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 Wednesday, October 31, 2018.
Our session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) today begins with 2 matters from yesterday. These are apparently 2 accident cases that occurred in detention -- specifically, a long detention with Dr. Flower -- after the close of yesterday’s TVPC session. Abby, a very bright and pretty “Goth Girl” is charged with wetting her pants in that detention while Zoey, another pretty and very bright honor student is charged with messing in hers. Dr. Flower, of course, is one of our best and brightest Science teachers. She mainly teachers our best Science students and is known for being very strict. Her students usually know better than to fool around in her class because she’s known for her very long and decidedly unpleasant detention sessions. Apparently, several of her students slacked off a bit for a substitute teacher on Monday and then found themselves in detention -- writing the name of every element on the Periodic Table 25 times -- on Tuesday. And, as you might expect, Dr. Flower doesn’t give girls’ room passes during her detention sessions.
Taking Abby and her panty-wetting first, she pleads “Guilty” but still blames Dr. Flower for what happened. “Obviously, I did do it,” the pretty senior admits, “So that makes me guilty, I guess.” “But I just think it’s wrong not to let us go to the bathroom when we need to,” Abby says, “It’s one thing to punish us with detention but I just don’t think it’s right to not let us go use the toilet.” But Dr. Flower remains firm. “You know what my rules are, Abby,” she tells the smart and pretty Goth Girl, “You know that when you have detention with me you sit and write and that’s all you do.” “Obviously, I expect my girls to be smart enough to do what you need to do before you come to one of my detentions.” “Did you even bother to go to the girls’ room before you reported for detention yesterday?” she asks Abby, “I mean, I don’t think you even made it an hour and a half into the detention before you wet your pants.”
Abby, though, claims that she did go to the girls’ room before detention. “I peed -- I peed a lot,” she says, “And I went the other way, too.” “But I had to pee again when I was in detention,” she explains, “What can I say, I had to go again -- I guess I just have a small bladder or something.” But Dr. Flower just smiles and shakes her head. “That’s not the problem, Abby,” she tells the girl, “And I think you know that that’s not the problem.” “Judging by the puddle you left on my floor, you OBVIOUSLY don’t have a small bladder,” Dr. Flower tells her, “Judging by the volume of your accident yesterday, I’d say you have a more than adequate sized bladder.” “It really doesn’t take an investigator from NCIS or something to figure out what the problem was, young lady,” the strict Science teacher explains, “With all those big gulp sodas you drink, it’s a wonder you don’t wet your pants more than you do.” Abby has had somewhat numerous panty-wetting violations throughout her high school career and this is already her second one this school year. “Those big gulps keep me going,” Abby -- a whirling dervish of perpetual motion -- explains, “Some girls drink a lot of coffee to keep going but I get my caffeine from those sodas.” “Maybe you should try coffee instead,” the strict Science teacher suggests, “At least those other girls don’t wet all over my floor like you did.”
“Well, it wouldn’t have happened if you’d have just let me go to the girls’ room when I asked,” the senior Science whiz (so to speak) points out. “I still don’t know why you couldn’t just let me go when I needed to,” Abby tells her teacher, “It wasn’t that I asking to be let off from punishment or something -- It’s not like I wouldn’t still have had my writing to do.” “It would only have taken me 2 or 3 minutes to go to the girls’ room and come back,” she argues, “It took a lot longer than that to have me go get paper towels and clean up the puddle on the floor.” But Dr. Flower counters that that’s not the point. “There are rules and the rules are to be followed,” the strict Science teacher reiterates, “And I’d have thought you were smart enough to know that by now.” “When you don’t behave and do your work in class you get detention,” she reminds Abby, “And when you get detention you sit and write and don’t get lavatory privileges.” “Detention is supposed to be a punishment, young lady,” she continues, “If it weren’t unpleasant, it really wouldn’t much of a punishment, would it?” “Perhaps instead of asking me to adjust the rules of detention for you, you adjust to the fact that you’ve got detention,” she suggests to Abby, “Maybe next time you’re going to be in detention and know you’re not going to the girls’ room for a while, you’ll lay off those big gulp sodas.”
