No changing tables on a Boeing 757
Guess what?
If you fly United airlines from San Francisco to JFK, you get to ride on a Boeing 757.
And, if you get to ride on a Boeing 757 and you have a baby,
Then you get to find out that a Boeing 757 doesn’t have a changing table.
And, when you find out that a 757 doesn’t have a changing table,
Then you get to change your baby in the empty seat that you were lucky enough to have on the flight out.
But, when there’s no empty seat between you on the flight back,
Then you get to find out what its like to try to change an explosive poopy diaper in an airplane lavatory.
And, when you try to change that poopy diaper,
You follow the advice of the nice flight attendant,
Who said that you should sit on the toilet,
With the changing pad in your lap,
And with the baby on the pad.
But, the pad gets dirty, and you only have 2 hands, and you’ve run out of wipes,
So you’re using toilet paper, and you’re putting the used ones in the sink,
Which the baby can reach with his arms,
And your only savior is when mommy knocks on the door and asks if everything is okay.
And everything isn’t okay, and there’s a naked dirty baby in the lavatory with his clothes half off.
But thanks for the help! And she cleans up the pad, and you get on the new diaper,
And you put on new clothes, and you wipe up all the mess, and you wash your hands,
And you say:
Screw YOU United Airlines with your ridiculous lack of changing tables on your Boeing 757s!!!
Tags: boeing 757, changing table, united
January 13th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
My sympathy. I’m starting to keep track of businesses that do/don’t have changing tables in their bathrooms. Maybe we should keep track of it on some web site (Yelp?)
Also, to those businesses that only have changing tables in the women’s room and not the men’s room: Will you please catch up? It’s not 1970 anymore.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Luckily, that experience was our impressive introduction to what United classifies as Premium Service (”p.s.”).
“Whatever your own reasons may be, we hope your time with p.s. (SM) will end with a pleasant memory and a promise to return.”
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,50964,00.html?jumpLink=%2Fps
For further clarification,
” means refining our service to better provide a better experience for bicoastal business travelers, whom we hold in the highest regards.”
which explains the regard in which United holds their 7 mos old travelers and their pathetic, beleaguered parents.
The problem is - if there’s no changing table for the baby on the flight - there’s an unhappy baby and an unsightly mess for their highly-regarded premium business travelers almost certainly at some point during their bicoastal 6 hour p.s. flight.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Been there, done that. It is so bad it is funny!
January 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Google map offers a feature where you can pin point places on a map. So let’s say you live in SF and would like to know where they do and do not have changing tables…create a google map and collaborate with your friends to keep it updated!
Very useful tool!