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A wee incident
By hissychick | February 20, 2008
Imagine, if you will, the following scene at your local library, following a day in which a house bound hissychick had been going not so quietly mad at the constant demands and domestics that go with being a SAHM…
Me: A, you need to go to the toilet, let’s go.
A (doing the wee dance): I don’t need to go.
Me (Grabbing A by the hand and wheeling E into the bathroom) : Oh yes you do.
A sits on toilet for a minute.
A: But I really don’t need to go.
Me (viewing A with suspicion): OK, let’s grab our books and go back to the car for the potty.
A already out the door and back in the children’s section as I speak. I grab our books and reach for the library card in my purse at the back of E’s stroller..
A: Uh-oh…MUMMY, MUMMY, I”VE HAD AN ACCIDENT
I look up to see my daughter weeing all over a floor tic-tac-toe game. Without thinking, I grab a nearby wastepaper bin and stick it under her. Ten year old girl looks on in horror as I catch most of the wee in said bin.
Me: Stand there A, I just have to get some paper towel. Then we’ve got to go..
By now half of the library is looking at me as I dash into the loo, grab paper towel, make a half hearted attempt at cleaning up, chuck wee filled bin liner in paper waste bin in toilet (oops) before folding up playmat and grimly marching to the counter.
Me (after waiting for tiresome old windbag to wind up her pointless conversation with the librarian): Err I am so sorry, but my daughter just had an accident…
A (whining at my feet): BUT I WANT TO STAY HERE MUMMY.
Librarian (wide eyed): Umm, that’s OK, we’ll clean it up..
A: WE NEED TO STAY HERE BUT MY PANTS ARE ALL WET MUMMY
Me (sighing):.. and can I please check these books out while you’re at it?
All eyes were on me as I took a protesting A by the hand and wheeled E’s stroller out of the door as quickly as possible.
Back at the car I managed to find a clean pair of undies for A- of course I’d run out of spare shorts etc because..well…that’d be right. We still needed to go to the supermarket next door, and figuring that hey, at least A’s bottom was covered, off we went.
I should have known better. No sooner than we were in the door than a nosy grandmotherly type came up to me and said “Ohh dear, your little girl doesn’t have any pants”.
If I had have been in a stronger state of mind, I would have told her to mind her own business.
If I had have been in a stronger state of mind, I would have responded with some hissy sarcastic remark such as “Oh really, are they meant to wear pants as well? Silly me, must stop smoking crack.”
Instead I found myself trying to politely tell this woman about the library incident. Anyway she must have seen the crazed look in my eye because she backed right off.
And to think I couldn’t even have a stiff drink when we got home. But, hey, you’ve got to laugh at the absurdity of such a finish to (another) one of those days.
In other news…E is both standing supported and has made a few forward crawling moves. God hates me.
Topics: The joys of toilet training |
Totally hilarious
Poor you though! Thankg God E didn’t decide at that time to pull a fuss on you as well!
Maybe God doesn’t hate you all that much ! hehehe…
Posted by: Ann on February 21st, 2008 at 5:43 amThankfully E pretty much goes with the flow. Pardon the pun and all that.
Posted by: hissychick on February 27th, 2008 at 9:11 amSometimes when Micah protest about going to the toilet, I’d insist and tell him to push, even if it’s just a bit so that he will have his game/show/etc uninterrupted. That usually gets him, unless there really is no pee.
Incidentally, we had an accident once in the Science Centre and I too had to clan up and apologies to the staff. At least there was no crowd there.
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