DOODIE FREE DINING

     It's bad enough when mother's feel the need to breastfeed their children in public. At least some have the decency to cover it up. Some just whip it out and let the child start sucking, which sometimes isn't a bad thing for you to see if you're a pervert and the mom is a full-on-hottie. Regardless, if you're a human being of any kind, breastfeeding in public is still pretty gross. 

     I'll take the gross factor a step further, though. A mother's decision to change her baby's diaper on the dining table in the middle of a Chipotle restaurant is making headlines this week and raising plenty of eyebrows in the process. The mother in question was having a meal with her 16-month-old daughter when the tot needed her diaper changed. The mom, however, discovered that the establishment did not have a changing table in the bathroom, she decided to change her child's diaper right on the dining table. 

     The woman's husband, Chad, allegedly wrote a letter to Chipotle headquarters after the incident, defending his wife's behavior and criticizing the restaurant's employees for telling the family that they'd have to leave if they tried to change another diaper in the dining area. In the letter, he stated that his wife's choice to change their baby on a dining table may have struck some as "unsavory," the employees displayed an "inability/unwillingness to empathize with parents who find the car a less convenient alternative even on a beautiful day like yesterday, much less a subfreezing day as we undoubtedly will have this winter." Chipotle did respond to the letter by saying that they were "currently in the process of retrofitting locations with changing tables." Either way, I'm sorry, but Chad is wrong. If there are no changing tables, you take that child out to your car and change them. Back in the day when we were kids, there were no such things as a changing station. Our parents changed us in a car. They would never change us on a dining table where people eat. That is unsanitary and absolutely disgusting! I don't care how cute the baby is...shit is shit! If that gets on the table, that's a health code violation. I think Chipotle had every right to kick these people out without even an excuse that they are in the middle of putting changing tables in. Have some common sense and decency. 

     Back in August a woman was kicked out of a Texas pizzeria for doing the same thing. She was changing her four-month old's diaper on the dining table. The woman, who was at the restaurant with her baby and her two children, said that the pizzeria had no changing table and she "didn't want to take everyone back to the minivan to do the diaper change." Too bad! Then don't go out when it's just you and your kids. My sister has four kids and she won't go out unless she has someone responsible enough to watch her kids while she goes to change her kid's diapers. Even if these people changed the diaper on the chair it would have been better than the table. Changing a diaper on a table where people eat is just rude and gross. There! I said it again for the fifth time!