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 January 14, 2014.
We begin today’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) with a case from yesterday afternoon. This apparently happened too late in the day to be included in yesterday’s TVPC session. In fact, it happened at the very end of cheerleading practice yesterday afternoon. Carrie-Anne, a cute and outgoing senior cheerleader is accused of “Panty-Soiling” at cheerleading practice.
“Actually, it didn’t happen until practice was over,” Carrie-Anne points out, “Practice was already over and I was at my locker gathering up my stuff to go home when it happened.” “It doesn’t make any difference,” Miss Musso, the Cheerleading Coach, yells at her. “It doesn’t make any difference whether it actually occurred during practice or not,” she tells Carrie-Anne angrily, “As long as it happened in school before you went home, you’re guilty.” “In fact, I think that makes it even worse – Or at least more shameful,” Coach Musso lectures her, “I mean, what’s your excuse for not going to the girls’ room once practice was over.” “With practice being over, you had every opportunity to go to the girls’ room,” she tells the bespectacled senior, “But you just went in your pants instead.” “It wasn’t like I just went in my pants – I was trying to hold it in until I got home,” she tells Coach Musso, fighting back tears, “Practice was over and it wasn’t going to be long before I was sitting on the toilet in my own bathroom at home.”
But that point only makes Coach Musso angrier. “I don’t care about your toilet at home,” Coach Musso yells at her, “Sometimes you just can’t wait until you get to your toilet at home.” “Sometimes you have to go while you’re at school,” the coach continues, “That’s why we have toilets right here at school for you to use.” “I don’t care that you only like going in your bathroom at home,” Coach Musso lectures, “Sometimes you have no choice but to go at school whether you like those toilets or not.” “If I have to use the girls’ rooms in school, so do you,” the pretty coach tells her. “Messing in your panties shouldn’t be an option, young lady,” Coach Musso adds, “Especially not for a girl who’s a senior in high school.” “And this is the 2nd time, you’ve done it at cheerleading practice alone,” she points out, “Shame on you, Carrie-Anne, shame on you.”
“I’m sorry,” the smart and likeable cheerleader meekly tells us as she bursts into tears, “I didn’t want to mess in my panties – I really didn’t.” “Well, no one is saying that you MEANT to mess in your panties,” I tell her sympathetically, “I believe you when you say that you were trying to hold it in.” “But the point is that you shouldn’t have been trying to hold it in,” I explain, “The point is that you should have gone to the girls’ room and done it in the toilet instead.” “Coach Musso is right,” I continue, “With cheerleading practice being over, there was no better time to go to the girls’ room.” “Or you could have gone anytime during practice,” Coach Musso chimes in, “I don’t like interruptions during practice but I’d rather that you do that than mess in your panties – AGAIN!
But Carrie-Anne says, just as she did last time, how she hates using the girls’ room in the hallway down where the cheerleaders practice and that she hates the toilets in the girls’ locker room even more. She says that those girls’ rooms are just too busy and don’t afford the privacy she needs to have a bowel movement in there. “I really like my privacy when I have to do that sort of thing,” she says, “That’s why I was just so desperately trying to hold it in until I got home.” “I’m usually o-k during the school day when I can use one of the better bathrooms and I can go during a class period when it’s usually empty,” she says, “But during cheerleading practice – Especially when it’s that late – We can’t always go upstairs where we can have privacy.” Carrie-Anne then describes the girls’ rooms up on the 1st and 2nd Floors – The Main Corridor girls’ room, the Science Wing girls’ room, the New Addition girls’ room, and the 2nd Floor girls’ room – as the “better bathrooms” that she doesn’t mind using so much. As to the ones downstairs – The Girls’ Locker Room, the Gym/Auditorium Hallway girls’ room, the Cafeteria girls’ room, and the Basement girls’ room – That’s a different story. Coach Musso is left just shaking her head at hearing that. “I know it’s not an excuse, Miss Musso,” Carrie-Anne says, “I know I have to learn to use whatever girls’ room is available when I have to go at school.” “But it’s really hard, Miss Musso,” she says, “It’s really hard for me to do #2 when I don’t have a lot of privacy.”
