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Welcome to a session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) – this writer’s favorite fantasy. The story takes place in a high school not unlike other high schools. In this high school, however, there are strict rules regarding the toileting behavior of the school’s female students. Those who break the school toilet rules (including the rules against going to the bathroom in your pants) are brought before the TVPC to have their cases heard and their punishment given out if they are guilty. Meetings of the TVPC are called to order at 3:10 PM each school day in the TVPC meeting room – Room 222 of the high school. It should be noted that where this story takes place you need to be 18 in order to enter high school so all persons depicted, even though entirely fictional, are at least 18 years of age.
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of April 18, 2013.
Before beginning this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC), I receive a message from the TVPC clerk. He notes that all the girls with toilet violation cases to be heard today are present in the committee room. He also notes, however, that one girl – Specifically, Lynn, a very pretty sophomore blonde – has not reported for detention as assigned. Lynn is supposed to be here today serving the 3rd day of a 4 day detention sentence for a “doubleheader” accident she had last week. A “doubleheader” accident, of course, is when a girl goes both ways in her pants.
But just as I’m about to schedule Lynn for tomorrow’s TVPC session to explain her absence from detention today, our clerk brings something else to my attention. It seems that Lynn when home sick after her 6th period English class today. Consequently, her absence from detention today is marked as “excused.” She obviously won’t get credit for serving detention today, but she won’t get punished for being absent, either. Her TVPC appearance for tomorrow is, of course, rescinded.
To begin this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC), we welcome Miss Callahan, our new Art Teacher. She recently chaperoned several students to a statewide Art Show. This was an overnight trip and apparently 2 of her students wet their bed on the trip. “I really wasn’t sure how to handle this,” the 1st year Art teacher tells us. “I know I’m supposed to do a Violation Report on girls who wet their pants,” she explains further, “But I wasn’t sure if that applies to bedwetting.” “I don’t think it’s really a girl’s fault when she wets her bed – It’s not like peeing in your pants when you’re awake,” she argues, “Some girls just can’t help wetting the bed sometime – I really don’t think we should punish them for it.” “I really wasn’t sure if I should do Violation Reports or not,” she acknowledges, “Aren’t there different rules about bedwetting?”
The young and pretty Art teacher seems a little nervous and a little embarrassed that she doesn’t understand the rules, but I calm her down. “The rules on bedwetting can be complicated,” I explain to her, “You did the right thing in bringing the matter to the TVPC.” Faithful readers of the TVPC surely understand that when it comes to bedwetting, the TVPC gives the girls a little leeway. The first time a girl wets the bed on a school trip, she doesn’t get punished. What happens is that she gets placed on “Bedwetting Probation” for 1 year. Then, while on bedwetting probation, the girl will have a decision to make on overnight school trips. She can wear some sort of bedwetting protection to bed and should she have another wetting accident in her sleep it will be excused. The only consequence will be an extension of that bedwetting probation. On the other hand, the girl can go without bedwetting protection. But in this case, if she wets the bed again, she will face punishment – Specifically, punishment for a wetting accident while representing the school. I explain all this to the pretty and outgoing young Art teacher. “The proper procedure is to always file a Violation Report when you have a bedwetting,” I explain further, “And then the TVPC will sort out the rules and determine if the girl will be punished.” Miss Callahan nods her head and says that she understands.
While she goes ahead and draws up the appropriate Violation Reports on her 2 bedwetters, I note that both girls have had bedwetting issues in the past and are indeed currently on “Bedwetting Probation.” Accordingly, I hope they had the foresight to wear bedwetting protection – Not only to protect the bed from getting wet but to protect themselves from getting punished.
Our first bedwetter is a senior brunette named Victoria. Even though she’s wet her bed before – Specifically at band camp last summer – I am more than a little surprised to see her so accused once again. She’s had a very good toilet record throughout her high school career, but now suddenly in her senior year, she seems to be having some issues. In addition to the bedwetting at band camp (and now this bedwetting on the Art show trip), she became desperate on the school bus riding to school one morning and had to duck behind a garbage dumpster in the school parking lot to urinate. And when I ask her if she wore any bedwetting protection to bed that night, she regrets to inform me that she didn’t.
“I guess I should have,” Victoria tells us, “But I really didn’t think I was going to wet the bed again.” “I’ve never had a problem with bedwetting before,” the tall and pretty “Tori” explains, “Not even when I was little.” “I just couldn’t believe it when I suddenly wet the bed at band camp last summer,” she explains further, “And I certainly never thought it was going to happen again.” “I don’t know what to tell you, Tori,” I point out, sympathetically, “Only that maybe next time, you should consider wearing some sort of bedwetting protection to bed.” “Yes sir,” she answers, obviously quite embarrassed, “I guess I’m going to have to from now on.”
