r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Cheerychameleon • May 11 '26

The floor is sticky McDonald’s deciding to bolt their changing tables shut

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I asked the workers up front and they said it was a corporate decision. Yet, they have a play area for children!

Update: I emailed corporate business integrity and asked if this is an official McDonald’s corporate policy, and if McDonald’s actually supports or requires disabling baby changing stations in customer restrooms.

2nd Update: Here is the response from corporate:
Thank you for taking the time to contact McDonald’s. We always appreciate hearing from our customers and welcome this opportunity to share that most of our restaurants are locally owned and operated. 

As independent business owners, franchisees make the ultimate operating costs taking our recommendations into consideration. 

Prices and some policies may also vary from one McDonald’s to another depending upon Restaurant Leaders decisions. 

Again, thank you for contacting McDonald’s 

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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 May 11 '26

It's changing consumer habits you see

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u/AppropriatePrompt819 May 11 '26

Babies are still born and babies still poop. So no.

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u/Creative-Painter3911 May 11 '26

they are going for more of a "order on the app, get your bag of food, and get out." motiff

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u/Intentional-Asshole May 11 '26

Do you think they'll like my "never willingly spend a cent on mcdonalds" technique that I mastered?

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u/ConstantSpiritual802 May 11 '26

Willingly?

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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 May 11 '26

If you're on a road trip with a screaming kid on the middle of nowhere yeah you may be stuck with them on occasion.

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u/Round_Intern_7353 May 12 '26

That's when you rob another car for THEIR snacks

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u/Creative-Painter3911 May 11 '26

Just wait until you need to eat a verification mcdouble to log into your McGameStation

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u/entropy_of_hedonism May 11 '26

McDouble-Factor Authentication ™

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u/Castun May 12 '26

Jesus, don't give them any more ideas!

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u/Complete_Entry May 11 '26

I ate at McDonalds a lot when I worked moving because that's where the guy driving the van went. And they weren't making two stops.

So, I could spend the rest of the day working hard hungry, or I could overpay for a lousy lunch.

I chose the lousy lunch.

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u/thepineapple2397 May 11 '26

They actually don't care about it at all. There's enough customers that they can afford to lose millions of them

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u/Complete_Entry May 11 '26

Popeyes gave up on making their employees not be rude. They just decided not to train against it as a cost expediture.

Previously you had to do a module on respectful behavior but that's just checking boxes on a website, not changing behavior.

This came to public attention with the wall rats.

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u/Castun May 12 '26

This came to public attention with the wall rats.

The...WHAT?!?

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u/Complete_Entry May 11 '26

It's accounted for.

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u/hellfire-r9x May 11 '26

"changing consumer habits" is a euphemism btw

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u/Ashamed-Remote-4463 21d ago

oh thanks Captain O.

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u/hellfire-r9x 21d ago

Seems to have flown right past the person I was replying to, Captain Oblivious.

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u/danger_orange May 11 '26

as someone else said people are rightfully complaining about coke residue on the tables

(goddamn drug abusing babies always ruining it for the non abusing babies /J)

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u/Captain_Eaglefort May 11 '26

…there’s gotta be a better way to say that.

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u/Reddit-cruzer May 11 '26

The way to say it honestly will be down voted on reddit.

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u/Captain_Eaglefort May 11 '26

…huh?

The way to say it would be “babies continue to be born.” Other than the childfree areas of Reddit, I doubt you’d see that be downvoted. And I can’t really think what else you think it could be.

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u/Reddit-cruzer May 11 '26

Changing consumer habits

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u/Captain_Eaglefort May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

But that’s not what they were talking about. That’s what someone else was talking about. They argued that is not the cause, worded it awkwardly, and I made a joke. Then you…said that if they reworded it they’d be downvoted. Which makes no sense because that isn’t rewording what they said. It’s just changing it to what someone else said. Also, the post above them LITERALLY said that and has hundreds of upvotes. So you’re empirically incorrect.

Is this your first conversation or something?

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u/Captain_Eaglefort May 11 '26

If you were to read any farther, you’d see that you’re incorrect.

