What's a parent to do when baby does his business and there's no change table in sight? It's a dilemma, for sure, and one which turned ugly for a Denver couple convening at their local Starbucks recently.
When Ruth Burgos realized the bathroom didn't have a change table, she took it upon herself to change her one-year-old son Thiago in the seating area.
"As a mother, you have to do what you have to do. Wherever you have to do it," she said in a Huffington Post article. "I just kind of wiped him off, cleaned him off as quickly as I could."
A Starbucks employee wasn't impressed, however, and by all accounts threw her a rag and a few rude remarks, before laughing with colleagues. The boy's father Alex, lost his temper and emptied his coffee on the floor, telling the staff, "You better clean that."
Tit went for tat, and soon police were called over the "disturbance." Though no arrests were made, and Starbucks apologized for failing to treat the Burgoses with "dignity and respect."
But the jury's out on this one... I have to say, I would never have dreamed of changing my son in a seating area where people were consuming food and drinks. I'd rush out of there like the place was on fire first. In any case, I always carried a fold-up change mat in my diaper bag for Desperate Measures. But maybe that's just me.
Besides, why wouldn't a chain as colossal as Starbucks ensure it has a change table in every single toilet of every single franchise?
Spill it: what would you have done in this scenario?
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