She goes on to explain that she had been badly constipated for several days. “I hadn’t done an – Um #2 – For like 4 days,” she says, “So I had been drinking all sorts of orange juice and pineapple juice and stuff.” “I was just trying to get my bowels stimulated,” she explains, “It did work but I guess it put my bladder into overdrive, too.” “I had a dream that night that I was sitting on the toilet going #2,” Tori explains further, “And I was peeing quite a bit, too.” “Then suddenly I woke up and I was peeing in the bed for real,” the well-spoken brunette says, “I guess I’m kind of lucky that I didn’t mess myself in my sleep, too.” She goes on to tell us that she was indeed starting to go when she woke up and had to run for the bathroom. “I really almost did have a #2 accident, too,” she points out, “I just barely did make it to the toilet and I had a really big one once I got there.” “I’m really lucky that I didn’t clog it,” the senior beauty tells us, “It took 2 toilet flushes to get my – Um stuff – Down and 2 more to flush my toilet paper.” Tori tells us further that she had another BM at the Art show that afternoon and yet another one in the ladies’ room that night at dinner. “Like I said, I was really constipated,” she explains, “All that juice really got everything going – Both ways – I guess.” “I’m just sorry I wet the bed,” she adds.
“Well, I know you didn’t do it on purpose,” I tell her, “But wetting your bed on a school trip while representing the school is no small matter.” Accordingly, I sentence Victoria to a whole week in detention and to write 500 times, “I will not wet my pants or my bed in school or on school trips again.” “500 times?” she asks, quite surprised at the severity of her sentence. “I know it’s my 2nd bedwetting but I have no other accidents at all,” she points out, “And my only other violation was that time I had to squat in the parking lot.” The implication, of course, is that her punishment is unduly severe given her toilet record. “All that’s true,” I tell her sympathetically but firmly, “But you soaked your pants and your bed pretty bad that night.” “That’s bad not only for you but for the whole school,” I point out, “And when you embarrass the school, you get punished accordingly.” “Yes sir – I understand, I guess,” Tori says reluctantly as she turns, takes a seat in the detention and gets started writing her sentences.
The 2nd bedwetter on the overnight Art trip is Penny, a girl with a long history of bedwetting. And Penny’s troubles with the TVPC aren’t only connected to bedwetting. She’s had more than her share of panty-soiling offenses and several other toilet violations as well.
Faithful readers of the TVPC may remember the bright and busy senior from our February 4th session of the TVPC – The session after Penny returned from Astronaut Camp. It was during a Spaceship Simulation program at Astronaut Camp that the timid and shy Penny soiled her panties. And it was later that night in her hotel room that the poor girl also wet her bed. The bedwetting was excused because it had been over a year since she last wet the bed on a school trip (hence, she was no longer on “bedwetting probation”), but there was no excusing the panty-soiling. The toilet troubled honor student got some pretty hefty consequences for that panty-soiling accident. And, of course, she was now put back on “bedwetting probation” for the bedwetting.
Turning my attention to Penny’s most recent bedwetting, I remind Penny of her status. “Your last time was only 2 months ago,” I point out to Penny, “So this time you were indeed on bedwetting probation.” “Yes sir – I know I was,” Penny acknowledges, “And this time I wore a pull-up to protect the bed.” “I really had stopped wetting the bed,” she tells us, “That’s why I didn’t wear anything on the Astronaut Camp trip.” “But ever since that whole thing at Astronaut Camp, I’ve been wetting the bed again,” she continues, as she starts to cry a little, “I’m even wetting the bed quite a bit at home, too.” “I just don’t want to wet the bed anymore – It’s so disgusting,” she goes on, as the tears flow, “I’m really trying my best to stop it but it just keeps happening.” “I know you’re trying, Penny,” I tell her sympathetically, “I know it’s hard but all you can do is keep trying.” “And I know you were being responsible about dealing with your problem,” I commend her, “You absolutely did the right on the trip by wearing bedwetting protection to bed.” “Well, I just had to,” Penny explains, “I already have a panty-soiling offense while representing the school – I don’t want to add a wetting to that.” Penny is quite right on that one. A 2nd accident offense while representing the school in a school year (even a wetting) would be a serious matter indeed.
In the meantime, Penny’s wetting accident in bed is duly noted and marked as “Excused.” She’ll receive no punishment. The only consequence of sorts is that she’ll continue on “bedwetting probation” for 1 year from last Saturday. But being a senior, Penny was already on bedwetting probation for the rest of her high school career.