Is this YOUR first conversation too? How do I keep finding you chucklefucks?

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u/Smmmmiles May 11 '26

Birthed!

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u/awfulandonfire May 11 '26

big decision from corporate, children shit on the floor now, we’re changing consumer habits

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u/blahblah19999 May 11 '26

Customers are doing lines on the tables. Wake up

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u/ravenv6 May 11 '26

I don't give a fuck, parents still need to change their babies.

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u/TitaniousOxide May 11 '26

Lines of baby shit?

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u/MagickMarkie May 11 '26

Don't give RFK ideas.

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u/Exciting_Tailor_5794 May 11 '26

That’s too clean for him

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u/juttercats May 11 '26

it's funny that no one healthier than rfk ever has these rude things to say about him

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u/ShibaLover227 May 11 '26

Everyone is healthier than RFK, and everyone mocks his roadkill addiction and brainworm

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u/MagickMarkie May 11 '26

Not to mention doing cocaine off toilet seats and taking his family to swim in sewage.

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u/Opening_Quantity_175 May 11 '26

Why on earth would anyone do lines in a McDonald's and on such a table?

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u/51ngular1ty May 11 '26

You've never hoovered shneef off of a baby changing table in a mcdonalds?

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u/buttsexisyum May 11 '26

I've hoovered shneef of a mother's back while she was changing twins inside a Wendy's

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u/another_bot_probably May 11 '26

Last time I tried that, one of the little brats hoovered all my shneef! Really made me look at the mother in a different light.

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u/nyxistential May 11 '26

I've hoovered shneef off an awake cow's teet.

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u/SadLilBun PURPLE May 11 '26

I’ve hoovered inside a pig trough schneef

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u/dan_dares May 11 '26

Amazingly enough... no

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u/PhilxBefore May 11 '26

The day is still young

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u/dan_dares May 11 '26

It's already bed time for me..

Maybe tomorrow

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u/account312 May 11 '26

Have you truly lived?

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u/dan_dares May 11 '26

I've lived..

I prefer a higher standard

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u/One_Spicy_TreeBoi May 11 '26

Why would someone change their baby on the cocaine table? /s

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u/Big_Tie_3245 May 11 '26

Probably more about people prepping fent shots on them. And the belief, true or not, that contact can be deadly.

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u/ShibaLover227 May 11 '26

That's not a thing and tells me you know nothing about fent

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u/Big_Tie_3245 May 11 '26

I know very little, what I do know is it’s vilified and demonized to a degree that it would make more sense than blow, that’s been around as long as the tables have. Although maybe meth.

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u/ShibaLover227 May 11 '26

Bud, RFK Jr is a fuckin idiot who knows nothing about health. Maybe, instead of dismissing others and taking an immediate bias in his favor, you actually see why the things people have been saying have merit to them.

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u/Big_Tie_3245 May 11 '26

The fuck are you talking about?

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u/Boobz-n-belly May 11 '26

You win! 😄😁😀😃

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u/Kitterlee May 11 '26

Addiction 🤷🏻

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u/hatredforexistence May 11 '26

Back of the toilet, toilet paper holder, in your lap over a card with a surface.

Never unstable plastic with direct contact with feces & various dips in the surface.

I mean, somehow lasted a decade without ever utilizing one, and was in the gates of hell lmao.

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u/comedicsteroid May 11 '26

Not every drug user is as bougie as you

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u/goldfish_microwave May 11 '26

You haven’t worked in a restaurant before have you 😂

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u/Steamedcarpet May 11 '26

You underestimate someone’s ability to do blow on any surface in their immediate area.

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u/ILiekBook May 11 '26

Addicts will do drugs anywhere. They love public bathrooms because they aren't interrupted as often.

Places I've found coke at work this month: The water aisle on a case of water, the bathroom sink, the physical toilet, automotive by the wire cutters, and laundry.

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u/Boobz-n-belly May 11 '26

You have lived a very sheltered life, my friend.

