One Day At A Time -- A TVPC Tale

[Arnold Ziffel]

Barbara breathed a sigh of relief. She had made it through 7th and 8th periods as well as to her locker afterwards and now she was finally off school grounds. She had made it off school grounds without being caught and was therefore beyond the reach of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee. And with Barbara’s toilet record -- especially her record of previous soiling accidents -- being beyond the reach of the TVPC was a good thing. Sure, it was possible that she could still be reported for it and have to face the TVPC tomorrow, but that was very unlikely. If no one had confronted her about it thus far it was a good bet than no one had noticed it. Yes, Barbara breathed a BIG sigh of relief as she stepped off school grounds on her way home this afternoon.

But for the cute and likeable, but decidedly self-conscious, sophomore brunette, that sigh of relief only lasted a few moments. Barbara knew that making it through the rest of the school day and off school grounds was nothing in particular to be proud of. In fact, her reason for being so desperate to get off school grounds was actually something to be ashamed of. Not having to face the shame of appearing before the TVPC today was all well and good, but deep down inside Barbara knew that she still had plenty to be ashamed of. The mess in her panties today wasn’t as bad as some that she’d done previously (no doubt enabling her to escape being caught in school), but it was a mess in her panties nonetheless. Barbara unfortunately knew what messes in her panties felt like and this was surely not just skidmarks and stains but a genuine panty-soiling accident. Though it felt like it was well-contained in her panties, she could definitely tell that a healthy smearing of actual, tangible fecal matter was in there. Obviously, this shy and self-conscious sophomore beauty had issues doing bowel movement in the girls’ rooms at school. Obviously, when it came to doing that at school, she simply took it ONE DAY AT A TIME.

Barbara could definitely feel it as she walked home from school that afternoon. As many times as she had had accidents like this in school, she never got used to the feeling of having the mess in her panties. It felt just awful -- especially that sticky feeling and feeling it flatten as she sat and spread as she walked. At least this one wasn’t so big that it caused her panties to sag, but it was sticking to her behind just as bad as any of her more severe accidents had. Barbara hated that feeling worst of all. Its worse, of course, when the mess is bigger but even with a modest mess like this one, it’s no picnic walking home with it in your panties. As Barbara trudges home that afternoon, she’s careful to walk normally and to act normally so as not to draw attention to what she’s done. Though highly unlikely, it was still possible that someone could see her (especially if she were walking funny) and still report it to the TVPC. And then if they could prove it happened in school before she got off school grounds, they still could punish her for it.

Her biggest concern, however, was getting herself home and getting herself cleaned up before her mom could find out. She loved her mom, of course, but mom was quite strict with both her and her older sister. Barbara, in fact, all but idolized her mom -- a divorced mom raising 2 daughters -- for her self-confidence and strong will. But that doesn’t mean she didn’t fear her mom’s discipline and nowhere was that more apparent than in her mom’s attitude to these accidents that Barbara kept having at school. Whereas Barbara was quite shy and self-conscious about her bathroom functions, her mom was anything but. As her mom told it, the girls’ rooms in her high school didn’t even have doors on the stalls but she still used them without any problems. Certainly she wasn’t about to tolerate one of her daughters messing in her panties rather than doing a BM at school -- especially when the toilets in Barbara’s high school did have doors on the stalls. “It’s just an utter disgrace,” she’s told Barbara, “It’s not only disgusting but it’s an utter disgrace for a girl your age to be going in her pants.” “You should be ashamed of yourself,” she could hear her mother say yet again and many, many times. Barbara was in no mood to hear that again today. Obviously, then, Barbara was quite eager to get home, clean herself up, and hide the mess from her mother.

As Barbara continues her anxious, eager walk home she feels not only ashamed but increasingly disgusted. She feels the mess getting worse with each step she takes. Walking quickly as she did, she could feel the smeared mess gradually migrating down to between her legs. On one hand she wanted to walk slower so as not to spread the mess worse. But on the other hand, she wanted to walk quickly to make sure she got home ahead of her mom. She decides to walk quickly as her biggest priority now is hiding it all from her mom. But she still wants to be careful to make sure that her jeans don’t get soiled as well. The last thing she needs is something else to clean. The less she has to clean, the more likely she’s going to be able to keep her shameful accident a secret.

Suddenly, though, Barbara is frozen in her tracks and she has to clamp her butt cheeks together tightly -- DESPERATELY! Suddenly, she’s reminded exactly why it isn’t that much already in her panties. It isn’t that it was only a small bowel movement that Barbara had to do today. Nor is it a case of some of it coming out in her panties before she was able to do the rest in the toilet. Barbara still has to go -- only some of it had come out in her panties before -- and now suddenly on her way home from school that afternoon, she has to go bad. As more of the bowel movement tries pushing itself out, Barbara clamps down harder trying to hold it in. The sophomore beauty is, from experience, very good at holding it in, but obviously that has its limits. Her skills at holding it in are now really put the test. The urge to do the bowel movement is strong -- some of it already having come out in her panties over an hour ago -- but, at least for now, Barbara’s will is stronger. It hurts holding it in and Barbara wonders if it’s worth it. She wonders that since her panties are soiled already, what would it really matter if she just let the rest out in her panties now. But she quickly puts that notion to rest. She’s desperate to keep this a secret from her mom and she knows the worse the mess is, the harder that is going to be. She holds on tight -- holding the impending bowel movement dead in its tracks -- and, as the bowel movement urge begins to subside, Barbara is able to push it all back in.

Momentarily spared a worse disaster, Barbara continues on home with only the original mess in her panties. She’s relieved, so to speak, that it hasn’t gotten worse but still, she wants to kick herself for having had an accident again today. “Oh -- why didn’t I just go when I had the chance?” Barbara mumbles to herself, “Pooping at school is bad but not as bad as all this.” She’s not only embarrassed and ashamed of herself but mad at herself as well. It’s far from her first accident but then again, it’s not like she’s never pooped at school before. In fact, it’s been nearly 2 months since she’s last had an accident and in that time, she’s pooped at school perhaps a dozen times. “It’s bad doing that,” she reminds herself again, “But it’s not as bad as having to deal with a mess in my pants.” She thinks about other times -- especially recently -- that she has done her business at school.

She wonders how it all went wrong today. She thinks about how she felt the need to go during 5th period lunch. Now, obviously she wasn’t going to do it in the girls’ room across from the school cafeteria -- that’s where everybody goes to pee at lunchtime and obviously she was NEVER going to do more than pee in there. But, looking back, it’s in Biology class the next period that Barbara really should have gone. Once again, as she thinks back on her day, she’s mad at herself for not going then when she had the chance. She thinks about how the girls’ room in the Science Wing isn’t too bad and how she’s pooped in there before. She thinks about how she’s got several girls’ room passes left in that class and how she could have easily gotten a pass from Miss Robinson and gone then. She knows, again from experience, that it’s not so bad going during a class period because you often can have the whole bathroom to yourself then. And even if she didn’t have it all to herself, it certainly wouldn’t be as crowded as going in the time between classes. “It’s never pleasant when you poop at school,” Barbara mumbles to herself, “But the girls’ room there in the Science Wing isn’t so bad if you have to.” That and the bathroom up on the 2nd Floor are the only girls’ rooms that Barbara has ever pooped in at school.