“If you don’t like to do it in the locker room, maybe you can go before practice,” offers Hayden, a pretty and articulate brunette who is Co-Captain of the cheerleaders. “I know I don’t really like going #2 in the locker room, either,” she explains, “So I always take a few minutes and go use the Science Wing girls’ room before I come downstairs to practice.” “If I just go sit on the toilet there, I usually end up having to go,” she says, “And then I won’t have to go again downstairs at practice.” “Yeah – I usually do that, too – Either in that one or the girls’ room up n the 2nd Floor,” offers Tatianna, another cheerleader. “I guess I shouldn’t talk because I’ve had some accidents myself.” Tatianna says, “But if I take the time to go upstairs before practice starts, at least it won’t happen again during practice.” “But I just don’t understand something, Carrie-Anne,” she tells her friend, “I swear I saw you in the 2nd Floor girls’ room right after school yesterday.” “I mean, I was in there doing a #2 before practice yesterday,” she says to Carrie-Anne, “And I could swear that was you in the stall next to me.” “I just don’t understand how you could use the toilet right after school and then have an accident like only 2 hours later,” she says, “It just doesn’t make sense.”
But senior cutie explains that she only had to pee then. “I only peed in there,” Carrie-Anne tells Tatianna, “That’s all I needed to do.” “I probably would have gone #2 in there if I needed to,” she explains, “But all I had to do was pee.” “Probably?” Coach Musso asks her, “You PROBABLY would have gone if you had to?” Carrie-Anne then reassures her coach that she would have indeed gone #2 is she needed to. Quite Frankly, I don’t find her reassurance convincing but that’s not something we need to deal with now. Unfortunately, though, that may be a matter for another TVPC session – That is, if Carrie-Anne messes in her panties again.
In the meantime, I have to determine the appropriate punishment for the senior cheerleader. As her Coach noted, it is her 2nd panty-soiling at cheerleading practice. Overall, though, it’s her 3rd of the school year and she’s also got a violation for Leaving Class Without Permission to Use the Girls’ Room. Fortunately for her, an accident at cheerleading PRACTICE isn’t the same as a panty-soiling while representing the school at a game. She really would have been in trouble had these 2 accidents been while representing the school. Still, Coach Musso argues for the maximum punishment for the sophomore cheerleader. “That’s what it’s going to take to teach Carrie-Anne a lesson,” she says, “I’m afraid she’s going to need a strong incentive to use the toilet the next time she needs to go at cheerleading practice.” I don’t quite agree with that – A 3rd panty-soiling isn’t all that serious. But given that 2 of them did happen at cheerleading practice, I am persuaded to give her a bit more punishment than would ordinarily be the case. I give her the usual 3 days of detention, but I am assigning her to write, “I will not soil my panties in school – Especially at cheerleading practice – Again” 500 times. “You’ll also have mandatory toilet visits before cheerleading practice for the next month,” I tell her and note for the record. Coach Musso obviously wanted more (I actually could have given Shelby a week of detention on the toilet and 1,000 lines), but she seems generally satisfied that I gave her what I did. “If she does do it again at cheerleading practice, she will get the maximum,” I assure Coach Musso – Although, obviously, that was more for Carrie-Anne’s benefit than her Coach.
I do ask Coach Musso to stick around, though. Unfortunately, she has another matter later on our agenda today.
Faithful readers of the TVPC surely know that not only may teachers and other staff members bring toilet violation cases to the TVPC, but students also have the ability to bring cases against other students. That doesn’t happen very often but such is the case today. Tess, a bright but often sarcastic redhead, has brought a charge of “Bathroom-Related Teasing” against a very pretty but quite spoiled blonde named Dhalia. Dhalia, in turn, has charged Tess with “Masturbating in the Girls’ Room.” The 1st charge is definitely something that I could see Dhalia doing, while the 2nd charge just leaves me shaking my head. That’s especially true since Dhalia is accused of teasing Lisa – A close friend of Tess – Over Lisa soiling her panties. And Lisa soiling her panties is definitely something I believe.
“First of all, I wasn’t masturbating in the girls’ room,” Tess says in her defense, “I would never masturbate in the girls’ room – That’s just gross.” “I mean, not that it’s gross to masturbate,” the bright honor student quickly clarifies, “I just mean it’s gross to be doing that kind of thing in a public bathroom.” “Well, you were certainly in there a long time,” Dhalia counters. “What were you doing in there if you weren’t doing that?” she teases Tess, “Or maybe you had an accident like your friend Lisa did and were in there trying to clean it up” Tess just gives Dhalia a dirty look. “I mean, you 2 are close friends,” Dhalia adds, “Don’t you girls do everything together?” Tess just shakes her head. “Just because Lisa has accidents sometime doesn’t mean that I do, too,” Tess answers, stating the obvious, “I mean, if you had a friend, she wouldn’t have to be a spoiled little priss like you, would she?” As much as I liked Tess’s clever analogy, I must bang my gavel and warn her about those kinds of comments. “O.K.,” she answers me, returning a sly smile.
