The other day I went to one of my favorite Austin coffee houses, Epoch Coffee. I was there for a meeting with with one of our developers. It was a professional meeting. You know, the kind involving professionals.
At the next table sat a man with his infant daughter. She was very well behaved — the only noise emanating from her stroller was the occasional, delightful giggle.
It was dad I had the problem with. As I sat discussing schedules and deliverables with my colleague, dad picked daughter up out of her stroller, laid her down on a vacant table, and proceeded to change her diaper.
Change her diaper! A soiled diaper, which was clear from my position. He changed her diaper… on a table where people eat. No mat. Did he wipe off the table afterward? No.
I’m not sure I’ll go back to Epoch, much as I like the place. It’s not Epoch’s fault. But geez… what was this guy thinking?
I should have said something. I didn’t. As I mentioned, I was having this professional meeting, and I was trying to pay attention.
I’m so ready for LaunchPad Coworking to be open. Coffee shops are just not cutting it for me.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Andy Skelton // May 11, 2008 at 7:00 am
Epoch is usually the best 24-hour place in town, you should have said something before he got the second tape fastener undone, and that picture definitely looks like an unhappily melting peanut butter cup.
2 Drew // May 12, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I have 3 kids, and have changed loads of diapers. But wow! On the table? I can be a bit impulsive, to be sure, but if I saw that I would demand that poo-poo daddy be tossed, or I’d be gone gone-
Gross is Gross…Pretty simple
3 Drew // May 12, 2008 at 10:28 pm
great picture, by the way!!
4 lavanna martin // Nov 13, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I go to Epoch all of the time to paint, and your story beats any weird thing that I have ever seen there. Yuck.
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