Of course, we already know that Barbara didn’t go when she had the chance. During 7th period, she has History and during 8th period, she has French -- both of which are in the main section of the school building. The girls’ room there isn’t too bad -- Barbara has peed in there many times -- but it’s typically quite crowded during the school day. Obviously, there is no way she was ever going to do a bowel movement in there. She contemplated perhaps getting a pass and going to use a different girls’ room, -- Miss Bliss, her History teacher, is always accommodating when it’s comes to bathroom passes -- but she decided instead to wait. It was obviously a bad decision since right there in History class 7th period -- despite the poor girl’s best efforts to hold it in -- disaster struck. But Barbara’s best efforts to hold it in weren’t exactly in vain, either. At least the mess wasn’t so bad that her accident was obvious. And that enabled Barbara to make it through the rest of class, through her next class, and out of school without being caught. As she walked home that afternoon, her apartment building now in sight, she had to be thankful for that.

But just as the friendly, sophomore beauty approaches the front door of her apartment building, she feels that impending bowel movement once again. Once again, what was left inside her of that bowel movement pushes for relief and once again, the poor girl is frozen in place trying to keep it from coming out. Only this time the urge comes on a bit stronger and Barbara, unfortunately, is powerless to stop it. Despite her best efforts to the contrary, a thick quite solid stick of poop just pushed itself through her tightly clamped butt cheeks. As that happens, Barbara can feel her panties “tent out” from the force of this solid, stick-like poop. But as it meets the growing resistance of her panties and jeans, it breaks off and slides more down into the seat of Barbara’s already soiled panties. It’s quite big and the weight of it combined with what was already in her panties is enough to cause the poor girl’s panties to sag. In terms of the size of the panty-load, this accident was now as bad as any of her previous ones. But, as big as it is, at least it’s still a pretty solid load and Barbara still holds out hope that her panties have managed to hold it and that her jeans are spared any damage. It’s disheartening to be sure -- it’s like her bowels were taunting her by pushing the rest of the load out now while she was just minutes away from the toilet. But the most important thing -- the only thing that really concerns Barbara now -- is hiding it from her mom. And she still holds out hope that she can.

Now walking bowlegged and decidedly uncomfortable, the toilet-troubled brunette makes her way through the lobby of her building to the elevator. She takes the elevator upstairs and from there it’s only a short walk to her apartment door. Going inside, she’s relieved to discover that neither her mom nor her older sister are home. But Barbara knows that she has work to do -- a decidedly dirty and disgusting job to do -- and she needs to get it done as quickly as possible. The apartment has only 1 bathroom and taking a long time in the bathroom would certainly be conspicuous if anyone else were to suddenly come home. And for Barbara, especially, it would be a dead giveaway that’s she’s in there trying to clean up another accident.

Grabbing a clean pair of pants and underwear, Barbara heads into the bathroom. She double checks the door to make sure it’s locked. She quickly but carefully (she’s done this before, of course) takes down her jeans. She is pleased to discover that even with the additional load she’d just done, the jeans are not soiled at all. Just as she expected, the load is quite solid and that, no doubt, accounts for how her panties had held it. Carefully taking down her panties and stepping out of them, she quickly dumps the worst of the load out into the toilet. The benefits of such a solid load is how easily it empties out. Still, her panties are quite soiled as the earlier part of the accident was definitely of a more sticky and smearable consistency.

Her panties, however, aren’t the biggest priority and they’ll just have to wait for now. Instead, Barbara grabs a washcloth from the bathroom closet and goes to work cleaning herself. It’s a disgusting job to be sure but Barbara just grins and bears it. She knows it has to be done and she certainly prefers this -- doing it in privacy by herself -- to having her mom standing over her the whole time. It’s hardly the first time that Barbara has had to clean herself after an accident. In fact, by now she’s actually quite efficient at it. She then dries herself with toilet paper and flushes it all (including the washcloth) away. That done, she pulls on a fresh pair of panties and jeans. After inspecting her original jeans more closely and still not finding any evidence of her accident in them, she simply places them in the laundry hamper. Once again, unfortunately, Barbara has cleaned up after accidents before and knows exactly what to do.

But just as she turns to contemplate what to do with her soiled panties, Barbara hears something outside the bathroom. For a moment, she hopes it’s only her older sister Julie. I mean, she doesn’t really want Julie to find out she’s had an accident but she could live with that. As long as their mom doesn’t find out, she’ll be happy. But Barbara quickly realizes that it is indeed her mom that’s home. She’s concerned that her mother may need to use the bathroom coming home from work and even if she doesn’t, Barbara knows that the longer she stays in the bathroom the more suspicious her mother will become. She knows she’s got to get out of there fast and that, of course, leaves her no time to clean her panties. It’s not only the time it will take to clean them but the sound of constantly running water or multiple toilet flushes that would obviously give her away.

Her first thought, of course, is to smuggle her panties out of the bathroom and figure out what to do with them later. But Barbara looks around the bathroom and suddenly realizes that she’s left both her purse and her book bag out in the living room. With nothing to hide her messy panties in, there’s really no way to get them out of the bathroom without her mother seeing them. She looks around in the bathroom closet for something -- ANYTHING -- that she could hide her soiled panties in. But she finds nothing that wouldn’t arouse her mother’s suspicions. But Barbara does see a box of large sized pull-ups training pants sitting on the top shelf in the bathroom. They’ve been up there since Barbara had her last accident. They remind her of just what is it at stake in not letting her mom find out what she’s gone in her panties yet again.

It has been nearly 2 months since Barbara last had an accident, and Barbara hopes that that would buy her some leniency, but there’s no way she wants to risk it. She vividly remembers her mom’s anger last time and how she made her spend that entire holiday weekend wearing those pull-ups. And mostly Barbara remembers her mom’s threat that if she ever did it again, she’d be wearing those pull-ups full-time and that, of course, included having to wear them to school. Barbara wondered if her mom would really follow through on that, but she certainly wasn’t willing to take that chance. Mom was certainly mad enough last time that she might, and even nearly 2 accident-free months later, Barbara was desperate not to take that chance. It was embarrassing enough to have to wear them at home. She couldn’t even imagine how embarrassing it would be having to wear pull-ups to school. She was desperate to get rid of those soiled panties any way she could and desperate times, of course, call for desperate measures. The toilet troubled cutie knows she needs to get rid of those panties fast and she only knows one way to get rid of them now.

