
Cite that a public health department would make a special trip for one report of someone changing a baby on a prep surface?
The comment you read was a correction of people inferring I’d said that people don’t change babies in public.
To simplify:
I said that people don’t take babies to resaurants wearing nothing but diapers (in reference to a complaint about people sitting babies on tables, not changing thm, which, fyi, the OP never said he saw).
Then people started talking about all the times they’ve seen people changing babies, which was not something I ever contested or defended. They were taking my statement that people don’t take babies to restaurants wearing only dapres as an assertion that they don’t change babies at tables. Those are two different things.
Sure, people shouldn’t change babies at tables (not that I’m losing any sleep over it or am going to rush out and make a self-righteous report to the Health Department), but that’s not what I was defending. I was only saying I don’t see the big deal about seating a clothed baby on a table while I tie her shoes or something.
How do you know people never take babies out in just diapers? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it at least once, and people in this thread have, too. Just because you haven’t seen something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I said way upthread that’s it’s probably happened in a restaurant somwhere sometime, but it’s very atypical. It’s not some kind of pervasive problem in society.
How damn dense can you be?
Is it that HARD to imagine that if someone calls in about a STORE OWNER changing a baby diaper on a prep surface that Health Department is not going to take an interest? Cause if they are doing it, they are likely doing it all the damn time. Its not like some random asshat customer doing it, its the fricking OWNER.
Yeah, some shithole town health deparment might blow it off. But some other health department on the ball might actually look into it.
Maybe if the store owner was fucking a minor on the table you might take a different slant on this?
The only time a baby should be on the table is when it is the entree.
Yes. They will document it, but they are not going to make a special trip for a single call of that nature.
No one’s claiming it’s some huge social problem. Does something have to be a pervasive problem before we’re allowed to pit it?
If we’re still talking about babies, most commonly it would be a “onesie” of some kind, with snaps for the crotch area (and sometimes along one leg if long-panted) for easy access to dirty diaper removal.
I think it only seems like that when you don’t need them. Many places have them, but there are plenty of restaurants and other public places that do not have those baby stations. I love our car for that - it’s a Vibe, and the hatch opens onto a nice roomy flat space. Great for emergency diaper changes.
That said, I have never changed a baby’s diaper on a table, so please no one stone me to death.
I would never do this and I confess I think people who do are a bit clueless, but it doesn’t upset me. I see it all the time. I have also seen babies naked except for their diaper brought out to eat - in hot summer weather, of course.
But -babies are the least of your worries. All restaurant tables are seething with harmful bacteria. I suspect it would be more healthy to eat your food on the floor of a public bathroom - it’s hands, after all, that carry the most germs. ‘Sanitized’? Hahahahahaha. The wet cloth (used all night usually) is simply a disease vector, spreading the unique filth of each table to all the others.
Basically, everything about most restaurants is dirty and disgusting. If you could what happens behinds the scense, I suspect most people who care wold never eat out again. Cooks are mostly filthy, diseased, drug-addicted people (no offense to any clean, in all senses of the word, cooks/chefs on the board - but you know it’s true), who hate washing their hands and are always scratching their balls while cooking.
Thankfully I don’t have a mental problem with germs, so even though I know the truth about restaurants, I still eat out and don’t think about how gross it is compared to my own kitchen.
I have never changed a diaper on a table, because I know it would squick people out. Not because of a health hazard, mind you. I always had a cloth I laid down on the changing surface first, and an experienced parent can change a diaper without getting shit anywhere but the inside of the diaper. But still…there are social conventions one must respect if one wants to not get pelted to death with tableware.
But sitting a clothed diapered small child on a table? Oh, yeah, I’ve done that plenty of times. Brings them to eye level for a disciplinary moment, distracts them from flinging sugar packets and just generally makes them easier to manage for short periods of time. Isn’t that what y’all want? A well-mannered baby who’s not screaming her head off in public? And to suggest there’s any kind of health risk from it at all is ridiculous. There are far more pathogens spread from your hands resting on it than from the clothing on the posterior of a child.
Well, I don’t think putting a clean, clothed baby down on the table is bad. Changing it is. Even if it isn’t posing a health risk, I don’t want to have to smell or look at feces/urine when I’m eating. I don’t care if that makes me Adrian Monk-ish.
The rags used to wipe the tables are usually stored in a bucket of bleach solution, for what it’s worth. Its not just water.