If I'm a bystander customer in that situation, how is it inconsiderate for me to call those folks out for changing a diaper on a table right next to me? Especially if there's a diaper full of baby-poo three feet away from me and I'm trying to eat a donut or something? With no poo, I go on about my business and everybody wins. I don't act until forced to.

 

Again, walk the 15 feet to your freakin' car and do it there, so it doesn't bother anyone else.

 

Was their car really just 15ft away?

 

 

And I'd venture to guess it happens more often than not close to where you are. Yes, they may have been able to go to their car but maybe they couldn't have. Maybe there were other circumstances involved.

Oh my bad, I must have misread where the customers changed their baby's diaper on a table where other customers were eating on.

 

So you're OK with it if it's going on at the table right next to you? Do you enjoy hints of baby-poo with your latte?

Again, I'm not saying I do it on a daily basis or have even done it more than 3 times but there have been instances in which an establishment did not provide a changing table in either restroom, and the car wasn't readily accessible so we had to change the baby's diaper in the booth we were at. No one paid any attention as to what we were doing.

So you're OK with it if it's going on at the table right next to you? Do you enjoy hints of baby-poo with your latte?

 

 

I don't drink coffee.

 

 

But as to what you're saying, I don't want it, no. But would I go out of my way to throw a hissy fit to the family, or to management for a smell that probably lasted 3-5 seconds, no I would not.

Was their car really just 15ft away?

 

Oh, for God's sake. It's a Starbucks. It's not like it's a huge hike to the parking lot. Would 30 feet make you feel better, or is that just too much to ask?

 

 

 

And I'd venture to guess it happens more often than not close to where you are. Yes, they may have been able to go to their car but maybe they couldn't have. Maybe there were other circumstances involved.

 

If the kid's already done their business, how is it that "they couldn't have?" Was it gushing out the side of the diaper? Surely they could've waited to get to the car. I don't really see what "other circumstances" could have made it so urgent that they had to change the diaper right there, where it could be an imposition upon their fellow customers.

I don't drink coffee.

 

 

But as to what you're saying, I don't want it, no. But would I go out of my way to throw a hissy fit to the family, or to management for a smell that probably lasted 3-5 seconds, no I would not.

 

Three to five seconds of human feces scent is just about enough to get my gag reflex working overdrive, and then I'm doing all I can to keep from hurling. And no diaper change is that quick.

Three to five seconds of human feces scent is just about enough to get my gag reflex working overdrive, and then I'm doing all I can to keep from hurling. And no diaper change is that quick.

 

Okay then 10 seconds. It doesn't take that long to change I diaper I change about 5-6 every day.

 

I don't know their complete situation and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I've been in their situation and maybe that's why I'm a little more sympathetic to it than others would be.

Okay then 10 seconds. It doesn't take that long to change I diaper I change about 5-6 every day.

 

I don't know their complete situation and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I've been in their situation and maybe that's why I'm a little more sympathetic to it than others would be.

 

OK, then I'll ask you -- ever felt compelled to change a diaper at a McDonald's or some other restaurant, at your table?

 

I'm trying to figure out what situation you've been in where you had to change it right then and there, and couldn't wait the 15 seconds it would have taken to get to your car, rather than risk somebody next to you puking all over the place at the scent of your baby's dung? That's not even considering the people who might have used the table after you. I bet they'd like a different table had they known you were cleaning up smushed peas residue just five minutes before they got there.

OK, then I'll ask you -- ever felt compelled to change a diaper at a McDonald's or some other restaurant, at your table?

 

I'm trying to figure out what situation you've been in where you had to change it right then and there, and couldn't wait the 15 seconds it would have taken to get to your car, rather than risk somebody next to you puking all over the place at the scent of your baby's dung? That's not even considering the people who might have used the table after you. I bet they'd like a different table had they known you were cleaning up smushed peas residue just five minutes before they got there.

 

 

Okay, if you want a situation I'll give ya one.

 

 

So my wife, I and our 9 month old baby was at Hillbilly Days (festival in Pikeville) and we always ride a shuttle bus to town and leave our car at the business where she works. We stopped at a restaurant and ate but it did not have a changing table. We were in a booth and once we realized that the baby had used the bathroom (not by smell, but the feel of her pants) we decided that the 10 seconds it would take to change her diaper easily outweighed trying to change her elsewhere. It was quick and nothing was on the booth because we use diapers and luckily that is what they are made for. We also sanitized the booth afterwards anyway.

 

 

If that's not good enough for you then the other two instances in which our vehicle was more than 15ft away was once during the winter and it was snowing heavy outside and the other was a couple of months ago and it was pouring the rain and with our compact car it's a hassle trying to change a diaper in the car.

 

My wife also has a very bad back and bad ankle so bending down to change a diaper in a car is very hard for her, almost impossible. Sometimes I'm not with her, and in the case of the time during the winter I wasn't with her, it was just her and the baby out.

 

Anything else you'd like to know regarding my family, or why we do or don't do certain things?

