Bizarre Iconography of Diaper-Changing Tables

There are aliens among us.

Or, at least, that's what you'd think if you based your mental image of humans on the way they are portrayed in the graphics on the fold-out diaper changing tables found in the public restrooms of America.


What species is that? Is that an udder at the bottom? (From an Ohio highway rest stop. )


Check out that baby's legs. They look like the top of a soft serve cone!


"No, mom, don't hit me! I'm tied to this table!" (Photo from the restroom on the waterfront in Buffalo, N.Y.)


Oh, yes, my child is an elephant. Isn't yours? (Taken along I-86 in western New York.)


No, mine is a tiger. (Taken along an interstate in Michigan.)


I must disagree. My child is a koala bear. Note the alteration here: "Baby hanging Station." (From Wisconsin.)


This is perhaps the progeny of a Star Trek alien. Or possibly the spawn of the silent cartoon character Henry. (From D'Amico & Sons, Saint Paul.)