Picnic tables at playgrounds are NOT changing tables

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh. We can't say picnic anymore. Picnic tables have to be renamed!! Hmmm... outdoor meal table??

You need to get off the conservative blogs.

—very liberal AA mom and history teacher

[Anonymous]

Bring some clorox wipes and deal. You can't control this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bring some clorox wipes and deal. You can't control this.

It's not a matter of "dealing," it's just rude and gross. I admit that birds or squirrels might also defecate on the picnic table. I just don't understand why rational humans can't come up with more creative and considerate alternatives...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh. We can't say picnic anymore. Picnic tables have to be renamed!! Hmmm... outdoor meal table??

You need to get off the conservative blogs.

—very liberal AA mom and history teacher

Yeah, no. I'm a liberal and unfortunately I ran into this in the liberal-est of liberal environments. I wish I was kidding.

[Anonymous]

My dear OP,

Wildlife poops on these tables.

The baby-changing is by far the cleanest non-picnic activity that goes on these surfaces

You’re so innocent and naive it’s amusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lighten up Francis

+1. It's not your personal table, OP. If you're that neurotic, bring your own folding table.

Parks belong to the public and picnic tables are public property for EATING NOT CHANGING YOUR BRAT's shit filled diaper! There should b a $1000 fine for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parenting has really revealed to me that there is a sharp divide between people who are paranoid/fearful about "bathroom germs" and those who just want to get on with life.

My DH is on the paranoid/fearful side, and though he has changed his fair share of diapers, the amount of stress it causes him is absurd. I once watched him wash his hands three separate times during the course of a single poopy diaper change [albeit, a bad one]. During potty training, I finally had to have him bow out of the process because the level of anxiety he seemed to have around the prospect of accidents was seriously giving our kid a complex.

Fortunately for our family, I"m firmly in the "get on with it" camp. I'll change a baby on the floor, on my lap, in the car, on a picnic table, a bench, etc. as necessary. I'll take normal precautions (mat, wipes for after if necessary, etc.) but I'm not going to make a huge fuss about it. Diapers need changing. You can't confine babies to their homes for the duration. There is bacteria everywhere. Don't set food you're going to eat directly down on a public table. Get on with it.

I'm not fearful of germs. I just don't want to see your baby's gross diaper when I'm at the park, and I also just think it's gross to do that on a table. It's unappetizing, obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lighten up Francis

+1. It's not your personal table, OP. If you're that neurotic, bring your own folding table.

I’m the OP, and yep... never eating on a playground changing table again.

Bye Felicia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lighten up Francis

+1. It's not your personal table, OP. If you're that neurotic, bring your own folding table.

Parks belong to the public and picnic tables are public property for EATING NOT CHANGING YOUR BRAT's shit filled diaper! There should b a $1000 fine for this.

Enjoy the bird and squirrels shit!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, picnic tables are definitely already gross (as PPs noted, bird poop, squirrels, and I'm sure more than a few raccoons have traversed them overnight at some point). But I do use the bench portion of the table, not the table top.

This is just as disgusting. Change diapers in you car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh. We can't say picnic anymore. Picnic tables have to be renamed!! Hmmm... outdoor meal table??

But, but...you're not including people who want to sit at the table without eating. What about people who are fasting before their colonoscopies and can't eat? We must call it an Exterior Horizontal Multi-use Surface because we want to be inclusive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lighten up Francis

+1. It's not your personal table, OP. If you're that neurotic, bring your own folding table.

Parks belong to the public and picnic tables are public property for EATING NOT CHANGING YOUR BRAT's shit filled diaper! There should b a $1000 fine for this.

Well, guess what. I don't want you and your kids SITTING on the tables that I may eat off later, either, so should we fine for that? I see it all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh. We can't say picnic anymore. Picnic tables have to be renamed!! Hmmm... outdoor meal table??

You need to get off the conservative blogs.

—very liberal AA mom and history teacher

Tsk tsk. You used the word mother, which has been banned by the current US congress. You're just a birthing person now.

[Anonymous]

I’m honestly curious if the people who say it’s fine to change a baby on a picnic table change their kids on their dining room tables or kitchen counters. Is it only ok because you don’t have to deal with the surface after you use it in this manner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uh oh. We can't say picnic anymore. Picnic tables have to be renamed!! Hmmm... outdoor meal table??

You need to get off the conservative blogs.

—very liberal AA mom and history teacher

Tsk tsk. You used the word mother, which has been banned by the current US congress. You're just a birthing person now.

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