Before moving on to the next case on the TVPC agenda, I note the absence of Jade, a pretty but oftentimes conceited senior, from the committee session this afternoon. Though she is not charged with committing a toilet violation today, her punishment from a prior toilet violation requires that she attend sessions like these. Faithful readers of the TVPC should remember our August 20th session where we dealt with the toilet violations that occurred at band camp that summer. It was during that session that Jade received her punishment for teasing another girl – Specifically, Victoria – about her bedwetting. As you may recall she got up at lunch and announced to the whole cafeteria what Victoria had done. In addition to her other punishments for that, Jade was sentenced to having to attend any TVPC case this school year, in which there was a bedwetting case. Well, obviously we had a bedwetting case today (ironically enough involving Victoria) and I note that Jade did not attend as required. Consequently, I direct the TVPC clerk to draw up a Violation Report on Jade – The charge being, “Failure to Attend a TVPC Meeting as Required” – and schedule the senior for tomorrow’s TVPC session.
As we were hearing that last case, I couldn’t help but notice 2 people enter the committee room. I’m very surprised to see that Lynn, the girl who went home sick today, is here with her mother. I recognize Mrs. Tanner from various parental functions in the school. I ask Mrs. Tanner if she would like to address the TVPC and she tells me that she does.
Calling Mrs. Tanner and her daughter Lynn to the podium, I’m really wondering what this matter is about. “Didn’t you go home sick today?” I ask Lynn, a pretty, blonde-haired sophomore. Lynn just stands there puzzled and worried – Not really sure what to say at this point. Her mom has the answers instead. “Well, that’s just it, Mr. Ziffel,” Mrs. Tanner, herself quite a beauty, tells me, “My daughter pulled a little scam today – She thought she was being clever.” “I don’t know what comes over you when it comes to going to the bathroom at school,” Mrs. Tanner lectures Lynn, “But you’re just going to have to grow up and deal with this bathroom phobia or whatever it is.” “First we have accidents in school and now we have this,” she adds, shaking her head at her daughter. She then proceeds to glare at Lynn, no doubt expecting Lynn to explain to me what “this” is all about. “Tell him!” Mrs. Tanner yells at her daughter when Lynn at first seems reluctant to do so, “Tell Mr. Ziffel what you did.”
I then see the pretty and somewhat shy sophomore take a deep breath and steady herself. “When I went to the nurse today, I wasn’t really sick,” she tells me, wavering her voice a little, “I was just faking sick so I could home.” “And the reason you wanted to go home?” I ask her. Again, Lynn seems reluctant to answer me. “Tell him!” Mrs. Tanner admonishes her daughter again. “I faked sick so I could go home to use the bathroom,” Lynn tells me, now fighting back tears. “I had to go and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to hold it in until I got home,” she explains, “You know how I really don’t like to do that at school and I really didn’t want to go in my pants again.” “You had to do a bowel movement?” I ask her for the record. She nods her head “yes.” “So you lied to your teacher so you could get a pass to the nurse’s office?” I ask her, “And then you lied to the nurse so you could get sent home?” Lynn nods her head “yes.” “And you did all this because you didn’t want to have your bowel movement in one of our girls’ rooms?” “Yes sir,” Lynn answers contritely, too ashamed to even look me in the eye.
“I had to go really, really bad and like I said, I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it home,” she says, staring at the floor, “Maybe I could have held it in until the regular time, but I had detention today, too, and no way was I going to be able to hold it in for another hour.” “Yes, you did have detention, today,” I remind her, “That was part of your punishment for messing in your panties 3 days ago.” “And now you’re going to have some more detention for this little stunt of yours,” I explain, “Amongst other things, this makes you guilty of missing today’s detention without a valid reason.”
Turning my attention back to Mrs. Tanner, I need to confirm something. “Are you sure that Lynn faked sick to actually use the toilet at home?” I ask Mrs. Tanner, as she looks at me puzzled. “I want to make sure that Lynn didn’t already have an accident and got herself sent home so she wouldn’t get caught?” I ask her, “Or maybe that she had an accident on the ride home from school?” “Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to get to the real story,” I suggest. “No, there was definitely no accident,” Mrs. Tanner assures me, “She definitely made it home in time to use the toilet.” “I saw her panties when she was sitting on the toilet at home,” Mrs. Tanner explains, “And for once, her panties didn’t have a mess in them.” “It was all pretty obvious what you were up to, Lynn,” she tells her daughter, “What did you expect me to think when you just about sprinted to the bathroom when we got home?” “But what else was I supposed to do?” Lynn asks her mom, “I was really desperate and you saw how big a poop that was.” “I was just trying not to have another accident – The last thing I would have wanted was for all that to be in my pants,” she explains, “I was just trying to do it all in the toilet – That’s all.”
