A Story: Red, Wet, and Blue - Part 1
(I get a lot of random story ideas all the time, this one you can thank Louis CK for making me feel like it's worth telling, as it's a little rough around the emotional edges. It's also fiction.)
So there's this guy, college freshman or there abouts, and he's rushing home. It's late, so there's not much traffic and it's not really a big deal, but his luck runs out. There's a cop stopped at one of the intersections he flew threw, and a few moments later he see's red and blue flashing in his mirror.
This kid's a mess. He's chanting, "no, no, no" to himself while he sits there, unable to sit still with that spot light shining at the back of his head while he waits for the cop to get out and come over. He finally does, taking his time, or so the kid thinks, and makes his way over and tells him to roll down his window. Now he takes one looks at this kids, worried as hell and can't sit still and knows something is up. He asks him if he knows why he stopped him and the kid admits he was speeding and says he needs to get home. He asks the kid if he's had anything to drink or done anything else, and the kid say no, just coffee and says again that he needs to get home. Cop asks him why he needs to get home and he says he just does, and now there's anger in his voice. Cop asks him to step out the car, and the kid's eyes get all shifty and he pleads with the cop to let him just get home. Cop asks him again to step out the car.
Now the knows something is wrong cuz this kid is moving around in all kinds of weird little ways, so he takes his time shining his flashlight through the windows as he walks around the car, letting his cruiser's dash-cam get it all on the record. The makes it back around and is about to ask the kid to open the trunk for him when the kid's seem to go all tense and starts chanting, "no, no no!" through clenched teeth. The cop's about to ask him something, then notices something. He shines his flashlight on the kid's crotch and see that he's pissing himself. Now, the cop's seen drunks piss themselves before, but he didn't smell alcohol when the kid rolled down his window, and anyway you gotta be really hammered to piss yourself.
The kid starts shaking, holding his crotch as a puddle forms on the ground. He starts shouting, tears rolling down his face. "I have bladder problem! I just want to go home, please!"
The kid looks up into the cop's face with bleary eyes. God, the kid thinks, it would have been better if the guy had just started laughing at him, anything would have been better than what he did. He was too embarrassed to look the kid in the eyes. The kid slumps against the car and just keeps crying. The cop half goes for his breathalyzer, then puts it back, gets in his car, and drives away.
This kid's had this problem his whole life. Wetted the bed until his parents would scream at him because he was going to start junior high the next day. Was lucky enough to have never had an accident in class, but if you're different everyone notices, and so they called him toilet Tom. He wasn't great at making friends to begin with, but after he had had to rush out of gym class and change pants alone in the locker room he had decided to wear adult diapers in addition to the medication he was taking, and he was just too ashamed to reach out to anyone. Suicide had crossed this kid's mind more than once.
So this kid is ignoring his Dad's calls for him to get a life for the thousandth time and is running around the internet when he stumbles across a comedy site that finds websites to make fun of, and today it's about ABDls. At first he appalled, all that built up shame rushing to project onto someone who would put it out there that they wear diapers. He closes the browser, angry and ashamed but not really understanding why, and tries to forget about it.
But he can't.
So there's this guy, college freshman or there abouts, and he's rushing home. It's late, so there's not much traffic and it's not really a big deal, but his luck runs out. There's a cop stopped at one of the intersections he flew threw, and a few moments later he see's red and blue flashing in his mirror.
This kid's a mess. He's chanting, "no, no, no" to himself while he sits there, unable to sit still with that spot light shining at the back of his head while he waits for the cop to get out and come over. He finally does, taking his time, or so the kid thinks, and makes his way over and tells him to roll down his window. Now he takes one looks at this kids, worried as hell and can't sit still and knows something is up. He asks him if he knows why he stopped him and the kid admits he was speeding and says he needs to get home. He asks the kid if he's had anything to drink or done anything else, and the kid say no, just coffee and says again that he needs to get home. Cop asks him why he needs to get home and he says he just does, and now there's anger in his voice. Cop asks him to step out the car, and the kid's eyes get all shifty and he pleads with the cop to let him just get home. Cop asks him again to step out the car.
Now the knows something is wrong cuz this kid is moving around in all kinds of weird little ways, so he takes his time shining his flashlight through the windows as he walks around the car, letting his cruiser's dash-cam get it all on the record. The makes it back around and is about to ask the kid to open the trunk for him when the kid's seem to go all tense and starts chanting, "no, no no!" through clenched teeth. The cop's about to ask him something, then notices something. He shines his flashlight on the kid's crotch and see that he's pissing himself. Now, the cop's seen drunks piss themselves before, but he didn't smell alcohol when the kid rolled down his window, and anyway you gotta be really hammered to piss yourself.
The kid starts shaking, holding his crotch as a puddle forms on the ground. He starts shouting, tears rolling down his face. "I have bladder problem! I just want to go home, please!"
The kid looks up into the cop's face with bleary eyes. God, the kid thinks, it would have been better if the guy had just started laughing at him, anything would have been better than what he did. He was too embarrassed to look the kid in the eyes. The kid slumps against the car and just keeps crying. The cop half goes for his breathalyzer, then puts it back, gets in his car, and drives away.
This kid's had this problem his whole life. Wetted the bed until his parents would scream at him because he was going to start junior high the next day. Was lucky enough to have never had an accident in class, but if you're different everyone notices, and so they called him toilet Tom. He wasn't great at making friends to begin with, but after he had had to rush out of gym class and change pants alone in the locker room he had decided to wear adult diapers in addition to the medication he was taking, and he was just too ashamed to reach out to anyone. Suicide had crossed this kid's mind more than once.
So this kid is ignoring his Dad's calls for him to get a life for the thousandth time and is running around the internet when he stumbles across a comedy site that finds websites to make fun of, and today it's about ABDls. At first he appalled, all that built up shame rushing to project onto someone who would put it out there that they wear diapers. He closes the browser, angry and ashamed but not really understanding why, and tries to forget about it.
But he can't.