Barbara quickly takes her panties from the floor and places them in the toilet bowl. She then pulls the handle and with a big whoosh! From that old-fashioned toilet, she flushes them down. Barbara had never flushed panties down the toilet before and she wasn’t sure if it was going to work. She knew that messy panties often clogged the toilet at school and she, of course, was worried that that was going to happen now. But Barbara, desperate as she is, considers it a risk that she has to take. She breathes a deep sigh of relief when the panties seem to go down without much problem at all. Quickly composing herself, she then washes her hands carefully. She quietly emerges from the bathroom just as if it were an ordinary trip to use the toilet. She even feigns surprise at her mom being home. Her mom doesn’t seem to suspect a thing. Better still, her mom doesn’t even need to use the bathroom now, so that give the smell a good chance to dissipate before the next person goes in there. When Barbara goes back in there a little while later to pee, the smell is gone and the toilet is flushing fine. She breathes a sigh of relief again at having dodged a bullet, but she tells herself that next time she really does need to do it in the girls’ room in school and avoid all that. Shortly thereafter, her mother uses the bathroom to pee and it’s about then that her sister Julie get home and immediately heads to the bathroom to also pee in the toilet.

It’s not until a while after dinner when Julie returns to the bathroom -- only this time it isn’t to pee. It’s then that Barbara’s quiet evening at home in front of the television takes an unexpected turn. There’s a scream from the bathroom and it obviously draws the attention of Barbara and her mom. At first glance, it would appear that Julie has clogged the toilet -- the water circling at the top of the bowl after just avoiding an overflow. But as all three of them look closer at the situation, it looks quite puzzling. Julie’s bowel movement is a healthy one to be sure but nothing spectacular. It’s certainly not one that could ever clog the toilet. In fact, her 2 “logs” of fecal matter are both floating at the top of the bowl. And her 3 wads of toilet paper are nothing that could seem to clog the toilet and they are nowhere near the drain anyway. The 3 women are downright puzzled as to what could possibly be clogging the toilet. Well, 2 of them are puzzled, anyway.

The three women then take turns plunging the toilet -- Barbara doing so with particular gusto. When Julie tries and fails with the plunder one last time, she tells her mom, “You’d better call Schneider. Her mom agrees. “Schneider” is the building’s maintenance man. He’s also a close friend of the family and he’s always eager to help. There is only 1 bathroom in the apartment and with 3 women, a clogged toilet is really going to be a problem. Schneider quickly arrives with his assortment of plumber’s tools. He quickly goes to work with his plunger -- a more powerful plunger than the women had -- but he soon realizes that this clog is simply not going to bulge. Schneider quickly moves on to more powerful plumbing tools. “This is an electric cutting tool, Ms. Romano,” he tells Barbara’s mom, “This will cut right through the clog.” Schneider then plugs it in and starts carefully working it down the toilet drain. Once he hits the source of the clog, he switches on the power. The powerful tool rips right through that nasty clog. It doesn’t just dislodge the clog but rips it to shreds. But it also manages to snag the source of the clog and the 3 women watch as Schneider subsequently pulls it out of the toilet. The panties are barely recognizable at first, but an experienced plumber like Schneider is easily able to recognize what it is.

[Arnold Ziffel]

One Day At A Time -- A TVPC Tale

“It looks like someone’s underwear, Ms. Romano,” he tells Barbara’s mom, “You gals should know that you can’t flush underwear down the toilet.” When none of them is quick to step up and admit to flushing the underwear, Schneider comes up with a suggestion. “I guess you’re going to have to do a count tonight,” he says facetiously, “Let’s see who is short one pair of underwear.” Barbara gets that sinking feeling as she turns to see her mother seething with anger. “No, we don’t need to do a count at all,” she says as she angrily turns toward Barbara, “Only one of us would have any reason to be flushing underwear down the toilet.” “It looks like someone messed in those panties doesn’t it, BARBARA!” Ms. Romano asks her daughter angrily. Obviously, Mrs. Romano knows exactly what happened here. “As if it isn’t bad enough that you mess in your panties, Barbara!” she yells at her, “Now you have to try to hide it by flushing them down the toilet!” Barbara, obviously, knows that she’s caught now and starts to cry.

Schneider is, of course, more than a little surprised at one of the girls having had an accident. But he is very fond of Ms. Romano and her girls and he doesn’t like seeing Barbara crying. “Come on, Barbara -- accidents can happen -- there’s no reason to be so upset about it.“ Schneider tells her in a fatherly sort of way, “You just can‘t flush it down the toilet when you do.” He, of course, doesn’t know that it’s not just a one time thing with her. “Accidents happen a lot more than sometimes with some people,” Ms. Romano tells Schneider, a bit angry with him for trying to minimize this, “With some people they seem to happen quite a bit, Schneider.” “Accidents can happen quite a bit when someone refuses to go in the girls’ room at school when she needs to,” Ms. Romano continues, this time redirecting her anger back at Barbara, “In fact, you can’t really call it an accident when a girl simply doesn’t go use the toilet when she needs to.” Barbara tries to shush her mom as she’s embarrassed at talking about all this in front of Schneider. But her mom isn’t at all concerned about Barbara’s embarrassment. “Oh! -- Are you embarrassed?” she asks Barbara rhetorically, “Oh! -- You don’t want people to know how often you go in your pants?” “Well, you SHOULD be embarrassed!” she yells at Barbara, “You SHOULD be ashamed of yourself.” “A girl your age messing in her panties like this,” she continues at Barbara, “I don’t care if Schneider finds out -- Maybe then you’ll be embarrassed enough to start going in the toilet when you’re supposed to.”

But whereas, Ms. Roman is frustrated with Barbara enough that she’s willing to say all this in front of Schneider, Schneider is decidedly uncomfortable with the whole thing. He’s a bit of a busybody sometimes but he doesn’t like seeing Barbara so upset and embarrassed. As Ms. Romano continues to yell at Barbara for yet another accident, Schneider quickly gathers up his stuff and leaves. Barbara tries to tell her mom that it’s been a while since her last accident and that she has had quite a few bowel movements in school in the intervening time. But her mom is certainly not taking that for an excuse. “You’re in high school, Barbara,” she reminds her daughter, “You need to do it in the toilet ALL the time, not just MOST of the time.” “Three year olds go in the toilet MOST of the time,” her mom continues, “That’s just not an excuse for a girl your age.” Barbara tries to defend herself by saying the girls’ rooms at school aren’t very nice, but once again, her mom says it’s no excuse. She tells her daughter that when she was in high school, the toilets didn’t even have doors on the stalls. “And somehow I managed to go at school when I needed to,” she says, “There’s just no excuse for you to be going in your pants -- especially when you DO have doors on the stalls.” Barbara can tell not only by her mom’s words but by her tone of voice that there is really no point in arguing now. Worse still, deep down inside, Barbara knows that her mom is right. She knows that there really is no excuse for her having accidents and that she really does need to learn to go at school ALL the time. And between the lines and the detentions at school and the groundings and cleaning of the messes at home, no one is more tired of getting punished for bathroom stuff than Barbara is. But knowing she has to learn to go #2 at school all the time and actually doing it all the time are two different things. “I just can’t imagine someone in high school going in her pants like you do,” she tells Barbara, shaking her head, “There’s just no excuse for doing that at your age.” “And if you’re going to act like a 3 year old, I’m certainly going to treat you like one.”

