Bizarre Restaurant Experiences

TheScribbler

Let me share this experience with readers. My wife and I were dumbfounded one lunchtime while having a meal in a prominent restaurant. A 30 something well dressed woman sat down next to us at an adjacent table with a toddler and having ordered her meal proceeded to change the child's very smelly nappy, placing the soiled material on the floor. We both found this rather bizarre and offensive. Not wishing to cause a scene, I walked over to a member of staff and alerted them to this. The young lady seemed surprised that I had drawn the matter to her attention but said there was little she could do. She could not move us to another table because the restaurant was full. We would have to put up with it.

As we were leaving the building the offender picked up her child and paid her bill, leaving the nappy under the table. Why on earth could she not have taken the baby to the washrooms where there were changing facilities? Is it just me?

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TheScribbler wrote: »

Not wishing to cause a scene

That's your problem right there.

MaybeLogic

It's Bizarre that a woman would do that and bizarre that the restaurant would let them.
Where was the restaurant?

alwaysadub

Eww. Nope not just you-wouldn't fancy trying to have my dinner while there's someone changing a dirty nappy beside me.

My name is URL

Maybe she was served a bland foie gras and wanted revenge?

Stench Blossoms

McDonald's is the pits these days.

junkyard

Some people just don't give a sh!t anymore.

TheScribbler

MaybeLogic wrote: »

It's Bizarre that a woman would do that and bizarre that the restaurant would let them.
Where was the restaurant?

I wont name it as I have taken the matter up with the owner subsequently. Suffice to say a prominent Irish city

OutlawPete

TheScribbler wrote: »

Let me share this experience with readers.?

You should have just starting screaming "Oh my God, oh my God, what is that smell, Dear Christ, help us, help us!!" .. until she left.

bonerm

Name and shame! I don't want to risk being in a restaurant that'd let some woman do that. :mad:

Captain_Generic

She was trying to pull the old "brown bean in the food" trick

electrogrimey

TheScribbler wrote: »

Not wishing to cause a scene

Only in Ireland would someone be too shy to do anything about having to eat their dinner with someone's shit sitting on the ground beside them.

Leucifer

How the hell did they let her get away with that ffs?

nevaeh-2die-4

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

MaybeLogic

You just did.

stepbar

TheScribbler wrote: »

Let me share this experience with readers. My wife and I were dumbfounded one lunchtime while having a meal in a prominent restaurant. A 30 something well dressed woman sat down next to us at an adjacent table with a toddler and having ordered her meal proceeded to change the child's very smelly nappy, placing the soiled material on the floor. We both found this rather bizarre and offensive. Not wishing to cause a scene, I walked over to a member of staff and alerted them to this. The young lady seemed surprised that I had drawn the matter to her attention but said there was little she could do. She could not move us to another table because the restaurant was full. We would have to put up with it.

As we were leaving the building the offender picked up her child and paid her bill, leaving the nappy under the table. Why on earth could she not have taken the baby to the washrooms where there were changing facilities? Is it just me?

Typical human reaction.... display disgust and then get someone else to pull her up on it :rolleyes:

SoupyNorman

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

Quite a few, it's a perfectly crommulent word.

jdivision

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

Normal people who know how to write and speak English I'd assume.

nevaeh-2die-4

only southside arse bandits use that word, and words similar

electrogrimey

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

only southside arse bandits use that word, and words similar

:rolleyes:

That's all I can say. It's not cool to be unintelligent, and I really don't understand why unintelligent people think so.

Herb Powell

SoupyNorman wrote: »

Quite a few, it's a perfectly crommulent word.

it embiggens even the smallest man

nevaeh-2die-4

electrogrimey wrote: »

:rolleyes:

That's all I can say. It's not cool to be unintelligent, and I really don't understand why unintelligent people think so.

been unintelligent is kul

phantom_lord

I would have left, no way I'd eat a meal in those conditions.

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

only southside arse bandits use that word, and words similar

fail.

Sir Gallagher

TheScribbler wrote: »

I wont name it as I have taken the matter up with the owner subsequently. Suffice to say a prominent Irish city

Oh the city where women change nappys in the restaurants willy nilly, oh that city, :rolleyes:

jum4

TheScribbler wrote: »

woman sat down next to us at an adjacent table with a toddler and having ordered her meal proceeded to change the child's very smelly nappy, placing the soiled material on the floor.

Well done for keeping calm! I'd have gone nuts and made a total scene. I don't have kids so not sure of what's acceptable nowadays, but this is disgusting, she should have taken the kid to the bathrooms.

applehunter

You should have gone yourself in your pants and had you OH change you at the same time.

That would have shown her.

Run_to_da_hills

TheScribbler wrote: »

As we were leaving the building the offender picked up her child and paid her bill, leaving the nappy under the table. Why on earth could she not have taken the baby to the washrooms where there were changing facilities? Is it just me?

Good job it wasn't Abrakebabra the child's diaper could have easily been rolled up and mistakingly passed off as a kabab. :eek:

SoupyNorman

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

only southside arse bandits use that word, and words similar

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

been unintelligent is kul

:rolleyes:

Mr Benevolent

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

Tabloid journalists and wannabe novelists.

ejmaztec

Confab wrote: »

Tabloid journalists and wannabe novelists.

Real men use flabbergasted.

TheScribbler

I find it amazing that there is more discussion about a word I used in my introduction to this thread than the subject matter itself!

Hank_Jones

Personally I think you should have dropped trou and curled one out on the floor.

That would have learned em.

But hey, that's just me.

flanum

did the mother have big hoopy earrings by any chance?

OutlawPete

Trent would have tailed her car home and snapped her neck.

TheScribbler

flanum wrote: »

did the mother have big hoopy earrings by any chance?

No, smartly dressed but no earrings, just an ignorant disposition

admiralofthefleet

when i worked in bewleys in blackrock a mother used to breastfeed on front of everyone, she used to say it was natural. **** is natural but doing that in a busy cafe would get a different responce im sure

TheScribbler

I live in NI and like the rest of the UK it is quite legal to breastfeed in public but as an older male I find it very uncomfortable when people do this in a restaurant

txpjl

orla wrote: »

McDonald's is the pits these days.

Nah, Supermacs down in Thurles

monkeyfudge

Once seen a women change a baby on the floor of a bus... used an old crisp bag to wipe the babies arse and everything.

TheScribbler

Did she eat the crisps first or afterwards?

monkeyfudge

Oh.. it was just an empty bag that was lying there... foil packet I believe... but still had crumbs and oils all over it.

loki87

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Once seen a women change a baby on the floor of a bus... used an old crisp bag to wipe the babies arse and everything.

some people are just animals,mankind it devolving back to monkeys i'd say,

as for the woman in the restraunt you should have got up and threw up on her haha :P

monkeyfudge

Hey... let's not go saying things about monkeys that we might regret...

Clare_Guy

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

seriously though?!! Say it out loud, he's right, who uses words like that?!...

Gummy Panda

And you paid for the meal?

longshanks

what i want to know is what is a nevaeh?
and why is it to die for?

Little Acorn

longshanks wrote: »

what i want to know is what is a nevaeh?
and why is it to die for?

Don't have a clue what you're on about,but nevaeh is heaven spelt backwards.

Edit:
Oh just noticed that it's a poster's name. :-)

longshanks

from little acorns big trees grow. congrats on that

Little Acorn

longshanks wrote: »

from little acorns big trees grow. congrats on that

Mighty oaks to be precise. Now that I think about it,I can get a few different meanings from that now. Ah well,too late to change it now.

longshanks

ha ha ha yes you are correct, should i put in my own mighty oak joke here?