Getting back to the subject at hand, Tess once again denies masturbating in the girls’ room but asserts that Dhalia was indeed teasing her friend Lisa. Lisa is, of course, present at this meeting and she also asserts that Dhalia was indeed teasing her. These 3 junior girls all have 7th period French class with Miss Defequer and this whole thing – Or at least part of this – Apparently happened there.
“I’m sorry to say that Lisa did have an accident in French class today,” Tess reports, “We were all working on our group projects and suddenly it happened.” “I’m not saying that I’m defending Lisa having an accident like she did,” the pretty redheaded honor student continues, “But it’s still not a reason for Dhalia to start teasing her like she did.” “It’s as good a reason as any,” Dhalia snaps back, “We’re just sitting there in class and suddenly Lisa just takes a dump in her pants.” “GROSS!” the spoiled blonde-haired drama queen continues, as she looks at Lisa, “Shouldn’t you have been toilet trained BEFORE you got to high school.” “See what I mean,” Tess then chimes in, “It was that kind of stuff that she kept saying to Lisa.” With that, I proceed to issue Dhalia a warning. “It looks like you’re already going to be in trouble for teasing Lisa,” I warn her, “You REALLY don’t want to make it worse by getting another violation now.” “She kept saying that what Lisa did was gross and she kept holding her nose and saying that it smelled,” Tess reports further, “I mean, I guess it did kind of smell and it definitely was gross, but I don’t think Dhalia should be saying stuff like that.” “And then she offered to buy Lisa some pull-ups,” Tess adds, “She said that since Lisa isn’t toilet-trained she should have to wear pull-ups in school.” “I was just trying to help,” Dhalia adds sarcastically, “I know that her family is poor – Maybe they can’t afford to buy Lisa any diapers.” With that, I give Dhalia a very stern look and fortunately for her, she heeds my implicit warning to stop there.”
Checking with Miss Defequer, she knows nothing of the incident. “All I can say is that I didn’t hear any teasing or anything like that,” the pretty French teacher reports, “But then again, they were all in groups working on their projects and I was probably working with another group at the time.” This would normally present a dilemma for the TVPC as we’re always careful not to believe everything that a student tells us in cases like these – Especially when it involves girls who really don’t get along like Tess and Dhalia. But in this case, Dhalia doesn’t really deny what she said – In fact, she pretty much defends it. “The girl took a dump in her pants right there in French class and this is HIGH SCHOOL,” Dhalia reminds us, “Maybe if more girls were to tease her about doing that, she’d start doing it in the toilet like she’s supposed to.” “I mean, I know the girls’ rooms here are totally gross,” the spoiled rich girl continues, now addressing Lisa, “But it’s not as gross as doing it in your pants.”
Immediately, I cut Dhalia off before she says anything else and gets herself into more trouble. Obviously, she is found “Guilty” as charged. “Around here we don’t tease girls about their toilet habits – And that includes when they have accidents,” I tell the pretty but often unpleasant junior, “It’s not up to you to be the enforcer of proper toilet habits – That’s our job.” Sparing her the apology essay customary in teasing cases (that would be rather pointless with Dhalia and Lisa), I give Dhalia a stern sentence of writing “I will not tease other girls about their accidents and other toilet habits” 500 times and to serve a full week in detention. Obviously, she’s not happy with that rather stern punishment and I can tell that she’s got something more she’d like to say. But seeing the stern expression on my face, she wisely decides that it’s better left unsaid. “Yes sir,” is all that she says.
Now moving on to Dhalia’s case against Tess, the evidence is far less clear. The Violation Report filed by Dhalia is completely lacking in details, so I need for her to provide those details now. “This is all completely untrue,” Tess asserts, “I’ve never masturbated in school – Much less in the girls’ room.” “Dhalia only filed this because I filed the case against her,” she argues, “Isn’t there a punishment for filing a false charge against a fellow student?” Indeed there is, but I’m not willing to jump to that conclusion just yet. Before that, I want to give Dhalia every opportunity to prove the accusation she’s made against Tess.