Barbara certainly doesn’t like the sound of that. She dreads more than anything what’s coming next. Her mom then goes to the bathroom closet and takes the pull-ups down from the top shelf. “You were warned,” her mom tells her, “I told you what was going to happen if you messed in your panties again.” They already know that the pull-ups do fit Barbara because she had to wear them for the weekend last time she messed in her panties. “You promised me that you had learned your lesson and if I gave you your underwear back, you’d never mess in them again,” her mom reminds her, “But here we are with another mess in your panties.” “You obviously haven’t learned your lesson at all,” he mom says, “So I’m afraid it’s back to training pants for you.”

Barbara is then ordered to strip and put on the pull-ups. They are a snug fit to be sure, but they do fit. Barbara thinks she’s fat, but she most definitely is not. While she’s putting on her new underwear, mom gets a box from the kitchen and heads into the bedroom that Barbara and her sister share. She heads over the Barbara’s dresser and has Barbara open up her underwear drawer. She takes all of Barbara’s underwear and puts them in the box. “You won’t be needing any of these for a while,” mom tells her, “Only girls who are fully toilet trained get to wear panties.” Barbara looks at her mom -- obviously annoyed at the suggestion that she’s not fully toilet trained. She wants to argue and defend herself, but then thinks better of it and just keeps her mouth shut. Not only is her mom in no mood to listen it, but Barbara realizes that her argument doesn’t really carry much weight having just messed in her panties. “Keep your training pants clean for a month,” she tells Barbara, “And you get your regular underwear back.”

Mom then sends the pull-up clad sophomore beauty to her room to “think about what she’s done.” She also gets grounded for a month and mom assures her that she’ll have extra chores to do as well. Later that evening, Barbara pees in the toilet before going to bed. The pull-ups aren’t really that much of a hassle here at home, but she knows that at school it might be a different story. She doesn’t sleep well that night as she contemplates the month ahead. She thinks about the embarrassment of having to wear the pull-ups to school and she can’t believe that it’s going to be for an entire month, at least. She holds out hope that maybe her mom will relent before the month is over, but she’s knows that mom isn’t going to relent today or anytime soon. She knows she’s definitely going to have to wear them to school this time. About the only consolation that Barbara can take in this whole thing is that at least she didn’t get caught at school and punished by the TVPC. The pull-ups would still definitely be the worst of it, but the detentions and the lines that she’d have to do for the TVPC -- and a lot of them because she’s a repeat offender -- wouldn’t be a picnic, either.

Barbara goes about her usual routine the next morning. She decides to wear a skirt -- a loose-fitting one -- to conceal what she’s wearing underneath. She has her usual morning sit-down on the toilet -- urinating, of course, but also trying very hard to have a bowel movement here at home. The point, of course, is to go now in the hope that she won’t have to do one later at school. But on this morning, Barbara can only urinate. She pulls up her pull-up, puts her skirt back in place, and heads for school. She wants to be mad at her mom for making her do this, but deep down inside, she knows that she has only herself to blame. It’s not like mom is making her do this after only her first accident. Mom is thoroughly fed up with Barbara’s accidents and she’s not about to buy her “I won’t do it again” excuse again. The usually cheerful sophomore beauty glumly heads to school that morning -- her head bowed in shame and barely able to hold back her tears.

At school, Barbara finds that wearing the skirt is a good choice as no one seems to notice what she’s wearing under the skirt. It’s really not that uncomfortable, either. Still, she’s quite self-conscious about wearing it, but so far it‘s not as bad as she‘d feared. But come third period, Barbara has gym class. Obviously, that presents a problem. She tells Miss Mars -- her gym teacher -- that she forgot her gym clothes today. It’s a lie, but with it she manages to avoid changing in the locker room. It’s only her first time forgetting her gym clothes so there are no consequences today. She can’t do this every day but it gets her through her first day.

Come 4th period -- Barbara has English with Mrs. Buchman -- she starts feeling the need to pee. Normally, she does that during her 5th period lunch period. Even though it’s crowded during the lunch periods, she doesn’t mind so much doing that in the girls’ room across from the school cafeteria. For whatever reason she’s not nearly as particular about peeing at school as she is about doing the other. But wearing pull-ups, she’s definitely more concerned about even that today. Instead, she gets a pass from Mrs. Buchman and goes during class. Mrs. Buchman is pretty strict about using the bathroom during class time, but since Barbara usually waits until lunch, she’s got passes left in this class. She uses the Main Corridor girls’ room. She‘s nervous about several other girls being in there, but they seem to have their own bathroom business to take care of and don‘t seem to pay much attention to what Barbara is doing. She pulls her pull-up down in the stall, pees, wipes, and then pulls it back up. It’s all pretty uneventful and she breathes a sigh of relief, washes her hands, and returns to class. The stalls do have privacy doors but sometimes girls can see things through the cracks. It’s a relief for Barbara to know that she can use the girls’ room at school without anyone knowing that she’s wearing a pull-up. Whether she can make it a full month like this without anyone knowing is anyone’s guess, but so far so good.

So far so good, so it seems. Suddenly, though, a few minutes before 4th period ends, Barbara is summoned to the main office. Once there, she is directed to the TVPC office to see Miss Spellman. Miss Spellman, on duty for the TVPC that period, has some bad news for Barbara. “Your mom just called the school,” Miss Spellman tells her, “And she reported that you soiled your panties in school yesterday.” To Barbara it’s like a punch in the stomach. She fumbles for something to say -- some way to plausibly deny what she did. She’s desperate to at least escape further humiliation and punishment from the TVPC. “Don’t make it worse by lying, Barbara,” Miss Spellman tells her, “We both know that you did it, don’t we?” Fighting to hold back the tears, Barbara nods her head “yes.” As Miss Spellman hands her that distinctive bright yellow piece of paper -- a TVPC Violation Report -- the poor girl can hold back the tears no longer. The Violation Report officially charges Barbara with “Panty-Soiling” and directs her to appear before the TVPC after school today. About the only consolation for the toilet troubled sophomore beauty is that Miss Spellman lets her remain in the office until she regains her composure. Eventually she does and she heads down to the cafeteria for lunch.

By 7th period -- History with Miss Bliss -- Barbara gets that feeling that she most dreads in school. She has to go #2 and with TVPC after school and no doubt detention as well, she has doubts whether she can hold it in until she gets home. She thinks that MAYBE she can, but she quickly realizes that she’s already wearing a pull-up and she best not risk having an accident in it. OK -- maybe pull-ups were designed in case you have an accident, but actually having an accident in the pull-up is not something that Barbara wants to experience. It’s embarrassing enough for Barbara to soil her panties in school, but she just can’t imagine what it would be like having that happen in a pull-up and then having to answer for that before the TVPC. Besides, if she wants to get her panties back -- and boy, does she -- she needs to keep her pull-ups clean for a month. Carefully considering her options -- that is doing the #2 here at school or taking the risk of trying to hold it in until she gets home -- she decides that going at school is what she really needs to do. She dreads doing it at school worse than ever -- wearing a pull-up certainly doesn’t make it any easier -- but she knows she simply cannot risk having another accident.

