A Crazy Weekend

Summary: 3 friends from junior high, Rob, Steve, and Brian have gotten 
in trouble again for practical jokes that have gone over the line at 
their school. Because they do crazy things, their school principal 
arranges a weekend for them that they will never forget, in which they 
are treated like they are crazy. On the list of treatment tactics are 
restraints and diapers.

It was a Friday morning back in February 1982, and 3 friends, Rob, 
Steve and Brian have just pulled off another practical joke at their 
boarding school. Since it was supposed to be a field day of sorts, 
following a week of midterm exams, there were no classes scheduled this 
Friday for grades 7-9, just fun activities. The 3 boys decide to make a 
swimming pool out of a shower room. They block off all the drains and 
turn on the showers until there's about 3 feet of water in the entire 
bathroom. People are showing up in their swim trunks and treating the 
shower room like a swimming pool. This goes on for the better part of 
the morning until they get caught, and it's revealed that Rob, Steve 
and Brian were the masterminds behind the indoor pool.

The 3 were told to put on dry clothes, then report to the principal's 
office where they had been many times before for their crazy practical 
jokes. The boys were placed alone in a waiting room, while Mr. Bosley, 
the principal, made phone calls from his office. He called each of the 
boy�s parents then he called a state psychiatric hospital. The state 
hospital had launched a program that had thus far proven very 
successful with so-called �normal� kids who liked to do crazy things. 
With parental consent, kids who continuously act out get the surprise 
of their lives when they are suddenly picked up by ambulance at their 
school and hauled off to the state hospital. There they spend a 3-day 
weekend locked on a ward with kids around their own age who are not 
psychologically disturbed, but get a kick out of doing crazy things. 
Yet for 3 days they are treated as if they truly are disturbed. The end 
result is that after 3 days, these kids are usually cured of their 
passion for doing outrageous and crazy things.

While Rob, Steve and Brian were waiting for the principal to come back 
to give them their punishment, they began to be surprised at how long 
it was taking. It was nearly 90 minutes and no one had come to talk to 
them. Brian said, "I've got to pee", but he knew that he didn't dare 
leave to walk to the other end of the hall to use the boys� room. If he 
got caught, he'd be in worse trouble than he was already. After another 
10 minutes or so the boys could hear sirens and they were coming closer 
and closer to the school. When it sounded like they were pulling up in 
front of the school, Rob went to the window and looked out. He told 
Brian and Steve: "Hey guys there's a police car and 3 ambulances in 
front of the school. Something must have happened and that's why Mr. 
Bosley forgot about us."

"Wow, I wonder what happened, and who's sick," says Brian. Suddenly the 
door opens and in comes Mr. Bosley with a police officer followed by 
six men dressed in white. Three of the men are carrying white things 
made of canvas with little belts hanging off of them.

"Here they are, men," says Mr. Bosley.

"Thanks, Mr. Bosley," says the officer, "we'll take over from here.�

�Thanks for coming," says Mr. Bosley and he leaves the room.

The police officer tells the boys that Mr. Bosley and each of their 
parents have arranged to have them committed to Oak Grove State 
Hospital for the weekend, because of their bad behavior.

"What's Oak Grove State Hospital?" says Steve.

"It's a nuthouse, dude," says Rob. "They're having us committed to a 
nuthouse.�

�It's a state-run psychiatric hospital, boys; it's not a nuthouse," 
says the officer. "If all goes well you will only be there for the 
weekend and you'll be back at school Monday morning. But if things 
don't go well and you don't cooperate with your treatment, you could be 
held there longer.�

�Trust me, this will be a great experience for you and you'll come back 
happier and more like men, not like little boys who always want to get 
into mischief. Men, please take over from here," says the officer to 
the men in white.

The men in white put all three boys into straightjackets and escort 
them past the principal's office and outside to the ambulances. Brian 
tells his two attendants that he's really got to go to the bathroom, 
that he has to pee. The one attendant says, that's okay, we've got a 
solution for that and you can go in just a minute. One attendant rolls 
out the stretcher from the ambulance, then they both place Brian onto 
the stretcher, wrap two restraining belts around him, one over his arms 
and stomach and another over his legs, and roll him into the ambulance. 
The same procedure is followed by the other men attending to Rob and 
Steve as they are placed into the other two ambulances. Once they have 
been rolled into the ambulances, an attendant unfastens the crotch belt 
of each boy's straightjacket, rolls the jacket up a few inches, unzips 
their pants, pulls down their undershorts and puts a disposable diaper 
on each of them. They are told that it's nearly an hour ride to the 
hospital, plus they will have to remain in restraints for some time 
after they get there while they are evaluated and given a medical and a 
psychiatric check-up. "You'll probably have to go to the bathroom while 
all of this is going on, so that's why you're gonna wear a Pamper.�

�Don't feel bad, it's standard procedure. You're buddies and everyone 
else you'll meet today goes through the same thing."

