Well, apparently not only does her sh** not stink, apparently the same is true of her baby.

I wonder if she'd change the baby on her own kitchen table during dinner?

Maybe. So that argument wouldn't work on her.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: When the center of the universe is discovered, a LOT of people are going to be disappointed they are not it.

Ack this story irritated me the other day when I first read about it, and it's still irritating me. I want to just smack this dingbat upside the head! You don't get to go into someone's business, and do this. It's nasty, it's a health code violation and EWWW you were going to feed your kids at that table when you were finished?!?! I'm sorry you are too effing lazy to walk out to your car, with the baby and your other kids to change your kid's poopy butt. That's not the business owner's problem, and it's certainly not something the other paying customers should be subjected to. And NO the business owner does not have to put a changing table in the restroom for your lazy ass. Although why anyone uses those bathroom changing tables I will NEVER know, because it's not like someone comes through and sanitizes the tables between each diaper change! Also, I'm pretty sure this nut job had no intention of using the bathroom if there had been a changing table. She wouldn't have left her 4 and 8 year old special snowflakes alone at the table because STRANGERS...OMG!

And this is why I registered for a "portable changing station." No real diaper changing table? Okay, then just spread out the portable station on the floor and put the baby on it for changing. Changing on the table in a restaurant off of which people eat is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. Good on the management for kicking her out. Don't even want to think what the health inspectors can do to them if insufficient sanitation is suspected.

I would have left the 8 and 4 year old at the table, and taken the baby to the car. I've certainly left my not-quite-4-year-old at the table when I've needed to use the facilities or something. An 8 year old should be well-behaved enough to sit at the table and mind the younger kid.

If she had a changing pad anyway, why not use the bathroom floor? Sheesh.

I have to wonder how other mothers of babies feel about this - leaving aside those who bothered to comment online, I mean. Likely, they're thinking something like "yes, it was wrong for HER to do it - but if *I* were that mother, I'd do the same thing and hope no one would see."

lenona, why would you assume that?

The trunk of the car was the usual baby-changing spot when we were out. If there was no changing table when the need was more immediate, I'd maneuver the stroller into the handicap stall and make do quite well with that.

There are lots of other options. All of them better than what she did. Most people (Moms are people too) are completely grossed out by this.

Poop does not belong in a dining room.

meh.. This is minor compared to what really goes on behind the scenes in any restaurant anywhere.

Wait...is this a new story? I thought I'd read about this some time ago?

I wouldn't have thrown her out. I would have offered a compromise: here's a bottle of bleach water, a towel and offered the choice of cleaning the table and chairs, or leaving and not coming back.

The first time we took my son to a restaurant (we had booked a private party for his one-month celebration), my wife wanted to change his diaper on the table. I told her she couldn't do that. I'm certain the consequences of changing a diaper on a table where people eat just never occurred to her.

I get a blank look whenever I mention prevention as the ONLY effective measure to increase safety margins; use this example to point out that there are not only opportunities here to introduce OBVIOUS fecal matter to the menu, there is the opportunity for unseen material - and if the practice is allowed, the probability of inducing illness inches ever so surely towards, "certainty".

I've been in situations frequently where there is no changing table in the bathroom, which I generally opt not to use anyway because they are filthy. I spread my changing pad out on the floor and use that instead. Although I did get yelled at by an extremely plus-sized woman for using the handicapped stall when I wasn't handicapped. Okay, but I couldn't fit me, my 2-year-old, and a stroller in a normal bathroom stall, let alone change him on the floor. Then again, this was at the same mall where some lady flipped out on me for using the lactation room to pump milk because she had to wait 20-ish minutes and apparently the room is only intended for women with children attached to their boobs, not those with breast pumps. Sigh.

Having children is all about being inconvenienced.

The seven truest words in the English language.

lenona, why would you assume that?

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Well, maybe I should have said "half of all modern young mothers."

Also, see what Fayd said.

I.e., as gross, immodest, self-centered behavior become more and more common, even normally smart, polite people will do awful, inconsiderate things when they really should know better.

Take that mother in Utah who had her toddler use the potty chair at a restaurant...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/potty-training-in-restaurant-_n_1858510.html

If that ever happened in plain sight in an American restaurant before 2012, I've never heard of it.

NicoleK:
I would have left the 8 and 4 year old at the table, and taken the baby to the car.

It's getting so that's a felony.

Can't speak for every mother everywhere -- and I do not fit the definition of a "young" mother, although I'm not breaking any records with my age -- but I personally want to think that the restaurants in which I am served food are feces-free in general. (Urine, too, but urine doesn't rise to the same level of disgustingness as feces.) That desire far, far trumps any annoyance I may feel when a "family-oriented" restaurant such as this one doesn't have a changing table. Now, am I more likely to patronize restaurants with changing tables when I'm with my kids? Oh yeah. On road trips, we will go out of our way to stop at McDonald's or Chick-Fil-A, because both (generally) have changing tables in both the men's and women's restrooms. And we have told others. But a lack of a changing table does not entitle one to violate health codes. Dining tables are for eating. I don't relieve myself at them -- why would I change diapers at them?

(And, because I've seen a few people bring this up at other sites: No, this is not the same as someone breastfeeding their kid in a restaurant. Whatever you think of the manners/propriety of breastfeeding in public, the fact is that traces of breast milk found in a restaurant will not cause a health inspector to shut the place down. Not to mention the fact that Texas state law protects the right of women to breastfeed in public. I know that no one here is dragging in that straw horse, but I find other comment sections too moronic to participate in, so the lot of you get to listen to me whine. Delightful, no?)

Sigh. Our kids are potty training, and things aren't going horribly, but they're not at a stage at which we feel comfortable bringing them to a restaurant yet. I'm a spoiled brat who can't cook, but I miss going to restaurants! This is making me even LESS sympathetic with these self-centered idiots calling themselves parents. Am looking forward to date night with the spouse this weekend, when a nice waitperson will read me out a list of specials and I will sip a glass of wine that someone else will have to wash out later while our superb babysitter watches over the kids back at our home...

Somebody, please go take a dump in her kitchen, especially while she is trying to cook up some food for her family and she how she likes the smell.

The pizza restaurant did the right thing. I only wish that they were near me - I'd order pizza there all the time now - they deserve more business for their right attitude.

I had a baby back before changing tables in public restrooms were as common as they are now. However, the diaper bag came with a large, folding changing pad, so when - as was often the case - there was no changing table in the john, I just put the changing pad on the floor of the bathroom and changed her. The pad was large enough that no part of my baby's body was in contact with the floor. When there was a changing table, I still used the pad, on top of the changing table, because I didn't want to risk some other kid's shit or piss getting on my kid.

I pretty much did the same thing when changing my daughter's diaper at other people's homes - put the changing pad on the bathroom floor.

So, yes, the ditz in the story is just a lazy, self-centered douchehat.

"No, this is not the same as someone breastfeeding their kid in a restaurant." Yup no shit not the same. Wonder if those idiots get the irony of bringing this up at an Italian place, where Dairy pretty much coats every surface.

Few years back on here someone actually changed my view on it. Now as far as I'm concerned as long as the child belongs there then no one has any business complaining. Now at bars and high end dining establishment, no but that's because the kid shouldn't be there.