It takes a lot of doing for Barbara to work up the courage to even ask for permission to go. But as she feels the urge pushing against her backdoor and as she contemplates what’s going to happen if she does soil her pull-up, she conjures up the necessary resolve. Raising her hand she asks, “Miss Bliss, may I please go to the girls’ room.” Miss Bliss, one of the nicest teachers in the school, immediately nods her head “yes.” As she walks down the hall, Barbara has that familiar feeling of dread. Going #2 now is obviously what she needs to do but that doesn’t mean she’s going to like doing it here. The so-called “Science Wing” of the school contains a whole new wing of Science labs and classrooms. There’s a newly built girls’ room in that wing as well. Barbara heads over there. If she does need to go #2 somewhere at school, this is one of the few places that she wants to be to do it.

As Barbara walks in, she is pleased to see that no one else is in there at the time. That’s why it’s always best to be going during class time when she might be alone in there rather than the crowded time between classes. She heads first to the last stall by the wall. Girls sometimes refer to that last stall as the “Dumping Stall” as it has the bathroom wall on the far side. Many girls like to use that one for doing a bowel movement since it‘s bordered on only one side by another stall. Hence, you get a little more privacy. But Barbara immediately notices that the stall is completely devoid of any toilet paper. It would seem to be true -- at least, judging by toilet paper usage -- that a lot of girls do go in there to “take a dump.” Checking the next stall, Barbara finds a terribly skidmarked toilet bowl. Some girl must obviously have taken a real major league dump in there. The toilet seat looks clean and there is plenty of toilet paper so there’s really no reason not to use the toilet there. But still, a skidmarked toilet bowl just doesn’t look very inviting.

Checking her 3rd stall, Barbara finds this one perfect -- well, only her toilet at home is perfect, but this is as good as it’s going to get at school. She goes in, takes a closer look to make sure the toilet seat is clean, and seeing it so, closes and locks the stall door. She hikes up her skirt, pulls down her pull-up, and takes a seat. She has a hard time going at first -- she only dribbles a bit of pee -- as she’s still quite apprehensive at having bowel movements here at school. But she takes a deep breath and gives it a little push. Shortly her bowel movement picks up momentum and slides effortlessly between her butt cheeks and drops harmlessly into the toilet water below. For most girls her age, this would be pretty routine. But for Barbara -- especially given her current circumstances -- it’s a major accomplishment. She sits for a while enjoying the feeling of relief and she even feels a bit proud of herself.

It’s about that time that she hears someone else enter the bathroom and that girl quickly take the first stall. Barbara hears the door slam shut and hears a behind hit the toilet seat. Then, seemingly without pause, the bathroom is filled with the sound of that girl’s pee hitting the toilet water. WOW! Did that girl have to pee -- Barbara thinks to herself. As that girl continues to pee, Barbara rolls off some toilet paper and uses it to wipe her behind. She does that twice more before rolling some more paper to dry her front. She then flushes it all away, pulls up her pull-up, lets down her skirt, and heads for the sinks to wash her hands. By this time, that other girl is already there. She seems to have done that quite fast -- she wonders if she even wiped herself after what sounded like quite a flood of pee. Barbara doesn’t know her -- she looks like a freshman -- but the girl says “hi” to Barbara nonetheless. “Wow! -- that felt good!” she adds. “Yeah! -- It sounded like you really had to go,” Barbara tells her, with a smile. “Yeah -- I did,” the girl answers back, laughing.

Barbara heads back to class feeling not only relieved that she managed to take care of that bowel movement, but a bit proud of herself as well. Still, she can’t help but feel a bit mad at herself, too. Had she just done the same thing yesterday, she wouldn’t be wearing this stupid pull-up now and wouldn’t be having to face the TVPC in a little while. When she gets back to class, Miss Bliss gives Barbara a disapproving look for taking so long. But the kindly History teacher -- no doubt cognizant of Barbara’s bathroom difficulties -- at least doesn’t make an issue of it. Still, it makes Barbara aware that Miss Bliss knows she did more than just pee. Barbara is self-conscious about that. Today was a big step for Barbara, and she has every reason to be proud of herself for doing that bowel movement in school, but still she doesn’t want people knowing what she did.

Next, Barbara sits in 8th period French class with increasing feelings of dread as the clock approaches 3:00 PM. It’s like she’d rather the school day not end so she wouldn’t have to face the TVPC. By most accounts it’s been a good day at school today -- any day that Barbara manages to have a bowel movement at school is a good day. And again, she likes to just take it ONE DAY AT A TIME. That and having made it through the day without her pull-up being detected should be considered more than a good day. But now, thanks to her mom, it was going to be another trip to the TVPC. And any day that you have to visit the TVPC is definitely not a good day. Again, she wants to be mad at her mom for this -- she wonders why her mom couldn’t just punish her herself and not involve the TVPC. She certainly thinks that having to wear pull-ups -- especially to school -- is punishment enough. But deep down inside, Barbara knows that she can’t entirely blame this on her mom. She knows, of course, that she’s supposed to go at school when she needs to and she knows that none of this would have happened had she just done that.

In French class that afternoon, Lisa, a fellow sophomore, asks for permission from Mrs. Defequer to go to the girls’ room. Mrs. Defequer, though, denies her that permission, citing that she’s already let her go to the girls’ room several times this month and that she has amply warned Lisa to start taking care of these things outside of class time. The poor girl argues that she really has to go, but it’s to no avail -- Mrs. Defequer steadfastly refuses to let her go. Eventually, Lisa simply cannot hold it and not only wets but completely soaks her pants. Before she’s done, there is pee dripping from her chair and forming a large puddle on the tile floor. Barbara can’t ever remember seeing a wetting accident this bad before.

Mrs. Defequer is angry and suggests that Lisa did it on purpose as revenge for not being allowed to go to the girls’ room. Faithful readers of the TVPC know, of course, that doing it on purpose is a more serious violation than merely having an accident. But the cute, blonde sophomore, angrily argues back that it was an accident and it’s Mrs. Defequer’s fault for not letting her go to the girls’ room when she asked. Watching the whole thing, Barbara finds it hard to believe that a girl would just wet herself on purpose. But she wonders if maybe once it already started, Lisa, probably figuring she was wet already, just let the rest of it go. I mean, it was quite clear from the puddle on the floor, that she didn’t hold any of it in.

