Appropriate Changing Tables & Violent Muscle Spasms

Back from Cleveland and the people watching continues. It isn't even like I look for these hilarious things that I see on a daily basis, they just happen to me. Today two funny things happened and I thought, well I guess I am writing an entry tonight!

First of all, it is very hard to find a public bathroom in downtown Chicago. Every public place has signs that say "NO PUBLIC RESTROOM" and they seriously enforce it. Some restaurants have keys but you have to make a purchase to get the key. Anyways, this can be a slight inconvenience if you are out in the city and need to use a restroom. My point was proven today as I walked near a Corner Bakery. I decided to stop to get a diet coke on my way home from work and as I turn the corner I notice a baby lying on a table outside. This mother decides that instead of finding a bathroom with a changing station she could change her daughters diaper on the tables outside the corner bakery. She had the baby lying (naked) on the table placed outside the restaurant for guests to eat. I begin to feel ill as I witness this. I have sat at tables outside thousands of times and never thought that I could be placing my food or purse where a baby's bottom and dirty diapers sat moments earlier. This is seriously disturbing. What was more disturbing was when I left the restaurant someone was sitting at the same table eating their dinner. BAH!

The second story was just bizarre. I was on the bus on my way home (right after the corner bakery). This man sat down next to me, I was sitting in the row with three seats and there was a woman in the far seat. The man who sat down was doing some kind of muscle strengthening or had some weird spasms because every 30 seconds or go he would push his legs out and then squeeze them together. Because the seats were tight the pushing would force the other girl and I into the walls of the bus. It was weird.