“Well, she was in the girls’ room today for a really long time – Like forever,” Dhalia tells us, “I saw her going into the girls’ room on my way to lunch 5th period,” the blonde-haired beauty explains, “And then when I went in there to pee at the end of 5th period, Tess was just coming out of a stall.” “It doesn’t even take that long when you’re in there taking a dump,” Dhalia explains further, “The only thing that does take that long is when you’re in there um-pleasuring yourself.” Tess denies that she was doing that and is incredulous at the charge. “Is that it?” she asks Dhalia, “Is that the only reason, you say that I was masturbating? – Just because I was in there so long?” “She only filed this because I filed a charge against her,” Tess tells me again. “Notice how this supposedly happened during 5th period lunch,” she points out to me, “But Dalia didn’t file the Violation Report until 8th period after I filed the charge against her.”
All that may be true, but it still doesn’t explain what Tess was doing in the girls’ room for all of 5th period. “That’s 50 minutes,” I point out to the well-spoken junior, “Dhalia is right – It doesn’t take that long to go to the bathroom even if you are going both ways.” But as we discuss the matter further, we find out that Tess was not masturbating on the toilet for 50 minutes this afternoon, but rather she was reading in there. “It was my lunch period but I wasn’t really hungry and I don’t like Sloppy Joes anyway,” Tess explains, “So I just went to the girls’ room with a book, grabbed a stall, and was reading the whole time.” Sloppy Joes was apparently on the lunch menu today, but that’s really not important. The members of the TVPC are a little surprised to find out that Tess went to the girls’ room to read, but knowing Tess, we probably shouldn’t be surprised. “You know, we do have a library up here on the 2nd floor,” I tell the pretty but unassuming honor student, with a smile, “You may find this surprising but a lot of girls go up there to read.” “I guess so but I like the solitude of a bathroom stall,” a similarly smiling Tess tells me, “And it’s really cozy in there.” “But the point is that I wasn’t masturbating,” the articulate Tess argues, “And Dhalia had no business charging me with that.”
Tess has a point. “You really had no evidence that Tess was masturbating in the girls’ room, did you?” I ask Dhalia. “You were just mad that Tess filed a charge against you,” I tell her sternly, “So you remembered that she was in the girls’ room for a long time and you filed that charge against her.” “Well, she COULD HAVE been masturbating in there,” Dhalia then argues, “I mean, who stays in the bathroom reading for a whole period?” Apparently, Tess does but Dhalia has a point, too. I guess I could charge Dhalia with bringing a false charge against Tess but, after careful consideration, I decide against that.
Tess seems disappointed to hear that. “Dhalia was wrong to bring the masturbation charge against you – She really had no evidence of that,” I tell Tess, “But you’re not entirely innocent, either, young lady.” “If you are want just to read during your lunch period, you need to get a pass and go to the library,” I tell the pretty redhead, “What if some girl couldn’t get into a stall and had an accident because you were occupying a stall for the entire period?” “But sir,” Tess points out respectfully, “I checked, but there’s no TVPC rule that says you can’t read in the girls’ room.” “Maybe so, Tess,” I tell her, “But there is definitely a TVPC rule against loitering in there.” “And ‘Loitering’ is defined as ‘Hanging around the girls’ room without legitimate purpose,’” I explain. “And reading is not a legitimate purpose to be in the girls’ room,” I explain further, “You really don’t need the specialized facilities of the girls’ room to read.” “I certainly hope that you wouldn’t defecate or urinate in the library,” I point out to Tess, “So just the same, we don’t want you reading in the girls’ room.”
I’m not sure that Tess actually agrees with that (I mean, I’m sure she wouldn’t urinate or defecate in the library, but she probably still doesn’t see anything wrong with reading in the girls’ room), but she’s smart enough not to argue. Obviously, I find her “Not Guilty” of the masturbation charge, but I do have the TVPC clerk draw up a Violation Report on her for “Loitering in the Girls’ Room” and I do find her “Guilty” of that. “But don’t worry, Tess,” I point out further, “That’s not nearly as serious as Masturbating in the Girls’ Room.” For punishment, she’ll merely have to write, “I will not loiter in the girls’ room in school again” 100 times and to serve an hour in detention. She actually looks pretty happy with that. “Just don’t read in the girls’ room anymore,” I warn her, “If some girl had had an accident because of that, you’d have been in a lot worse trouble than you are now.”
