Dear Shitty Parents,
In what world is it alright to ball up a diaper that is full of baby poop and leave it on the table of a restaurant? Forgive my naivety, for I don’t have children of my own, but that seems like just about the most wrong thing a parent could do. Again, this is coming from someone without kids, so maybe you can explain it to me. I have heard that having a newborn can really do some damage to your sleep pattern, so maybe you were mentally exhausted and realized not what you were doing. But I doubt it. It seems more likely that you are an inconsiderate piece of garbage who went to have a meal in a Colorado resort town and were too lazy to carry a diaper to the restroom and figured that your waitress wouldn’t mind cleaning it up.
Well, guess what. She did mind. I know for a fact that the waitress was not okay with. In fact, I think her exact words were “I was pissed.”
As new parents, I would expect that you would want your child to grow up to be a responsible and respected member of society. In order for that to happen, you have to be a role model for that behavior. Leaving goddamn dirty diapers on a restaurant table is not the way to be a role model. Sure, the baby may be too young to fully understand its surroundings, but when are you going to start being a decent person?
“Hey, Mabel? That thar baby is almost ten-years-old now. Maybe we better start acting like decent people when we eat out, ya think?”
“Oh, Earl, what does it matter? As long as we tell her how to behave, she’ll figure it out. Now shut-up and help me put these jelly packets into my purse. They’s free!”
I hope these parents see this letter and realize the error of their shitty ways. The server who sent me this photo asked me not to divulge the name of the restaurant, for she does not want to get in trouble. All I can say is this: if you went to a Colorado resort town last week and your child took a big stinky crap while you were stuffing your pie holes and you changed the diaper at the table and then left the diaper on the table, this letter is about you. And you suck at parenting. Just because you can drop a seed onto an egg and then grow a baby does not make you fit to be a parent. Try harder, assholes.
Mustard and mayo,
The Bitchy Waiter
Mrs. C
This has never happened to me in 15 years of waiting tables and bartending (thankfully, THANKFULLY) but, with the eyes of God and everyone around me watching, I would have thrown on a glove, picked that nasty-ass diaper up and ran with it out to the parking lot with the intent of handing the fucking thing BACK to the family before they got in their cars and left.
“WAAAAIT, YOU LEFT YOUR CREDIT CARD BEHIND! …
Just kidding! You left this bio hazard on the table. Here ya go. *places diaper on hood of car* Also, you’re 86’ed forever, ya cunts.”
Nina
Yeah it happened to an old co-worker… Walks by and sees a shitty ass and legs of a baby being changed right on the table! That’s always been the topper of all stories for me
Heather
In NO WAY is this ok!! If this would ever happen to me, they better pray that they make it out the door before I catch what was done! I have NEVER, in 15 years of serving, come across a table that ever did anything as vile, disgusting and disrespectful as this and I hope I NEVER do!! I feel so bad for the server that had this table and hope that she remembers them and refuses to allow them to dine in this establishment EVER AGAIN!! Also, for those few of you trying to justify what this table did, there is obviously something wrong with you as well! As MANY have already stated, the fact that they even thought it was a good idea to change a dirty diaper at the table just proves that they have no idea what it means to be a decent human being!! Even my 2 year old would point out how disgusting (or in his language, “disgussing!”) this act of inconsiderate bullshit is! So if you are trying to have the back of people who have absolutely NO common courtesy for anyone else, just move on from this post without leaving ANY comments because no one wants to waste their time reading that bull!
Shannon
I’m a parent of a 3 month old and have changed his diapers in the restaurant….bathroom. Why is someone changing the baby at the dinner table? That’s so gross!
Cameron Grey Rose
Seriously I hate that people are always making excuses for parents “well how do you know….” “well maybe ….” or the classic “how do we know for sure the Bitchy waiter is being truthful? He could have made all this up”
I volunteered at a theater and once I man waved me over and tried to hand me a diaper! meaing he’d changed his daughter IN THE AISLE. I got security and kicked him, his wife and baby out.
Of course he threatened to sue me and theater for ‘discrimination’
April
Mother of two kids here. Who were both in diapers at the same time for a little while. I don’t care where you are. I don’t care how tired you are. You get up and take your kid to the bathroom to change them. You don’t change a diaper where people are eating. It’s common sense. It’s called being respectful of every other person around you AND the person who has to touch that. As a parent, I pretty much signed up to be exposed to my kids excretions. I did not sign up to deal with OTHER kids excretions.
Be compassionate to those around you. You signed up to deal with your kids shit. No one else did
anne marie
THANK YOU!
Kristie
I agree it was not right for the parent to have left a dirty diaper! However, did it ever occur to you that maybe they put it there to remember to take it with them and forgot it? I strongly disagree with you that they are bad parents!!
With everything Going on in this world right now, I think this write up is a little ridiculous!! The waitress could have simply thrown it out and be a little more compassionate. Maybe they had a bad day, death or injury in the family, lost a job, found out they or a loved one has cancer…the list goes on..
I have children of my own and they are both in diapers and i would NEVER intentionally leave a dirty diaper and do not condone lack of hygiene.
However, again. We don’t know if this was done intentionally or not.. Lets let the small stuff go people! Lets be a little more compassionate and helpful to each other…
Leah
Oh shut up. Its called the ‘Bitchy Waiter’ please take your high and mighty bullshit elsewhere. “Let’s be niceo rude ass people!!!!” “They didn’t mean too!!!” Again, shut up. No o e would leave a shitty diaper on the table next to their food, in an attempt to remember to take it. These animals are typical trash, that probably have no clue that what they did was even wrong. And their poor child has zero chances of becoming a winner either. That’s life. Now you @kristie, please get over yourself, and find another website to troll.