The boys are in tears as they are put in diapers, but the men in white 
rub their heads and tell them it's okay, and not to get upset. An 
attendant says to each of them, "When you're in treatment to learn how 
to be a man you don't want to cry over little stuff like wearing a 
Pamper. There will be times this weekend when we just can't get you to 
the bathroom on time, so we put you in Pampers so you don't have an 
accident. I'll give you a hint, the less crazy you act the less likely 
you're gonna end up in restraints, okay?" each attendant says with a 
tender smile.

"OKAY," each boy says.

"It's hospital procedure however that all patients be restrained and 
diapered during transport for their safety and comfort, as well as for 
our safety," the attendants tell each of the boys. The attendants pull 
the boys� undershorts over their diapers, then zip their pants without 
fastening the top snap, for fear it would be too tight for them. Then 
the attendant removed each boy�s belt from their pants, then refastened 
the crotch belt of their straightjackets. Finally, the other attendants 
fastened the wheels of the stretchers so that they locked into the 
floor of the ambulance. Then they said to the boys, "Just relax. You're 
really gonna have lots of fun this weekend, trust us. Before you know 
it you'll be at the hospital so just chill out.

When Brian's attendant taped up his diaper, he told him, "Now you can 
take that pee you need to take." The attendant didn't even complete his 
words when Brian began to pee like a race horse. The attendant could 
see the white plastic in the crotch of his diaper turning yellow, and 
spreading to the back. "Brian, when you're done peeing I'll take that 
off and put a fresh one on you, just tell me when." Brian lay there 
quietly for a few more seconds, then he told the attendant: "I'm done 
now." The attendant got another Pamper, some wet ones and a towel, took 
the first diaper off of him, cleaned his diaper area, dried him off, 
and put the fresh Pamper on him. As Brian was being cleaned, the 
attendant placed the second diaper next to him on the stretcher until 
he was ready to put it on him. Brian looked at it and saw writing on 
the tapes that said "Attends." He had never heard of this brand of 
diaper before and he said to the kind attendant, "I've never heard of 
Attends before." The attendant replied: "They're the adult version of 
Pampers. We just call them Pampers at the hospital."

Once each boy was diapered and fastened into their ambulance, the 
attendants locked the back doors and got up front and took off. Since 
the boys were not throwing fits, the attendants chose not to run the 
sirens, but only ran flashing lights as they drove the boys to Oak 
Grove at a normal rate of speed.

When they arrived at Oak Grove, each ambulance drove up to the 
emergency entrance, than the attendants got the boys and wheeled them 
into the emergency room. They remained tied to their stretchers buy the 
restraining belts, and they could not move their arms because of the 
straightjackets. They were placed in a hallway for a few minutes, and 
they were able to talk to each other.

"Dudes, this is really freaky," said Steve.

Brian says: "Yeah man, this is the freakiest thing that's ever happened 
to me. Did they put diapers on you guys?" Rob and Steve say 
reluctantly, yeah.

Steve goes: "Did you guys use yours?"

Brian says: "Yeah, I used mine as soon as they put it on me, �cause I 
had to pee back in the office. I told the guy and he put a clean one on 
me after I peed.�

�Man, what's that feel like, peein� in a Pamper? I haven't worn one 
since I was like 3," Brian says.

"The guy took the wet one off of me so quick I couldn't feel much."

Rob then admits: "I peed in mine on the way and I feel completely dry. 
That stay-dry lining thing they advertise on the commercials really 
works.�

�Cool,� says Steve, ��cause I got to let it rip."

Steve pees in his diaper while strapped to the stretcher in the hall.

"What a relief, I couldn't hold it in any longer. It feels warm and wet 
when you first pee but then it disappears and you feel dry again.�

�That's how mine was too," says Rob.

