Letting kids ahead of you in the bathroom line?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't have let the kid go first and I wouldn't have opened the door to let her in until I was finished in the bathroom. I find it kind of odd that you let her in while you were still in there.

Oh to be clear I wasn't using the toilet myself (I had to pee but I wasn't going to, with the kid waiting and the woman berating me outside the door). I was solely using the room as a changing facility for the baby. But yeah I kind of made the suggestion tongue in cheek/ in annoyance when I opened the door, I probably shouldn't have. Not that I cared that the girl came in to use the other half of the bathroom facility, but still.

[Anonymous]

Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

I didn’t have a stroller with me I was using the ergo. And it was an enclosed young children’s play area in the museum with an employee guarding the only entrance/ exit. I was more worried he might be misbehaving as opposed to , like, wandering off and getting lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

Also, I’m not going to chance a blowout diaper in my stroller , in “a discrete corner” (?? In a children’s museum in the summer? Right!)even if I had one with me, when there are clean changing facilities. That’s disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

Also why should I have to do that?! Why am I not allowed to use the bathroom?! (Sorry, this asinine advice bothers me)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

Also, I’m not going to chance a blowout diaper in my stroller , in “a discrete corner” (?? In a children’s museum in the summer? Right!)even if I had one with me, when there are clean changing facilities. That’s disgusting.

Dp. Right. And nobody else at the museum wants a parent changing a poopy diaper in a discrete corner either. We don't want to smell it. I would give the side-eye to a mom doing that and wonder why she didn't use the available changing facilities in the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

Also, I’m not going to chance a blowout diaper in my stroller , in “a discrete corner” (?? In a children’s museum in the summer? Right!)even if I had one with me, when there are clean changing facilities. That’s disgusting.

Dp. Right. And nobody else at the museum wants a parent changing a poopy diaper in a discrete corner either. We don't want to smell it. I would give the side-eye to a mom doing that and wonder why she didn't use the available changing facilities in the bathroom.

Thank you! For some reason this suggestion that I shouldn't use the available changing facilities- but instead change a disgusting diaper out in the open- so that the restroom can stay open for others to use instead of me, bothers me more than the crazy mom I posted about. Haha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

Also, I’m not going to chance a blowout diaper in my stroller , in “a discrete corner” (?? In a children’s museum in the summer? Right!)even if I had one with me, when there are clean changing facilities. That’s disgusting.

Dp. Right. And nobody else at the museum wants a parent changing a poopy diaper in a discrete corner either. We don't want to smell it. I would give the side-eye to a mom doing that and wonder why she didn't use the available changing facilities in the bathroom.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

That’s the dumbest suggestion I’ve ever heard in my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

Wut?

[Anonymous]

Most people don’t. My newly potty trained kid really was on the verge of an accident in the public bathroom for one of the commuter ferries in NYC, because the ride was like 30 minutes. No one would let her cut even when I did the apologetic begging thing. I finally held her over the sink. I got a few weird looks but WTF was I supposed to do.

Anyway, even with that experience, I wouldn’t normally let a kid cut me unless they were obviously in distressed or they/their parent asked with explanation.

[Anonymous]

When someone shows me how insanely rude they are, I get a little oppositional. So I would not have let anyone into the bathroom until I was well and done with everything.

When a parent politely requests they step head of me, and/or I see that a child is really suffering, of course I let them go ahead. But according to your description of the girl running ahead and the mother calling her back, this was NOT one of those situations.

Move on, OP. There are rude people everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why didn't you simply change your baby's diaper in the stroller? Simply park it in a discrete corner and get it done. NBD. I can't believe you left your 4 year old unattended in a museum.

That’s the dumbest suggestion I’ve ever heard in my life.

Plus it is “discreet”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never let kids go in front of me. They need to learn that the world doesn’t revolve around them and to wait their turn.

Same here.

Op, you did nothing wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am with you. I think you did better than most people... let it go. Bit*hes are all over.

+1

It's fine, let it go.

But you're not half as cool as you think you are or you wouldn't be in here prattling on about the minor dings in your day.