I would have booted her out too.

[Brigid]

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Mom kicked Out of Restaurant After Diaper Change

http://www.wthr.com/story/26250976/2014/08/11/mom-kicked-out-of-restaurant-after-diaper-change

Changing a diaper at a table in a restaurant? Really?

[Texasgal]

1. While I feel sorry for her

that there were no changing tables in the bathroom, I would have gone to the car.

[Brigid]

3. Granted there should have been changing tables in the restroom.

If there was space enough for them, that is. But no diaper chsnges in the dining area, please.

[napi21]

2. That was just poor judgement OR no judgement at all!

IU raised two boys, and they didn't have changing tables in the restrooms back then. I NEVER even thought of changing the baby's diaper in an open public area...ESPECIALLY a resturant! Sometimes I'm really amazed at the thoughtless things some people do. Apparently they don't ever think of other people at all...only themselves.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Couldn't be bothered to go back to the car

No sympathy from me.

[MikeW]

5. health code violation

[Brigid]

6. Now that you mention it . . .

Yes, I'm sure you're right.

[Shrike47]

7. She didn't want to go the bother of going out to the car. Lazy [bad word].

She shouldn't take the children to a restaurant with that kind of attitude and behavior.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Gross. nt

[TeamPooka]

9. 'you don't shit where you eat' nt

[MineralMan]

10. Waiting for the first person to defend this woman.

...

[mindwalker_i]

11. Yikes

I worked at a science museum with an IMAX theater, and it really ticked me off that people changed their kids in the theater, on the seats. This, where there's food, is a thousand times worse.

[REP]

12. But but but it's just baby shit! Laden with baby E. coli!

If it was too much bother to take her other kids to the car to change the diaper, wasn't it going to be too much trouble to take them all to the bathroom with her to change it?

How on earth did babies of my era get changed without public changing tables? Were parents back then magic? Did babies not crap? Or did people figure out a way that wasn't revolting and a threat to public health and safety?

[Ilsa]

13. Not cool.

Its tougher on an airplane, though.

[moriah]

14. If the argument about not nursing in the bathroom is who wants to eat in a toilet....

... who wants to eat in a toilet?

Nuh-uh, you take that shit (literally) to a bathroom or outside.

Babies nurse at unpredictable times, and they should get to eat when and where other people do. Yes, babies poo at unpredictable times, too. But people don't poo at the table (at least we hope not).

[tritsofme]

15. These changing tables being ubiquitous is a fairly recent development

Believe it or not people managed somehow without them, and without resorting something as ridiculous as this. And how absurd that they are filing a complaint, I'm glad these parents are getting publicity if for no other reason than the ridicule they are due.

[liberalhistorian]

18. My son is 23 and I don't remember there

being many public changing tables available when he was little. I did have a kind of small portable changing pad that I always took with me to use in the car, if necessary. I cannot imagine what this mother was even thinking.

[liberalhistorian]

16. I totally, completely agree with the

restaurant, how utterly disgusting. I raised a son and I cannot imagine what she possibly could have been thinking. UGH.

[Takket]

17. feces has no place at the dinner table

can't believe I actually just had to type that.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. Some people have no sense. Some years ago at Thanksgiving a guest changed a diaper near the table...

We're all sitting and eating Thanksgiving dinner and this person-- a relative of a relative-- has to change her baby's diaper so she takes the baby a few feet away to the living room, lays the baby on the floor in full view of all at the table, and does the change. Not a small house, plenty of space (and 2 or 3 bathrooms) away from the dining area to take care of it, but no, this one needs to share the experience with everyone.

[alphafemale]

21. Some people cannot seem to comprehend that not everyone is as enthralled....

with the fruit of their loins as they are.

[Ms. Toad]

22. I know I had an argument with someone on DU

who defended this very practice.

Eating , waiting for them to arrive...