With that, Abby is left with nothing more to say or perhaps simply realizes that arguing further is pointless. But out of the corner of my eye I see Blossom -- another ace Science student -- has her hand raised. As I understand it, she was also in the same detention with Abby and Zoey, but apparently didn’t have any toileting problems. She’s not charged with a toilet violation today but is here serving detention for defecating in a clogged toilet 2 days ago. “Look sir, I realize that we’re all in high school and it’s, of course, our responsibility to handle our bodily functions,” Blossom says, “But these super long detentions with Dr. Flower have really become a problem.” “It’s one thing not to let us go to the girls’ room when it’s a one hour detention or even two hours -- If we go before detention we really should be able to hold it in that long,” the articulate senior acknowledges, “But when Dr. Flower makes us stay longer than that, it really can be a problem sometimes.” Blossom explains that even though she went to the girls’ room before reporting to detention (apparently to urinate), she ended up having to go both ways kind of bad before the detention was over. “I mean, I wouldn’t call it an emergency or anything -- It wasn’t like I was on the verge of having an accident myself,” she explains, “But I did have to go kind of bad and it was really uncomfortable holding it in like I had to do.” She also mentions another girl -- another pretty and very bright senior named Jessie -- who did have an emergency. “Jessie had to go both ways and before our detention was over she had a real emergency for #2,” Blossom explains. “If the detention had been even a little longer, Jessie probably would have messed in her panties,” Blossom explains further, “She was really SAVED BY THE BELL when it was over and she could go finally go to the girls’ room.”
Directing the well-spoken senior beauty back to the point, Blossom reiterates that the longer detentions really should come with bathroom breaks. “As I said, it’s one thing not to allow a bathroom break during a 1 or 2 hour detention,” she says, “But for a 3 hour detention like Dr. Flower gives, we really need one.” “The principal has 3 hour detentions, too, but they get a bathroom break if they need one,” she points out, “And those Saturday Detentions come with a bathroom break in the middle, too.” I have to say that Blossom does have a point but it’s not really appropriate for the TVPC to discus that now. “This would be something you could bring up at the rules committee discussion at the end of the year,” I suggest, “But as for now, when Dr. Flower gives a detention, it’s Dr. Flower who sets the rules for that detention.”
Getting back to Abby and her panty-wetting, Dr. Flower argues for the maximum punishment. “I know it was only a wetting, but it was a very bad wetting,” the strict Science teacher says, “She not only wet her pants and her seat, but she got it all over the floor.” “In fact, I think she actually wet herself twice yesterday afternoon,” Dr. Flower continues, “Not only did she go all over the floor initially but I think she wet herself even more towards the end of detention.” “If it were up to me, I’d charge her with 2 wetting violations,” the pretty but bookwormish Science teacher argues. Looking down in shame, Abby does admit that she had to pee again towards the end of detention and did wet her pants some more before finally getting to the girls’ room and doing the rest in the toilet. Fortunately for her, though, TVPC rules only consider this a single accident. “As long as she only wets in the same pair of panties, it only counts as one panty-wetting violation,” I explain and note for the record, “Only if she’d have changed clothes and then wet again would that have been a separate violation.”
Dr. Flower does have a point, though, about this being a particularly severe violation. That typically would be grounds for Abby getting an enhanced punishment. But I also note that Abby has a good toilet record with a prior panty-wetting being her only prior toilet violation so far this school year. And I also consider the circumstances of this panty-wetting. While only an hour and a half into the detention isn’t really all that long -- and Abby certainly should be responsible enough to hold it in that long -- the accident did only happen because she was not allowed to go to the girls’ room when she needed to.
Accordingly, it all pretty much balances out and I sentence the senior Science Whiz to 2 hours of detention and having to write “I will not wet my pants in school again” 200 times.
Moving on to the second accident case from yesterday’s detention, we have a girl named Zoey. Zoey, another quite pretty and very bright senior with BLACKISH hair, stand accused of Panty-Soiling. Like Abby, Zoey was apparently stuck in Dr. Flower’s long detention needing to go quite badly, but in Zoey’s case it was a bowel movement that she needed to do and it was that bowel movement that ultimately ended up in the senior beauty’s underwear. She’s another girl with a good toilet record -- this is her first toilet violation of any kind since her sophomore year and her first accident violation since a panty-wetting violation way back when she was a freshman. And she is -- to say the least -- quite upset and angry about what happened.
“Do you have any idea how disgusting this was? -- Do you have any idea what it feels like to have a mess in your panties?” she angrily asks Dr. Flower, “Do you have any idea what it’s like to have to just there in detention holding it in until you just can’t hold it in anymore?” “It’s one thing to make us stay for detention and make us waste time doing a stupid writing assignment,” Zoey continues at her strict Science teacher, “I guess you can say we deserved that for slacking off in class.” “But it’s just cruel -- It’s just completely cruel not to let us go to the bathroom when we really need to,” she argues, “Nobody deserves to be forced to mess in her panties.”