Eventually, despite Barbara’s hope, the class period ends. As the bell rings and Barbara heads to the dreaded TVPC room, it feels more like a trip to the gallows. She’s been there many times before, but it just never seems to get any easier. As she enters and takes a seat in the first row -- “Defendants’ Row” -- she’s immediately aware that the girls sitting on either side of her have both soiled their panties. As Barbara sits and waits, she tries to comfort herself on the notion that at least she hasn’t done that today. But then again, she’s still going to have to answer for doing that same thing yesterday and it’s definitely not her first time, either. She knows, of course, that the punishment only gets worse for repeat offenders and these panty-soiling incidents have become a habit with her.

[Arnold Ziffel]

One Day At A Time -- A TVPC Tale

Mr. Ziffel and the other members of the TVPC enter and the cases begin.

The first two girls -- A junior named Miley and a senior named Britney -- have to face the music for smoking in the girls’ room. This is a serious offense and both girls have priors. For Britney, it’s her 3rd offense and she gets a month on toilet suspension. For Miley, it’s “only” her 2nd offense, but that’s still worth 2 weeks on toilet suspension. Both girls also get detention after school and lengthy writing assignments.

Ivanka, the girl sitting to the right of Barbara along Defendant’s Row,” gets called next. As she stands and goes to the podium, Barbara sees the huge bulge in the seat of the girl’s tight fitting jeans. It’s obviously a pretty big load and everyone knows that Mr. Ziffel takes that into consideration when determining a girl’s punishment. It’s also Ivanka’s fifth offense. The poor girl gets yelled at about how disgusting her accident is and about how shameful it is for a girl her age (she’s a junior) to do it. The words are obviously quite familiar to Barbara as well. With tears streaming freely down her face, Ivanka begs the TVPC for leniency. But Mr. Ziffel will hear nothing of it. In addition to detention (2 weeks of it sitting on the toilet after school) and writing punishment (1,000 times), she is sentenced to have to clean up her mess in the girls’ room here at school. The poor girl just bursts out sobbing as Mrs. Duncan leads her out of the room and down the hall to the girls’ room to do just that. Fortunately, not having the mess in her panties today, Barbara won’t be facing a punishment like that. Still, she can’t help but think how awful that punishment must be.

Chelsea, sitting to the left of Barbara in soiled panties, is called next. Her mess isn’t nearly so bad, but it’s a mess nonetheless and she seems quite ashamed of herself. She’s a junior as well and a member of the student congress at our school. For her, it’s only a first accident offense but since she’s got 2 other violations on her toilet record this year -- improperly squatting over the toilet to have a bowel movement and then forgetting to flush that very same bowel movement -- she’s not entitled to get off with just a warning. Still, Mr. Ziffel doesn’t see the need to be quite so severe with her. As a first time panty-soiler, she merely gets an hour of detention and has to write 100 times, “I will not soil my panties in school again.” Barbara, of course, wishes for a punishment like that, but she knows hers is going to be more like Ivanka‘s than Chelsea‘s.

Next up is a friend of Barbara named Buffy. Buffy, an outgoing sophomore, is in trouble for doing a bowel movement in a clogged toilet. She’s not actually charged with clogging the toilet herself, but just that she used the toilet without knowing it was clogged. It’s not actually a serious offense, but under TVPC rules, girls are only allowed to use toilets that are functioning properly. And obviously, doing a bowel movement in a clogged toilet is more serious than merely urinating in one. She gets 200 lines to write and 2 hours of detention. Another girl that Barbara knows -- a sophomore named Willow who shares Barbara’s apprehension about doing bowel movements here at school -- is next before the TVPC. She is charged with cutting class yesterday to go home to do her bowel movement. It’s her second offense on that charge and she other offenses on her toilet record as well -- 3 panty-soiling accidents, 2 improperly squatting over the toilet to have bowel movements, and 1 for using the nurse’s office bathroom. Mr. Ziffel gives her 1,000 lines to write and 2 weeks detention sitting on the toilet. “A third offense means a mandatory toilet suspension,” he warns Willow. Barbara wonders how her friend Willow, who has a small bladder and needs to pee at school a lot, would deal with being on toilet suspension. Either way, it wouldn’t be pleasant.

Next, Mr. Ziffel calls Trish, a tall senior brunette. Miss Spellman has charged her with using the faculty bathroom in the library earlier this afternoon. Trish pleads “Guilty” to having done a bowel movement in there. “Trish was in there when I went to use it,” Miss Spellman reports. “I had to go #2 pretty bad and I had to run across the hall and use the student girls’ room,” the pretty, blonde-haired Math teacher reports further, “I almost had an accident because of her. As Barbara watches the case unfold, she thinks about the time earlier this year that she was also punished for this. She knows that it’s usually a toilet suspension for a 2nd offense, but for a 1st offense (as it is for Trish), the punishment usually isn’t so bad. But Mr. Ziffel is quite annoyed that Trish caused Miss Spellman to have to use the student girls’ room. “I hope you know that even for a 1st offense, I could give you a toilet suspension for this,” Mr. Ziffel lectures Trish, “You girls know very well that that bathroom is for faculty and staff only, but still you use it.” “You’re quite lucky that Miss Spellman didn’t have an accident because of this,” he continues the lecture, “You definitely would be getting a toilet suspension if she had.” Instead, Trish gets a 500 times writing assignment and a full week of detention sitting on the toilet in a STUDENT girls’ room. But Mr. Ziffel also tacks on a 1,000 word letter of apology to Miss Spellman and a week of toilet sitting during her 7th period study hall.

Barbara’s name is called next. It’s one of those moments that you’re eager for because you want to get it over with, yet it’s a moment that you just want to close your eyes and hope goes away. Miss Spellman explains that this case came from Barbara’s mother. “Ms. Romano called the school this morning and reported that Barbara messed in her panties during 7th period yesterday,” she tells us, “She said she caught Barbara with the mess last night at home.” Barbara quickly pleads “guilty” and says she’s sorry for what she did. She knows, from experience, that Mr. Ziffel typically shows leniency to girls who simply admit what they’ve done and are remorseful about it.

Miss Spellman, however, goes on to report EVERYTHING that Ms. Romano told her over the phone. “Ms. Romano told me that she is completely fed up with Barbara’s accidents and that we here at school should be fed up as well,” Miss Spellman reports, “She urges that we punish Barbara severely -- she says that it’s the only way we’re going to make Barbara stop doing this.” “She’s so angry that she’s making Barbara wear pull-ups now,” Miss Spellman continues, “She wants us to check on Barbara every day to make sure she’s wearing it and to make sure she doesn’t mess in it.” There are assorted giggles from the assembled crowd. Barbara is, of course, mortified that everyone is now going to know she’s not wearing regular underwear. Mr. Ziffel is a bit surprised to hear that development but he acknowledges that the TVPC can indeed check on Barbara for that. “It’s not a TVPC requirement that Barbara wears pull-ups so we can’t punish her if she doesn’t,” Mr. Ziffel explains, “But if she doesn’t, we certainly can inform her mom of that fact.” “If she messes or wets in the pull-up, though, that would, of course, be a TVPC matter,” Mr. Ziffel adds, “Just because she’s wearing a pull-up doesn’t absolve her of the responsibility of going in the toilet when she needs to.” That latter comment, of course, is more directed to Barbara than Miss Spellman.

