I tried searching just now in Amy's blog for a not-so-old entry, but, as is typical, the search function just wasn't helpful, even with the simplest keywords. (Can someone fix that, Amy?)

Anyway, here's a Miss Manners column on a subject that I trust we can all agree is pretty important. (Maybe there's already a law against it, but if there isn't, this is a prime example of why REMEMBERING to have good manners is so important!)

https://www.uexpress.com/life/miss-manners/2021/09/18

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I've read many complaints about people in restaurants changing their baby's diaper at the table. I'm wondering what your suggestion is for where parents (or other caretakers) should change diapers when there is no changing table available.

Must we get down on the bathroom floor for diaper changes? I'm surprised by the number of restaurants and stores that do not have changing tables -- even places that market themselves as family-oriented.

GENTLE READER: In those cases, you may ask the restaurant management where the best place to do it is. Miss Manners assures you that they have a vested interest in finding you somewhere sanitary and discreet -- and if they do not, they only have themselves to blame for any stinky consequences.
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Some comments:

clarkgablefan
Did you not arrive in a car? Change the kid there!

Manatee
A million upvotes for this. That was the first thing that came to my mind.

whitelion
Car might be in a parking garage six blocks away

A O
Then go to a restaurant with parking facilities. Plan ahead or stay home.

Newname
Yeeeees! Plan ahead.

Skipt Umalu
Must we get down on the bathroom floor for diaper changes?

If that's the only private area, yes. It's disgusting to change a baby's diaper in a restaurant dining room. at the table where people eat.

jpp221
Yes, and while the restroom floor is hardly sanitary, you can always spread a blanket (duh). It’s not like the kid can’t be stopped from licking the floor.

Lin F
Wow, a blanket! What a concept, LOL.

Jenny
Upscale restaurants (geared toward adults) often don't have changing tables. That's where I'm imagining the LW changing the baby at the table, disgusting other patrons, being talked to by management, getting into a tiff, then writing Dear Abby. Some people just don't have a clue.

Karen K
Babies really don't belong at expensive restaurants anyway. I would be pizzed if I went to Armani's for a nice dinner and it was ruined by another patron's howling brat. Leave the kid at home with a sitter.

Karen K
And if you don't have (a car) because you took public transportation, use a bench or ANYTHING other than a restaurant table.

Morrigan, too
Bonus: you don't have to drag a diaper bag into the restaurant with you.

TL;DR: It was only funny when the people croaking to the Wuflu were Republican:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/hermancainaward-subreddit-antivaxxer-deaths-cataloged.html

"by misled family members demanding or indeed suing for sick unvaccinated relatives on ventilators to be dosed with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or vitamin C." ~LILI LOOFBOUROW

Ivermectin works. Hydroxychloroquine too. And that isn't hard to figure out. Maybe the doctors should be sued for placing politics above medicine.

"Nothing about the r/HermanCainAward, a dark record of a dark, dark time, is decent or kind or particularly fair."

Welcome to modern left wing politics.