But those comments only make Mrs. Tanner even angrier. “What I expect you to do is use the toilet when you’re supposed to,” she lectures her daughter, “And that includes going at school when you need to.” “I don’t expect you to be holding it in when you really need to go,” she continues in an angry tone, “And I certainly don’t expect you to keep going in your pants like a baby.” “And I sure as hell don’t expect to have to leave work to take you home just to use the bathroom,” Mrs. Tanner adds. “This better not happen again, Lynn,” she goes on, “The next you need to do a bowel movement in school, you’d better just do it in the girls’ room here like you’re supposed to.”
With that, Lynn just breaks down in tears. “You know I don’t like the school bathrooms – You know how much I hate going at school,” Lynn pleads with her mom, “You know I can go pee here at school when I need to, but I just don’t like going poop here, too.” “I’d rather just hold it in and go poops at home,” Lynn explains, “The bathroom at home is just so much better – It’s all clean and nice and private and everything.” “When I have to go poops, I just want to do it at home,” Lynn explains further, “Going at home just gives me the privacy that I need.”
“Well, that’s going to change right now, young lady,” Mrs. Tanner tells Lynn, “We’re just not going to keep on going like this.” “Going in your pants all the time was bad enough,” Mrs. Tanner continues, “But my having to come to school and take you home so you can use the bathroom is the last straw.” She goes on to explain to her daughter that from now on, she’s no longer going to want to go at home instead of at school. “I’m going to fix it so that you’re no longer holding it in at school and waiting until you get home,” her mom tells her toilet trouble daughter, “If anything, you’re going to be holding it in at home to go at school.” “From now on, you’re not going to have any privacy at all at home,” she continues, “When you go at home you’re going to have to go with door open.” “At least you can enclose yourself in a stall at school,” she explains, “So if you want your privacy on the toilet, that’s where you’re going to have to go because you’re not getting that privacy at home anymore.”
Lynn is, understandably, horrified at the prospect at the thought of that – Especially since her mom’s new policy is going to cover urinating with the door open as well. “I can’t tell offhand if you’re just going in there to urinate or to have a bowel movement, too,” Mrs. Tanner explains, “So you’ll just have to leave the door open whichever function you’re doing in there.” “Whenever you’re in the bathroom at home, that door better be open from now on,” she explains further, “If you want your privacy in the bathroom, I suggest you learn to go at school instead.” Lynn, crying hysterically, begs her mom to reconsider. “I can’t go to the bathroom with the door open – that’s just gross,” she pleads but to no avail. Her mom is very angry about Lynn’s accidents and she intends to do something about it this time. She glares at Lynn and just tells her “This is the way it’s going to be.”
“But what about ALF?” Lynn asks, “What am I supposed to do about ALF?” Mrs. Tanner just gives her daughter an angry but puzzled look. “I can’t go to the bathroom with the door open, not with ALF there,” Lynn argues, “You know ALF is going to be looking at me when I go.” “Well, that’s just too bad,” Mrs. Tanner argues back, “You should have thought of that before.” “But I can’t go to the bathroom with the door open, not in front of ALF,” Lynn argues some more, “He’s going to be standing there watching me the whole time.” “Well then, you’ll just have to learn to go at school when you need to,” Mrs. Tanner points out, “Perhaps going at school won’t seem so bad anymore.” Lynn starts to argue some more but her mom just puts up her hand to stop her. “I don’t want to hear it,” she tells Lynn, “Until further notice, you’ll be using the bathroom with the door open and that’s final.” Actually, I’m not really sure who ALF is, but that’s none of my business. “I’ll leave the issue of Lynn’s toileting at home to you, Mrs. Tanner,” I tell her, “But in the meantime, I need to get to your daughter’s punishment at school.”
Lynn’s really a sweet and likeable girl – Never in trouble for anything other than toilet violations – So I don’t want to be too severe with her. But this is not a matter to be taken lightly. She cut 2 classes, lied to the nurse, and also cut her detention for the previous panty-soiling. I first sentence her to write, “I will not cut class in order to use the toilet again” 500 times – That’s 250 times for each class you missed because she went home early today. But she’ll also have to write another 500 times – “I will not lie to the nurse to use the toilet again” – For lying to the nurse. She’ll also have to write the nurse a 1,000 word letter of apology for what she did. For cutting detention, I decide to double the time that she’s got left on her original detention sentence. “So, Lynn, the 2 days you owed us before now becomes 4 days that you owe us now,” I explain and note for the record, “And I’m afraid you’re going to have to spend all 4 days standing in the corner facing the wall.” I further decree that the pretty, toilet-troubled sophomore will be wearing a sign on her back stating, “I faked being sick to go home to use the bathroom.”
