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If it's a poopy diaper, we go to another room.

As far as risk of getting poop on the couch -risk is usually low. (use a diaper pad - I think between my wife and I combined 2 kids, a couple thousand diaper changes, we've had maybe 4 dropped poops)
Maybe a beginner with a fairly new baby would have risk.

After a few months, you've changed about $200 worth of diapers. You are pretty much a pro at that time.

Malkin wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

Parents who:
change their baby in public.

Ug.  Aaron's aunt and uncle will change their twins right on the living room couch.  I'll be sitting at the table enjoying my Thanksgiving dinner, smell a nasty smell and look over and there they are- dirty diapers and naked butts squirming all over the furniture, right by everyone who is eating.  Why?!  Just why?!

Because they can.

user wrote:

They're PROUD of that poop!

"Will you just look at the size of that turd! My boy's gonna be a big man some day, just like his pop!"

Guilty here.

My son is three years old (and no longer in diapers).
His butt is about as small as two ping-pong balls pressed together, but somehow he manages to pass turds that would make a horse blush.

I told my wife we ought to hold back on his fiber.

user wrote:

"Handicapped parking in general."?

Around here it's crazy. Do the first 2 to 4 spots in every row really need to be handicapped? Hell by the time the handicapped spots are added and then the cart returns you're in the middle of the damn lot. Yes the center 4 to 8 should be there but the rest are bureaucracy bullsmurf because the developer had to meet code. It's an assault on common sense.

New Super Wal-Mart went up. The parking lot is damn near square with ten rows of parking. Each row has 4 handicapped spots for a total of 40. Why the hell do the end rows need handicapped parking? It's just as far to walk from the ends as it is from the middle. NTM 40 spots!?! There are office buildings around here with 1000s people working in them and they don't have 40 handicapped spots.

sturner wrote:

Because they can.

Doesn't mean they should. Being a father of two and having enough oopies while changing has taught me anything can and will happen during the procedure. Wanna change your kid on the Aunt's sofa. Fine, that's between you and them and not public. Changing your kid at a restaurant, library or the gym hells no. Take it to the bathroom. NTM most public places around here have changing tables. Hint, hint.

I can't stand most peoples' eating manners.

Honestly, I really don't want to hear every bite you take and I don't want to see what you're eating while you're chewing it. I don't want to hear whatever piece of silverware you're shoveling it in with scrape your teeth, every time. I don't want to hear you suck, slurp or blow bubbles in your food or drink. Children in the bar area.

It's all I can do to go to a Mexican resturant that serves chips and salsa and movie theaters are out of the question. What a racket.

Why do most people have such bad eating manners?

zoees wrote:

I can't stand most peoples' eating manners.

Oh!  That reminds me...  I hate it when people don't finish their food.

My local Chinese restaurant keeps serving me white rice, which I keep leaving on my plate. It's easier than trying to tell them I can't eat it.

dvpierce wrote:

user wrote:

My local Chinese restaurant keeps serving me white rice, which I keep leaving on my plate. It's easier than trying to tell them I can't eat it.

Allergic to rice?

Allergic to whites.

TB wrote:

333imacman wrote:

I hate it when people talk in movie theaters

Or laugh through the movie or, better yet, kick the the bottom of your seat as the movie's playing.

Don't forget the one who puts his feet up on the back of the seat in front of him.

I rarely go to movie theaters much anymore, for all the reasons given.

The plastic chopsticks in chinese restaurants.

MacMonkey wrote:

The plastic chopsticks in chinese restaurants.

You know, I've never seen those outside of China and Japan.

user wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

user wrote:

"Handicapped parking in general."?

Around here it's crazy. Do the first 2 to 4 spots in every row really need to be handicapped? Hell by the time the handicapped spots are added and then the cart returns you're in the middle of the damn lot. Yes the center 4 to 8 should be there but the rest are bureaucracy bullsmurf because the developer had to meet code. It's an assault on common sense.

New Super Wal-Mart went up. The parking lot is damn near square with ten rows of parking. Each row has 4 handicapped spots for a total of 40. Why the hell do the end rows need handicapped parking? It's just as far to walk from the ends as it is from the middle. NTM 40 spots!?! There are office buildings around here with 1000s people working in them and they don't have 40 handicapped spots.

Well, statistically, the Wal-Mart is more likely to have more handicaps in the store at the same time than the office building. An office building will have fewer visitors than the Wal-Mart because the entire business structure of the Wal-Mart is based on visits.

However, the bureaucracy might have over-compensated a bit. Those handicap spots should never end up very far from the door. When you can't walk far, every step counts.

My youngest sister had severe cerebral palsy so ordinarily I am very concerned about accessibility issues but even I think the number of handicapped spaces required in some locales is insane.
In one instance back in the town I grew up in they put in a new shopping development. One of those deals with a huge parking lot in the middle and the idea was to build stores ringing it.
The development started with only one store on one end and since the law required a percentage of spaces based on lot size and that they be clustered near the business they ended up with over 100 handicapped spaces right in front of the one store.
The closest regular parking space was about 50 yards from the door.