To think the middle of macdonalds is not the place to change a nappy?

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I know I'm going to get told I deserve it for going in there but what the hell! A woman at the next table to us changed her toddler on her knee and put the dirty nappy on the table whilst she dressed the child. No excuse for that anyway but there was nothing wrong with the toilets. Minging!

Am I the only person who has never done it but doesnt really have that much of a problem with it - I mean its not like you empty out your fries and eat them off the table is it - you go out of your way to avoid touching the tables anyway...

And the nappy would have presumably been sat dry side down anyway iyswim - so whats on the table anyway? am confused...

In a posher place I would be much more

Can I ask a question? If an elderly lady or gentleman emptied their catheters full of wee into a bucket in McDonalds, all those who change their babes nappies would have no problem with that. Am I right?

Personally think it is gross to change a babes nappy in an eating establishment.

I have changed ds2's nappy on a bus, train, bench in picnic area, motorway services, park bench etc always on my knee, always fold the nappy on table first but I do it quickly and quietly (depending on wriggling 19m old) and I wouldn't put the nappy on the table...

Oh I love my cloth nappies.

Yanbu.

I'd probably have eaten it. If I'd been hungry enough to cross the threashold of McDs in the first place it would have provided a welcome alternative.

I'd probably have eaten it. If I'd been hungry enough to cross the threshold of McDs in the first place it would have provided a welcome alternative.

I sometimes wonder how people get through their daily lives with this level of hygiene worry - if you're more bothered about the state of the tables than the 16 year olds hands in the Mcdonalds kitchen who has prepared the food in the first place then somethings gone wrong.

You can always make a great big show of spraying down all available surfaces with some antibac and then wiping them all before you sit down to the food that young Kevin has lovingly prepared.

And its not like emptying a catheter or the used knickers is it really - you would have no reason to do that whereas if you had a baby and toddler and bags and buggies and couldnt get the the toilets there would be a logistical reason why you would do it at the table.

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giantkate - just as I would not expect you to breast feed your babe in the toilets, I would not expect you to change your babes nappy in a restaurant.

As for your logistical nightmare, if other mums manage to change babes in the baby changing area, why can't the rest?

Think laziness and can't be bothered play a big part here.

MY sister is a registrar and was conducting a wedding service only to find herself distracted by the woman changing her Dcs dirty nappy on the floor next to the bride and groom.

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There was a perfectly good clean changing room the OP said, giantkate.

Christ, I managed to use changing rooms when I had three little ones, a double buggy and piles of shopping, if the need arose.

I think it's partly laziness as cheshirekitty says, and partly the attitude of 'Oh look, I've got a baby, it's so terribly precious and important that i've just got to show you all the contents of its precious nappy while you eat your dinner.'

I really honestly do think some mothers lose all perspective, and several years later realise how awful they were!

I understand about the changing room but I think a Macdonalds doesnt really count tbh when you're sitting across the way from a tramp swearing and muttering into his coffee etc its not exactly a proper restaurant is it.

I am not saying its optimal - obviously it isnt but its not something I could get myself into a lather about.

If there was a changing room, YANBU.

I admit to having changed DS on the seat in a McD but in my defense, there was no changing table (ahhh, Paris! No changing tables anywhere!) and the sink area was a lake. Floor even worse.

But I have gone out of my way other times, even to the point of changing DS on the icky bathroom floor of a Spanish train (mat went straight into the bin afterwards). Or on my knees when sitting on a closed toilet seat. There is usually a way of doing it discreetly!

So we all decide what 'counts' do we?
And sitting opposite someone who is behaving in a socially unacceptable way makes it ok to also behave anti socially?

Not a very grown up way to behave!

Jeeez....

However, having just done a child handover outside a Macdonalds (J2 off M27 in case anybody would like to know) with the largest concentration of rat bait boxes I've ever seen and reeking of maggots (presumably from the rat corpses), I don't think I would ever go anywhere near a Macd again so I don't really care how many shitty nappies people change there.

Well I changed DD1 nappy in a not posh) restaurant onmy knee one time and felt really embarrassed at having to do it but there were no changing tables and no room on the loo floor.

If there is a changing table or an area where you can put a mat down, you should not change a bum in an eating area, its basic hygene and manners

violethill - of course not, but peoples ideas of antisocial differ dont they...my definition of it is something that affects other people - so actually changing a wee-ey nappy or a tramp muttering to himself are not that antisocial if they dont affect others - or if they only affect others because the very sight of them offends.

In my local Macs it would be more socially acceptable to change a nappy than to bf sadly and this is what annoys me more.