As Lynn stands there in tears, I’m not sure if she’s more upset with her punishment from the TVPC or the punishment from her mom. I suspect that she more upset about now having to use the bathroom at home with door open – Apparently in full view of ALF, whoever that is.
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of April 18, 2013.
Before beginning this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC), I receive a message from the TVPC clerk. He notes that all the girls with toilet violation cases to be heard today are present in the committee room. He also notes, however, that one girl – Specifically, Lynn, a very pretty sophomore blonde – has not reported for detention as assigned. Lynn is supposed to be here today serving the 3rd day of a 4 day detention sentence for a “doubleheader” accident she had last week. A “doubleheader” accident, of course, is when a girl goes both ways in her pants.
But just as I’m about to schedule Lynn for tomorrow’s TVPC session to explain her absence from detention today, our clerk brings something else to my attention. It seems that Lynn when home sick after her 6th period English class today. Consequently, her absence from detention today is marked as “excused.” She obviously won’t get credit for serving detention today, but she won’t get punished for being absent, either. Her TVPC appearance for tomorrow is, of course, rescinded.
To begin this afternoon’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC), we welcome Miss Callahan, our new Art Teacher. She recently chaperoned several students to a statewide Art Show. This was an overnight trip and apparently 2 of her students wet their bed on the trip. “I really wasn’t sure how to handle this,” the 1st year Art teacher tells us. “I know I’m supposed to do a Violation Report on girls who wet their pants,” she explains further, “But I wasn’t sure if that applies to bedwetting.” “I don’t think it’s really a girl’s fault when she wets her bed – It’s not like peeing in your pants when you’re awake,” she argues, “Some girls just can’t help wetting the bed sometime – I really don’t think we should punish them for it.” “I really wasn’t sure if I should do Violation Reports or not,” she acknowledges, “Aren’t there different rules about bedwetting?”
The young and pretty Art teacher seems a little nervous and a little embarrassed that she doesn’t understand the rules, but I calm her down. “The rules on bedwetting can be complicated,” I explain to her, “You did the right thing in bringing the matter to the TVPC.” Faithful readers of the TVPC surely understand that when it comes to bedwetting, the TVPC gives the girls a little leeway. The first time a girl wets the bed on a school trip, she doesn’t get punished. What happens is that she gets placed on “Bedwetting Probation” for 1 year. Then, while on bedwetting probation, the girl will have a decision to make on overnight school trips. She can wear some sort of bedwetting protection to bed and should she have another wetting accident in her sleep it will be excused. The only consequence will be an extension of that bedwetting probation. On the other hand, the girl can go without bedwetting protection. But in this case, if she wets the bed again, she will face punishment – Specifically, punishment for a wetting accident while representing the school. I explain all this to the pretty and outgoing young Art teacher. “The proper procedure is to always file a Violation Report when you have a bedwetting,” I explain further, “And then the TVPC will sort out the rules and determine if the girl will be punished.” Miss Callahan nods her head and says that she understands.
While she goes ahead and draws up the appropriate Violation Reports on her 2 bedwetters, I note that both girls have had bedwetting issues in the past and are indeed currently on “Bedwetting Probation.” Accordingly, I hope they had the foresight to wear bedwetting protection – Not only to protect the bed from getting wet but to protect themselves from getting punished.
Our first bedwetter is a senior brunette named Victoria. Even though she’s wet her bed before – Specifically at band camp last summer – I am more than a little surprised to see her so accused once again. She’s had a very good toilet record throughout her high school career, but now suddenly in her senior year, she seems to be having some issues. In addition to the bedwetting at band camp (and now this bedwetting on the Art show trip), she became desperate on the school bus riding to school one morning and had to duck behind a garbage dumpster in the school parking lot to urinate. And when I ask her if she wore any bedwetting protection to bed that night, she regrets to inform me that she didn’t.
“I guess I should have,” Victoria tells us, “But I really didn’t think I was going to wet the bed again.” “I’ve never had a problem with bedwetting before,” the tall and pretty “Tori” explains, “Not even when I was little.” “I just couldn’t believe it when I suddenly wet the bed at band camp last summer,” she explains further, “And I certainly never thought it was going to happen again.” “I don’t know what to tell you, Tori,” I point out, sympathetically, “Only that maybe next time, you should consider wearing some sort of bedwetting protection to bed.” “Yes sir,” she answers, obviously quite embarrassed, “I guess I’m going to have to from now on.”
