TOMMY and the SNOWSUIT Being a kid living in the north-east in winter can be rough! And you thought camping was tough. Forget it! Try being 8 years old, loves to play outside, especially in the snow, and seems like you have to pee every ten minutes! Well, okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but has to pee a lot. Top all that off with a mom who is so over-protective if you sneeze she wipes your nose and then turns you over and sticks a thermometer up your butt to check to see if you're sick! You think that's bad? It gets worse!! Yeah worse! Mom also has a paddle that she seems to love to use! So last Saturday with almost 4 feet of snow on the ground it went something like this.... "THOMAS LEE!!!!" Mom yelled as the door slammed closed from the wind. "How many times do you have to be told not to slam the door?" "Sorry Mom!" Tommy yelled back. "The wind caught it." Mom came into the room to scold him some more. "Where the hell is your snowpants?" She caught him before he could escape to the bathroom. "Mom, I gotta pee!" Tommy tried to get out of being scolded and maybe spanked but he really did have to pee, and bad. That's why he came in. "Look at your jeans! They are soaked! You sure you didn't piss in them already?" She tried to embarrass him as he stood there holding himself between his legs in front and hopping on one foot then the other. "Mommy! I gotta go!" Tommy wanted to get going before he did pee his pants. "Get all those wet clothes off right here and right now young man!" His mother ordered him. "Now!!" Tommy didn't hesitate another second. As fast as he could and with is mother watching his every move he stripped naked. When he was done he stood there once again holding himself between his legs and hopping. "Can I go mom?" "Go." She smacked his bare behind with her hand as he made a mad dash for the bathroom before he peed all over the floor. "Don't be in too big of a hurry to get dressed when you are done. I think you and I are going to have a little discussion with the paddle." Tommy's heart sank. He knew that not wearing his snowsuit that he would get spanked if he got caught but it took so long to take off and put on! He spent more time going to the bathroom than he did playing. Tommy's mom came to his room and got him. She took him by the arm to her room dragging the naked crying boy along. As soon as she got him there she pulled him over her knee. Tommy was screaming and begging her not to spank him. His mom smacked he bare behind with her hand as hard as she could and told him to be quite and stop fussing or he would be sorry. Instead of a long spanking starting Tommy had the thermometer stuck into him. Mom was saying something about maybe she should make his behind as red as his legs were from being cold and wet. With his temperature pronounced as normal, Tommy got his behind warmed up real good with his mother's hand. Then he was sent to his room to put on his warm one piece pajamas. He wasn't going out anymore again today and if he wasn't careful he would be going to bed real early too! Tommy promised that he would not ever go out to play in the snow anymore without putting on his snowsuit so that he was all bundled up and would stay warm and dry. Anyway, he would have a whole week to think about it since mom grounded him and told him he was not allowed to play outside for a week. Tommy did think about it and he did a lot of reading too. He came across something by accident that made him think. Maybe he came up with a solution. He'd ask mom about it. After reading all he could find, on Thursday he got up the courage and talked to his mom. "Mom, you know for some reason I have to go to the bathroom a lot. There's nothing we can do about it. I want to play outside but you say I have to wear this great big huge snowsuit that takes forever to put on and take off.. If I run in and out, I'm going to get spanked for running in and out all the time. If I don't wear my snowsuit I'm going to get spanked. I don't want to get spanked!!" "Okay, you're making sense so far. Where are you going with this?" "Well, you're going to think I'm banana's but I was reading about something that I'd like to try. I'll wear my snowsuit and I won't run in and out all the time to pee and I'll get to play. Maybe we can all be happy." "Just what are you suggesting?" "Well, look what I saw." Tommy showed his mom a couple books. "Sometimes Astronauts and even some divers, when they are going to be in these big suits for a long time," Tommy's face turned all red. " Well, they wear diapers in case they have to go to the bathroom." Tommy got it out quickly. His mom sat there just looking at him for a minute or two without saying anything. She was thinking about what he had just told her. "So what you're telling me Tommy, is that you are eight years old and you want me to put you back into diapers?" "NO MOMMY!! What I'm saying is that I don't want to be spanked! To solve all our problems, If you could get some of those diapers you could put me in diapers so I can go out and play all wrapped up and not run in and out all the time." Well, Mom did get some disposable diapers that would fit Tommy. He tried putting them on himself but he couldn't get them on right. Maybe with some practice he would. Mom would change him for now. She joked about how she hadn't done this for him for many years. Tommy got to go out in play in all the snow with his friends and didn't once have to come running in to go to the bathroom. All his friends had to run in two or three times to go to the bathroom. They asked him how come he wasn't running in all the time like he usually did. Tommy told his friends that he was wearing a diaper like the astronauts do. They all thought it was pretty cool and they were going to talk to their moms too. It sure would save a lot of running in and out all the time! Pretty soon all the neighborhood kids were playing outside in the snow all bundled up and wearing a diaper just in case. Every kid from a baby even to the sixteen year old boy down the street. If they were outside and bundled up you could bet that they were wearing a diaper too. But there was a drawback to the solution that Tommy came up with. His mom was saying how well behaved he seemed to be when he was in a diaper. She kept teasing him and threatening him that she was going to put him in diapers all the time!!!