Dr. Flower, though, takes exception to the that. “No one forced you or Abby to go in your pants,” she tells Zoey, “Like I said to her, you girls just need to learn to be more responsible with your bodily functions.” “Did you even bother to stop in the girls’ room before reporting for detention?” she asks the senior beauty. But Zoey argues that that’s not the point. “I didn’t have to go before detention,” she tells Dr. Flower. “I did pee after 7th period, but that’s obviously not what the problem was,” she says, “I didn’t have to pee again until I got home so that obviously wasn’t the problem.” “I didn’t have to go the other way before detention, either,” the articulate senior beauty reiterates, “But I certainly did have to go once detention started.” “I’m sorry but I can’t always predict when I’m going to have to go #2,” Zoey says, “Sometimes it comes kind of sudden and I just can’t hold it in through 3 hours of detention.” And I shouldn’t HAVE TO hold it in that long, either,” she continues, glaring at Dr. Flower in the process, “Like I said before, it’s just cruel to make a girl sit there and try to hold it in when she really has to go that bad.” Zoey points out that she was able to make it through most of the 3-hour detention holding it in, but just couldn’t make it through to the end. Dr. Flower confirms that Zoey did indeed make it through most of the detention and only had her accident near the end. “I almost made it,” Zoey says, “Do you have any idea what it’s like to almost make it to the end and then lose control and mess your panties with like 15 minutes left in the detention.” “I told you I had to go -- I told you it was an emergency,” she rants at Dr. Flower, “I told you that if you didn’t let me go, I was going to mess in my panties.” “It’s cruel not to let someone go when she really needs to,” Zoey reiterates, now starting to cry, “It’s just cruel to make a girl sit there and mess in her panties.”
But Dr. Flower, while I’m sure not completely unsympathetic to Zoey’s situation, doesn’t seem willing to change her rules about no bathroom passes during detention -- even when it’s one of her trademark 3-hour detentions. Instead, she suggest Zoey look on the bright side. “You’re not even going to be punished for the accident,” Dr. Flower points out, “You really shouldn’t be so upset about it.” “It’s only your first accident of the school year and you’ve got no other violations,” she reminds Zoey, “You only get a warning for this and no actual punishment.” But Zoey doesn’t quite see it that way. “I don’t care about the punishment -- the real punishment is the accident itself,” Zoey says, still upset and crying, “The punishment is having the mess in your panties and having to deal with it -- That’s worse than any punishment you guys could give me.” “Do you have any idea how disgusting that is? -- Do you have any idea how shameful that is for a girl my age?” she goes on, “Do you have any idea what it feels like walking around like that? -- Do you have any idea what it’s like having to tell your mom what you did?” Zoey goes on to tell us about having to clan up the mess when she got home -- having to wipe herself clean of the mess, having to shake out her panties in the toilet and then having to scrub them clean in the sink. “It was awful,” she tells us, “It was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.” “That’s why we’re supposed to go in the toilet when we need to,” she turns and angrily tells Dr. Flower, “That’s why you’re supposed to let us go use the toilet when we need to.”
Immediately I grab my gavel and bang it. There’s no reason to let this turn into a debate or an argument. But Dr. Flower is only partially correct about their being no punishment for Zoey in this case. She is right about Zoey not being punished for this, but it’s not even a matter of it being her first accident and her first toilet violation overall. Faithful readers of the TVPC should know about the TVPC’s “2-hour rule.” I’m surprised that Dr. Flower doesn’t remember this rule because it’s been an issue in her 3-hour detentions before. “The panty-soiling happened because Zoey was denied access to a bathroom for more than 2 hours,” I explain and note for the record, “Under the TVPC’s ’2-hour rule’ the accident is classified as ’excused’.” With that comes a look of acknowledgement from Dr. Flower but a look of confusion from Zoey. “It means it’s not even considered a panty-soiling on your toilet record,” I explain to the senior honor student, “It’s not even a warning -- You’re considered not even to have an accident at all.” Zoey nods in acceptance of that and shrugs her shoulders. “I guess that’s something,” she says matter-of-factly, “Too bad you can’t erase the shame and disgust of what I went through, too.”
My name is Arnold Ziffel and I’m chairman of the TVPC. What follows are the summary minutes of the TVPC meeting of Wednesday, October 31, 2018.
