Breastfeeding in public is somewhat legal but mostly socially unacceptable, so when I need to pump so my bottle-fed baby still gets all the great benefits of breastmilk, I tend to eschew public arenas. So, yesterday when I found myself traveling with a two month old baby and needing to pump, I was grateful to find a nursery area next to the women's restroom at Boston's Logan airport. It was in use, so I waited. I had 30 minutes until my flight began to board, and I began to worry that the woman currently breastfeeding her child wouldn't finish in time for me to do my business. After several minutes, an older woman -- must have been in her 50's or 60's, emerged from the nursery. She took one look at me -- it was obvious I was waiting for the nursery, it was obvious I was a mom, considering the size of the stroller nearly blocking the entrance not only to the nursery, but to the restroom it adjoined -- and came up with some lame excuse for using the nursery. "I'm sorry, I needed a place to sit down, and I needed to hang up my coat." I hate to break it to you, lady, but there is no coat hook in the nursery. And, considering the large number of unoccupied chairs in the waiting area of every nearby gate, I hardly thought it necessary to "hang" your coat when you can simply put it over a chair.

What is up with a woman (who, judging by her age, is completely incapable of producing breastmilk, not to mention the fact she clearly had no child) using the nursery as her personal napping place? She probably parks in handicapped parking, too, because her groceries might spoil if she parked 20 feet farther from her apartment. Grr...