White Lies
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 6:57PM
Bad idea: Trying to pretend that your kid's accident in Starbucks is just a beverage spill. That doesn't work.
Last Friday I took Miles for a post-haircut milk at Starbucks. It had been too long since his last trip to the potty but Ava needed to nurse so I forgot to take him. Sure enough, while sitting at a table with his soy milk a torrential peepee let loose from his pants. I scooped him up into the bathroom, followed by Ava in her stroller, and then leaned over to the barrista and told him we'd had a "spill."
In a sense, it wasn't a lie. Peepee did "spill" out from my son's bladder. Did the barrista really need to know the origin of the liquid in question??
I changed Miles and sat him down at another table with his milk and whipped out the Hooter Hider to finish nursing Ava, who was being patient but was starting to get restless. If she hadn't needed to eat, I would probably have taken Miles' milk to go! But I sat there while a rather large, bearded, red-headed, round-faced man wheeled a mop to the location of Miles' "spill."
As he started to clean, Miles noticed him, pointed, and said VERY loudly, "That guy clean the peepee!!"
I have never blushed quite so crimson. I nodded, "Yes he did," I said under my breath. "That's very nice of him."
"Yes. Nice," said Miles. And then he directed himself to the nice man and said - again very loudly - "Thank you clean the peepee!!"
The man had the decency to pretend not to notice. Even when he wheeled away the bucket and Miles said again TWICE, "That guy clean the peepee" and "Thank you clean the peepee."
You gotta hand it to my little guy. He's got manners.
Reader Comments (12)
I am not a new Mom or an old one for that fact...I don't even have children...but this made me laugh so hard I almost had my own little "spill"!!!! Natali you crack me up!!!
Kind of weird that you expected the barista to clean up your kid's urine
Lol, that is hilarious!!! Aaaaand all too familiar. Thanks for sharing, it feels good to know I'm not the only Mom that has gone through something like that.
Thankfully our last accident in public was about 10 years ago. Happened in a Wal Mart shopping cart. Katy and I were dressed for our Mommy and me swimming at the YMCA but stopped at our local Wal Mart store to grab a snack for later. Katy had on those cute little swimmers instead of diapers. Swimmers apparently don't absorb liquid of any amount or nature. So when Katy emptied her bladder (which was a considerable amount) 100% of it hit the floor. So needless to say "clean up on aisle 4" took on a whole new meaning.
Loved your story,
C (:
Miles is so polite! lol Things I get to look forward to.. Thanks you for sharing your experiences. :)
@Jill, you have to remember that moms don't carry around mops and buckets. Any hospitality / service person when told there "was a spill" and you ask them for some rags or a mop, will come out and clean it. They also clean the bathrooms at their place of business, no matter the state... It's just part of the job description.
cheers!
Hey Clayton, you know you are living two 'separate' lives right,?
your FOX life is fun sometimes but all TOO serious for the most part!
..but your wife has ALL the fun and you get to take part from time to time, so you don't feel
left out! The home life will keep you laughing, and laughter is what makes it all OK!
Oh, yes most of us Grandparents have a 'smile' on our
faces thinking about those days not so long ago that we too
had similar experiences!
Here's hoping you don't miss too many of those moments!
Are you feeling better? see you this weekend at 6:00 a.m. !
Thanks for sticking up for me Dave! And Jill, I sure don't expect someone else to clean my child's urine but I also needed help cleaning it up quickly while I changed him and didn't want it sitting on the floor while I cleaned him. There really was no winning situation there. I have tried to keep towels with me for just such an occasion but I was without this time. Really, all my bad in this situation I know!
I sincerely hope you tipped the guy $20 for cleaning up your kid's pee. Or returned the next day and apologized and tipped him then. Or tomorrow.
There really is a difference between cleaning up body fluids and a liquid spill - even when it is a child. They should have been told it was urine.
When our son, now 30, was about 2 1/2 , we were getting to know my husband Steve's new boss. As we were sitting in the new boss's office, Christopher got down off my lap and said, "I gettin my book," which was behind my chair in a tote bag. In a second, I turned around to find Chris doing his tinkle right there in the corner of the guy's office. Wow....so embarrassing! Yes, Steve got to keep his job. Whew....
Ha! These stories are great! They make me feel so much better!!