The other day at 11 something in the morning I was heading off to work. I walked past a bus stop on my way to the subway station, and there up against the side of the rain shelter was a crouching middle aged lady with her pants around her ankles taking a piss…in the middle of the sidewalk, and in broad daylight. I have a serious problem with this kind of behavior.
Before anyone who has gone out drinking with me starts yelling, “You hypocrite, you’ve pissed outside,” allow me to explain what my problem is. My problem is about the timing and the location. Yes I have urinated in quasi-public places, but always under cover of darkness, and always somewhere off the beaten path. Perhaps this comes from the fact that I was raised in a puritan society and have such shame about all bodily fluids and the means by which they exit my body, but I for one find it wrong to take a piss at a bus stop at 11 in the morning.
Similarly I have a problem with the moms that take young children on the subway. This children are not fully toilet trained, yet are not wearing diapers. Instead, in the midst of other commuters, the mom will pants the kid (usually a boy) and have him piss into an empty bottle…on the subway, in front of all the other passengers.
If you have that little control over your blatter, go pick up some Depends lady! If your kid can’t hold it until the next stop, he still needs to be in diapers!