Glenda
They couldn’t have forgotten it at the table if they hadn’t changed a shitty diaper there to begin with. They’re disgusting and inconsiderate. They deserve whatever shaming they get.
Elizabeth
to Kristie of “be a little more compassionate”
Whether they intended to take the diaper with them or not: 1) you don’t change the diaper at the table & 2) you don’t set a dirty diaper ON the table.
Erika
And maybe the server had had a bad day, death or injury in the family, found out they or a loved one has cancer, and then went to work and found that some inconsiderate asshole had left them a shitty diaper to deal with as well. Why do we always have to give the customers the benefit of the doubt? It was a supremely shitty thing to do, accidental or not. And as Elizabeth pointed out, regardless of whether they were intending to take the diaper and just ‘forgot,’ they put the damn thing on a dining table to begin with. These people are clearly filthy and inconsiderate.
Terri
So, what I got from your comment was basically, “They could be having a bad day, you don’t know, so we should never hold anybody accountable for their shitty behavior ever.”
Wjr
Thank you. Some actions are so disgustingly, universally, disrespectful it’s impossible to have compassion.
Jen
Ummm, Kristie, are you glazing over the fact that the baby was CHANGED at the table? That, in itself, is disgusting…Forgetting the diaper is the icing on the cake of classless, horrific behavior. I have had many deaths, job losses, and general “bad days” in my life. Ass wiping belongs in the bathroom!
Shawn
I was waitressing and the man had wadded trash up in his fist and said would I do I’m a favor? As he moved his hand to me with what I figured was a napkin not thinking I held my hand out to accept his trash and throw it away. He dropped his bloody gauze from his hospital visit that he apparently had just left from…. I guess I was so shocked at this I took a deep breath in and quickly walked to the outside dumpster and dropped it… I was shaking and in utter disgust! Please what you would want done to you don’t do to others!
Shawn
What you would not want done to you don’t do to others! Remember The Golden Rule
Allison
I hope that you were seen by medical personnel for the blatant blood/biohazard exposure.
Deb
I had this happen to me a couple of weeks ago. It was only a pee diaper but disgusting just the same.
Shandi Thompson
I am aware that we have the right to freedom of speech, and I am also aware that I have the right to click out of the opened window that I am reading, if I do not want to indulge in what has been written by the author of said post. However, to make a point the need to present oneself as a decent human being and to set an example for a child…by using harsh language and sarcasm…is not agreed upon by myself. You’re probably thinking, “Children most likely won’t be reading this post…” You’re right. They probably aren’t. But, the reader (myself, in this case) may make an assumption that the vocabulary used in the article is probably typical for the author in daily interaction. I receive more conviction from an author’s ability to replace profanity (although it is sometimes well-used, depending on the subject) with suitable words for any audience. It’s a respect thing, I guess.
Nonetheless, I agree with the point being made by the author and think this was well-written, aside from the bit of off-color vernacular.
Lauren
You probably have never had a poop diaper left by a table that you had to clean up
Cameron
You’re more concerned about harsh language than individuals raising the next generation of our society treating minimum-wage workers like their personal servants? Treating them with no respect, treating public spaces with no respect, showing a total lack of concern or respect for their fellow human beings? I’m sorry, but off-color language is in no way comparable to leaving human feces on a restaurant table, that other people eat off of, and surprisingly, the fact that the English language (and all languages) has swear words and sarcasm suggests that they exist to express our anger at such situations.
So … get off your high horse and show a little more compassion for overworked, underpaid service workers who have developed an online space to vent about abominable people who treat them like subhuman automatons, there to literally clean up their shit.
MadFistsWillie
Nailed it!
Stacy
Gross on so many levels. Years ago , as a guest at a restaurant, I watched a “Mother” at the table next to ours, put her baby in the booth and begin to change her child’s smelly diaper. I couldn’t help speaking up and asking her nicely to please take her diaper changing stage show to the restroom. She came unhinged with a string of every cussword in her vocabulary!
Her reaction was really quite unbelievable. She threatened me verbally and physically and promised to “see me outside”. Uh…ok! They got up and left…walking the ticket. Police were called etc…etc
That poor child has no hope of ever being a decent human being.
Teri
My concern is that the adults were eating, changed a diaper, and then continued to eat with dirty hands. Aside for the diaper being changed at the table and left, this is abominable behavior. Chalk it up to Darwinism and the adults will not survive a bacterial infection due to there lack of sanitary habits.
Karen
Unfortunately, they’re the ones that will survive because they have put every germ imaginable in their systems and have anti-bodies to fight any germ out there.
Gina
Even a pee-diaper left in the restroom will smell up the room. Take your damn diaper with you!!
S
I have a 6 month old. I carry a “wet bag” (they’re for cloth diapers), even though we use disposable diapers. I will throw a pee diaper in the garbage in the bathroom sometimes but normally I put all the dirty diapers in the “wet bag” and dispose of them at home. It’s no one’s responsibility but the parents. I don’t think my daughter’s diapers are gross but it’s disgusting, unsanitary and rude to leave them on a table people are supposed to eat at afterwards. Thise people shouldn’t be allowed in public until they know how to adult properly.
Karen Morrisey
Had this done to me on more than 1 occasion !! One time they hid it under the booth !!! People are just pigs !! If you don’t do it at your house don’t do it in mine !!!!