Apparently, the war on women continues.
“An Ottawa woman wants Ontario to require all restaurants, movie theatres and community centres to provide changing tables for children after she says she was shamed at a family restaurant for changing her daughter on a dining room table.”
Shamed?
“It happened three weeks ago when Candice Pouliotte went to Kelly’s Landing Restaurant for lunch in the south Ottawa community of Manotick with her grandparents and her two young children.
When she noticed her months-old daughter Simone needed changing, she asked a waitress if they had any changing tables and the waitress said no.
Pouliotte said she asked if she could use a dining table instead and that the waitress said yes.
Pouliotte said she used one of the tables inside because all the restaurant’s customers were eating on an outside deck and no one was inside.”
This woman changed her baby on a dining table at a restaurant. Sure, the waitress said she could do it. But later she said she would have never changed the baby on a dining table if the restaurant had a changing room. If she was so against changing her baby on a dining table at the restaurant, why didn’t she change her baby in her car? It’s actually quite common when you have children. Sure, it’s a bit uncomfortable, but it’s no big deal.
Instead, she chose to change her on a dining table and her only concern was that she had to do it in front of everybody and not, for example, hygiene rules that I think in restaurants are supposed to be strictly followed. And I can’t stand that she uses words such as “shamed” and that mothers are treated like “second-class citizens or worse” for such a “non-event”.
“After the family got into the car Pouliotte returned to the restaurant to explain to the owner why she was upset.
“As a paying customer and being a mother, I think that telling someone to leave a restaurant to change a child is treating them like a second-class citizen or worse,” she said.
“A child shouldn’t have to sit in a soiled diaper while you eat your dinner or have your lunch. I think that if any business is open during daytime hours, that this should be a standard.”
The owner of Kelly’s Landing, Dan Dunbar, did not agree to a taped interview with CBC News but said he was shocked to see Pouliotte changing her baby on a dining table.
She could have done it on the grass or a park bench beside his restaurant, he said.
I entirely agree with this comment that a mother left on the website:
Kathy Colaiacovo wrote:
What shocks me is that any mom would actually think it’s okay to use a restaurant table in any situation to change a baby’s diaper. I am a mom of three and had it been me – and I have definitely had this situation happen many times because not all places are equipped, it is the reality of the world. I would have simply gone to the washroom and used the floor – putting a change pad – that I always carried with me – under my kid. In tight spots I went out to my car and yes, even in the winter! This was a restaurant where people eat for crying out loud. To me this woman shows no respect for the business or other patrons by doing what she did, she deserves none in return. Another case of someone feeling entitled to have everything perfect in the world that fits her situation and only hers with no regard for others. Had I been the owner I probably would have yelled too, because who in their right mind changes a baby on a table in a restaurant? No one would ever expect that he was probably shocked and freaking out.
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Shamed?
“It happened three weeks ago when Candice Pouliotte went to Kelly’s Landing Restaurant for lunch in the south Ottawa community of Manotick with her grandparents and her two young children.
When she noticed her months-old daughter Simone needed changing, she asked a waitress if they had any changing tables and the waitress said no.
Pouliotte said she asked if she could use a dining table instead and that the waitress said yes.
Pouliotte said she used one of the tables inside because all the restaurant’s customers were eating on an outside deck and no one was inside.”
This woman changed her baby on a dining table at a restaurant. Sure, the waitress said she could do it. But later she said she would have never changed the baby on a dining table if the restaurant had a changing room. If she was so against changing her baby on a dining table at the restaurant, why didn’t she change her baby in her car? It’s actually quite common when you have children. Sure, it’s a bit uncomfortable, but it’s no big deal.
Instead, she chose to change her on a dining table and her only concern was that she had to do it in front of everybody and not, for example, hygiene rules that I think in restaurants are supposed to be strictly followed. And I can’t stand that she uses words such as “shamed” and that mothers are treated like “second-class citizens or worse” for such a “non-event”.
“After the family got into the car Pouliotte returned to the restaurant to explain to the owner why she was upset.
“As a paying customer and being a mother, I think that telling someone to leave a restaurant to change a child is treating them like a second-class citizen or worse,” she said.
“A child shouldn’t have to sit in a soiled diaper while you eat your dinner or have your lunch. I think that if any business is open during daytime hours, that this should be a standard.”
The owner of Kelly’s Landing, Dan Dunbar, did not agree to a taped interview with CBC News but said he was shocked to see Pouliotte changing her baby on a dining table.
She could have done it on the grass or a park bench beside his restaurant, he said.
I entirely agree with this comment that a mother left on the website:
Kathy Colaiacovo wrote:
What shocks me is that any mom would actually think it’s okay to use a restaurant table in any situation to change a baby’s diaper. I am a mom of three and had it been me – and I have definitely had this situation happen many times because not all places are equipped, it is the reality of the world. I would have simply gone to the washroom and used the floor – putting a change pad – that I always carried with me – under my kid. In tight spots I went out to my car and yes, even in the winter! This was a restaurant where people eat for crying out loud. To me this woman shows no respect for the business or other patrons by doing what she did, she deserves none in return. Another case of someone feeling entitled to have everything perfect in the world that fits her situation and only hers with no regard for others. Had I been the owner I probably would have yelled too, because who in their right mind changes a baby on a table in a restaurant? No one would ever expect that he was probably shocked and freaking out.
Source
X art by WB7
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