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of January 14, 2014.
We begin today’s session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) with a case from yesterday afternoon. This apparently happened too late in the day to be included in yesterday’s TVPC session. In fact, it happened at the very end of cheerleading practice yesterday afternoon. Carrie-Anne, a cute and outgoing senior cheerleader is accused of “Panty-Soiling” at cheerleading practice.
“Actually, it didn’t happen until practice was over,” Carrie-Anne points out, “Practice was already over and I was at my locker gathering up my stuff to go home when it happened.” “It doesn’t make any difference,” Miss Musso, the Cheerleading Coach, yells at her. “It doesn’t make any difference whether it actually occurred during practice or not,” she tells Carrie-Anne angrily, “As long as it happened in school before you went home, you’re guilty.” “In fact, I think that makes it even worse – Or at least more shameful,” Coach Musso lectures her, “I mean, what’s your excuse for not going to the girls’ room once practice was over.” “With practice being over, you had every opportunity to go to the girls’ room,” she tells the bespectacled senior, “But you just went in your pants instead.” “It wasn’t like I just went in my pants – I was trying to hold it in until I got home,” she tells Coach Musso, fighting back tears, “Practice was over and it wasn’t going to be long before I was sitting on the toilet in my own bathroom at home.”
But that point only makes Coach Musso angrier. “I don’t care about your toilet at home,” Coach Musso yells at her, “Sometimes you just can’t wait until you get to your toilet at home.” “Sometimes you have to go while you’re at school,” the coach continues, “That’s why we have toilets right here at school for you to use.” “I don’t care that you only like going in your bathroom at home,” Coach Musso lectures, “Sometimes you have no choice but to go at school whether you like those toilets or not.” “If I have to use the girls’ rooms in school, so do you,” the pretty coach tells her. “Messing in your panties shouldn’t be an option, young lady,” Coach Musso adds, “Especially not for a girl who’s a senior in high school.” “And this is the 2nd time, you’ve done it at cheerleading practice alone,” she points out, “Shame on you, Carrie-Anne, shame on you.”
“I’m sorry,” the smart and likeable cheerleader meekly tells us as she bursts into tears, “I didn’t want to mess in my panties – I really didn’t.” “Well, no one is saying that you MEANT to mess in your panties,” I tell her sympathetically, “I believe you when you say that you were trying to hold it in.” “But the point is that you shouldn’t have been trying to hold it in,” I explain, “The point is that you should have gone to the girls’ room and done it in the toilet instead.” “Coach Musso is right,” I continue, “With cheerleading practice being over, there was no better time to go to the girls’ room.” “Or you could have gone anytime during practice,” Coach Musso chimes in, “I don’t like interruptions during practice but I’d rather that you do that than mess in your panties – AGAIN!
But Carrie-Anne says, just as she did last time, how she hates using the girls’ room in the hallway down where the cheerleaders practice and that she hates the toilets in the girls’ locker room even more. She says that those girls’ rooms are just too busy and don’t afford the privacy she needs to have a bowel movement in there. “I really like my privacy when I have to do that sort of thing,” she says, “That’s why I was just so desperately trying to hold it in until I got home.” “I’m usually o-k during the school day when I can use one of the better bathrooms and I can go during a class period when it’s usually empty,” she says, “But during cheerleading practice – Especially when it’s that late – We can’t always go upstairs where we can have privacy.” Carrie-Anne then describes the girls’ rooms up on the 1st and 2nd Floors – The Main Corridor girls’ room, the Science Wing girls’ room, the New Addition girls’ room, and the 2nd Floor girls’ room – as the “better bathrooms” that she doesn’t mind using so much. As to the ones downstairs – The Girls’ Locker Room, the Gym/Auditorium Hallway girls’ room, the Cafeteria girls’ room, and the Basement girls’ room – That’s a different story. Coach Musso is left just shaking her head at hearing that. “I know it’s not an excuse, Miss Musso,” Carrie-Anne says, “I know I have to learn to use whatever girls’ room is available when I have to go at school.” “But it’s really hard, Miss Musso,” she says, “It’s really hard for me to do #2 when I don’t have a lot of privacy.”
