Soft play shit storm

[JazzyBBG]

Name change for this... just because... but I promise I'm not a poo troll!

So met a friend at soft play for lunch today. Nearing the end of lunch almighty smell of shit. Turn around there is a lady behind us cleaning up her 3 year old nappy full of poo on the floor, a potty there and it's down his legs getting worse.

This is in the middle of the food area. There is a baby change less than 8 metres away.

So I stood up and said to her "do you mind this is disgusting people are eating"

Her reply;

"Don't be so damn judgy you dont know what's going on I didn't know it had poo in it"

(The kid had been waking around with a visibly full nappy for sometime whilst she ignored him)

Me "well it's disgusting there is a baby change here you shouldn't be doing it here"

Her

"Oh I suppose you're so damn perfect are you shaming people"

Me

"Well I wouldn't do this"

I turned around and ignored her at that point.

This is disgusting right or am I in a parallel universe?

I don't really care if I shamed her she should be ashamed. As my friend said if there was an outbreak of food poisoning from the cafe they'd get the blame! There was no reason to do that there. There was no staff around at this point.
No doubt someone will say I should have helped her but I've had two of my own and never had the need to change them in he middle of a cafe!
I think she was possibly the grandma rather than the mum couldn't really tell. I actually feel sick thinking about it still.

Yeah that's really gross, I wouldn't have been happy and would have probably said something too!

Yep that's gross. Shouldn't be doing it where people are eating.

Why didn’t you alert the staff?

That's disgusting. I'd have said the same as you, possibly even more actually

As I said there wasn't any staff at that point. She left quickly after and when staff appeared we asked them to Dettol it!

Gross

Some people are behind grim.

I used to work in a soft play. Nothing surprises me anymore. Some people are disgusting.

She didn't know there was poo in it
She shouldn't be changing a nappy there regardless of whether it was a poo or not.

That's horrid yanbu

We were in the food area of a play centre (not soft play for bigger kids) and a child vomited copiously behind my chair I passed her some wipes she said she had some (but was doing nothing just shouting YOUR HANDS YOUR HANDS at the child) I then got someone over to clean the mess up while she is still stood there wiping the kids hands while she is walking in the puke she told the staff it was because she had eaten and played wiped her a bit and sent her off to play again, .... we left

YADNBU.

My 3 year old is in pullups and struggling to toilet train for understandable reasons. He sometimes will do a #2 and pull it down at home whilst telling me "Need the toilet" (he's getting there) so we go to the toilet and I show him where it goes, and then I sit him on it and I repeat where he should do it. Then we clean up.

In this situation of course I'd have pulled it straight back up again and taken him to the toilets as I would at home.

I'm very shocked no one complaied to a staff member. Don't tell me she threw it in a regular bin too?!...

It was disgusting but at the point when you had a go she probably felt stressed that she was dealing with an uncontrollable poo explosion. What did you expect her to do at that point, make the three year old walk dripping shit to the baby changer or for her to carry him there, covering herself in it? She misjudged what was appropriate but she probably already knew that, hence her snappy attitude, and I don't see what was achieved by you rubbing it in that she'd made a bad decision.

@MouseInATelescope only we could see it because of the seating and no staff around. She took it with her I think but I don't know. I was slightly concerned she may lob it at me!

@WhatTiggersDoBest she shouldn't have been doing it in the first place. We've all had shit storms to deal with but most of us do it away from food.

Oh that is disgusting and sounds like completely unnecessary for her to do that there. My son had a poo explosion at a soft play, he was in amongst a big group of children whizzing about in cozy coupes when another parent started shouting "Whose child is this, he's pooped everywhere!" and of course it was mine, it had all exploded out of the back of his nappy and was on the car and the floor. I was absolutely mortified and immediately grabbed him whilst partner went to inform staff so they could clean up while I took him to the bathroom to clean him up and then we left and did not return for several years!!

Thats disgusting! She knew all right what was in the nappy. She must have smelt it. That’s so wrong. That would have put me right off my lunch. What was the mother thinking? Dirty bitch

That's disgusting. I once when in my early 20s walked out of Macdonald's when my friends friend started changing her babies dirty nappy on the table because in her words the "baby changing was disgusting"

@JazzyBBG Ahh sorry I missed the no staff bit.

I just don't understand why she pulled the nappy down in the middle of the cafe. Even if it's wet you go to the toilet/baby change. You wait your turn. As a 3 year old you teach them toileting manners. You give them some dignity. I mean... don't you?! I can smell when mine has done something a mile off... and if not doesn't everyone like... have a peek down the back??

People do this at our local soft play. It's rank. I complained to the the leisure centre manager but it didn't make any difference.

The whole changing a nappy anywhere is gross. An old baby club friend of ours was changing her babies nappy at the end of the lunch table, whilst we were all eating lunch. Apparently thats okay because we were all mothers.

Yuck.

Gross.

Not quite the same but I once came back to my car in Aldi to find a mother letting her DS piss on her car tyre. I waited patiently until he had finished as he had already begun, but the piss puddle was massive and I couldn’t get into my car at all without stepping in it, so I had to kind of leap over it and as I did so some did go on my shoe and I pulled a face about it

She had a right go at me that it was only small child’s piss and I was BVU about it. From pulling a face!
I pointed at the toilet you could visibly see through Aldi window. If you are reading this Aldi piss woman THEY HAVE A TOILET