 

 

I'm not looking to get your approval or your understanding but sometimes it calls for it. It's not something that I regularly do or will probably do again (because we try to avoid those places that do not have changing tables).

 

 

Also regarding the people using the booth after us comment. When we have the baby with us we always sanitize the booth we are at whether it's from food spills, spit up, etc. If the employees at the establishment do their job as well then it is sanitized twice before a new family even comes to it. Probably a lot cleaner than when you go to other places.

 

 

One other thing, we do not sit at tables when we have the baby with us, as it's easier to sit at a booth so the couple of times we have had to do it has been inside a booth that had other patrons surrounding us but you could not smell anything ( I know all babies are different).

^ See, that's different -- you're talking booths, where you can be hidden. I've never been in a Starbucks that has a booth, which means those people were doing the deed right out where everyone can see them, shamelessly imposing upon everyone else. Especially when you consider most Starbucks are smallish, with tables very close together.

 

From the sounds of it, you guys were being as respectful to the other customers as possible, which is admirable. The folks in the OP, however, sound like typical Americans who have little regard for anything that goes on outside their tunnel vision.

Get with the times guy.

 

 

 

I'd say that Starbucks, as well as many other establishments should update their bathroom's to accomodate the increase of people having babies.

 

 

As you said it's not a big deal.....For businesses to spend a little bit of money and invest in changing tables.

 

That's why I said, "Too many people nowadays make too much out of being put-out just the slightest". It's not the end of the world if there is no changing table in the bathroom.

I think the employee is in need of some customer service lessons. Is it gross? Yes. But unless this lady does it all the time, suck it up and clean it up. The lady needs some manners and/or common sense.

 

My wife's cousin married a girl from south of Richmond and brought her back to this end of the state, and she sees no problem changing her kids diapers in my mother in laws living room as well as breast feeding her child sitting next to me on the couch and trying to have a conversation with me. So awkward... I think stuff like that is just either inconsiderate or a little too much, "look at what I'm doing." Wouldn't be a big deal but they've taken it upon themselves to procreate the world, I think they got 5 kids so far and they're in their 20's.

 

I dunno if any of you have seen "My Best Friend's Girl" with Dane Cook and Jason Biggs, but there's a scene where a girl is breast feeding and Biggs says "I'll have what he's having." That scene popped in my head 2 Christmas' ago during grace after she had just pulled the breast feed/convo thing with me. Needless to say I was overcome with uncontrollable laughter during grace. Pretty awkward cause everyone thought I was laughing at her husband doing grace cause he says "father" minimum20 times per prayer.

If it was a blowout and messy (up the back, you all know what im talking about) then he has to git er done in the bathroom away from customers . But if ITS an easy cleanup he should take the kid to the car. I remember doing quickie changes on the backseat as a young father.

The customer was wrong period. You don't change a diaper on a table where people eat etc. I wonder if this guy changes his babies diaper on their dinning room table right before they eat.

 

The guy could of changed the baby diaper in his car.

 

I could care less that Starbucks doesn't have a changing table in their bathroom, there are a lot of places that don't. It's not a necessity, it's an added bonus for those that do have them, but not a necessity.

Okay, if you want a situation I'll give ya one.

 

 

So my wife, I and our 9 month old baby was at Hillbilly Days (festival in Pikeville) and we always ride a shuttle bus to town and leave our car at the business where she works. We stopped at a restaurant and ate but it did not have a changing table. We were in a booth and once we realized that the baby had used the bathroom (not by smell, but the feel of her pants) we decided that the 10 seconds it would take to change her diaper easily outweighed trying to change her elsewhere. It was quick and nothing was on the booth because we use diapers and luckily that is what they are made for. We also sanitized the booth afterwards anyway.

 

 

If that's not good enough for you then the other two instances in which our vehicle was more than 15ft away was once during the winter and it was snowing heavy outside and the other was a couple of months ago and it was pouring the rain and with our compact car it's a hassle trying to change a diaper in the car.

 

My wife also has a very bad back and bad ankle so bending down to change a diaper in a car is very hard for her, almost impossible. Sometimes I'm not with her, and in the case of the time during the winter I wasn't with her, it was just her and the baby out.

 

Anything else you'd like to know regarding my family, or why we do or don't do certain things?

 

 

I'm not looking to get your approval or your understanding but sometimes it calls for it. It's not something that I regularly do or will probably do again (because we try to avoid those places that do not have changing tables).

 

 

Also regarding the people using the booth after us comment. When we have the baby with us we always sanitize the booth we are at whether it's from food spills, spit up, etc. If the employees at the establishment do their job as well then it is sanitized twice before a new family even comes to it. Probably a lot cleaner than when you go to other places.

 

 

One other thing, we do not sit at tables when we have the baby with us, as it's easier to sit at a booth so the couple of times we have had to do it has been inside a booth that had other patrons surrounding us but you could not smell anything ( I know all babies are different).

 

Well, you were in Pikeville at Hillbilly Days...and you know what they say..."When in Rome...":banana: