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What would you do?

28 replies

littlemuckypups · 19/03/2011 21:26

What would you do if you and your child (under 4) was in a car park waiting for a taxi when your child suddenly decided he/she needed a wee desperately and there was no toilets near by?
I was put in this situation today and felt i had no choice but to let him pee in the corner (which i was not happy about doing).
to make things worse the path was sloping so you can guess what happened Blush

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JemAndTheHolograms · 19/03/2011 21:29

I probably would have done the same as you. What's the alternative? Letting the poor child wet themselves. I've been in this situation many times when my dd1 was little and she's had to pee down back alleys, in bushes etc. There's not much you can do if there's no toilet.

HecateTheCrone · 19/03/2011 21:29

Phone the taxi company and ask them to make sure the driver waited while you ran him to a loo. Or if taxi was nearly there, hurry into it and get them to detour to the nearest loos (assuming there are any!) If that wasn't possible then yeah, he'd probably have to have an emergency pee in a corner.

It's disgusting, but so is wetting himself in the taxi!

psiloveyou · 19/03/2011 21:31

I would let my dd pee in the corner. Better than wetting herself.
It's easier for boys though. With girls unless you take all bottom clothes off you need to sort of hold them in a squatting position, usually getting wee all over your shoes as well. Grin

AgentZigzag · 19/03/2011 21:31

I'd rather suffer the 'embarrassment' of letting them have a wee in a corner than pay the taxi driver when they went all over their car.

Plus having the DC have to sit in wet clothes.

feeblephoebe · 19/03/2011 21:32

i did that with my two hundreds of times, whats the problem

MadamDeathstare · 19/03/2011 21:32

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AgentZigzag · 19/03/2011 21:36

The only time I've been a bit Hmm at a DC going in the street was when we came out of school and a probably Y1 lad was going in the gutter right over the road from school.

It's not that I thought it was disgusting or anything, more that the poor lad was going in front of all the children (and his classmates) walking past and I wondered whether he was embarrassed.

Probably not Grin

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littlemuckypups · 19/03/2011 21:40

I have only just got my DS potty trained so to let him wet himself would have been like saying it was ok and probably would have undone everything i have taught him.
He even said sorry to me for needing to wee in public bless him.

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AgentZigzag · 19/03/2011 21:49

Well I suppose he could grow up to be a judge MadamD...

AllDirections · 19/03/2011 22:40

I usually find a drain (for the DD, not me, honest)

MaisyMooCow · 20/03/2011 00:06

Just going slightly off topic for a mo....

In Manchester City Centre, every Friday night the council drag out these 'mobile' urinals. Since there are no public loos anymore it seems it's the only thing to do since local businesses are complaining about the state of their doorways on a Monday morning.

Anyway, the worst bit about it is that sometimes they are still there on Monday evening as the council haven't had chance to remove them so the stench is appalling. I walked past one the other night on the way home from work and there was a guy using it in broad daylight infront of everyone. FFS, why couldn't he have popped into McDonalds or something. It's pure bloody laziness.

What do women get, to cross our legs that's what. We have no public conveniences to go to!

Arghh, rant over. Sorry OP for hijacking your post!:)

FabbyChic · 20/03/2011 00:10

When mine were as young as yours if they needed to go and there was no toilets they had to go somewhere and it would have been in a corner.

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 20/03/2011 07:05

OP, YANBU. The worst time DD needed to pee in public was immediately following a car accident. I'd driven into the back of a car when we lived in Thailand.
The accident happened outside a factory and the people working came out to see what the kerfuffle was.
DD told me she really needed to wee so I held her over a drain. She then announced her need to do a clopper. I firmly said hold it till we get home.
She couldn't and the poo slid out. The workers clapped.

onceamai · 20/03/2011 07:42

YANBU but wasn't there a drain nearby.

dakmum · 20/03/2011 07:46

em, do people find drains for their dogs, dont think so!! no prob with wee kids taking a cheeky leak x

Heracles · 20/03/2011 07:48

I'd have beaten him to within an inch of his life and made him walk home, obviously.

Lollypolly · 20/03/2011 07:49

Sorry Kreecher but lmao at clopper.

OP, YANBU

KenDoddsDadsDog · 20/03/2011 08:03

Kreecher that has me in a kink. Was it polite clapping or celebratory clapping ?

Springblumen · 20/03/2011 08:08

Can't believe someone thinks that is disgusting. It's a four year old child!

Needs must and all that.

CheerfulYank · 20/03/2011 08:20

PMSL at kreecher's story :o

OP YANBU

kreecherlivesupstairs · 20/03/2011 09:23

Blush clopper is the name she made up. It is another for her very own dictionary of made up words. Foggy poo describes diarroeah.
The clapping was a brilliant end to a horrible morning.

tasmaniandevilchaser · 20/03/2011 09:28

oh kreecher, that has made my morning! thanks! ps OP yanbu