“There is also the matter, Mr. Chairman, of how Barbara dealt with her soiled panties afterwards,” Miss Spellman explains, “Apparently, after she got home, Barbara tried to flush her soiled panties down the toilet.” “She told me that Barbara’s panties ended up clogging the toilet and they had to call a plumber,“ Miss Spellman reports, “She wants us to punish Barbara severely for that as well.“ This revelation seems to annoy Mr. Ziffel a lot. She asks Barbara if all of that is true. “Yes sir -- Mr. Ziffel,” Barbara mumbles in shame. “Well, we can’t punish her at school for something she did at home,” Mr. Ziffel tells Miss Spellman and notes for the record. “Even though she certainly deserves to be punished extra for that!,” he adds, a comment undoubtedly intended for Barbara as much as Miss Spellman, “But since it happened at home, Mrs. Romano will have to take care of that herself.” “I’ll call her back and suggest that, Mr. Chairman,” Miss Spellman tells Mr. Ziffel. He then turns and addresses Barbara directly. “Hopefully, your mother will take care of your punishment for that at home,” he tells Barbara, “But you are mighty lucky you didn’t try to flush your soiled panties here at school.” He then points to Libby, a pretty, excuses-making, raven-haired cheerleader in the back at the room. Libby is wearing sopping wet jeans with a big, nasty bulge in the seat and she’s writing “I will not flush messy panties down the toilet in the girls’ room at school again.” “That’s what happens when you try to flush your soiled panties down the toilet at school,” Mr. Ziffel warns Barbara, “You get put on toilet suspension for at least two months and you get 1,000 lines to write.” “And she gets detentions cleaning bathrooms as well,” Miss Mars adds, “She alternates detention days between writing her sentences here and cleaning bathrooms in the girls’ locker room where she tried to flush her panties.” Barbara, of course, gets the point that she should never try to flush a pair of panties down the toilet again -- especially at school.

But Mr. Ziffel also considers Barbara’s panty-soiling a serious offense all by itself. “This is your 5th time this school year,” he reminds Barbara, “That’s a pretty shameful record, don’t you think.” “Yes sir, it is,” she tells Mr. Ziffel, bowing her head in shame. “I’m sorry about that, sir,” she adds, “I’m really trying to do better.” “Well, obviously you’re not sorry enough and obviously you’re not trying hard enough,” Mr. Ziffel sternly lectures her, “If you were really sorry and if you were really trying, you wouldn’t still be having accidents.” “I think your mother is right, young lady,” he continues lecturing Barbara, “I think the time for your excuses is long past and the time for some serious punishment is long overdue.” “You’d better take note of what happened to Ivanka today,” he tells Barbara, “I want you to think of her right now in the girls’ room cleaning up her mess with Mrs. Duncan.” “Because that’s going to be you the next time you decide to have an accident in school,” Mr. Ziffel warns Barbara sternly, “From now on, when you have an accident in school, you’re going to clean it up right here in school.” “I don’t care if cleaning it out of a pull-up is harder than cleaning it out of regular underwear or whatever,” he tells us, “If you make a mess here at school, you are going to be cleaning it up here in school.” Do you understand me, young lady?” he asks. “Yes sir, Mr. Ziffel,” she answers in tears. Barbara is self-conscious enough about having bowel movements here at school. She doesn’t want to even think about what it’s like to have to clean up a mess here. Still, Mr. Ziffel comes down on her pretty hard -- although it’s nothing she shouldn’t expect for 5th panty-soiling violation. She’ll have 2 weeks of detention sitting on the toilet (in the Main Corridor girls’ room) and she’ll have to write 1,000 times, “I will not soil my panties in school again.” Mr. Ziffel also makes it known, although it’s not part of her official punishment, that TVPC staffers will be checking Barbara to make sure she’s wearing her pull-ups. “Once again, the TVPC will not be punishing you if we catch you wearing regular panties, instead,” Mr. Ziffel reiterates, “But we certainly will let your mom know about that.

Barbara, now in tears, takes a deep breath and tries to comfort herself on the notion that at least this part is over with. However, Miss Mars rises and asks to also address this matter. Mr. Ziffel, of course, gives her permission to do so. She decides to address Barbara directly. “Am I to understand that you are wearing pull-ups currently?” Miss Mars asks her, “And am I to understand that you were wearing pull-ups 3rd period when you SHOULD HAVE been participating in gym class. Puzzled, Barbara mumbles a “yes” to both questions. It’s often said that the eyes are the keys to the soul and Miss Mars suddenly stares deeply into Barbara’s eyes. “You didn’t really forget your gym stuff today, did you?” she asks her, “You just said that you forgot so you wouldn’t have to change in the locker room while you were wearing your pull-ups, didn’t you?” Barbara doesn’t know quite what to say but with Miss Mars staring right into her eyes, she quickly realizes that lying is only going to make it worse. “Yes, Ma’am -- I didn’t want to change with the other girls and have them see my pull-up,” Barbara reluctantly acknowledges, “So I just said I didn’t have my gym stuff, so I wouldn’t have to change in there.”

“So I see,” Mr. Ziffel says, as both he and Miss Mars nod their heads. Barbara once again looks puzzled. “You didn’t participate in gym class for a toilet-related reason,” Mr. Ziffel then explains, “That, young, is a toilet violation.” He then directs Miss Mars to draw up a violation report for this as well. But Barbara argues with Miss Mars that it was only her first time forgetting her gym stuff and there isn’t supposed to be any punishment for that. “But the thing is that you didn’t actually FORGET your gym stuff, Barbara,” the pretty, blonde-haired gym teacher points out, “The thing is that you actually had your gym stuff but you decided not to change into it.” “And you did that for a toilet-related reason,” Mr. Ziffel interjects, “That makes it a matter not for your gym teacher to deal with, but a matter for the TVPC to deal with.” Poor Barbara just stands there crying and staring at the floor. Is there no end to this humiliation, she thinks to herself. Finding Barbara “Guilty” of this as well, Mr. Ziffel sentences her to 3 days of detention -- this time it’s just regular detention rather than toilet sitting detention -- and to write, “I will not skip gym class for a toilet-related reason again” 300 times. With that, Barbara is dismissed from the podium and directed to the back of the room to begin her detention.

