Incident at Starbucks

Lord have mercy. Keep a running list of places that have a changing table for the convenience of changing baby while you are out.

Cause here's the thing -- I don't want my little one hanging out at that table after their baby has been changed there.

BTW, some Starbucks are more kid friendly than others assumedly relating to the actual number of kids that end up there.

I don't care if you have a kid, or the son of the lord our savior.

It's a law, and just because your precious little snowflake pooped his diaper, doesn't mean starbucks can break the law. They could get in huge trouble for that.

the first employee was dead wrong in letting them do it in the first place. I don't see anything wrong with how the second tried to handle the situation, although her choice of words to a crazy person seemed wrong. (Don't ever compare a little snowflake to a animal!).

Look, you change him in the car, or you find a place that would have a changing table, simple as that. Don't get all pissy at the employee trying to rectify the situation that you're changing a kid in a place serving food, on a table people eat and drink off of.

this pretentious bullshit needs to stop.

Well said, everyone. I can't believe parents would exhibit this kind of behavior. Disgusting.

Please don't let this be my regular Starbucks, please don't let this be my regular Starbucks, Please don't let this be my regular Starbucks...

Thanks for posting the link to that story from Mr. Center-of-the-Universe about his little Center-of-the-Universe family. It was hilarious!

Although, if we fail to make it as a species, it will be because of over-inflated egos such as that and their offspring.

And I would change the tags to 'annoying assholes' and 'the perils of working in the service industry'...

Some of the comments on the blog post linked to are just plain mean. Bet you its the last time they post about their precious snow flake's diaper changing habits. pOWNED.

disclaimer - I have 2 kids still in diapers

A wet diaper is not the same as a poopy diaper, a lot of people are acting like they changed a full on load of mud. Your modern pampers have these wetness crystals in them that soak up the liquid so its hard to imagine the kid left anything worse on the table then you'd get by holding the restroom key. Its not ideal but its not the end of the world either. Starbucks girl could have just made a mental note to spray and wipe the table after they left - not a big deal and no need to confront the customer.

Personally I would have changed the kid in the car, I've done it many times. Changing stations in men's rooms are so hit or miss its best to assume they don't have one. I think a good solution would be to require a changing station inside every one of those legally mandated handicapped stalls. They're roomy enough for a fold down and its not like they cost much to install. I don't expect the world to revolve around my kids but I do make a point of spending my money in places that at least try and be kid friendly. Its not a lot to ask of the world, we were all babies once.

Lastly, yes the EC family does sound insufferable, I often see their ilk standing around the tot-lots talking about what wonderful smart parents they are with their backs to their kids.

What smacks of entitlement is the following:

"Interestingly, we aren't the first people to run across the Starbucks changing table issue. I would take the time to write a letter, but I'm too lazy."

So, screaming at low-level wage earners that one is going to let their baby piss in a cappuccino machine is fine, yet they're too lazy to write a letter to Starbucks demanding a changing table? Guess they weren't too lazy to brag about their tantrum online though...

Yes, we have.

Anyway, couple points:

* Just about every Starbucks I go to has a changing table in the men's room; I assume, in the women's (or, womyn's) room, as well.

* Starbucks employees are far from minimum wage, based on my analysis of their tip jars.

I'm actually more annoyed with the sentence "I suspect your reaction to Endangered Coffee's report will depend on whether you have a kid."

I expect people like Endangered Coffee to be self-absorbed and inconsiderate twits. But to lump everyone who has a child into that same camp is just plain stupid.

EC and his wife are idiots. Changing your child's diaper on a table where people are eating is disgusting - and against the law. The fact that they started verbally abusing a minimum wage employee for daring to tell them they were in the wrong says it all.

As most have said, there's this handy little device called a changing pad...

As a teacher, I constantly have to deal with the results of this type of entitled, self-centered parenting. Their child will learn from the way he observes his parents behaving. So he will become the student who puts his feet up on chairs that others have to sit on, and will look genuinely confused when I insist that he take them off. After all, he hasn't been taught to respect others' property. He will think nothing of responding rudely and disrespectfully when asked to do something he doesn't want to, and will sulk when he doesn't get his way. No surprise there, he sees his parents deal with their frustrated desires by hurling obsenities and immature threats. I long ago stopped using the line that teachers used on us when we were young, "Do you do that at home?" because it is painfully obvious that they are allowed to behave this way. We teachers now have to teach children the most basic elements of respectful conduct before we can even begin to educate. And having taught all socio-economic groups, I can say that the upper-middle class yuppie parents, in general, produce the worst-behaved children.