As both a mother and a lover of stuff I can shove into my mouth, I am begging moms everywhere to stop changing their babies in restaurants.
I am no stranger to the impromptu diaper change. I have changed my baby in the trunk of my car, on top of my shaking knees in a toilet stall with my legs stretched straight out and on a bench in a deserted Atlanta botanical garden in the rain.
It sucks when businesses or spaces don’t provide a changing table, but that said, there is no way I will ever be Team Two-top Diaper Change. Once again, some entitled mom did the old revenge diaper change on a table, but this time it went too far. This woman changed her baby at a Chipotle.
You don’t put the baby poop in the same place the delicious burritos go. You just don’t. I know there are people who will say that that’s what this restaurant deserves for not providing a changing table. But I can guarantee you that you are not sticking it to “The Man” when you change poo in full sight of some underpaid employees and a host of diners just trying to enjoy some delicious guac, OK?
Hell, even this lady’s husband said he thinks she was being unsavory, unlike delicious adobo-marinated meat. Here are all the reasons you don’t change your baby on a Chipotle dining room table.
1. While a swaddled baby looks like a delicious burrito, you might be surprised to know they are not burritos at all. For this reason alone, they don’t belong on the table.
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2. Even though it is completely appropriate for adults to poop in the Chipotle dining room if the toilet is out of order, the same is not true of babies.
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3. While it’s true that everyone loves your specific child and everything it does — including evacuation — not everyone has suppressed their gag reflex as thoroughly as you have.
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4. Cilantro smells bad enough without the addition of baby dookins.
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5. It’s true that the world owes you everything because you had a baby, but there are way less gross methods of unleashing your wrath upon the general manager of a Tex-Mex restaurant who failed to add a diaper changing station to a franchise he or she had no input whatsoever in building. You could trash their Yelp page, for instance, or hurl profanity at them.
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6. A really hungry diner might accidentally try to eat your baby because it is on the table.
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7. What if you accidentally use guacamole as a diaper ointment?
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8. Because it’s gross, and if you do it, that makes you kind of a douche.
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