# RO: So what were you doing while your 13 month old son was alone in the tub drowning to death? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342 "2011-01-20T16:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/101 "2011-01-24T14:42:11Z")
By zynga, she might just wanna use some farm cash and rejuvenate him. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/102 "2011-01-24T16:32:06Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Then why did you feel the need to add “dish” to “sponge” when it wasn’t there in the first place? We have sponges in the general area of our kitchen sink that have never seen a dish and never will. Likewise for the sponge in the bathroom. Because it literally makes no sense otherwise. Compare: “You get grossed out by washing a poopy baby in the kitchen sink, but you’d use a dish sponge to wipe up dog vomit on the floor.” “You get grossed out by washing a poopy baby in the kitchen sink, but you’d use a cleaning sponge to wipe up dog vomit on the floor.” “You get grossed out by washing a poopy baby in the kitchen sink, but you’d use paper towels to wipe up dog vomit on the floor.” Those are three very different things, and only the first one would make any sense as a reponse, because the gross-out factor of washing the feces off the baby in the sink is that after that, you will clean the sink and then continue to use it in food preparation and to clean dishes you eat off of. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/103 "2011-01-24T17:16:30Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I turned my back on my 14 month old grandson today, and he ate some dried dog-food, from the dog-bowl…with added slurpy dog-slobber as extra flavour. And when I pulled the pellets out of his mouth, he plunged his hand back into the bowl for MORE. > > What pissed me off most was that the little scroat wouldn’t eat his damned lunch that I had lovingly prepared for him. You know, my dog would almost certainly prefer your grandson’s lunch to her dog food. Perhaps they could arrange a mutually beneficial trade? How does he feel about Science Diet: Mature Adult? ---
**Author:** ![xoferew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e9a140/32.png) [@xoferew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xoferew)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/104 "2011-01-24T23:57:57Z")
I’m having a Sims 2 flashback: No need to interrupt your busy sims to get the toddler yet another bottle out of the fridge which will soon spoil and spawn roaches. Just fill a dog bowl every couple of days. But even these heartless sims hung on to the infants and toddlers they were bathing! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/105 "2011-01-25T05:36:55Z")
My dad prefers margarine on his toast. The rest of us use butter. Well, he’s a sucker for letting the cats do whatever they want, and Luci and Annie LOVE margarine as well as butter. He gives them a little in the morning, but he also lets them _eat it out of the tub_. (No, tub of margarine is his alone – if my mom needs any for cooking, she uses a different brand) Ugh! > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Those are three very different things, and only the first one would make any sense as a reponse, because the gross-out factor of washing the feces off the baby in the sink is that after that, you will clean the sink and then continue to use it in food preparation and to clean dishes you eat off of. So you use Comet. That stuff’s hardcore. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/106 "2011-01-25T06:28:51Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > My dad prefers margarine on his toast. The rest of us use butter. Well, he’s a sucker for letting the cats do whatever they want, and Luci and Annie LOVE margarine as well as butter. He gives them a little in the morning, but he also lets them _eat it out of the tub_. Man, they must really like it if they’re willing to eat it out of the tub. At least he doesn’t leave them alone in the tub while he’s playing Farmville. That would be bad. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/107 "2011-01-25T17:42:48Z")
Won’t someone think of the cats? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/108 "2011-01-25T18:23:49Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > Thankfully, he grew out of it in a month or two - but for a few weeks visitors got quite a shock when she’d take two treats out of the bag, say ‘Sit!’ and both dog and baby would promptly sit down and then get a milk bone a piece! Woulda been a good time to teach the boy discipline - balance a milk bone on his nose, don’t let him eat it until you say “go!” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/109 "2011-01-25T19:21:03Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Because it literally makes no sense otherwise. Compare: > > “You get grossed out by washing a poopy baby in the kitchen sink, but you’d use a dish sponge to wipe up dog vomit on the floor.” > “You get grossed out by washing a poopy baby in the kitchen sink, but you’d use a cleaning sponge to wipe up dog vomit on the floor.” > “You get grossed out by washing a poopy baby in the kitchen sink, but you’d use paper towels to wipe up dog vomit on the floor.” > > Those are three very different things, and only the first one would make any sense as a reponse, because the gross-out factor of washing the feces off the baby in the sink is that after that, you will clean the sink and then continue to use it in food preparation and to clean dishes you eat off of. I don’t know about you but we use the counter in food preparation and the dishwasher to clean dishes we eat off of. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/110 "2011-01-25T20:06:13Z")
Committing raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppe! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/111 "2011-01-26T23:16:51Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > Thankfully, he grew out of it in a month or two - but for a few weeks visitors got quite a shock when she’d take two treats out of the bag, say ‘Sit!’ and both dog and baby would promptly sit down and then get a milk bone a piece! I think I’d pay money to see that. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/112 "2011-01-27T22:27:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > So you use Comet. That stuff’s hardcore. Yeah, and? My point isn’t about the ability to sterilize the sink: it’s about grossout factor, which has nothing to do with sterilization, and how it literally only makes sense to compare a similar grossout scenario. This is not about what’s sensible. This is about certain people’s gut reactions to things. > [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I don’t know about you but we use the counter in food preparation and the dishwasher to clean dishes we eat off of. You don’t ever collect dirty dishes in the sink? You don’t have any large items that can’t fit in the dishwasher? You don’t ever soak things with baked-on bits? You don’t clean fruits or vegetables in the sink? You don’t drain pasta, rinse rice, etc.? What on earth do you even have a kitchen sink for? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/113 "2011-01-28T16:43:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Poll! “A Moron, A Bathtub, and A Laptop” is: > > (A) A great name for a rock band > (B) The beginning of a really good “Great Carnac” joke > (C) The eighth, unpublished, Narnia novel > (D) All of these (F) A sequel to “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342/114 "2011-01-28T22:52:19Z")
Just came to mention that I was watching Nancy Grace go on and on about this case. One of her commentators was trying to explain the Facebook game to her and she kept interrupting him to scream about how it wasn’t even real and Facebook was just a waste of time sucking away people’s lives. She then went to commercial with a prominent bumper reading “Check out Nancy Grace on Facebook.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-so-what-were-you-doing-while-your-13-month-old-son-was-alone-in-the-tub-drowning-to-death/568342.md?page=5)