10 more days? This diaper may not be able to wait...

I was reading up on other blogs and I saw where a dad commented about changing his kid's diaper on the floor of a men's room since there was no diaper changing station in the bathroom. Besides being totally grossed out, I remembered a long time battle that I may have to resume soon.

Plus, we drove by our neighborhood library last night and saw that they have FINALLY taken down a year's worth of construction fences. All this combined to remind me of the good old days...

Our neighborhood library is stupid.

There. I said it. The S word.

See, they closed our closest library branch about a year ago to add on more space. Which is great in my book. It was a pretty small place, so I am all for them having more room. And I understand that a major renovation goes faster if the space isn't open to the public. The problem? They only had the place opened for about 6 months after being closed most of a year before this closure so that they could paint and replace carpets and expand the parking lots.

I am a lazy sumbitch. I would never paint a room and clean the carpets just to rip it all out six months later. Maybe that is why I don't work at the library. But it just seems too obvious to ask why wasn't this all done at once. So I won't ask.

The Talker and I started going up there every few days when he was nine months old. And we really needed a diaper changing station. But they did not have one in the men's restroom. Each time I needed to change his diaper I would ask when a deck would be installed in the men's room. The standard answer 4 1/2 years ago was "when we renovate the library, in a few months." And then I would change The Talker's diaper on a reading table or on the carpeted floor, out in the middle of the library.

Every time a librarian would get mad at me and offer to let me use the women's restroom diaper changing station. Which I never did. Because I did not want to. Plus it was inconvenient for every mom in the place for me to be tying up the ladies room.

The lack of a diaper deck and my public diaper changing protests continued right through until The Princess came along. Then there were a few months of me changing two diapers out in the open library. But still, no diaper deck.

Then the library closed for paint/carpet/parking renovations. And my faith in humanity was renewed just like the freshly shampooed rugs. Until I went into the men's room. No damn diaper deck to be found. So I marched out into the library and changed baby girl right on a nice new reading table. If only I had been a NASAstronaut, I could have changed myself, too. And the librarians were pissed.

But not as much as me. We had waited 2 1/2 years for a diaper deck to be installed and now that renovations were done the library staff told me "no one ever asked about having a diaper changing station in the men's room." Why do you think I change the kids on the tables? I mean I don't want to hang out in the men's room any longer than necessary, but dang.

Anyways. The library re-reopens in 10 days. And April 2 we will be there at diaper changing time. And there dang well better be a diaper deck in the re-renovated men's room. Or else I might shove some librarian's computer out of our way and change The Princess right on the front desk.