Baby on the table

[FenigDurak]

It's possible the little one would have squirmed, fussed and cried had s/he been away from mom. I'll take bum on a cleanable table over wailing any day.

[MoonCat]

Leakage, people. Leakage.

It could happen at any time.

[AnaKhouri]

Just out if curiosity, are you guys also grossed out when adults lean on tables (you know what I mean, when their butt is sort of propped on the edge of the table?)?

Neither bothers me, but then I am not at all squeamish.

[blas]

It bothers me, because while I was a waitress, one time a Jerry Springer type couple changed their baby's diaper right on the table and left that diaper as my tip.

And Whiskey is right, "cleaning" off a table is using the same old rag that has been used all shift long, just dipped in a bucket of water or maybe some type of cleaning solution.

[Whiskey]

Just out if curiosity, are you guys also grossed out when adults lean on tables (you know what I mean, when their butt is sort of propped on the edge of the table?)?

Neither bothers me, but then I am not at all squeamish.

Why is your ass on my table? Who puts their ass on a table? Asses belong in chairs.

[AnaKhouri]

Yeah, but would you say something to them? Are you equally disgusted by baby bottoms and adult bottoms? I'd be thinking, at least a baby has an extra layer of padding between its butt and the table. Of course babies might be more likely to soil themselves than adults...although, this is CS, we all know that's not necessarily true.

[Whiskey]

Yeah, but would you say something to them? Are you equally disgusted by baby bottoms and adult bottoms? I'd be thinking, at least a baby has an extra layer of padding between its butt and the table. Of course babies might be more likely to soil themselves than adults...although, this is CS, we all know that's not necessarily true.

Considering the height of some of the shit in retail bathrooms, I'd say infants are less likely to soil themselves in public. I would indeed ask someone why their ass was on my table. If my table does not bear a striking resemblance to a chair, I would wonder why someone would think its appropriate to put their ass on my table. If someone sat a baby on my table, Id want to know why a baby was on my table and not safely secured in a high chair where the likelyhood of it falling down and breaking open its skull were less.

edit: I don't allow cat ass on my table either, just in case anyone is wondering.

[JambaBamba]

Are you equally disgusted by baby bottoms and adult bottoms?

I don't like adults who lean on my desk at work. At an old job I had a dick of a coworker who once hoisted himself up on the edge of my desk so that he could leer down my shirt while telling me that I didn't know enough about PowerPoint. When he left the papers he sat on smelled like farts. I had to throw away the papers and reprint them.

I've seen a lot of parents who aren't super careful about a baby's spit-up and who seem to think their child can do no wrong. I've also seen parents who don't seem to realize that a diaper needs to be changed after every poop. This is why I don't want to see a baby butt on a table.

I will admit however that I might have been a little sensitive to it since not 30 seconds before the woman sat her child's butt on the table I had just grabbed a piece of ginger that was half on my plate/half on the table and stuck it into my mouth. I will never make that mistake again.

[Magpie]

I've also seen lots of women put their purses on the table. It's not a great idea to assume that the table is clean. Frankly I'd rather a baby's bum than a purse. The baby's bum probably is cleaner. (Infant here, not toddler).

[Whiskey]

I've also seen lots of women put their purses on the table.

AH GAD WHY THIS iS JUST AS GROSS

*falls over*

[zombiequeen]

I always hang my purse strap on my knee, that way it's not touching the ground and I know where it is. If I need to get into it, I put it in my lap. Having it on the table is inviting problems, plus it's kind of icky to think about.
I wouldn't put a baby on the table, but I also wouldn't sit/lean on a table either. I normally keep alcohol wipes in my purse to wipe things down with if I'm feeling especially scary about germs that day. It gets me silly looks sometimes, but I don't know where the table was before I got there.

[MoonCat]

I Never. Ever. Put my purse on a restroom floor. It goes on the hook on the door, or if there isn't one I hang it around my neck. But I usually don't put it on the restaurant table, either. It stays in my lap, on the back of the chair if no one else can reach it from there, or on the seat next to me if I'm in a booth (now I probably won't do that anymore either, after reading this thread!) But no. NEVER on the restroom floor.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Or doing porn in your own kitchen?

Then you eat in the dining room.

[zzapp the witch]

Nudists sit on towels.

[Whiskey]

if there isn't one I hang it around my neck.

I just choked on my beer