Bizarre Restaurant Experiences

TheScribbler · 16-01-2010 07:46PM #1

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?

ball · 16-01-2010 07:50PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0ze5YGpOc

i71jskz5xu42pb · 16-01-2010 07:50PM

TheScribbler wrote: »

Not wishing to cause a scene

That's your problem right there.

MaybeLogic · 16-01-2010 07:52PM

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

alwaysadub · 16-01-2010 07:53PM

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 · 16-01-2010 07:53PM

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

Stench Blossoms · 16-01-2010 07:54PM

McDonald's is the pits these days.

junkyard · 16-01-2010 07:56PM

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

TheScribbler · 16-01-2010 07:56PM

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 · 16-01-2010 07:57PM

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 · 16-01-2010 07:59PM

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

Captain_Generic · 16-01-2010 08:05PM

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

electrogrimey · 16-01-2010 08:27PM

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 · 16-01-2010 08:28PM

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

nevaeh-2die-4 · 16-01-2010 08:29PM

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

MaybeLogic · 16-01-2010 08:30PM

You just did.

stepbar · 16-01-2010 08:30PM

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 · 16-01-2010 08:31PM

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

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

jdivision · 16-01-2010 08:32PM

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 · 16-01-2010 08:36PM

only southside arse bandits use that word, and words similar

electrogrimey · 16-01-2010 08:37PM

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 · 16-01-2010 08:41PM

SoupyNorman wrote: »

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

it embiggens even the smallest man

nevaeh-2die-4 · 16-01-2010 08:47PM

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 · 16-01-2010 08:53PM

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 · 16-01-2010 08:54PM

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 · 16-01-2010 09:04PM

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 · 16-01-2010 09:09PM

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 · 16-01-2010 09:10PM

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 · 16-01-2010 09:19PM

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 · 16-01-2010 09:23PM

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote: »

dumbfounded

who uses words like that????

Tabloid journalists and wannabe novelists.

ejmaztec · 16-01-2010 09:30PM

Confab wrote: »

Tabloid journalists and wannabe novelists.

Real men use flabbergasted.

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