“If you don’t like to do it in the locker room, maybe you can go before practice,” offers Hayden, a pretty and articulate brunette who is Co-Captain of the cheerleaders. “I know I don’t really like going #2 in the locker room, either,” she explains, “So I always take a few minutes and go use the Science Wing girls’ room before I come downstairs to practice.” “If I just go sit on the toilet there, I usually end up having to go,” she says, “And then I won’t have to go again downstairs at practice.” “Yeah – I usually do that, too – Either in that one or the girls’ room up n the 2nd Floor,” offers Tatianna, another cheerleader. “I guess I shouldn’t talk because I’ve had some accidents myself.” Tatianna says, “But if I take the time to go upstairs before practice starts, at least it won’t happen again during practice.” “But I just don’t understand something, Carrie-Anne,” she tells her friend, “I swear I saw you in the 2nd Floor girls’ room right after school yesterday.” “I mean, I was in there doing a #2 before practice yesterday,” she says to Carrie-Anne, “And I could swear that was you in the stall next to me.” “I just don’t understand how you could use the toilet right after school and then have an accident like only 2 hours later,” she says, “It just doesn’t make sense.”
But senior cutie explains that she only had to pee then. “I only peed in there,” Carrie-Anne tells Tatianna, “That’s all I needed to do.” “I probably would have gone #2 in there if I needed to,” she explains, “But all I had to do was pee.” “Probably?” Coach Musso asks her, “You PROBABLY would have gone if you had to?” Carrie-Anne then reassures her coach that she would have indeed gone #2 is she needed to. Quite Frankly, I don’t find her reassurance convincing but that’s not something we need to deal with now. Unfortunately, though, that may be a matter for another TVPC session – That is, if Carrie-Anne messes in her panties again.
In the meantime, I have to determine the appropriate punishment for the senior cheerleader. As her Coach noted, it is her 2nd panty-soiling at cheerleading practice. Overall, though, it’s her 3rd of the school year and she’s also got a violation for Leaving Class Without Permission to Use the Girls’ Room. Fortunately for her, an accident at cheerleading PRACTICE isn’t the same as a panty-soiling while representing the school at a game. She really would have been in trouble had these 2 accidents been while representing the school. Still, Coach Musso argues for the maximum punishment for the sophomore cheerleader. “That’s what it’s going to take to teach Carrie-Anne a lesson,” she says, “I’m afraid she’s going to need a strong incentive to use the toilet the next time she needs to go at cheerleading practice.” I don’t quite agree with that – A 3rd panty-soiling isn’t all that serious. But given that 2 of them did happen at cheerleading practice, I am persuaded to give her a bit more punishment than would ordinarily be the case. I give her the usual 3 days of detention, but I am assigning her to write, “I will not soil my panties in school – Especially at cheerleading practice – Again” 500 times. “You’ll also have mandatory toilet visits before cheerleading practice for the next month,” I tell her and note for the record. Coach Musso obviously wanted more (I actually could have given Shelby a week of detention on the toilet and 1,000 lines), but she seems generally satisfied that I gave her what I did. “If she does do it again at cheerleading practice, she will get the maximum,” I assure Coach Musso – Although, obviously, that was more for Carrie-Anne’s benefit than her Coach.
I do ask Coach Musso to stick around, though. Unfortunately, she has another matter later on our agenda today.
Faithful readers of the TVPC surely know that not only may teachers and other staff members bring toilet violation cases to the TVPC, but students also have the ability to bring cases against other students. That doesn’t happen very often but such is the case today. Tess, a bright but often sarcastic redhead, has brought a charge of “Bathroom-Related Teasing” against a very pretty but quite spoiled blonde named Dhalia. Dhalia, in turn, has charged Tess with “Masturbating in the Girls’ Room.” The 1st charge is definitely something that I could see Dhalia doing, while the 2nd charge just leaves me shaking my head. That’s especially true since Dhalia is accused of teasing Lisa – A close friend of Tess – Over Lisa soiling her panties. And Lisa soiling her panties is definitely something I believe.
“First of all, I wasn’t masturbating in the girls’ room,” Tess says in her defense, “I would never masturbate in the girls’ room – That’s just gross.” “I mean, not that it’s gross to masturbate,” the bright honor student quickly clarifies, “I just mean it’s gross to be doing that kind of thing in a public bathroom.” “Well, you were certainly in there a long time,” Dhalia counters. “What were you doing in there if you weren’t doing that?” she teases Tess, “Or maybe you had an accident like your friend Lisa did and were in there trying to clean it up” Tess just gives Dhalia a dirty look. “I mean, you 2 are close friends,” Dhalia adds, “Don’t you girls do everything together?” Tess just shakes her head. “Just because Lisa has accidents sometime doesn’t mean that I do, too,” Tess answers, stating the obvious, “I mean, if you had a friend, she wouldn’t have to be a spoiled little priss like you, would she?” As much as I liked Tess’s clever analogy, I must bang my gavel and warn her about those kinds of comments. “O.K.,” she answers me, returning a sly smile.
