Stop, Drop and Roll

Another misadventure from the bookstore arrived when the warehouse manager called me and said "You've got to see this."  Now, this wasn't a rare request.  Often we'd find a cache of erotica sitting somewhere among the thousands of remainders because the reader was simply too shy to read it in the erotica section.  This time, however, he invited me to come back and see where someone had decided to change their baby. 

Now I know that parents' lives are busy.  And I can imagine how walking 2 aisles to the restroom with a defecating toddler might not always be a possibility.  But why would you change your baby and then leave the OPEN, USED diaper sitting atop a pile of books?  (I believe it was in "performing arts") 

Of course, on the heels of that discovery were the burning questions: "How long had it been sitting there?" and "How many people had browsed that section without calling attention to it?" and "Could they have possibly not noticed that sitting on top of 'A Rogers and Hammerstein Celebration' was a diaper chock full of baby poo?" 

Lastly...I have to think what lesson this taught the toddler and I shudder to think that this baby is now in his 20s...Barnes and Noble, beware.