DS is 3. He has a cold and a UTI, but is well otherwise. He has been potty trained for about a year.
Nursery/preschool is a 5 min walk away and he had a wee before he left.
On way to preschool he said he needed a wee and he couldn't wait til we got there or wait to home. I hustled him into a corner at the end of a row of shops, full of leaves, old coke cans and dumpsters and he had a wee there. We ddn't corss any fences or gates. I thought about standing him in the road gutter, but it is a main road and there is a school across, so it was very busy with cars and school children at 8.30 am. The lady who owns the shop happened to arrive at work during the minute we were there and had a right old go at us shouting "I don't mean to be rude, this is not a public toilet, it's private property, he should have gone before he left home" . She was doing very well at being rude for someone who didn't mean to be! As if DS wasn't humiliated enough, he burst into tears.
Now this shop is a little local supermarket and PO. I am in there most days. I have been doing a lot of eBay selling since Christmas and have posted about 60+ parcels from there in the last few weeks, it is not like I am complete stranger, I am in there most days for odd bits, milk and the PO. I spent a tenner in there yesterday evening! I take her point, but what else was I meant to do? She has 4 DC of her own, I thought she might be a little bit sympathetic. By the time I got home from nursery, both me a the baby (slinged to my chest this whole time) were both in tears too.
WIBU to let DS have a wee in a corner full of old leaves? Or is the sleep deprivation getting to me?