She goes on to explain that she had been badly constipated for several days. “I hadn’t done an – Um #2 – For like 4 days,” she says, “So I had been drinking all sorts of orange juice and pineapple juice and stuff.” “I was just trying to get my bowels stimulated,” she explains, “It did work but I guess it put my bladder into overdrive, too.” “I had a dream that night that I was sitting on the toilet going #2,” Tori explains further, “And I was peeing quite a bit, too.” “Then suddenly I woke up and I was peeing in the bed for real,” the well-spoken brunette says, “I guess I’m kind of lucky that I didn’t mess myself in my sleep, too.” She goes on to tell us that she was indeed starting to go when she woke up and had to run for the bathroom. “I really almost did have a #2 accident, too,” she points out, “I just barely did make it to the toilet and I had a really big one once I got there.” “I’m really lucky that I didn’t clog it,” the senior beauty tells us, “It took 2 toilet flushes to get my – Um stuff – Down and 2 more to flush my toilet paper.” Tori tells us further that she had another BM at the Art show that afternoon and yet another one in the ladies’ room that night at dinner. “Like I said, I was really constipated,” she explains, “All that juice really got everything going – Both ways – I guess.” “I’m just sorry I wet the bed,” she adds.
“Well, I know you didn’t do it on purpose,” I tell her, “But wetting your bed on a school trip while representing the school is no small matter.” Accordingly, I sentence Victoria to a whole week in detention and to write 500 times, “I will not wet my pants or my bed in school or on school trips again.” “500 times?” she asks, quite surprised at the severity of her sentence. “I know it’s my 2nd bedwetting but I have no other accidents at all,” she points out, “And my only other violation was that time I had to squat in the parking lot.” The implication, of course, is that her punishment is unduly severe given her toilet record. “All that’s true,” I tell her sympathetically but firmly, “But you soaked your pants and your bed pretty bad that night.” “That’s bad not only for you but for the whole school,” I point out, “And when you embarrass the school, you get punished accordingly.” “Yes sir – I understand, I guess,” Tori says reluctantly as she turns, takes a seat in the detention and gets started writing her sentences.
The 2nd bedwetter on the overnight Art trip is Penny, a girl with a long history of bedwetting. And Penny’s troubles with the TVPC aren’t only connected to bedwetting. She’s had more than her share of panty-soiling offenses and several other toilet violations as well.
Faithful readers of the TVPC may remember the bright and busy senior from our February 4th session of the TVPC – The session after Penny returned from Astronaut Camp. It was during a Spaceship Simulation program at Astronaut Camp that the timid and shy Penny soiled her panties. And it was later that night in her hotel room that the poor girl also wet her bed. The bedwetting was excused because it had been over a year since she last wet the bed on a school trip (hence, she was no longer on “bedwetting probation”), but there was no excusing the panty-soiling. The toilet troubled honor student got some pretty hefty consequences for that panty-soiling accident. And, of course, she was now put back on “bedwetting probation” for the bedwetting.
Turning my attention to Penny’s most recent bedwetting, I remind Penny of her status. “Your last time was only 2 months ago,” I point out to Penny, “So this time you were indeed on bedwetting probation.” “Yes sir – I know I was,” Penny acknowledges, “And this time I wore a pull-up to protect the bed.” “I really had stopped wetting the bed,” she tells us, “That’s why I didn’t wear anything on the Astronaut Camp trip.” “But ever since that whole thing at Astronaut Camp, I’ve been wetting the bed again,” she continues, as she starts to cry a little, “I’m even wetting the bed quite a bit at home, too.” “I just don’t want to wet the bed anymore – It’s so disgusting,” she goes on, as the tears flow, “I’m really trying my best to stop it but it just keeps happening.” “I know you’re trying, Penny,” I tell her sympathetically, “I know it’s hard but all you can do is keep trying.” “And I know you were being responsible about dealing with your problem,” I commend her, “You absolutely did the right on the trip by wearing bedwetting protection to bed.” “Well, I just had to,” Penny explains, “I already have a panty-soiling offense while representing the school – I don’t want to add a wetting to that.” Penny is quite right on that one. A 2nd accident offense while representing the school in a school year (even a wetting) would be a serious matter indeed.
In the meantime, Penny’s wetting accident in bed is duly noted and marked as “Excused.” She’ll receive no punishment. The only consequence of sorts is that she’ll continue on “bedwetting probation” for 1 year from last Saturday. But being a senior, Penny was already on bedwetting probation for the rest of her high school career.