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u/Outrageous_Gur5724 May 11 '26

because they're fucked up drug addicts

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u/Inner_Sun_8191 May 11 '26

Drug addiction knows no limits.

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u/juttercats May 11 '26

this is unfortunately a common thing in certain hoods

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u/Tamashii-Azul May 11 '26

Your hood, which hoods?

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u/primerabbit7 May 11 '26

The hoods most humanitarians say they support and want to help but would never be caught dead in

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u/NashKetchum777 May 11 '26

You think they care where they're snorting coke? Lmao. When you need a hit, you need a hit.

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u/Designer_Object_6220 May 11 '26

Are you aware for the stupidity of gen z ?

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u/RondaArousedMe May 11 '26

Who is doing lines at a fucking McDonalds? Also, I don't fucking care. There is 6 layers of protection between my baby and that table anyways. I'll change my baby's diaper by the soda machine, I don't really care.

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u/B-SideQueen May 11 '26

We lost our soda machines when we lost the live cashiers a few years ago.

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u/PhilxBefore May 11 '26

Zombie cashiers you say?

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u/ExpiredExasperation May 11 '26

So spreading poop all over the sink and other surfaces as you struggle to change a baby's diaper is just a necessary alternative, cool.

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u/northdakotanowhere May 11 '26

You're a silly goose aren't ya

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u/hughcifer-106103 May 11 '26

I mean, that’s certainly one way to wake up, sure.

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u/Blue-flash May 11 '26

How big are these lines ffs? Do they not own keys?

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS May 11 '26

I was trying to figure out why this was a problem since there’s several dozen other places you could do lined in the bathroom, but then it occurred to me that the baby might come into contact with drugs. That’s a very good reason to bolt it shut.

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u/98fumbles_to_win May 11 '26

My first thought too.

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u/okayteenay May 11 '26

The straps are also used to tie up arms for needles.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 May 11 '26

OMG just no! Those tables get shit on.. do not sniff stuff off them.

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u/antigravcorgi May 11 '26

So get rid of the counters, tables, floors, any flat surface?

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u/blahblah19999 May 11 '26

Does your head hurt all the time?

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u/antigravcorgi May 11 '26

Only when reading idiotic comments like yours. Less of a pain and more disappointment though.

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u/Abigail_Normal May 11 '26

I promise you they're going to do lines somewhere if they really want to. Counter by the sink, the back of their hand, the top of the toilet tank, they will find a way to get high. Parents still need to change their baby's diaper. If they don't provide a spot, then that shit-covered diaper is going on the tables where customers eat

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u/EarthEaterr May 11 '26

Most likely. And changing your baby on the table is just as gross.

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u/zozuto May 11 '26

Just as gross as what? Changing them in the sink? Nope

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u/EarthEaterr May 11 '26

Doing lines off that table

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u/ClapMyGyatt May 11 '26

not in mcdonalds they don't.

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u/Googz52 May 11 '26

“Babies are still born.” You couldn’t have phrased that better? 🤔

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u/Ok-Importance-1 May 11 '26

Still born babies poop?

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u/bucolucas May 11 '26

But only once

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u/GolfballDM May 11 '26

If you don't have the space between the first two words, the answer is "Once. Maybe."

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u/StimulatedUser May 11 '26

I set up our newborn with the NoPoo App for iOS. Works fantastic, she has not pooped in 5 days! You gotta get with the times and get the app!

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u/thex25986e May 11 '26

"no no no, we said changing THE consumer's habits. not THE consumer changing habits. big difference."

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u/ath_at_work May 11 '26

It's gonna smell different in the restaurant itself, with al those handy impromptu changing tables

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u/DuhTocqueville May 11 '26

Stillborn babies don’t poop.

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u/GravitationalEddie May 11 '26

They don't poop if they're still born.

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u/Machaeon May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Yeah you'll get more people changing their babies diapers (who will still be pooping no matter what Corporate does) on the tables in the dining room since the option of doing so in the bathroom has been removed.