Getting back to the subject at hand, Tess once again denies masturbating in the girls’ room but asserts that Dhalia was indeed teasing her friend Lisa. Lisa is, of course, present at this meeting and she also asserts that Dhalia was indeed teasing her. These 3 junior girls all have 7th period French class with Miss Defequer and this whole thing – Or at least part of this – Apparently happened there.
“I’m sorry to say that Lisa did have an accident in French class today,” Tess reports, “We were all working on our group projects and suddenly it happened.” “I’m not saying that I’m defending Lisa having an accident like she did,” the pretty redheaded honor student continues, “But it’s still not a reason for Dhalia to start teasing her like she did.” “It’s as good a reason as any,” Dhalia snaps back, “We’re just sitting there in class and suddenly Lisa just takes a dump in her pants.” “GROSS!” the spoiled blonde-haired drama queen continues, as she looks at Lisa, “Shouldn’t you have been toilet trained BEFORE you got to high school.” “See what I mean,” Tess then chimes in, “It was that kind of stuff that she kept saying to Lisa.” With that, I proceed to issue Dhalia a warning. “It looks like you’re already going to be in trouble for teasing Lisa,” I warn her, “You REALLY don’t want to make it worse by getting another violation now.” “She kept saying that what Lisa did was gross and she kept holding her nose and saying that it smelled,” Tess reports further, “I mean, I guess it did kind of smell and it definitely was gross, but I don’t think Dhalia should be saying stuff like that.” “And then she offered to buy Lisa some pull-ups,” Tess adds, “She said that since Lisa isn’t toilet-trained she should have to wear pull-ups in school.” “I was just trying to help,” Dhalia adds sarcastically, “I know that her family is poor – Maybe they can’t afford to buy Lisa any diapers.” With that, I give Dhalia a very stern look and fortunately for her, she heeds my implicit warning to stop there.”
Checking with Miss Defequer, she knows nothing of the incident. “All I can say is that I didn’t hear any teasing or anything like that,” the pretty French teacher reports, “But then again, they were all in groups working on their projects and I was probably working with another group at the time.” This would normally present a dilemma for the TVPC as we’re always careful not to believe everything that a student tells us in cases like these – Especially when it involves girls who really don’t get along like Tess and Dhalia. But in this case, Dhalia doesn’t really deny what she said – In fact, she pretty much defends it. “The girl took a dump in her pants right there in French class and this is HIGH SCHOOL,” Dhalia reminds us, “Maybe if more girls were to tease her about doing that, she’d start doing it in the toilet like she’s supposed to.” “I mean, I know the girls’ rooms here are totally gross,” the spoiled rich girl continues, now addressing Lisa, “But it’s not as gross as doing it in your pants.”
Immediately, I cut Dhalia off before she says anything else and gets herself into more trouble. Obviously, she is found “Guilty” as charged. “Around here we don’t tease girls about their toilet habits – And that includes when they have accidents,” I tell the pretty but often unpleasant junior, “It’s not up to you to be the enforcer of proper toilet habits – That’s our job.” Sparing her the apology essay customary in teasing cases (that would be rather pointless with Dhalia and Lisa), I give Dhalia a stern sentence of writing “I will not tease other girls about their accidents and other toilet habits” 500 times and to serve a full week in detention. Obviously, she’s not happy with that rather stern punishment and I can tell that she’s got something more she’d like to say. But seeing the stern expression on my face, she wisely decides that it’s better left unsaid. “Yes sir,” is all that she says.
Now moving on to Dhalia’s case against Tess, the evidence is far less clear. The Violation Report filed by Dhalia is completely lacking in details, so I need for her to provide those details now. “This is all completely untrue,” Tess asserts, “I’ve never masturbated in school – Much less in the girls’ room.” “Dhalia only filed this because I filed the case against her,” she argues, “Isn’t there a punishment for filing a false charge against a fellow student?” Indeed there is, but I’m not willing to jump to that conclusion just yet. Before that, I want to give Dhalia every opportunity to prove the accusation she’s made against Tess.