Our session of the Toilet Violations Punishment Committee (TVPC) today begins with 2 matters from yesterday. These are apparently 2 accident cases that occurred in detention -- specifically, a long detention with Dr. Flower -- after the close of yesterday’s TVPC session. Abby, a very bright and pretty “Goth Girl” is charged with wetting her pants in that detention while Zoey, another pretty and very bright honor student is charged with messing in hers. Dr. Flower, of course, is one of our best and brightest Science teachers. She mainly teachers our best Science students and is known for being very strict. Her students usually know better than to fool around in her class because she’s known for her very long and decidedly unpleasant detention sessions. Apparently, several of her students slacked off a bit for a substitute teacher on Monday and then found themselves in detention -- writing the name of every element on the Periodic Table 25 times -- on Tuesday. And, as you might expect, Dr. Flower doesn’t give girls’ room passes during her detention sessions.
Taking Abby and her panty-wetting first, she pleads “Guilty” but still blames Dr. Flower for what happened. “Obviously, I did do it,” the pretty senior admits, “So that makes me guilty, I guess.” “But I just think it’s wrong not to let us go to the bathroom when we need to,” Abby says, “It’s one thing to punish us with detention but I just don’t think it’s right to not let us go use the toilet.” But Dr. Flower remains firm. “You know what my rules are, Abby,” she tells the smart and pretty Goth Girl, “You know that when you have detention with me you sit and write and that’s all you do.” “Obviously, I expect my girls to be smart enough to do what you need to do before you come to one of my detentions.” “Did you even bother to go to the girls’ room before you reported for detention yesterday?” she asks Abby, “I mean, I don’t think you even made it an hour and a half into the detention before you wet your pants.”
Abby, though, claims that she did go to the girls’ room before detention. “I peed -- I peed a lot,” she says, “And I went the other way, too.” “But I had to pee again when I was in detention,” she explains, “What can I say, I had to go again -- I guess I just have a small bladder or something.” But Dr. Flower just smiles and shakes her head. “That’s not the problem, Abby,” she tells the girl, “And I think you know that that’s not the problem.” “Judging by the puddle you left on my floor, you OBVIOUSLY don’t have a small bladder,” Dr. Flower tells her, “Judging by the volume of your accident yesterday, I’d say you have a more than adequate sized bladder.” “It really doesn’t take an investigator from NCIS or something to figure out what the problem was, young lady,” the strict Science teacher explains, “With all those big gulp sodas you drink, it’s a wonder you don’t wet your pants more than you do.” Abby has had somewhat numerous panty-wetting violations throughout her high school career and this is already her second one this school year. “Those big gulps keep me going,” Abby -- a whirling dervish of perpetual motion -- explains, “Some girls drink a lot of coffee to keep going but I get my caffeine from those sodas.” “Maybe you should try coffee instead,” the strict Science teacher suggests, “At least those other girls don’t wet all over my floor like you did.”
“Well, it wouldn’t have happened if you’d have just let me go to the girls’ room when I asked,” the senior Science whiz (so to speak) points out. “I still don’t know why you couldn’t just let me go when I needed to,” Abby tells her teacher, “It wasn’t that I asking to be let off from punishment or something -- It’s not like I wouldn’t still have had my writing to do.” “It would only have taken me 2 or 3 minutes to go to the girls’ room and come back,” she argues, “It took a lot longer than that to have me go get paper towels and clean up the puddle on the floor.” But Dr. Flower counters that that’s not the point. “There are rules and the rules are to be followed,” the strict Science teacher reiterates, “And I’d have thought you were smart enough to know that by now.” “When you don’t behave and do your work in class you get detention,” she reminds Abby, “And when you get detention you sit and write and don’t get lavatory privileges.” “Detention is supposed to be a punishment, young lady,” she continues, “If it weren’t unpleasant, it really wouldn’t much of a punishment, would it?” “Perhaps instead of asking me to adjust the rules of detention for you, you adjust to the fact that you’ve got detention,” she suggests to Abby, “Maybe next time you’re going to be in detention and know you’re not going to the girls’ room for a while, you’ll lay off those big gulp sodas.”
