Mom gets banned from Mcdonalds

[sxycherrypie]

This is such a stupid reason these guys banned her.

 

[lordmagellan]

Banned who from what? There was no mention of anyone being banned from anything.

And how is this news? Hell, I recognized how filthy those things were when I was playing in them as a kid. They're giant germ factories. That's what happens when you have an indoor play area for kids who, let's face it, don't practice the best hygiene while at play. The ball pits are some of the scariest places I can imagine, also, fun.

But one could make the argument that these places can serve to benefit the kids playing in them later in life. Children need to be exposed to germs. They need to get sick. Otherwise they don't build up antibodies against potentially fatal diseases/ infections later in life. That isn't to say they shouldn't clean that fucking place.

 

[JoleneBrody]

I just watched this story this morning. I'm with LM. I was raised in an Anti-Antibacterial soap home (Oregon, explains it all) and I rarely got sick with more than the sniffles. The only way they could keep that place clean was if they cleaned it every 5 minutes. That just isn't possible.
Kids are gross little creatures that turn my stomach most of the time. I just have to remind myself that they are preparing for life.

Worm babies.

 

[sxycherrypie]

When I watched it on the news it did say she got banned cause she video taped everything and told other parents in the store about the gross play area.And yes kids are gross we all know that but if they cleaned it between breakfast lunch and dinner rush they would be fine.When I used to go to mcdonalds as a kid in mesa I remember the area being clean everytime I went there I miss that play area to damn bad I cant fit in there anymore lol.

 

[RufffRider]

i strongly feel that antimicrobial antibacterial soap/lotion is why more and more children get these crazy allergies. If there is no dust under your childs bed they have an increased chance for allergies. Kids should be allowed to eat dirt, it is good for them

 

[ScarletVixen]

I grew up on a farm handling/contacting feces, dust, mold and grime every day, and fuck yea I played in the mcdonalds ball pits all the time. I seem OK.

AAHHH-CHOOOOOOOOO!!! :icon-cry: :lol:

 

[JickyJuly]

The people who work at McDonalds don't get paid enough to clean up child dirt.

 

[RufffRider]

The people who work at McDonalds don't get paid enough to clean up child dirt.

also true

 

[punker barbie]

I saw her on some talk show (forget which one) anyway, she paid to get testing and they actually found traces of STD's. Its so gross to think little children are exposed. From my understanding there are no regulations in the US to keep them clean.

 

[lordmagellan]

I saw her on some talk show (forget which one) anyway, she paid to get testing and they actually found traces of STD's. Its so gross to think little children are exposed. From my understanding there are no regulations in the US to keep them clean.

Most STDs are only transmittable while wet ie: blood, mucous, etc. Once exposed and dried the viruses only live for a short while, 24 hrs or less in most cases.

 

[demetra]

Does she not recall the cesspool that was once the ball pit at McDonald's? I grew up with that & personally I did not get sick, but now I ask myself "Why did they let me play in that horrid ball pit?" Honestly, I come to expect all equipment that children play on to be disgusting & dirty. It's not the kids' fault, it's the parents who do not take proper care of them. & I totally agree that McDonald's employees do not get paid enough to clean it!

 

[SatanJonez]

Does she not recall the cesspool that was once the ball pit at McDonald's? I grew up with that & personally I did not get sick, but now I ask myself "Why did they let me play in that horrid ball pit?" Honestly, I come to expect all equipment that children play on to be disgusting & dirty. It's not the kids' fault, it's the parents who do not take proper care of them. & I totally agree that McDonald's employees do not get paid enough to clean it!

This. And also, just when I was beginning to think I was paranoid because I wouldn't let my daughter play in one of those, this has made me realize I'm not. At least not as much as I thought I was.

 

[Keithy]

The reporter said a lot of things that are correct. McDonald's won't be able to tell you about cleaning procedures for most playlands BECAUSE McDonald's doesn't control who has them, how they're set up or anything like that. Franchisees in McDonald's have a wonderful amount of control over their own stores and so every one of the choices made about the playland is up to them. It also lets them worry about local laws and comply easily with cleaning.
They are also allowed to ban her for any reason or no reason. It's a private business and this is 'Murika. If she was disruptive to the business she should have been banned. When she saw the conditions she complained. When she went back and nothing was changed she should have called the health department, not continued complaining to the minimum wage high school kid at the counter or his barely better paid shift manager. Guess which one gets things done faster? She did it the stupid way and the way that gets you kicked out of places.

 

[Jupiter551]

The people who work at McDonalds don't get paid enough to clean up child dirt.

