I took my OH out yesterday for his birthday. It’s a restaurant with dress code and prices to match although children are very welcome.
The table we were at had another to my left, probably about 3/4’s of a metre away with a nice enough seeming family (one child in a high chair).
We had just received our main course when I noticed the horrific smell of a full nappy.
The wall was behind us so I realised it could only be said child to my left. After about 5 min the mother realised the nappy was full due to smell and said to her partner, I’ll change that once I’ve finished my steak.
About another 10-15 min later, said child was removed and smell disappeared. Now, it really did ruin our main as the smell was pretty overpowering. We finished our main during the time that nappy was full.
I didn’t say anything but should I have asked a waiter to ask them to change the nappy? It was a full 20 minutes that poor lad sat in his own waste. Or should we have asked for another table (that felt a bit drastic!) but I feel like a ‘posh’ birthday meal was made less pleasant by the lack or urgency of the people on the next table.
Maybe I’m just a bit miserable as it was the first meal out we’d had without our own kids for at least a year!