A few minutes later the attendants return with a nurse who introduces 
herself as Nurse Baldwin. She says that the boys� "holding rooms" are 
ready and that they will be taken there now, and that they will wait 
there quietly until the doctors are ready to evaluate them. The 
attendants unstrap the boys from the stretchers but leave them in their 
straightjackets. They are each helped off of their stretcher and 
escorted to their holding rooms. As they pass through the halls, each 
boy has an attendant on both sides walking very closely and leading 
them through the corridors. Then one of the attendants takes out a key 
and opens a locked wooden door with a sign that says "Evaluation Area." 
Once all 3 boys and their attendants are inside of the door, the guy 
with the key relocks the door from the inside, and the boys are led 
down the hall. All of the walls are painted a pale green. Then the guy 
with the keys tells the boys: "Say good bye to each other for a little 
while. I promise you that you'll see each other again this afternoon." 
The guys say goodbye with rather nervous looks in their eyes. They are 
now in a hall where there are doors that say "holding room 1�,  
�holding room 2," etc. Rob is placed in room 1, Brian is placed in room 
3 and Steve in room 5. The attendants split up and escort each boy 
personally to his room, and unlocks the door to their rooms. Once 
inside they see that the room is totally white. The walls have these 
big thick white vinyl pads that go all the way from the floor to the 
ceiling, and the floor feels like a gym mat as they walk across. The 
attendants close and lock the doors and instruct the boys to sit on the 
bench along the back wall of the little cells. Then the attendants take 
off the boys� shoes and leave them in their stocking feet. The 
straightjackets are left on, even though some of the boys ask that they 
be taken off. The attendants say that it's hospital policy that they be 
left in their straightjackets until they complete their medical and 
psychiatric evaluations.

When asked why they reply that some patients get upset when left alone 
in the holding rooms, so it's safer to keep them restrained until after 
the evaluations are complete.

Then each boy�s attendant asks them how their Pamper is holding up. Rob 
and Steve admit that they have peed in theirs but that they feel dry. 
"Did you pee a lot?" both are asked. The boys both reply that they peed 
once, and Steve says that he peed a lot when he peed. The attendants 
ask Rob and Steve to lie back on the padded bench and they help lay 
them down since they can't move their arms due to the straightjackets. 
The attendants unfasten the crotch belts of their straightjackets, 
unzip their pants, pull down their jockey shorts and examine the boys� 
Pampers. The yellow stripes on their "Attends/Pampers" have turned blue 
and both boys, especially Steven, have significant amounts of white 
plastic that has turned yellowish and looks kind of doughy.

"Awe yeah you need changin�. I'll be right back with a fresh Pamper for 
yeh," both Rob and Steve are told by their attendant. Brian tells his 
attendant that he's dry and that he hasn't done number 1 or number 2 
since he was changed in the ambulance. Therefore, Brian is left alone 
in his cell without being changed.

Both Rob and Steve's attendants come back with fresh diapers and change 
them, then refasten the crotch belt to their straightjackets. Instead 
of putting their underwear and pants back on them, the attendants just 
fasten the crotch belts underneath of their diapers. The attendants 
tell them: "I think you'll be more comfortable with just a Pamper on. 
It can get kind a tight down there with pants over top as you've 
probably felt already." Then the attendants ask them if they want to 
lie down or sit up. Steven chooses to lie down but Rob wants to sit up, 
so his attendant helps him back to an upright position on the padded 
bench. Because Brian was not changed, he is left seated on the bench in 
his straightjacket, and still has his pants and underwear on over top 
of his diaper. All of the attendants take the boys shoes, and Steve and 
Rob's underwear and pants with them as they leave the rooms and lock 
the boys in.

After what seems like an eternity, the boys are evaluated one by one by 
a medical doctor. An attendant comes for each of them individually and 
escorts them to the doctor's examination room. It is determined that 
none of them have any serious physical illnesses, and Mr. Bosley, their 
principal, has already notified the hospital that Rob must take allergy 
pills twice a day. During the physical exam, two attendants accompany 
each boy into the room and unfasten their straightjackets so the doctor 
can examine them. As soon as he is done, the boys are retied into their 
jackets. One of Brian's attendants says, "You'll be more comfortable 
with just your Pamper on, so I'm gonna take your pants and underwear 
and put them in a locker we have for you with your shoes. It's too 
tight for you to have pants on all the time under a straightjacket, 
you'll get stomach pains if I leave them on. Your're buddies are both 
sitting in their cells the same way, it's no big deal."