“Well, she was in the girls’ room today for a really long time – Like forever,” Dhalia tells us, “I saw her going into the girls’ room on my way to lunch 5th period,” the blonde-haired beauty explains, “And then when I went in there to pee at the end of 5th period, Tess was just coming out of a stall.” “It doesn’t even take that long when you’re in there taking a dump,” Dhalia explains further, “The only thing that does take that long is when you’re in there um-pleasuring yourself.” Tess denies that she was doing that and is incredulous at the charge. “Is that it?” she asks Dhalia, “Is that the only reason, you say that I was masturbating? – Just because I was in there so long?” “She only filed this because I filed a charge against her,” Tess tells me again. “Notice how this supposedly happened during 5th period lunch,” she points out to me, “But Dalia didn’t file the Violation Report until 8th period after I filed the charge against her.”
All that may be true, but it still doesn’t explain what Tess was doing in the girls’ room for all of 5th period. “That’s 50 minutes,” I point out to the well-spoken junior, “Dhalia is right – It doesn’t take that long to go to the bathroom even if you are going both ways.” But as we discuss the matter further, we find out that Tess was not masturbating on the toilet for 50 minutes this afternoon, but rather she was reading in there. “It was my lunch period but I wasn’t really hungry and I don’t like Sloppy Joes anyway,” Tess explains, “So I just went to the girls’ room with a book, grabbed a stall, and was reading the whole time.” Sloppy Joes was apparently on the lunch menu today, but that’s really not important. The members of the TVPC are a little surprised to find out that Tess went to the girls’ room to read, but knowing Tess, we probably shouldn’t be surprised. “You know, we do have a library up here on the 2nd floor,” I tell the pretty but unassuming honor student, with a smile, “You may find this surprising but a lot of girls go up there to read.” “I guess so but I like the solitude of a bathroom stall,” a similarly smiling Tess tells me, “And it’s really cozy in there.” “But the point is that I wasn’t masturbating,” the articulate Tess argues, “And Dhalia had no business charging me with that.”
Tess has a point. “You really had no evidence that Tess was masturbating in the girls’ room, did you?” I ask Dhalia. “You were just mad that Tess filed a charge against you,” I tell her sternly, “So you remembered that she was in the girls’ room for a long time and you filed that charge against her.” “Well, she COULD HAVE been masturbating in there,” Dhalia then argues, “I mean, who stays in the bathroom reading for a whole period?” Apparently, Tess does but Dhalia has a point, too. I guess I could charge Dhalia with bringing a false charge against Tess but, after careful consideration, I decide against that.
Tess seems disappointed to hear that. “Dhalia was wrong to bring the masturbation charge against you – She really had no evidence of that,” I tell Tess, “But you’re not entirely innocent, either, young lady.” “If you are want just to read during your lunch period, you need to get a pass and go to the library,” I tell the pretty redhead, “What if some girl couldn’t get into a stall and had an accident because you were occupying a stall for the entire period?” “But sir,” Tess points out respectfully, “I checked, but there’s no TVPC rule that says you can’t read in the girls’ room.” “Maybe so, Tess,” I tell her, “But there is definitely a TVPC rule against loitering in there.” “And ‘Loitering’ is defined as ‘Hanging around the girls’ room without legitimate purpose,’” I explain. “And reading is not a legitimate purpose to be in the girls’ room,” I explain further, “You really don’t need the specialized facilities of the girls’ room to read.” “I certainly hope that you wouldn’t defecate or urinate in the library,” I point out to Tess, “So just the same, we don’t want you reading in the girls’ room.”
I’m not sure that Tess actually agrees with that (I mean, I’m sure she wouldn’t urinate or defecate in the library, but she probably still doesn’t see anything wrong with reading in the girls’ room), but she’s smart enough not to argue. Obviously, I find her “Not Guilty” of the masturbation charge, but I do have the TVPC clerk draw up a Violation Report on her for “Loitering in the Girls’ Room” and I do find her “Guilty” of that. “But don’t worry, Tess,” I point out further, “That’s not nearly as serious as Masturbating in the Girls’ Room.” For punishment, she’ll merely have to write, “I will not loiter in the girls’ room in school again” 100 times and to serve an hour in detention. She actually looks pretty happy with that. “Just don’t read in the girls’ room anymore,” I warn her, “If some girl had had an accident because of that, you’d have been in a lot worse trouble than you are now.”
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