# Hey, idiot who left a used diaper in the parking lot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795 "2003-06-10T05:27:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yersinia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@Yersinia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/21 "2003-06-11T15:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \* > \*\*This is very weird. Just yesterday, I saw a used diaper in the parking lot at the university where I’m working. It seemed really out of place, since the parking garage is pretty far from anything and, I mean, who brings their kid to their classes? And it was in the faculty lot. For a moment, I was afraid it had fallen out of my car somehow, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t it. \*\* Who brings their kids to classes? You’d be surprised at the number of irresponsible, inconsiderate asswipes who do, **SanibelMan**. For ten years I went to college in the evenings after working all day, and you wouldn’t believe how many students brought little kids to school with them, including toddlers and babies who were obviously not old enough to be able to understand, much less implement, the concept of “Please be quiet now.’ There are people here trying to hear their professors or who need to concentrate while they study/take exams.” Maybe this sounds harsh, but I got so incensed by this and even thinking about it now still makes me mad as hell, but all I can say to anyone who’d bring their noisy brats who would run around yelling in hallways while their parent’s class was in session (in the case of the kids who WERE old enough to understand what “please be quiet” means) to school is: Get a fucking babysitter! ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/22 "2003-06-11T16:05:31Z")
I saw this happen last year in my favourite coffee shop. The woman who left it looked so incredibly green and hyper-conscious, so I was really surprised. After she left, I quietly and nonchalantly got up, got the diaper (wrapped up nice and neat in a grocery bag) out from under her chair and threw it away. Twenty minutes later she called the coffee shop manager because she had simply forgotten and was horrified that she had done it. She told the manager where it was and asked him to get it. My faith in humankind was restored. ---
**Author:** ![Govindha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@Govindha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Govindha)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/23 "2003-06-11T16:58:09Z")
Hey, I would have beat the shit out of mr levins and smeared his own contents on him. Fuck that. Littering is one thing, tampering with ones property is another. Try that shit with me and i promise a straight kick to the chest… I do hate the diaper thing. How’s about when some bastard throws it in your yard? That is just common… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/24 "2003-06-11T17:19:32Z")
Oh, I don’t know, **Govindha**. It can be washed off with relatively little hassle. It doesn’t cause any lasting damage, so I wouldn’t call it “tampering”. After all, he’s just doing to them what they did to the parking lot. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/25 "2003-06-11T17:41:03Z")
Count me as another Levins-booster. The guy just put the nastiness where it was deserved-- if left on the pavement, the chances are good that it would end up on _someone else’s property._ A very common behaviour for scavenging birds (especially gulls) is to drag goodies a ways off the ground before they tear them open. Diapers can be very attractive to crows and gulls, god knows why. (“Pretty little birdies, picking in the turdies.”) How often have you seen the little bastards having their lunch on someone’s hood in a McDonald’s parking lot? The big’ns will drag a diaper up there in a heartbeat. If people go around leaving a wake of biological waste, it’s going to end up fucking up someone’s day. “Return to sender” is a fine policy, as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/26 "2003-06-12T00:24:43Z")
But **Levins** , _What if it wasn’t the diaper lady’s car?_ If she’s that crass, she might well be changing baby on some one else’s car. That would be pretty harsh to the innocent car owner. ---
**Author:** ![Govindha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@Govindha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Govindha)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/27 "2003-06-12T00:46:31Z")
I do know LPN. It is tampering. I own the car, not the parking lot so there is a big difference. If it bothers the person that found the diaper so bad, take it to the trash can less than 50 feet away. Problem solved. They did their civic duty and didn’t damage anyones car. Rub shit on someones car and see how fast you can end up in court. I’d rather go for kicking the teacjers ass than smearing the diaper on some persons car. Thats weak and pathetic. Smear it in the persons face why dont ya…That might even be respectable. It’s a bit more than understandable than fooling around with the car while they are not around. Thats the way of the coward. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/28 "2003-06-12T10:13:40Z")
The person who did the smearing (not the diaper-leaving) was one of Mr. Levins’ high school teachers, not Mr. Levins himself. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/29 "2003-06-12T12:28:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fin\_man \* > \*\*The “weirdest” place I’ve ever changed Fin\_baby’s diaper is in the doorway of an airplane at 30,000 feet. Well, not exactly **in** the doorway (that would have been too breezy) but the area just inside the plane by the door. However, the first thing I did was ask the flight attendant if I could. He said that trying to change a diaper in the bathroom is a joke and I was welcome to change it there. \*\* That happened to us, but on the receiving end. My wife and I had the chairs at that doorway, and a lady started to change diapers right in front of us, during our breakfast. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Fin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fin_man)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/30 "2003-06-12T12:31:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix \* > \*\*That happened to us, but on the receiving end. My wife and I had the chairs at that doorway, and a lady started to change diapers right in front of us, during our breakfast. Yuck. \*\* There was a wall (or is it bulkhead?) between where I was changing the diaper and people were sitting. Nobody but the flight attendant knew what I was doing. I wouldn’t think about subjecting anybody to a diaper changing viewing without asking them first. ---
**Author:** ![Govindha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5fc32e/32.png) [@Govindha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Govindha)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/31 "2003-06-12T16:22:38Z")
Rilchiam, I can almost picture you there naked, getting off on correcting people. You and everyone else got my point, don’t be a schmuck. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/32 "2003-06-12T18:48:59Z")
**Govindha** , I don’t know about you, but when I’m in error about something, I appreciate being tipped-off about it. Don’t be a fuckwit. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/33 "2003-06-12T19:20:56Z")
Once while I was working in a coffee shop there was a sort of carnival thingee going on outside, complete with rides, kids, and all kinds of nasty food with which to fill the kids before they went on the rides. A woman and her young son approached my shop, asked for a glass of water, at which point the son puked his guts out all over my coffee shop. Bleah ! She did apologize but she wasn’t half as contrite as she should have been. It’s not like it was _our_ junky food that made the kid barf ! All I got out of the transaction was some nasty mopping and the opportunity to change the mop head. I understand that kids are messy and often gross. But if it’s not MY kid, or MY responsibility, I certainly expect some profuse apologies ! ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/34 "2003-06-12T21:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Govindha \* > \*\*Rilchiam, I can almost picture you there naked, getting off on correcting people. You and everyone else got my point, don’t be a schmuck. \*\* **Govindha,** when you skim one of my posts and say that you’d beat the shit out of Mr. Levins, when it was in fact _his teacher_ who did the diaper-smearing, you look like a moron with a very low reading comprehension level. A quick, “Oops! Need to re-read that!” would have sufficed. Now you look ungracious as well. Grow up. And thank you, **Rilchiam.** ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/35 "2003-06-12T22:09:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cowgirl \* > \*\* > I understand that kids are messy and often gross. But if it’s not MY kid, or MY responsibility, I certainly expect some profuse apologies ! \*\* Profouse apologies? What did you want her to say? Could it be that she was embarssed? Frankly, I think she should have cleaned it up, but profouse apologies for puking? Puke happens, man. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795/36 "2003-06-13T01:12:06Z")
You’re welcome, **Audrey**. And no, **Govindha** , I didn’t get your point. First you wanted to go off on Mr. Levins, then the teacher; it didn’t look like you knew what you were talking about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-idiot-who-left-a-used-diaper-in-the-parking-lot/180795.md?page=1)