Hell yeah they do, I stumbled across a bizarre janitorial McDonalds training video the other day lol "Now THAT'S McDonalds clean!"
the McJanitor is a vital and VALUED part of the organisation. He even gets offered coffee his first day.

 

[sxycherrypie]

I saw her on some talk show (forget which one) anyway, she paid to get testing and they actually found traces of STD's. Its so gross to think little children are exposed. From my understanding there are no regulations in the US to keep them clean.

Oh wow that is gross.

 

[sxycherrypie]

Does she not recall the cesspool that was once the ball pit at McDonald's? I grew up with that & personally I did not get sick, but now I ask myself "Why did they let me play in that horrid ball pit?" Honestly, I come to expect all equipment that children play on to be disgusting & dirty. It's not the kids' fault, it's the parents who do not take proper care of them. & I totally agree that McDonald's employees do not get paid enough to clean it!

This. And also, just when I was beginning to think I was paranoid because I wouldn't let my daughter play in one of those, this has made me realize I'm not. At least not as much as I thought I was.

Yea I wont let my son play in those.And the one I used to play in I never got sick from and never found anything dirty but they did shut the ball pit down when some dumb kid got strangled by the net he was not supposed to be climbing on,he fell wrong and his neck got tangled and well he strangled to death.

 

[Jupiter551]

I saw her on some talk show (forget which one) anyway, she paid to get testing and they actually found traces of STD's. Its so gross to think little children are exposed. From my understanding there are no regulations in the US to keep them clean.

Wow, maybe from some McBathroom sex?

 

[SoTxBob]

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: I'm also an ANTI anti-microbial soap home. If you don't build up natural immunities you pretty well screw your family into a life at the Dr's office.

My kids used to love the pit and slides etc @ McD's and Chucky Cheese. I had no problem letting them use the areas. They did however make their own decision to never hit the ball pit again before they were even 6. A kid next to them [in said pit] found a shit filled open diaper hidden at the bottom under the balls when he stepped on it. He proceeded to peel it off his foot and then tossed up his McHappy meal into the ball pit that had maybe a dozen kids in it. That was the last time either of them went near one. I think the parents were screaming louder than the little kids that were close to it. :lol:

 

[SweepTheLeg]

I praise watching George Carlin's 'you are all diseased' In my youth that helped lead me down my crusade against the anti-bacterial maniacs. Kids should train and build up their immune system, I don't remember the last time I got sick and when I did get sick I don't remember the last time I got anything worse than a two day cold.

 

[ScarletVixen]

I praise watching George Carlin's 'you are all diseased' In my youth that helped lead me down my crusade against the anti-bacterial maniacs. Kids should train and build up their immune system, I don't remember the last time I got sick and when I did get sick I don't remember the last time I got anything worse than a two day cold.

I remember one line he had... "Because we swam in raw sewage - to cool off! It strengthened our immune systems. The polio never had a prayer; we were tempered in raw shit!!"

 

[SweepTheLeg]

Know when I wash my hands? When I shit on them! Which is tops two three times a week TOPS!

 

[ScarletVixen]

Know when I wash my hands? When I shit on them! Which is tops two three times a week TOPS!

"If I drop food on the floor, I pick it up and EAT IT! Yes, I do! Even if I'm at a side walk cafe...in Calcutta! In the poor section, on new year's morning during a soccer riot!" :lol:

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

Know when I wash my hands? When I shit on them! Which is tops two three times a week TOPS!

"If I drop food on the floor, I pick it up and EAT IT! Yes, I do! Even if I'm at a side walk cafe...in Calcutta! In the poor section, on new year's morning during a soccer riot!" :lol:

I have always followed the 5 second rule...
:-D

*A common superstition, the five-second rule states that food dropped on the ground will not be contaminated with bacteria if it is picked up within five seconds of being dropped. Some may earnestly believe this assertion,[citation needed] whereas other people employ the rule as a polite social fiction to prevent their having to forgo eating something that dropped.
There are many variations on the rule. Sometimes the time limit is modified. In some variations, the person picking up the food arbitrarily extends the time limit based on the actual amount of time required to retrieve the food. In Russia there exists a similar rule: "Promptly picked up is not considered fallen".