With that, Abby is left with nothing more to say or perhaps simply realizes that arguing further is pointless. But out of the corner of my eye I see Blossom -- another ace Science student -- has her hand raised. As I understand it, she was also in the same detention with Abby and Zoey, but apparently didn’t have any toileting problems. She’s not charged with a toilet violation today but is here serving detention for defecating in a clogged toilet 2 days ago. “Look sir, I realize that we’re all in high school and it’s, of course, our responsibility to handle our bodily functions,” Blossom says, “But these super long detentions with Dr. Flower have really become a problem.” “It’s one thing not to let us go to the girls’ room when it’s a one hour detention or even two hours -- If we go before detention we really should be able to hold it in that long,” the articulate senior acknowledges, “But when Dr. Flower makes us stay longer than that, it really can be a problem sometimes.” Blossom explains that even though she went to the girls’ room before reporting to detention (apparently to urinate), she ended up having to go both ways kind of bad before the detention was over. “I mean, I wouldn’t call it an emergency or anything -- It wasn’t like I was on the verge of having an accident myself,” she explains, “But I did have to go kind of bad and it was really uncomfortable holding it in like I had to do.” She also mentions another girl -- another pretty and very bright senior named Jessie -- who did have an emergency. “Jessie had to go both ways and before our detention was over she had a real emergency for #2,” Blossom explains. “If the detention had been even a little longer, Jessie probably would have messed in her panties,” Blossom explains further, “She was really SAVED BY THE BELL when it was over and she could go finally go to the girls’ room.”
Directing the well-spoken senior beauty back to the point, Blossom reiterates that the longer detentions really should come with bathroom breaks. “As I said, it’s one thing not to allow a bathroom break during a 1 or 2 hour detention,” she says, “But for a 3 hour detention like Dr. Flower gives, we really need one.” “The principal has 3 hour detentions, too, but they get a bathroom break if they need one,” she points out, “And those Saturday Detentions come with a bathroom break in the middle, too.” I have to say that Blossom does have a point but it’s not really appropriate for the TVPC to discus that now. “This would be something you could bring up at the rules committee discussion at the end of the year,” I suggest, “But as for now, when Dr. Flower gives a detention, it’s Dr. Flower who sets the rules for that detention.”
Getting back to Abby and her panty-wetting, Dr. Flower argues for the maximum punishment. “I know it was only a wetting, but it was a very bad wetting,” the strict Science teacher says, “She not only wet her pants and her seat, but she got it all over the floor.” “In fact, I think she actually wet herself twice yesterday afternoon,” Dr. Flower continues, “Not only did she go all over the floor initially but I think she wet herself even more towards the end of detention.” “If it were up to me, I’d charge her with 2 wetting violations,” the pretty but bookwormish Science teacher argues. Looking down in shame, Abby does admit that she had to pee again towards the end of detention and did wet her pants some more before finally getting to the girls’ room and doing the rest in the toilet. Fortunately for her, though, TVPC rules only consider this a single accident. “As long as she only wets in the same pair of panties, it only counts as one panty-wetting violation,” I explain and note for the record, “Only if she’d have changed clothes and then wet again would that have been a separate violation.”
Dr. Flower does have a point, though, about this being a particularly severe violation. That typically would be grounds for Abby getting an enhanced punishment. But I also note that Abby has a good toilet record with a prior panty-wetting being her only prior toilet violation so far this school year. And I also consider the circumstances of this panty-wetting. While only an hour and a half into the detention isn’t really all that long -- and Abby certainly should be responsible enough to hold it in that long -- the accident did only happen because she was not allowed to go to the girls’ room when she needed to.
Accordingly, it all pretty much balances out and I sentence the senior Science Whiz to 2 hours of detention and having to write “I will not wet my pants in school again” 200 times.
Moving on to the second accident case from yesterday’s detention, we have a girl named Zoey. Zoey, another quite pretty and very bright senior with BLACKISH hair, stand accused of Panty-Soiling. Like Abby, Zoey was apparently stuck in Dr. Flower’s long detention needing to go quite badly, but in Zoey’s case it was a bowel movement that she needed to do and it was that bowel movement that ultimately ended up in the senior beauty’s underwear. She’s another girl with a good toilet record -- this is her first toilet violation of any kind since her sophomore year and her first accident violation since a panty-wetting violation way back when she was a freshman. And she is -- to say the least -- quite upset and angry about what happened.