Each boy is re-escorted to his rubber room, and is asked if he wants to 
sit or lie down on the bench. Eventually, they are picked-up 
individually and escorted to the psychiatrist's office for an 
evaluation. Steve is 12 and Rob and Brian are 13. They feel really 
embarrassed being escorted by men in white coats to a psychiatrist, 
being seated on a sofa in nothing but a straightjacket, a diaper and a 
pair of socks. Once the boys are seated, the attendants leave and each 
one is left alone with Dr. English. Dr. English is in his mid-forties, 
has gray hair and a beard, and is really cool. He talks at the boys� 
level and assures them that the evaluation will go a whole lot better 
if they don't worry about how they look. He tells them that he knows 
they must be uncomfortable, but that sometimes patients have been known 
to get combative and violent during sessions, especially the initial 
ones. "Sometimes my questions touch a nerve," he tells them, "and 
people want to take a punch at me." Until I know you better, I have to 
have you restrained while you're in session. I hope you understand." 
Each boy says that he understands, and Steve replies, "yeah I'd tie 
people up too if I thought they were gonna punch me."

All 3 boys complete their psychiatric evaluations. Dr. English doesn't 
tell them this, but he determines that they are absent of any severe 
psychotic illnesses that would likely require them to stay in the 
hospital more than just the weekend. He assigns them to the ward that 
Mr. Bosley had intended for them, the 3-day inpatient unit for boys 12-
18 who need to learn how to behave in a more mature manner. The 
treatment consists of one-on-one therapy sessions, group therapy 
sessions, recreational activities such as ping-pong, icebreaker 
sessions, and supervised therapeutic activities in small groups that 
are really a lot of fun, music, and yes, even a supervised snowball 
fight outside.

Each boy is escorted back to his padded cell after his evaluation with 
Dr. English. Finally, attendants come back with clothes, consisting in 
a gray sweatshirt, gray sweatpants, black slippers, a white undershirt 
and a fresh Pamper. They untie the boys straightjackets and say to 
them: "Now if you behave you won't have to wear this anymore during 
your stay here, nor will you have to be locked in a rubber room. But if 
you get out of line, back in here you come and back into the jacket you 
go."

Once the straightjackets are off the attendants tell the boys to take 
off the shirts that they came in with and put the sweatshirts on. "If 
you don't need changin, just put these sweatpants on, but if you do 
I'll change yeh first." Each boy asks why he has to wear a diaper if 
he's not restrained anymore. The attendants tell them that they will 
have to be periodically and temporarily restrained with wrist cuffs 
that will attach to a special belt that they'll wear whenever they meet 
with Dr. English or have group therapy sessions. "This is because some 
patients get really upset during sessions without warning, so it's 
safer for you and for all of us if you're restrained at those times. 
State law says that patients have to be diapered when restrained 
because it's inhumane to restrain you without providing means for you 
to relieve yourselves while in restraints. This weekend is going to be 
really intense with therapy sessions, so you'll be in and out of 
restraints all the time. It just makes more sense to keep you in 
diapers then to keep taking your pants and underwear off and 
rediapering you each time you have a session." The 3 boys are given 
lunch together in the emergency ward in a cafeteria, then they're taken 
to their ward by new attendants.

So the boys spend the weekend in gray sweatshirts, gray sweatpants, and 
"Attends" size small diapers that the attendants and all the patients 
call "Pampers." They are placed on a ward with beds lined up side by 
side, with probably 40-50 guys in a big room that is open to a hall way 
that adjoins to a common room. The ward itself is locked and there's no 
way the guys can get out without an attendant. There are common 
recreation rooms where there is sometimes interaction between the guys 
and the girls of the same age who are on a separate locked ward. 
Everyone committed for this 3-day weekend is wearing Pampers. The 
attendants are good at checking patients, and most patients tell an 
attendant when they need a change. Still, there are some accidents but 
they are minimal.

Rob, Steve and Brian are not allowed to have beds side by side, but 
they are placed in the same room. Rob is placed next to a guy named 
Rich, age 14, who has a younger brother Pat, age 12, whose in the same 
room. Another patient, George, gives Pat a "Pamper wedgie" when Pat is 
kneeling trying to tuck in the sheets of his bed and his Pamper is 
sticking out about 3 inches above the top of his pants. George rips off 
some of the plastic from Pat's Pamper and starts to run around the 
building with it, and Pat chases after him. Both are grabbed by 
attendants, tied into straightjackets, and put in rubber rooms for 
about 45 minutes until they have both cooled down. Then they are 
released wearing leather wrist restraints fastened into a canvas belt 
which they are kept in until dinner time.

