Cutting your baby's nails on a restaurnt table? AIBU?

[yolofish]

Nando's at lunchtime today. Mum comes in with v small and v quiet baby. All fine, of cousre she can come out for lunch if she wants to. When she has finished eating, she puts a mat on the table - and gets out the nail scissors and does the baby's fingernails.

I am not quite sure why I find this rather revolting, she didn't change a nappy on the restaurant table (or at least not until after we'd left) but it just seems a bit... personal? like you should do it in your own bathroom, not on a restaurant table?

She may have been taking advantage of baby being quiet but I would find that really off putting, the mat may have been dirty, did she scoop up the fingernails, maybe she cuts her own nails on the train and thinks this is normal behaviour.

That’s so grim. Yuck, not something you do in a restaurant.

That is properly weird. And gross.

No need to use scissors and def no need for any grooming of anyone at a bloody table!!

I’m trying to think of the circumstances that it would be essential you did this out and about...

Ugh that’s disgusting. Did anyone say anything, OP? I’d have struggled to keep my mouth shut . . .

Who are these people

It’s gross.

I don’t understand some people. I actually saw a woman change her baby’s nappy on the table at Pizza Express once not envy

Why? Why? Why?
Don’t these people have homes? Access to personal private space?
Or is it (for some people at least) that when they’v had a baby they forget all their senses of where things are appropriate?

Rank.

I worked in hospitality for years and saw more than one man cut their TOENAILS at their table.

I was told about someone a while back who changed their baby's nappy in a coffee shop
My mum refuses to go there.

I was sat on a plane and a couple a few rows in front tried to use the drop down tray as a baby changing table (god knows how, I wouldn't have thought it big enough). The flight attendant caught them and said "do you mind? That's disgusting! We don't actually sanitise those between flights!".

I once saw a lady picking nits out of her child a hair in a cafe and put them on the table.

Just grim

DD1 has been working in a (quite upmarket) pizza restaurant all summer and says they often get people changing nappies at the table and/or leaving used nappies on the table. So gross. She and her team always asked parents not to do it, or take the used nappy away with them, but 9 times out of 10 were met with a certain level of abuse.

Donthugmeimscared that made me nearly retch. Any grooming at table is fucking revolting.

It’s really grim, people’s general manners seem to go out of the window when it involves their child. I’ve had to stop friends from changing a nappy on a table in a restaurant once, I couldn’t even believe it crossed their mind. They also informed me how they changed their child’s nappy on the tray table on the plane when I asked how they got on changing her in a cramped plane toilet

I was in a cafe, more like a concession in a department store, in Street recently. A lady had her dog in there, that's one thing, then she got the dog on her lap and he started licking the table. My grandson turned round to see what I was staring at, then informed me that the dog was licking the spoons! We were horrified and transfixed at the same time.