“Do you have any idea how disgusting this was? -- Do you have any idea what it feels like to have a mess in your panties?” she angrily asks Dr. Flower, “Do you have any idea what it’s like to have to just there in detention holding it in until you just can’t hold it in anymore?” “It’s one thing to make us stay for detention and make us waste time doing a stupid writing assignment,” Zoey continues at her strict Science teacher, “I guess you can say we deserved that for slacking off in class.” “But it’s just cruel -- It’s just completely cruel not to let us go to the bathroom when we really need to,” she argues, “Nobody deserves to be forced to mess in her panties.”
Dr. Flower, though, takes exception to the that. “No one forced you or Abby to go in your pants,” she tells Zoey, “Like I said to her, you girls just need to learn to be more responsible with your bodily functions.” “Did you even bother to stop in the girls’ room before reporting for detention?” she asks the senior beauty. But Zoey argues that that’s not the point. “I didn’t have to go before detention,” she tells Dr. Flower. “I did pee after 7th period, but that’s obviously not what the problem was,” she says, “I didn’t have to pee again until I got home so that obviously wasn’t the problem.” “I didn’t have to go the other way before detention, either,” the articulate senior beauty reiterates, “But I certainly did have to go once detention started.” “I’m sorry but I can’t always predict when I’m going to have to go #2,” Zoey says, “Sometimes it comes kind of sudden and I just can’t hold it in through 3 hours of detention.” And I shouldn’t HAVE TO hold it in that long, either,” she continues, glaring at Dr. Flower in the process, “Like I said before, it’s just cruel to make a girl sit there and try to hold it in when she really has to go that bad.” Zoey points out that she was able to make it through most of the 3-hour detention holding it in, but just couldn’t make it through to the end. Dr. Flower confirms that Zoey did indeed make it through most of the detention and only had her accident near the end. “I almost made it,” Zoey says, “Do you have any idea what it’s like to almost make it to the end and then lose control and mess your panties with like 15 minutes left in the detention.” “I told you I had to go -- I told you it was an emergency,” she rants at Dr. Flower, “I told you that if you didn’t let me go, I was going to mess in my panties.” “It’s cruel not to let someone go when she really needs to,” Zoey reiterates, now starting to cry, “It’s just cruel to make a girl sit there and mess in her panties.”
But Dr. Flower, while I’m sure not completely unsympathetic to Zoey’s situation, doesn’t seem willing to change her rules about no bathroom passes during detention -- even when it’s one of her trademark 3-hour detentions. Instead, she suggest Zoey look on the bright side. “You’re not even going to be punished for the accident,” Dr. Flower points out, “You really shouldn’t be so upset about it.” “It’s only your first accident of the school year and you’ve got no other violations,” she reminds Zoey, “You only get a warning for this and no actual punishment.” But Zoey doesn’t quite see it that way. “I don’t care about the punishment -- the real punishment is the accident itself,” Zoey says, still upset and crying, “The punishment is having the mess in your panties and having to deal with it -- That’s worse than any punishment you guys could give me.” “Do you have any idea how disgusting that is? -- Do you have any idea how shameful that is for a girl my age?” she goes on, “Do you have any idea what it feels like walking around like that? -- Do you have any idea what it’s like having to tell your mom what you did?” Zoey goes on to tell us about having to clan up the mess when she got home -- having to wipe herself clean of the mess, having to shake out her panties in the toilet and then having to scrub them clean in the sink. “It was awful,” she tells us, “It was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.” “That’s why we’re supposed to go in the toilet when we need to,” she turns and angrily tells Dr. Flower, “That’s why you’re supposed to let us go use the toilet when we need to.”
Immediately I grab my gavel and bang it. There’s no reason to let this turn into a debate or an argument. But Dr. Flower is only partially correct about their being no punishment for Zoey in this case. She is right about Zoey not being punished for this, but it’s not even a matter of it being her first accident and her first toilet violation overall. Faithful readers of the TVPC should know about the TVPC’s “2-hour rule.” I’m surprised that Dr. Flower doesn’t remember this rule because it’s been an issue in her 3-hour detentions before. “The panty-soiling happened because Zoey was denied access to a bathroom for more than 2 hours,” I explain and note for the record, “Under the TVPC’s ’2-hour rule’ the accident is classified as ’excused’.” With that comes a look of acknowledgement from Dr. Flower but a look of confusion from Zoey. “It means it’s not even considered a panty-soiling on your toilet record,” I explain to the senior honor student, “It’s not even a warning -- You’re considered not even to have an accident at all.” Zoey nods in acceptance of that and shrugs her shoulders. “I guess that’s something,” she says matter-of-factly, “Too bad you can’t erase the shame and disgust of what I went through, too.”
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