Before moving on to the next case on the TVPC agenda, I note the absence of Jade, a pretty but oftentimes conceited senior, from the committee session this afternoon. Though she is not charged with committing a toilet violation today, her punishment from a prior toilet violation requires that she attend sessions like these. Faithful readers of the TVPC should remember our August 20th session where we dealt with the toilet violations that occurred at band camp that summer. It was during that session that Jade received her punishment for teasing another girl – Specifically, Victoria – about her bedwetting. As you may recall she got up at lunch and announced to the whole cafeteria what Victoria had done. In addition to her other punishments for that, Jade was sentenced to having to attend any TVPC case this school year, in which there was a bedwetting case. Well, obviously we had a bedwetting case today (ironically enough involving Victoria) and I note that Jade did not attend as required. Consequently, I direct the TVPC clerk to draw up a Violation Report on Jade – The charge being, “Failure to Attend a TVPC Meeting as Required” – and schedule the senior for tomorrow’s TVPC session.
As we were hearing that last case, I couldn’t help but notice 2 people enter the committee room. I’m very surprised to see that Lynn, the girl who went home sick today, is here with her mother. I recognize Mrs. Tanner from various parental functions in the school. I ask Mrs. Tanner if she would like to address the TVPC and she tells me that she does.
Calling Mrs. Tanner and her daughter Lynn to the podium, I’m really wondering what this matter is about. “Didn’t you go home sick today?” I ask Lynn, a pretty, blonde-haired sophomore. Lynn just stands there puzzled and worried – Not really sure what to say at this point. Her mom has the answers instead. “Well, that’s just it, Mr. Ziffel,” Mrs. Tanner, herself quite a beauty, tells me, “My daughter pulled a little scam today – She thought she was being clever.” “I don’t know what comes over you when it comes to going to the bathroom at school,” Mrs. Tanner lectures Lynn, “But you’re just going to have to grow up and deal with this bathroom phobia or whatever it is.” “First we have accidents in school and now we have this,” she adds, shaking her head at her daughter. She then proceeds to glare at Lynn, no doubt expecting Lynn to explain to me what “this” is all about. “Tell him!” Mrs. Tanner yells at her daughter when Lynn at first seems reluctant to do so, “Tell Mr. Ziffel what you did.”
I then see the pretty and somewhat shy sophomore take a deep breath and steady herself. “When I went to the nurse today, I wasn’t really sick,” she tells me, wavering her voice a little, “I was just faking sick so I could home.” “And the reason you wanted to go home?” I ask her. Again, Lynn seems reluctant to answer me. “Tell him!” Mrs. Tanner admonishes her daughter again. “I faked sick so I could go home to use the bathroom,” Lynn tells me, now fighting back tears. “I had to go and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to hold it in until I got home,” she explains, “You know how I really don’t like to do that at school and I really didn’t want to go in my pants again.” “You had to do a bowel movement?” I ask her for the record. She nods her head “yes.” “So you lied to your teacher so you could get a pass to the nurse’s office?” I ask her, “And then you lied to the nurse so you could get sent home?” Lynn nods her head “yes.” “And you did all this because you didn’t want to have your bowel movement in one of our girls’ rooms?” “Yes sir,” Lynn answers contritely, too ashamed to even look me in the eye.
“I had to go really, really bad and like I said, I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it home,” she says, staring at the floor, “Maybe I could have held it in until the regular time, but I had detention today, too, and no way was I going to be able to hold it in for another hour.” “Yes, you did have detention, today,” I remind her, “That was part of your punishment for messing in your panties 3 days ago.” “And now you’re going to have some more detention for this little stunt of yours,” I explain, “Amongst other things, this makes you guilty of missing today’s detention without a valid reason.”
Turning my attention back to Mrs. Tanner, I need to confirm something. “Are you sure that Lynn faked sick to actually use the toilet at home?” I ask Mrs. Tanner, as she looks at me puzzled. “I want to make sure that Lynn didn’t already have an accident and got herself sent home so she wouldn’t get caught?” I ask her, “Or maybe that she had an accident on the ride home from school?” “Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to get to the real story,” I suggest. “No, there was definitely no accident,” Mrs. Tanner assures me, “She definitely made it home in time to use the toilet.” “I saw her panties when she was sitting on the toilet at home,” Mrs. Tanner explains, “And for once, her panties didn’t have a mess in them.” “It was all pretty obvious what you were up to, Lynn,” she tells her daughter, “What did you expect me to think when you just about sprinted to the bathroom when we got home?” “But what else was I supposed to do?” Lynn asks her mom, “I was really desperate and you saw how big a poop that was.” “I was just trying not to have another accident – The last thing I would have wanted was for all that to be in my pants,” she explains, “I was just trying to do it all in the toilet – That’s all.”
