To think that if your going to spend Christmas Day snorting drugs you should not be doing it in

[IneedAsockamnesty]

The disabled loo/baby change of a well known family type restaurant. Whilst using most surfaces (the ones that more vulnerable people may need to steady themselves or baby's may be led on) to sprinkle your drugs on.

If that's your thing fair enough but wouldn't it be more appropriate to do it somewhere else?

[bootsycollins]

Just have a snort off a key surely

[FreudiansSlipper]

I have never known anyone to leave so much left over if drunk they would be more inclined to lick it off the toilet seat than leave it

but agree there is a time and a place

[IneedAsockamnesty]

She's ^ right though. No one would leave visible traces of powder about the place it's too expensive

Pissed up people who take drugs in places like that are quite likely to be prone to all manor of strange behaviour.

[NigellasDealer]

Drug addicts are in the grip of an addiction which is a disease
no, leukaemia is a disease, for example, addiction is/was a choice

[MichaelFinnigan]

She's ^ right though. No one would leave visible traces of powder about the place it's too expensive.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Labelling people with addictions as "freaks" is definitely harsh, and dehumanising.

I don't do it myself and I don't think particularly well of people who do.

They're all someone's child.

I simply do not think it's a disease.

[VampyreofTimeandMemory]

of course it's selfish but to just label all drug users 'freaks' is a bit harsh.

[TheGirlFromIpanema]

I should imagine it was a recreational user rather than anyone in the grip of a serious heroin addiction

Its annoying and inappropriate as well as dangerous if children are around.

I'd be having a word with the manager - they may have suspicions themselves and would likely kick anyone out if they suspected drug mis-use on the premises. We used to in the family pub I worked in. Any sign of it. Straight out. No reasons given. Just out.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Yanbu.

ananda don't get me wrong, I have a lot of sympathy for people whose lives have been blighted by drug addiction. I don't consider drug addiction a disease anymore than I do nicotine addiction,which is of course also a drug.

It is a choice to do the drugs. And those choices can lead to awful, tragic consequences. I truly feel sorry for people addicted to such substances.

But why is it a disease to be addicted to heroin but not nicotine? Is it the illegality of the former that makes it so?

[LurcioLovesFrankie]

Actually, since DS picked up a used needle in the local bus station saying "what's this, mummy?" I have to admit I have completely run out of sympathy. Yes it's an addiction, but no I don't give a shit. My son is more important, the poor sods who have to do the needle patrols at the crack of dawn in the local parks are more important (I have a friend who works for the council - our town has a needle exchange scheme, and it doesn't appear to make any sodding difference at all). And funnily enough, the ex addicts I've spoken to actually agree that drug addicts are selfish. (I'd have shooting galleries and prescribed heroin and let them go to hell in a handcart without impinging on my child).

[AnandaTimeIn]

Drug addicts are the most selfish people ever! Make me sick especially those who like to drop their needles in the street for people to tread on....merry Xmas by the way!

Well, I hope you also wish junkies Merry Xmas....

Drug addicts are in the grip of an addiction which is a disease, so not just selfish...

Do they not have a needle exchange programme where you live?! WTF....

you should write to your local councillor/MP to highlight this problem instead of whinging about it

It IS an HIV/AIDS problem too you know...

[Pigsmummy]

Always wipe down a baby changing unit. Sadly I know people who have recommended using the changing unit to do a line......

[AnandaTimeIn]

I don't snort or inject anything (UGH!).

However, I would be partial to smoking a small joint in the loo of the train or on the way to the station back home from a family do at Xmas....

snorting coke at a family do is crass.

As for heroin..... (Yikes!)

Both those situations call for a family meeting.

[formerbabe]

Redlondonbus is right. Drug addicts are the most selfish people ever! Make me sick especially those who like to drop their needles in the street for people to tread on....merry Xmas by the way!

[IneedAsockamnesty]

It was not McDonalds.

It made me quite cross as it was the only loo that was accesable to me and some of my children.we ended up having to leave.

[catgirl1976]

Oooh QOTSA nn

[VampyreofTimeandMemory]

I totally agree that it's horribly inappropriate but red - what a nasty attitude you have towards people who might really be struggling with life.

[MadAsFish]

It's hardly much of a mess - a bit of powder. Comparable to what you can find in restaurant toilets, it's nothing. (I used to do it as part of my job many, many years ago).

[RedLondonBus]

Some poor person had to clean that mess up! Lovely

[complexnumber]

You were in a Maccy on Xmas day weren't you!

Hose yourself down later and tell us more.

[MyMILisfromHELL]

Cocaine is a disgusting drug. Yuck!

[IneedAsockamnesty]

In all fairness they did a bloody good job with the food

[Mitchy1nge]

that really does sound the perfect time and place, otherwise you might be tempted to eat the food there

[NigellasDealer]

cross posted...well maybe so then....

[NigellasDealer]

nobody who is into cocaine would leave it 'sprinkled around' it is too expensive. If it was on a baby change table it was probably talc.