OK, so yesterday I have to take a leak. I walk out of my office and into the restroom, which we share with all of the other small businesses on the same floor of our building. As I'm walking, I notice a father and son (probably 5 years old) behind me. After I enter the bathroom and head straight to a urinal, I hear the father and son enter the bathroom as well. Both enter a stall behind me. So I'm thinking, "OK, son needs to go potty." After I go to wash my hands, I see a horrid site from the reflection in the mirror in front of me. The dad's feet are in front of the toilet with his pants rolled down, and the son is running around the stall (one of those cozy, handicapped stalls) and carrying on a conversation with his dad!!!!!! I was truly mortified at this thought. So I ask, is this normal? When a parent is out in public with a young child that cannot be left unattended, and feels the urge to dispose of solid waste, is this common protocol? I can only imagine I would be scarred for life if my parents ever made me watch them take a dump. Seriously, it was disgusting.
Wow...that is scary. Good question though...I don't remember if I was in a situation like that with my parents.
Yeah, not that uncommon. Although, I try to avoid dumping publically like the plague. If you have a small child and you are alone, what choice do you have?
So the REAL reason comes out on why you don't want to have kids!! Um, maybe this guy has no shame about his son seeing him take a dump? Either that or he feels that he can't leave his son without constant supervision.
It's a little strange, but nothing to get crazy about. The guy cares enough not to leave his small child alone even during an emergancy. He picked the big stall too. If he was in a little stall... that would be much more uncomfotable.
While I don't like the idea of dumping in front of anyone either, I think things change when you're a parent. You might be out somewhere and have to go; the kid could run around and get into all sorts of trouble or leave the restroom and you wouldn't be in a position to do anything about it. Besides, when you're a little kid, your parents know a lot about your bathroom business. People often think it's natural that the kid should know that the parent has to do it too. My mother would share the bathroom with me and just didn't seem to mind.
Can't you just tell the kid to go stand outside the stall for just a minute, hurry up, and keep talking to him while he's out of your view so that you know no one is abducting him? And what would you do if it's a little girl and you're a dad alone with her? I mean, isn't it a little weird from all parties' perspectives that a.) You're a little girl and you're running around with a bunch of men (who knows what kind of pervos could be in there) standing at urinals... b.) You're a guy in the bathroom and some little girl comes running around you while you're pissing... c.) You're the dad and you don't just want to leave your daughter outside, so you spare bathroom ettiquette and take her in... And what is the cutoff age for taking different-sex children with you? Oh, and what if you're at the YMCA or gym or something? There's nekkid people running around those locker rooms all the time...
I'm pretty sure that subjecting kids to your fecal odor at that close range constitutes child abuse of some kind... If that guy had Mexican food for lunch, I probably would have called CPS on the spot...
I don't think that it is that strange but that's not what I would have done. First, I have never had to do number two while at work or at least not that I can recall. If I were in that situation, I think that I would just make my son wait for me in my office. If he needed supervision, I would just get one of my coworkers to watch him.
As a parent, when you potty train, you see your kids taking a dump almost every day. How do you think they learn best to do their business in the toilet? By example...usually by seeing the parent do the same thing. Granted, a five year old should be able to stand outside the stall by himself, but it's really no big deal. I mean, what if the kid all of the sudden takes off running outside and you're forced to pinch off a loaf prematurely? I've taken my son into the stalls while I use the restroom, but my son turns around to give me "privacy" while we talk and he's 3 yrs old.
Damn. There are just some threads that you should NOT read when you are eating or drinking! Boy, that was close as I almost spit water all over my screen on this gem.
By the way, when I saw this event occur, I immediately thought of an opening scene in "Friday" where John Witherspoon's character tells Craig (Ice Cube) to come in the bathroom so they can talk about his lack of a job. Craig refuses, then Witherspoon says "Boy I smelled yo' **** for years, least you can do is smell mine for a few minutes!" Yuck.
Eh, other than making strangers a little uncomfortable, I don't see anything wrong with it. I mean, when you gotta take a dump, you gotta take a dump.
Nobody has asked, but I have to: Why again are you checking out what people are doing in bathroom stalls? Don't give me this, I just happened to see it in the mirror stuff.......... JK, giving you a hard time.....
Its no big deal. I have had this happen to me before. I had to keep him inside the stall with me. I guess I am just an over protective parent. You dont know what type of people who hang out in restrooms these days....looking at people in stalls and all.....sicko! Kidding Drapg. Just think when the little guy grows up, he will probably be a kick ass swimmer....or first place at holding his breathe under water.