But those comments only make Mrs. Tanner even angrier. “What I expect you to do is use the toilet when you’re supposed to,” she lectures her daughter, “And that includes going at school when you need to.” “I don’t expect you to be holding it in when you really need to go,” she continues in an angry tone, “And I certainly don’t expect you to keep going in your pants like a baby.” “And I sure as hell don’t expect to have to leave work to take you home just to use the bathroom,” Mrs. Tanner adds. “This better not happen again, Lynn,” she goes on, “The next you need to do a bowel movement in school, you’d better just do it in the girls’ room here like you’re supposed to.”
With that, Lynn just breaks down in tears. “You know I don’t like the school bathrooms – You know how much I hate going at school,” Lynn pleads with her mom, “You know I can go pee here at school when I need to, but I just don’t like going poop here, too.” “I’d rather just hold it in and go poops at home,” Lynn explains, “The bathroom at home is just so much better – It’s all clean and nice and private and everything.” “When I have to go poops, I just want to do it at home,” Lynn explains further, “Going at home just gives me the privacy that I need.”
“Well, that’s going to change right now, young lady,” Mrs. Tanner tells Lynn, “We’re just not going to keep on going like this.” “Going in your pants all the time was bad enough,” Mrs. Tanner continues, “But my having to come to school and take you home so you can use the bathroom is the last straw.” She goes on to explain to her daughter that from now on, she’s no longer going to want to go at home instead of at school. “I’m going to fix it so that you’re no longer holding it in at school and waiting until you get home,” her mom tells her toilet trouble daughter, “If anything, you’re going to be holding it in at home to go at school.” “From now on, you’re not going to have any privacy at all at home,” she continues, “When you go at home you’re going to have to go with door open.” “At least you can enclose yourself in a stall at school,” she explains, “So if you want your privacy on the toilet, that’s where you’re going to have to go because you’re not getting that privacy at home anymore.”
Lynn is, understandably, horrified at the prospect at the thought of that – Especially since her mom’s new policy is going to cover urinating with the door open as well. “I can’t tell offhand if you’re just going in there to urinate or to have a bowel movement, too,” Mrs. Tanner explains, “So you’ll just have to leave the door open whichever function you’re doing in there.” “Whenever you’re in the bathroom at home, that door better be open from now on,” she explains further, “If you want your privacy in the bathroom, I suggest you learn to go at school instead.” Lynn, crying hysterically, begs her mom to reconsider. “I can’t go to the bathroom with the door open – that’s just gross,” she pleads but to no avail. Her mom is very angry about Lynn’s accidents and she intends to do something about it this time. She glares at Lynn and just tells her “This is the way it’s going to be.”
“But what about ALF?” Lynn asks, “What am I supposed to do about ALF?” Mrs. Tanner just gives her daughter an angry but puzzled look. “I can’t go to the bathroom with the door open, not with ALF there,” Lynn argues, “You know ALF is going to be looking at me when I go.” “Well, that’s just too bad,” Mrs. Tanner argues back, “You should have thought of that before.” “But I can’t go to the bathroom with the door open, not in front of ALF,” Lynn argues some more, “He’s going to be standing there watching me the whole time.” “Well then, you’ll just have to learn to go at school when you need to,” Mrs. Tanner points out, “Perhaps going at school won’t seem so bad anymore.” Lynn starts to argue some more but her mom just puts up her hand to stop her. “I don’t want to hear it,” she tells Lynn, “Until further notice, you’ll be using the bathroom with the door open and that’s final.” Actually, I’m not really sure who ALF is, but that’s none of my business. “I’ll leave the issue of Lynn’s toileting at home to you, Mrs. Tanner,” I tell her, “But in the meantime, I need to get to your daughter’s punishment at school.”
Lynn’s really a sweet and likeable girl – Never in trouble for anything other than toilet violations – So I don’t want to be too severe with her. But this is not a matter to be taken lightly. She cut 2 classes, lied to the nurse, and also cut her detention for the previous panty-soiling. I first sentence her to write, “I will not cut class in order to use the toilet again” 500 times – That’s 250 times for each class you missed because she went home early today. But she’ll also have to write another 500 times – “I will not lie to the nurse to use the toilet again” – For lying to the nurse. She’ll also have to write the nurse a 1,000 word letter of apology for what she did. For cutting detention, I decide to double the time that she’s got left on her original detention sentence. “So, Lynn, the 2 days you owed us before now becomes 4 days that you owe us now,” I explain and note for the record, “And I’m afraid you’re going to have to spend all 4 days standing in the corner facing the wall.” I further decree that the pretty, toilet-troubled sophomore will be wearing a sign on her back stating, “I faked being sick to go home to use the bathroom.”
As Lynn stands there in tears, I’m not sure if she’s more upset with her punishment from the TVPC or the punishment from her mom. I suspect that she more upset about now having to use the bathroom at home with door open – Apparently in full view of ALF, whoever that is.
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