On April 23, Mrs. Zheng and her family went to a shopping mall in Hangzhou. Her baby wet his pants but luckily she had a clean set in her bag and it was nearly time for nursing so she decided to go to the mall family bathroom where there’s a changing station.
Mrs. Zheng found the door locked, so she knocked and waited about 10 minutes until a 20-year-old walked over and told her “My friend is not feeling well, so she’s resting inside, you can go to another floor.”
This upset Mrs. Zheng very much. She didn’t know if the other floors had changing tables and thought it unfair that someone was an insider for other reasons than the intended use, so she waited a bit longer.
Once the door opened, Mrs. Zheng found many girls occupying the room. Each girl came out glamorously dressed from head to toe with hair and makeup ready carrying several bags of clothes.
Ms. Zheng was now very angry! As girls poured out of the room, she could see inside that there were still a few girls inside “getting ready”.
She asked, “why are you occupying this room for makeup?”
A few girls ignored her and the girl who had told her that her friend was inside not feeling well said, “I told you it was occupied, why didn’t you go somewhere else? It’s your fault, not ours.”
Mrs. Zheng angrily replied, “This is the nursing room! You can go to the toilet to do your makeup, hair, and change! You should not occupy a room for mothers to take care of their babies!”
All of the women, in their early to mid 20’s, sauntered past Mrs. Zheng unaware of what they had done wrong.
Mrs. Zheng reported this to the mall. The bathroom attendants and cleaners said these girls come here frequently. Mall management also felt very helpless of the situation. “These girls come in to take pictures around the mall and even when our staff says something, they ignore them and keep doing it.”
It’s one thing for “internet famous” people to use public spaces to take pictures but it’s quite selfish and rude to disobey rules and disrespect people.
Have you seen or experienced something like this?