Family washrooms not so family friendly

I spent some time at the Montreal airport today and I was not impressed with their family washrooms. Pardon my language, but in no uncertain terms they suck.

Well, maybe I should rephrase that and say the one that dear husband and I happened to stumble upon was horribly inadequate. It was small, there was no toilet, and most importantly there not a square of paper towel to be seen anywhere. There was only a very powerful, but loud hand drier, which scared the begezzers out of my child.

While hand driers could be more environmentally friendlier than paper towel, I will give you the following reason why paper towel dispensers should be in family washrooms: the crying factor. When you have a child who is in dire need of a diaper change and decides to pee midway through said diaper change and you have no paper towels to clean up the mess, your attitude suddenly turns pissy. (Pardon the pun). Although you have a wonderful new diaper bag, there are only so many diapers it can hold, so obviously diapers are at a premium when travelling and wasting them on cleaning up pee on a change table, well, is simply wasteful.

And when you turn on the very powerful, but loud hand drier to dry your hands after cleaning up the pee, your wailing child wails even harder because the hand drier has scared the begeezers out of her. *Sigh* Let's just say today was a long day. And if airports, especially the Montreal Airport, wanted to make life easier for parents they would install paper towel dispensers in their family washrooms.