Dear Abby tackles fast food baby diaper change

Dear Abby
This week America’s favorite advice giver weighs in on changing a baby diaper on a fast food restaurant table.

“Dear Abby” writes “cafe crazy,” a “restaurant” owner in a small town.

[O]ne of our servers had come into the kitchen and announced that they’d need extra sanitizer on table 29 because a mother was changing her baby on it!

What has happened in our society that people don’t understand that this is unsanitary and rude? Had I been there, I don’t know that I could have kept a civil tongue, and I feel like people today regard my disgust as unreasonable. Is there something I’m missing here?

And how does Abby respond?

DEAR “CRAZY”: I don’t know who you have been talking to, but your disgust is not “unreasonable.” What that mother was missing was common sense and courtesy for those around her. I agree that changing a baby on a restaurant table was out of the ballpark — particularly if a changing table was available in the women’s restroom of your cafe.

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