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![I work pt at a clothing store in a mall. We get asked ALL THE TIME to use the bathroom. Always by adults. We direct them to either Starbucks which is 50 feet away or the mall bathrooms 200 feet away. One woman (again, older — not with children, not visibly ill or otherwise physically impaired) got a little self-righteous when I directed her to the bathrooms available to the public. With the stock room adjacent to the employee bathrooms there is no way the store could allow customers to use the employee bathroom. Liability issue, plain and simple.
stfuparents:
Presents
With this submission I actually called my mother and inquired as to whether I ever took a dump behind a gas station, drug store, restaurant or planetarium as a child. In fact, it’s only the second time I’ve consulted my own parents regarding a submission on the blog, the first one being this. Which makes sense, right? There’s a connection. The connection being that I very much want to understand the “right” way to deal with a potty training - or just barely trained - child without making any stupid or uninformed generalizations.
The truth is, both times I put in a call to the ‘rents I expected them to say, “Oh, of course you took a crap behind a Denny’s when you were three! Are you kidding? We took pictures with our 35mm camera and printed them out for everyone to see! Parenting is tougher than it looks.” And yet, neither time did I receive that answer. Instead, I was told, “Yes, it sucks when kids are young and they can’t control themselves or foresee an accident, but that doesn’t mean we ever told you to poop on concrete as we cursed a gas station cashier.” My mom also added, “…and if we had run into a problem like that, you better believe I wouldn’t have told anyone about it! And I would have gone back to clean it up, too. Kids’ poop is worse than dog poop. It’s just not sanitary!!!” [insert my mom’s voice getting slightly shrill]
So I guess my knee-jerk reaction to this submission was correct after all. Just like it’s not OK for parents to act defiant in restaurants that lack changing tables or on public transportation, it’s not OK for parents to get angry with gas stations or other establishments that have ‘employee only’ bathroom policies. Pregnant women and children (and people with bladder problems, and everyone else who lives on earth) should simply plan ahead as much as they can, because the world does not cater to anyone’s bowels. (We’ve all had to learn that lesson a time or two, amirite? I won’t go into details, but road trips are usually involved.)
Plus, the last thing a parent should do when her kid has pooped behind a gas station is leave his “present” sitting on the ground for someone else to discover. Amanda, if you have the time to type this little story out on Facebook, you had time to scoop your kid’s poop and show him right from wrong. I assure you there are NO exceptions to the “employee only” bathroom rule (I’ve tried everything), just like there are no exceptions to the “you can’t physically walk through the drive-thru” rule (cars only). The sooner you acquaint yourself and your son with this concept, the better.
Related: Hobby Lobby and Poop In The Grass
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I work pt at a clothing store in a mall. We get asked ALL THE TIME to use the bathroom. Always by adults. We direct them to either Starbucks which is 50 feet away or the mall bathrooms 200 feet away. One woman (again, older — not with children, not visibly ill or otherwise physically impaired) got a little self-righteous when I directed her to the bathrooms available to the public. With the stock room adjacent to the employee bathrooms there is no way the store could allow customers to use the employee bathroom. Liability issue, plain and simple.
Presents
With this submission I actually called my mother and inquired as to whether I ever took a dump behind a gas station, drug store, restaurant or planetarium as a child. In fact, it’s only the second time I’ve consulted my own parents regarding a submission on the blog, the first one being this. Which makes sense, right? There’s a connection. The connection being that I very much want to understand the “right” way to deal with a potty training - or just barely trained - child without making any stupid or uninformed generalizations.
The truth is, both times I put in a call to the ‘rents I expected them to say, “Oh, of course you took a crap behind a Denny’s when you were three! Are you kidding? We took pictures with our 35mm camera and printed them out for everyone to see! Parenting is tougher than it looks.” And yet, neither time did I receive that answer. Instead, I was told, “Yes, it sucks when kids are young and they can’t control themselves or foresee an accident, but that doesn’t mean we ever told you to poop on concrete as we cursed a gas station cashier.” My mom also added, “…and if we had run into a problem like that, you better believe I wouldn’t have told anyone about it! And I would have gone back to clean it up, too. Kids’ poop is worse than dog poop. It’s just not sanitary!!!” [insert my mom’s voice getting slightly shrill]
So I guess my knee-jerk reaction to this submission was correct after all. Just like it’s not OK for parents to act defiant in restaurants that lack changing tables or on public transportation, it’s not OK for parents to get angry with gas stations or other establishments that have ‘employee only’ bathroom policies. Pregnant women and children (and people with bladder problems, and everyone else who lives on earth) should simply plan ahead as much as they can, because the world does not cater to anyone’s bowels. (We’ve all had to learn that lesson a time or two, amirite? I won’t go into details, but road trips are usually involved.)
Plus, the last thing a parent should do when her kid has pooped behind a gas station is leave his “present” sitting on the ground for someone else to discover. Amanda, if you have the time to type this little story out on Facebook, you had time to scoop your kid’s poop and show him right from wrong. I assure you there are NO exceptions to the “employee only” bathroom rule (I’ve tried everything), just like there are no exceptions to the “you can’t physically walk through the drive-thru” rule (cars only). The sooner you acquaint yourself and your son with this concept, the better.
Related: Hobby Lobby and Poop In The Grass
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