tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329242160576638979.post2714334567573662527..comments2022-02-21T05:21:15.822-08:00Comments on Changing Tables for Dads: Hanging In Lexington, VADBurkholderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743762035689700383noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2329242160576638979.post-46939966757430385002010-01-31T03:43:18.230-08:002010-01-31T03:43:18.230-08:00(posted by Mary Lane for her mother, Nancy Saylor)...(posted by Mary Lane for her mother, Nancy Saylor)<br /><br />HI Daniel,<br /><br />Nancy Saylor here--Lexington, VA dancer and Lenfest Center for the Arts user. First of all, it's Washington and Lee University (perhaps you were getting confused with William and Mary University in Williamsburg, VA?). Secondly, I saw your wife's performance and it was lovely. It's great to have had you both in town.<br /><br />Regarding your reference to the fact that The Lenfest Center didn't provide you with a changing table in the men's room, I'm not sure why that would ever be something to expect in a performing arts center unless the center was specifically geared toward providing entertainment events for non toilet trained infants/toddlers and their parents. I'm ALL for changing tables in men's public rest rooms in the market place in general and I love the spirit of your complaint. But I'm very much against babes in arms being brought to theaters. I have a pet peeve about crying babies or inattentive toddlers interrupting a performance and parents who seem oblivious to the fact that they are doing so. Of course, this is being spoken by a woman who hauled her own children along to every rehearsal and never used a changing table in my life--I just changed them wherever I could find a flat surface that they wouldn't fall off of. Also, I had my babies before those types of things were provided in public rest rooms--men's or women's--and now that I have grandchildren, I don't trust using the tables provided because of concern about cleanliness.<br /><br />So anyway--in defense of our beloved Lenfest Center and to offer another point of contention--I thought I'd just mention the fact that changing tables in theater rest rooms are probably not there for a reason...the architects didn't imagine that the theater would be providing that service to theater goers for the simple fact that they weren't expecting parents to bring infants to performances. Wait--is there a changing table in the women's room in The Lenfest Center? Have I been missing that the whole time?<br /><br />As for the Southern Inn--well--that place isn't about the bathrooms. I'll never forget the first piece of pecan pie I had there in 1993. You don't go to the Southern Inn to go to the bathroom, you go there to get a really good meal and have a great drink or two from the bar.<br /><br />Have you been to any third world countries lately? If you're going to start a bathroom review, I should warn you...<br /><br /><br />Nancy Saylor--Lexington, VAmarylouisalanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06179477447322333298noreply@blogger.com