Barbara then sits down in the detention section as directed. She gives it a good cry but also breathes a sigh of relief that at least it’s over with. No matter how many times she’s done it before, appearing before the TVPC never gets easier. As Barbara sits there in detention, the TVPC session continues. Mr. Ziffel next calls up 2 girls who have punishment writing assignments due today. Alex, a smart and pretty junior, has to write 500 times for arguing with her History teacher Mr. Feeney over his bathroom policies. Darlene, a cute and sarcastic freshman has to write 500 times for teasing her older sister Becky over her soiling accidents. Becky is currently downstairs in the girls’ room across from the cafeteria doing after-school toilet sitting punishment for one of those accidents. Fortunately for both girls they have their completed punishments to hand in and they do so. Mr. Ziffel asks them if they enjoyed their little penmanship practice. Both girls just politely answer “no” -- wisely not arguing in response to the TVPC chairman. Alex is dismissed and wisely leaves quietly. Darlene, and the other hand, still has detention to serve. As she walks back to her usual seat in the detention section, she passes by where Barbara is sitting. “Have fun wearing your diaper,” she taunts Barbara. Mr. Ziffel, of course, takes notice of that. “Well, Darlene, you can now write another 500 times,” he tells the smart mouthed freshman cutie, “This time you’ll write that you’re sorry about teasing Barbara instead of Becky.” “You obviously didn’t learn your lesson the first time,” Mr. Ziffel explains, “So we’ll just see if a second 500 times will do the trick.” Darlene starts to protest but Mr. Ziffel quickly stops her. “Be happy it isn’t 1,000 times this time,” he warns Darlene, “But one more word out of your mouth and it will be.”

The last item on the TVPC agenda is apparently Lisa. She is charged, of course, with wetting her pants in French class. Mrs. Defequer is, of course, here to present the case. But in spite of what the pretty French teacher had said earlier in class, Mrs. Defequer is not alleging that Lisa did it on purpose. She does, however, make note of how voluminous the girl’s wetting accident was. “I’ve never seen a wetting accident as bad as the one Lisa had,” Mrs. Defequer tells Mr. Ziffel, “She obviously had quite a full bladder.” “All the more reason you should have let me go to the girls’ room when I asked,” Lisa then chimes in angrily, “It wasn’t as if I didn’t tell you how badly I need to go.” Barbara watches as Mr. Ziffel bangs his gavel and warns Lisa to watch her attitude. The sophomore cutie at first pleads “Not Guilty” and blames it all on Mrs. Defequer. But as Mr. Ziffel lectures her, she realizes that her arguing the point is useless. She reluctantly changes her plea to “Guilty.” It’s Lisa’s first accident offense this year but she’s got 2 other toilet violations on her record -- Loitering in the Girls‘ Room and Accidentally Urinating on the Rim of the Toilet. She did the latter accidentally while squatting over the toilet to pee. Mr. Ziffel sentences her to 2 hours detention and to write 250 times “I will not wet my pants in school again.” That doesn’t seem so bad but it’s actually quite a serious punishment for a girl’s first accident -- especially when that accident is only a wetting one. Mr. Ziffel points out that’s because of the severity of the wetting. No doubt that her attitude had something to do with that as well.

Just as Mr. Ziffel is about to gavel this TVPC session to conclusion, we see Miss Musso, a gym teacher and the cheerleading coach enter the committee room. With her is Claire, a pretty senior honor student with a good toilet record. “I can’t believe that you’re actually writing me up for this,” Claire angrily tells Miss Musso, “How is this even remotely my fault?” Miss Musso doesn’t answer the senior beauty back, but instead asks Mr. Ziffel to keep the session open so she can present one more case. Mr. Ziffel, of course, grants that request.

Barbara watches as Miss Musso explains that she assigned Claire to detention this afternoon for fooling around and not playing hard in gym class this morning. “Claire went to use the girls’ room immediately after I dismissed her from detention,” Miss Musso reports, “And I went to check on her to make sure she hadn’t had an accident beforehand.” “And I hadn’t had an accident, had I?” the prissy senior beauty angrily asks her gym teacher, “I did everything in the toilet just like I’m supposed to, didn’t I?” Mr. Ziffel warns Claire to watch her tone. Miss Musso does acknowledge that Claire did indeed go in the toilet like she was supposed to. But the sexy, spandex-clad gym teacher also tells us that Claire’s bowel movement was such that it clogged the toilet. “I’m charging Claire with clogging a toilet in the girls’ room near the gym,” Miss Musso officially tells Mr. Ziffel, “It’s a Category #2 clog -- bowel movement and toilet paper.” Miss Musso stipulates, though, that it was more the bowel movement itself (rather than the toilet paper) that caused the clog. She further acknowledges that she didn’t do it on purpose and urges that Claire receive only the most lenient punishment allowable under the rules. But the senior redhead doesn’t think she should be punished at all. “How is this even remotely my fault?” she angrily asks again, “How am I supposed to control the size of my bowel movement.”

This time, though, it’s Miss Musso that responds angrily. “Didn’t you hear me say that you didn’t do it on purpose?” Miss Musso yells at her, “Didn’t you hear me argue that you should receive the most lenient punishment allowed?” “But you obviously did clog it, didn’t you?” she asks Claire rhetorically. “How many times do I have to explain it to you? -- You’re simply not allowed to clog toilets,” Miss Musso continues angrily, “What part of that don’t you understand?” “Well, at least I go in the toilet when I’m supposed to,” she angrily shouts back at Miss Musso, “At least I don’t go in my pants like you do.” Barbara, like everyone else in the committee room, is quite a bit taken aback by Claire’s harsh comment. Mr. Ziffel immediately bangs his gavel to prevent it from going any further. He angrily admonishes Claire

“Unintentionally clogging the toilet with a bowel movement and toilet paper is NOT a serious matter,” he tells Claire, “But teasing and criticizing a faculty member about her accidents most certainly is.” Mr. Ziffel then sentences Claire to write Miss Musso a 2,500 word letter of apology as well as having to write, “I am very sorry for criticizing Miss Musso about her accidents and promise never to criticize another faculty member for her toilet behavior again” 500 times. Additionally, Claire is assigned to serve 5 hours of detention. For clogging the toilet, she merely gets 1 hour of detention and has to write “I will not clog the toilet in the girls‘ room at school again” 100 times. Barbara watches as the senior beauty stands there stunned at this turn of events. “You’re lucky you didn’t get a toilet suspension for what you said to Miss Musso,” Mr. Ziffel tells her, “Had you not had such a good toilet record before this you probably would have.”

With that, Mr. Ziffel gavels the TVPC session to a close. A short time later the bell rings to end detention. As Barbara gathers up her stuff to leave, she still hasn‘t stopped crying. As she trudges home that afternoon, she contemplates the coming weeks -- 1,300 lines to write, 2 weeks of toilet sitting detention, and 3 days regular detention, as well. And, of course, worst of all, at least a month of wearing pull-ups everywhere, including to school. And that’s not to mention being grounded at home and having extra chores to do. NO! -- Barbara certainly has no reason to stop crying now. But she’ll have something to think about -- a lot to think about from now on -- whenever she needs to do a bowel movement at school. For Barbara, now more than ever, it’ll be ONE DAY AT A TIME.

[spandexman]

Nice to see you back

And Miss Musso aways gets my attention. Thanks Arnold.