*Don't you just love wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule

 

[ScarletVixen]

I follow the "meh, wipe it/wash it off rule" as well :lol: A t-shirt-rub isn't really as good as a disinfectant wipe, but oh how we delude ourselves :lol:

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

I follow the "meh, wipe it/wash it off rule" as well :lol: A t-shirt-rub isn't really as good as a disinfectant wipe, but oh how we delude ourselves :lol:

In Season 5 Episode 5 of Grey's Anatomy, Meredith drops a kidney on the floor during a transplant procedure. Chief Resident Dr. Bailey promptly shouts "Five second rule!", the kidney is safely donated afterward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second_rule

HA! I saw that episode!
So according to the article, there was research done on this 'rule', and it is pretty much an excuse we use to blindly inflict mortal dangers upon ourselves in order to feast upon food which has fallen...


"“The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.”
--Wilford O. Cross

I think a good sandwhich is worth the dangers.
:-D


Oh yeah, back to the topic: MCDonalds is the anti-christ! Yeah. So there.
(but I LOOVE their fish sandwhiches, extra extra tarter. and gimme the McRib again, bb. mmm.)
I didn't ever get to play in the balls at McDonalds. I led a sheltered childhood.

 

[Keithy]

Oh yeah, back to the topic: MCDonalds is the anti-christ! Yeah. So there.
(but I LOOVE their fish sandwhiches, extra extra tarter. and gimme the McRib again, bb. mmm.)
I didn't ever get to play in the balls at McDonalds. I led a sheltered childhood.

That's not really anything to do with the topic.
And if you want, I can take you to McDonald's and you can play in some balls then.

 

[Zoomer]

i strongly feel that antimicrobial antibacterial soap/lotion is why more and more children get these crazy allergies. If there is no dust under your childs bed they have an increased chance for allergies. Kids should be allowed to eat dirt, it is good for them

As long as they've had all their appropriate vaccinations and the dirt they are eating isn't strewn with rats piss or other animal excrement in the soil...

Otherwise they potentially may be exposed to Tetanus, Weil's disease, Roundworms, Hookworms, Lyme's disease, Salmonella and dozens of others which could continue down half the page... (most risk is entirely dependant upon location/animals in the area etc).

Whilst it is true that sanitising everything means anyone won't have much of an immune system towards common colds - rolling around in animal excrement and so on is not safe either, and certainly not a good way to try and "build an immunity" towards common colds - because you run the risk of catch something far far far far worse than a runny nose...

Bottom line, without hysteria, a reasonable application of common sense towards hygiene is all you need... know your environment. If the kids are playing in the back yard, just make sure they know how to recognise and avoid animal mess (and you clear it up), and that they know to wash their hands and not suck fingers etc until they've been washed properly If you don't know it, maybe check it out first

As for the MacD's? They're responsible for their environment and you'd expect they take reasonable steps to maintain a level of cleanliness over everything. I doubt any parent would expect the playground to be the equivalent to a hospital ward, but at the same time if it were vomited upon covered in shit etc they'd expect it closed and cleaned.

I don't think it is unreasonable to expect the restaurant to conduct frequent checks of their premises and keep it clean and tidy...especially a children's play area. But it isn't the end of the world either

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

Oh yeah, back to the topic: MCDonalds is the anti-christ! Yeah. So there.
(but I LOOVE their fish sandwhiches, extra extra tarter. and gimme the McRib again, bb. mmm.)
I didn't ever get to play in the balls at McDonalds. I led a sheltered childhood.

That's not really anything to do with the topic.
And if you want, I can take you to McDonald's and you can play in some balls then.

close enough.
:mrgreen:

 

[AmberCutie]

I didn't watch the video so I don't know exactly what the complaint was at the play place. But I do want to pipe in and say there's a difference between something being "clean" and something being "sanitized". I would expect an area kids are to play in to be clean. Free of excess dirt, no piss, shit or vomit, free of rotting food or dead animals. I wouldn't expect it to be fully sanitized frequently. As a parent, I would make sure my kids washed their paws after playing in a public playground before shoveling handfuls of chicken nuggets and French fries in their mouths.

When I was a kid I didn't play at McDonald's but spent hours in the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese and unfortunately it didn't do shit for my grown up immune system. I get sick constantly these days. Jawbs blames me being home constantly and our high end hypoallergenic air filtration system. I step outdoors now and find I'm allergic and sensitive to anything. :mrgreen:

 

[Rose]

Mmmmmm I love McDonalds. It is my absolute favorite place to eat. I also believe that some germs are good and help build up immunities but I still wouldn't let any children under my care to play in a fast food play place. It wasn't too long ago that I was at the age to play in those things and I remember some of the nasty crap I saw. Nope, kids under my care can go play in the dirt on the playground. They may be more likely to step in dog poop but that's ok.