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would you leave dirty nappies in a library?

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starlover · 30/03/2006 19:02

kind of following on from the restaurant thread!

My mum works in our local library and they have a baby jiggle and rhyme time on a friday morning.

Due to persistent requests they got a changing mat so that babies could be changed if necessary and people have now started LEAVING their dirty nappies beside it! for library staff to remove and bin....

I was Shock when I heard it

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:45

so, if i decided that i wanted to sit in waterstones and read books to Linus... i should then be able to demand a nappy bin?

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Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:45

too many syllables.

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:45

i mean... they have children's books so they must want them there.
they shouldn't stock kids books if they don't want to provide a bin

oh and milk and a warmer. maybe some baby food too

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:46

jiggle and rhyme time = 5 syllables
sniggle jiggle sessions= 6 syllables

ok!

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 30/03/2006 23:46

No, i carry poo around with me with alarming regularity Grin

I just cant see what the big deal about providing a bin for dirty nappies if you are inviting a group of people with a particular need.

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:46

and i can't see the big deal with taking it with you if there isn't a bin!

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paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:47

Will do, VVV. Wow, an entire years bin emptying contract for £30-£50. Fantastic!!! I'll let my boss know tomorrow...

Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:47

Didn't bother me to pop my nappy in a bag, but then, it would get very expensive to leave my washables hanging around library floors. [smug halo icon] Can't understand why that's not considered acceptable for menstrual waste though.

expatinscotland · 30/03/2006 23:47

parks invite kids over w/playgrounds and there's no toilet facility or nappy bin in them.

oops · 30/03/2006 23:48

Oh do you know what, this is really annoying me now.
I sort of feel that a library is a public facilty.
It should jsut be a place where books live, it should be a place where people can go and use computers, get dvds out, read the paper...and god forbid as it seems to some of you, just have a little sit down when the going gets tough with the kids.
DS1 loves books and love the library and so do i and ds2 is beginiing to love it.
We like the staff and i love to see some of the less able people that shuffle in each day.
There's the bloke who seems to be writing a novel but makes loads of notes in very very small writing and reads it with a mgnifying glass-
there's the woman who comes in to read the papers and smile at the kids,
There's the teenagers who come in to do the homework club, there's a whole world in our library and i hope it stays like that.

i really think just having a facility where one can change a baby's nappy and dispose of it if that's what it needs isn't such a mad thing to want in a place where everywhere else you actually have to apy to do so
We don't have a mothercare that you can just pop inot, nor is there a mall with the facilites.
The library here has kept my sanity and ffs i have gone in there just purely to feed my baby when out and about
so there !!! Grin

Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:48

That's 'cos they crap in the bushes. Grin

paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:48

No, but there SHOULD be, Expat, there SHOULD be [stamped foot emoticon] Grin

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:50

lets just take a look at the thread title again eh?

would you leave dirty nappies in a library?

that's it... no "sjhould libraries have bins"
no "kids should be banned"

no, just a... would you leave nappies in the library.
why such an issue?

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:51

and oops... i agree wholeheartedly with your last post! i really, really do!

yes, it would be fab if all places had changing facilities on the ground floor.

but it doesn't...

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oops · 30/03/2006 23:52

and there really really wasn't anywhere else to go in the winter.
Sad

Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:52

There you go oops, another example of the entitlement society, that's you. You'll be expecting mother and baby parking spaces at supermarkets next, and maternity leave and caesareans on demand.

paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:53

Oops - you know what - that's why I chose to work in libraries. I love the whole ethos of the place and the fantastic work that they do providing a very valuable, free service to everyone in the community. You're right, they are whole little worlds, with so much learning and innovation and social gatherings. That is why when there is not a nappy bin, for whatever reason (Council cutbacks probably Sad), and people feel it appropriate to leave the nappies for staff, I feel sad and beyond angry.

Caligula · 30/03/2006 23:54

OK Starlover, back to the thread title, my answer would be:

Yes if they provided a bin for them
No if they didn't

And not if they were washables in any case.

expatinscotland · 30/03/2006 23:55

the staff in our library are so lovely and cheerful, i can't imagine doing that to them.

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starlover · 30/03/2006 23:56

right, well now everyone agrees with me i'm off to bed Grin
Wink

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oops · 30/03/2006 23:57

well starlover, I feel it should have
and you feel it doesn't need to

that is it really...

I suppose it depends on what other facilities you have locally too, you have free changing in your mall and in mothercare, and obviously somewhere to feed a baby in a sheltered area
and I didn't

and it is bloody hard getting a newborn and a toddler out of the pushcahir and then have top shove them all back in to just go and change them and hoep the staff won't notice at a local cafe

as somebody else said, the librbary encourages children in so should provide facilites for them...to me it really is as simple as that tbh...

and people shouldn't leave anppies for the staff to clear up- but i don't thinl anybody onMN would actually say "yes i do leave nappies on the floor of the library"! Shock

lockets · 30/03/2006 23:57

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paolosgirl · 30/03/2006 23:57

I've always agreed with you, Starlover - because you were right Smile Grin

I can't believe I've stayed up til midnight talking about stinky nappies! Night night all X