To think that the table in an Indian restaurant is not the place to change your baby's nappy

[CrimsonCodswallop]

So me and my DP were having lunch in an Indian restaurant today when a couple came in with their children. Shortly after sitting down my DP noticed that the mother had just started changing the baby's nappy. Now I will say the restaurant was empty, just us and them, but I feel it wasn't really the place to change a nappy (just three tables away from us) while we were eating, not to mention the fact that the mother couldn't wash her hands or dispose of the presumably wet (there was no smell) nappy.

[spiderswilldescend]

Daily Mail have stolen this one today - they're camped out in MN just now, aren't they?

[LittlePeaPod]

ICanSee. I bet someone will have seen you changing the nappy in Pret A Manger. Can I ask, why not just go and find a more appropriate place to change your DC nappy?

[LittlePeaPod]

Even when their bottoms have exploded into their nappies and it smells like toxic waste, taking just a few moments to move away from the vicinity was always, always an option

Totally agree.

[Nanny0gg]

Sometimes you just have to do it there and then.

No, you don't.

[HaroldLloyd]

I think changing a big shitty nappy on one of the desks at daily mail HQ would be acceptable though.

[handcream]

I think some people think their requirements trump anyone else's and when a child is involved - well no one is more important than them!!

[KissMyFatArse]

Absolute dirty trout! Yanbu.

Mingers!

[Vintagejazz]

It's an ignorant thing to do. And to the posters saying 'oh I once discreetly changed my baby....' please tell me you didn't then handle the salt and pepper shakers, milk jugs etc that other customers had to subsequently use? Or that you at least went to the cloakroom yourself and washed your hands?

[sarahquilt]

It's gross and inexcusable. Just lazy parents.

[ravenAK]

OK, so if it's a shitty nappy, clearly you don't change it on a table in a restaurant, right? Because yuck, stink, germs.

If it's a soggy washable nappy, again, you'd want to change it somewhere you can bag the wet one.

If it's just a fullish, wet, disposable nappy - that's the only circumstances in which I can imagine thinking it's not that gross - not messy or especially smelly, cleanish bum, quick whip off & on. But then surely it can wait long enough to take the child outside & change on your lap in the loo/the car etc?

Nope. I just can't see why anyone would need to do this, ever.

[naty1]

Disgusting.
But then hopefully there was a changing table in the bathroom.
Lots of virus' in poop and wee for poor unsuspecting next customer.
We have changed ours on benches, grass, sand.
I dont like change tables in public very much, wiggly baby, seem to be full of germs

[microcosmia]

A friend has twins not yet 3 and recently we both attended a local funeral. Her husband was there with the twins in tow. A the burial in the cemetery she gave him a knowing look and he dutifully disappeared back to the car. He arrived back with 2 potties and she took the kids over to a path are sat them on their potties and praised them to high heaven for doing their business. So naturally they wanted to show everyone what was in their potties, which my friend and her DH thought was hilarious. No one else did though, not DH and me, nor the two sets of godparents who were there too. It was completely unnecessary to do this in public, there is a family hotel across the road from the cemetery with excellent facilities, or go back to the car park and do it beside the car there if you must (still gross though). She is normally very affronted if someone was to invade their privacy. Once she bawled a man out of it because he walked into the unlocked changing room where she was changing one of them. Yet she sees nothing wrong with potty training in a cemetery during a funeral. Unbelievable.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

@ micro. What on earth is wrong with some people?!

[KoalaDownUnder]

micro, that is utterly disgusting. What the hell were they thinking?! Just no respect for others and no social awareness.

[ADHDNoodles]

Puts a new meaning to "pissing on your grave".

Or maybe it doesn't.

[LittlePeaPod]

Micro that's so disrespectful. I can't believe someone would do this in any social environment but at a funeral for god sake!

seriously a little message for those that think its ok to do this. We don't want to see your precious baby or toddler shit and piss. In nappies or potties

[browneyedgirl86]

Yanbu.

What a disgusting thing to do. There is no excuse to change a nappy at a table. Its bad manners, unhygienic and lazy parenting.

Sadly though it doesn't surprise me. Our theatre has stopped accepting babies in arms to performances because there was so many people changing their babies in their seats and just leaving the nappies under the seats.People can be foul.

[mathanxiety]

YANBU

I don't understand why she had to change the nappy when it was just pee. If it was completely sodden, then surely she should have realised that before they all left home or left the car.

[Julius02]

I'm absolutely amazed that some people on here are trying to justify it and say that it is ok to change a nappy in a place where people are eating. It absolutely is not and if I was in a restaurant and someone attempted to do it I would complain. I don't care what's in the nappy; it just isn't acceptable.

[FiftyShadesOfGreen4205]

Waves at Daily Mail

[Catsize]

The Daily Mail will be interested in this because it is akin to a nappy.
It takes the piss, is full of shit and disgusts the decent thinking members of society when it is opened.

[LittlePeaPod]

Cat it was in the DM yesterday!

[LittlePeaPod]

Come to think about it.l Op do you work for DM?