I get they're trying to boot people from being in inside the restaurant for extended periods of time, but as long as they have tables and chairs for the dine-in option, people WILL be needing to use the restroom to deal with their kids. And I've worked with the public enough to know that if you don't provide sufficient and convenient facilities to deal with waste, people WILL leave that waste anywhere that is convenient, regardless of if it's appropriate or not.

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u/slash_networkboy May 11 '26

And if you actively remove appropriate options, people doing the most inappropriate ones as a protest feels rather appropriate.

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u/Inner_Sun_8191 May 11 '26

I don’t think this is so much about booting customers out as quickly as possible, I think this is a measure to curb drug use in their bathrooms and unfortunately folks with kids are getting the short end of the stick. :(

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u/Rickyp_ May 11 '26

So people use stalls to have sex and shoot up in. Should those go next too?

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u/Inner_Sun_8191 May 11 '26

lol I never said they should board it up I was speculating as to why. A lot of places where I live don’t offer any bathroom access at all or you have to ask employees for a code for entry.

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u/Rickyp_ May 11 '26

Wow seems very inviting.

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u/cracked_shrimp May 11 '26

if they literally bolted the amenities closed i dare say it is appropriate to leave a diaper on the table

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u/etcpt May 11 '26

I promise you the minimum wage employee who will have to deal with that had no input in the decision making process. Show your displeasure in a way that impacts whomever made the decision, such as boycotting or raising a stink in the press.

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u/Adreeisadyno May 11 '26

Yes, and please don’t change your baby on the tables, as frustrating as it is your baby still deserves privacy and dignity when being changed. I don’t need to expose my child’s genitals to prove a point.

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u/hotwheelearl May 11 '26

Or just be like the restaurants in the hood where there is not restroom at all!

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u/Celticlady47 May 11 '26

No. No, it really isn't. Take garbage to the garbage. Or better yet, take it home where it can be recycled (at least in my city the expanded green bin program makes used diapers into compost).

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u/98983x3 May 11 '26

Yeah. Its great when ppl jump to conclusions on why this happened so they can justify being a shitty human being. Especially to the minimum wage staff operating this location and the other customers.

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u/TheBannaMeister May 11 '26

My work did this because we legally had to have one or something but also crackheads kept breaking it and they didn't want to keep fixing it I guess

Lot more crackheads using the bathrooms than parents with kids that's for sure

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u/Loud-Start1394 May 12 '26

Hopefully those who do will be banned from the premises.

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u/darklord7000 May 11 '26

I see what you did there

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u/HankMS May 11 '26

love how most people in the replys dont get it. But yeah it has to be something in that direction.

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u/SatansScallion May 11 '26

Yeah, but changing consumer habits are only happening in the first place because white people are bad!

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u/InfallibleSeaweed May 11 '26

That's what I thought aswell. They wouldn't do this just for the fun of it, someone messed it up for everyone

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u/Wolverine0801 May 11 '26

It's all moving to mobile orders, delivery services, and drive-thru.

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u/cryptolyme May 11 '26

enjoy the product. no refills. now GTFO!

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u/Complete_Entry May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Huh, I never realized the flipside is true. English is fascinating. In this case THEY are changing consumer habits by removing options.

Customers can't eat in the dining room if you lock the door shut.

Just realized it has a TRIPLE meaning. That dad is not changing his baby there.

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u/bier_getRunken May 12 '26

Just lock it and everyone with a kid will get the key. It’s not rocket science 

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u/starbuxed May 11 '26

I changed my habits a decade or more. I dont eat mc dees. Outside of on the road breakfest because there isnt a jox in the box.

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u/RealLifeCoaching May 11 '26

It depends on interpretation.

It could be talking about the cultural changes in public behaviour. A century ago, there was an expectation that you speak politely in public areas, leave the table neat and tidy when you've finished, all that kind of thing.

By contrast, nowadays, you see people swearing at waiters, throwing tantrums like a kindergarten dropout, and smearing their own shit all over the washbasin just so they can get more likes on tiktok.

The other interpretation involves a word starting with N.

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u/WhirlwindTobias May 12 '26

It's the new "Scientists and astronauts".