Posted on 05/14/2013 9:46:38 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
I thought when I first read it... the Starbucks employee dumped the coffee... but when I reread the story, I read the dad did it.
the couple should have taken the kid to the car...
The Starbucks employees should not have called the cop, thou.
Gives new meaning to SOS @ Denneys!
Exactly. Did that numerous times when my kids were little. The decline of common sense and decorum these days is shocking.
In a coffee shop? NO!
I am sure somewhere along the way that I changed a diaper in public. But restaurants are not the place to do it. I changed a lot of diapers in the car/van over the years. I hate it when I see dirty diapers thrown on the ground under cars in parking lots. Recently, hubby and I parked next to a palm tree at our favorite restaurant. Tucked into the tree was a dirty diaper all folded up. That was disturbing. It is not like there are not trash cans outside the restaurant!
Just think what they’re teaching the kid.
I can see it now...a new effin reg from the feds...ALL public restrooms should have changing tables.
To a statist, any excuse for statism is a good excuse.
Yep, car. We did dozens of diaper changes on ours in various parking lots and rest stops over her first three years, across the front seats or on the tailgate of my truck.
This just in, Mom: Your little one’s s**t DOES stink, and is also a health issue. Take Junior outside. (Now were the Starbucks employees jerks about it? Probably, given the average Starbucks employee. But that’s no excuse.)
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Yuck.
People are crazy ping.
Yuck. I wouldn’t use a public changing station unless it was absolutely last resort. Can’t even imagine the filth that’s on them. In my diaper bag I always have at least one large disposable pad that gets laid down under baby on the very rare occassion that I do have to use a changing table. The back end of the SUV works beautifully for changes. In fact most places I leave the diaper bag in the car, knowing I’ll head back there to do a change. And for extreme emergencies, which thankfully I haven’t had to use yet and hopefully never will, I keep one diaper and a ziploc with wipes in a small bag that I keep my cash, id & ccw in.
I agree with you about the public changing tables! 10 babies. I used a changing table less than 10 times total. My lap or a seat in a vehicle was sufficient.
I think you have a point there.
Absolutely not in a restaurant, fast food or otherwise. What about the dignity and rights of the other diners or the unknowing customer who next sits at that booth. That’s why we don’t allow porta-potties in the middle of the dining area rather than separate restrooms.
I used to be upset whenever friends with their babies would visit and change the kid on our couch and then throw the dirty diaper directly into the kitchen garbage can. I finally asked one woman, whom I didn’t care for, if it was ok for me to take a dump in her kitchen garbage can. I caught hell over that but you can bet she never did that again. We always changed the kids somewhere away from the rest of the company, carried a changing pad, used a small garbage bag to collect the diapers and then carted the bag back home to our own outside garbage can. That is being respectful to others.
If I had witnessed this, I would have made it clear to the establishment that I would never again patronize their place of business and would urge all to boycott their business.
Some people seem to be confused as to the nature of diaper contents. Baby crap is still crap. It stinks, and it's no less of a health hazard than adult crap. Your point is spot on. Keep the crap out of the kitchen. I wonder if that idiot had her kitty litter-box in the kitchen.
I had two sons and I never had to change them in public. We did not take them to resturants with us until they were old enough to sit and eat (and go to the bathroom) like regular people.
We took the babies shopping with us when we had to and we went out to the car if they needed to be changed. We had a plastic changing pad we carried around to protect our babies and the car seat. I wiped down the plastic pad with bleach and water.
One thing is for sure, parents have to go in public with their babies and the baby is going to need to be changed. If your transportation is public buses and trains and residence is the city, I have no idea how parents can handle this.
There are strollers that lay down, so I guess you could take the baby into a bathroom stall in his stroller and change him on the stroller.
Well, give her some credit, at least she’s using a blanket. However, it would probably still be wise to disinfect the cart afterward.
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