The guys go to an icebreaker session unrestrained with girls in a 
common room on Friday afternoon. They have to go around asking people 
goofy questions until they find someone else in the room who answers 
yes to the questions. One question is: "Do you wear Fruit of the 
Looms?" Brian says, "Yeah, except today cause I'm wearin� a Pamper." 
This breaks the ice with everyone who Brian meets. Then they eat dinner 
in a big cafeteria, and have some free time to meander around the ward 
and make friends. Rob and Rich hit it off really well, and their beds 
are next to one another. Then each patient is given a paper with a 
schedule, telling them what time to do everything all weekend, 
including when to report to the "restraint room" before therapy 
sessions.

Everything goes really well until lights are off at bed time. First, 
Rich wakes up Rob and says, "Do you smell smoke?" Rob isn't sure, but 
he trusts Rich. Rich says, "Let�s go and check the rec. room, I think 
it's coming from that direction." The two boys walk out to the rec. 
room and Rich says, �I think it's coming from here,..." The boys are 
suddenly grabbed by attendants who are furious and carry them back to 
their beds. Rob is told by his attendant, "Are you crazy?! There's no 
fire here, you'll get everyone all riled up and all hell will break 
loose!"

Rob cries out, "I thought I smelled smoke." and his attendant says: 
"You were just having your dream again, that's all, now be quiet so you 
can go back to sleep."

It's discovered later that both Rich and Patrick have been committed 
here before, and that Rob has problems with nightmares after he 
witnessed a neighbor�s house fire. Both Rob and Rich are carried to 
their beds by attendants and laid down on their backs and told not to 
move. A minute later, their attendants come back with leather straps 
that are attached to each boy's bed, near their ankles and their 
wrists. The attendants place the 2 boys in "4-point restraints," with 
each wrist and ankle fastened into a leather belt that is attached to 
straps that go across the width of the bed and are tied at the base to 
guard rails on both sides of the bed. They are left in these the entire 
night, until the next morning when a new shift of attendants unties 
them.

George and Patrick had both been placed in 4-point restraints on their 
beds at the beginning of the night, due to their behavior in the 
afternoon. During the night, George woke up the guy in the bed next to 
him, and told him that he was going to throw up, and asked him to untie 
him so that he could make a run for the john. The guy complied and 
untied George. Instead of running to the bathroom, George untied one of 
the restraining belts from his bed, got up and walked around swinging 
the belt in the air, and it clobbered Brian in the head while he was in 
bed trying to sleep. Before long, the lights came on and attendants are 
trying to take control of the situation. George is removed from the 
room the entire night, and the guy who untied him gets tied down 
himself with Georges' own restraining belts.

On Saturday, Brian, Rob and Steve all do really well in their sessions. 
At 3:00 pm was shift change for the attendants, and the attendant who 
grabbed Rob, yelled at him, carried him and tied him to his bed the 
night before came back again, and this made Rob really nervous. The 
attendant picked up right away that his presence made Rob 
uncomfortable, so he went out of his way to befriend Rob and show him 
that he had a gentle and fun side as well. Before dinner, the guys were 
given coats and went outside for a snowball fight. Everyone got to run 
around a big fenced in yard without restraints and got to have normal 
fun. The "mean attendant" kidded around with a number of the guys and 
would sneak up behind some of the patients and put snowballs down their 
backs. Rob got one of these from his dreaded attendant, but it was done 
in such a way that Rob knew that he was liked by the attendant. Rob got 
the attendant back, then the attendant got Rob back with a big snow 
ball, part of which slid into the back part of his diaper. Rob said, 
"awe man, that went down my Pamper. I've got frozen buns.�

�The Pamper will soak it up, here's another one," said the attendant, 
as he plops another big snowball down Rob's back.

When they come back to the ward, everyone is told to hit the showers 
which are monitored by attendants. The boys are instructed to return to 
their beds when they are done showering, where an attendant will be 
waiting to diaper them. Rob gets his new favorite attendant who puts a 
fresh Pamper on him. This helps them to bond even better. All of the 
boys had a clean set of sweats on their beds, along with a tee shirt 
and a Pamper.

Even though Rob has bonded now with the attendant, he and Rich still 
have to be restrained to their beds on Saturday night as a precaution. 
Rob understands this and he is cool with the attendant strapping him to 
the bed again. They end up cracking jokes about being restrained and 
the funny sound the plastic in their Pampers makes whenever they walk 
or try to move.

The boys learned a lot and are returned to school Monday morning 
dressed normally and in a car. They never lost their sense of humor, 
but they never again went too far with a crazy practical joke.

The end.