Is It Okay To Change A Baby’s Diaper In Public If There’s No Restroom Changing Table? [w/poll]

The Consumerist ^ | May 14, 2013 | Mary Beth Quirk

[Slings and Arrows]

Poll at source. Thanks to Gefn for the link!

[Slings and Arrows]

I'm not sure - is it OK for me to relieve myself in your food in the restaurant doesn't provide a washroom?

[Huskrrrr]

In a restaurant? No!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Take the child back to your car and change the diaper in the back seat.

[ArrogantBustard]

So she simply changed him in the seating area.

So ... this dimbulb handled exposed fecal matter in a food service area.

Brilliant.

[Roos_Girl]

I take my guy out to the car.

[ArrogantBustard]

and wants all customers treated with “dignity and respect.”

How about the brainless customers behave with some dignity and respect?

[Huskrrrr]

Sounds like the considerate and reasonable thing to do.

[Slings and Arrows]

Please have more children. We need your genes to compete with those of the idiot in the OP.

[kabumpo]

Health code violation. Period.

[CatherineofAragon]

Did she wash her hands afterward? If not, I don’t want anything she picked up on her “coffee run.”

[autumnraine]

Yes, that’s what I did.

[stuartcr]

exactly, that woman has no class whatsoever

[gov_bean_ counter]

H#!!, half of America doesn’t wash after they use “the facilities”.

[Boogieman]

“But what if a business like Starbucks doesn’t have a changing table in the restroom — is it okay for a parent to take care of diaper duty in the public seating area?”

No! Who in their right mind would think that was acceptable in a dining area? I’d call the health department if the business didn’t kick them out for that.

[Vendome]

Is that your napkin? Mind if I blow my nose in it?

Hell yeah, they should take the baby to a more appropriate setting for changing the diaper.

If I’m sitting there having my breakfast or lunch the last thing I want to smell is baby crap , much less sit in it due to a not so caring parent not thoroughly wiping the area down.

Moreover, why would I want a case of E-coli because the area where food and hands goes was not properly sanitized .

Change the kid in the car.

[grumpygresh]

No, because a perv will upload the video and/or CPS will arrest the parent for exposing their child.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Coffee ain’t gonna be the only thing running...

[Boogieman]

“He said make sure to wipe the seat when you’re done,” he said. “They started talking amongst themselves and laughing about it.”

He got so mad, he says, he dumped his venti coffee on the floor, saying, “Make sure you clean that.”

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So, the Starbucks didn’t even call the cops on them for changing the diaper, like the story implied early. They called the cops on them for causing a scene.

[svcw]

Was the baby just getting wet diapers changed, which take maybe fifteen seconds in a booth away from everyone’s view or was he on a chair (which I do not get) and a poopy diaper?

She could have gone to the bathroom and put a blanket or cover on the floor and changed him, or in the car or stroller.

The STBX employee over reacted.