Accidents Can Happen

Summary: A 12-year-old boy named Robby and his now 14-year-old cousin 
Jack attend a relative’s funeral one Saturday. It's a world where all 
boys at the age of 10 lose bladder control and have to go back to 
diapers for 2 or 3 years, until puberty sets in and they gradually 
regain control, enabling them to be toilet trained and weaned off of 
diapers. This is a story of how a family of close-knit men deals with 
the ups and downs of toilet training their pubescent sons and grandsons 
in the context of a family event.

UNCLE JOE'S FUNERAL: THE SETTING AND SOME BACKGROUND

Robbie Smith is now 12 years old and eleven months, and his cousin, 
Jack Smith, is 14 years old and 2 months. Their world is the same as 
the world we all live in, except for one important thing. All boys 
around their 10th birthday lose bladder control. It’s a natural part of 
pre-puberty, whereby the prostate gland grows out of proportion to the 
bladder, causing the bladder to be pressed against and making boys lose 
control of urine. This is not painful, just embarrassing. By 12 to 13, 
boys start to grow out of this because puberty is setting in and the 
prostate slows down its growth rate. Once the bladder grows to even 
capacity with the prostate, boys regain the sense of when it’s time to 
pee and they can be re-toilet trained.

To deal with this worldwide phenomenon, boys go back into diapers at 
age 10, and stay in them until they have been successfully toilet 
trained, usually 2 to 3 years later. All of the brands for babies, such 
as Pampers, Huggies and Luvs make diapers for pre-pubescent and 
pubescent boys, too. They’re sold in the same aisles of the stores as 
the baby sizes, but the packaging is age-appropriate to the boys who 
wear them. Commercials on TV for boys’ sizes diapers are common, 
especially on stations that show cartoons, sports and other programs 
aimed at boys of this age. Dads and other adult male family members 
take charge of changing their pre-pubescent and pubescent boys. Male 
teachers and principals do the honors while the boys are at school, and 
every school for boys between the grades of 4th-8th has an ample stock 
of diapers for all of those changes. Lavatory breaks for these boys 
means going to the change room for a fresh diaper.

It was August of 1984, and Robbie was going to be 13 the following 
month and enter the 8th grade. During Christmas break from school 8 and 
a half months earlier, Robbie’s dad Bob successfully toilet trained 
Robbie for during the day. He still needed a Pamper at night 8 months 
later, but was usually dry during the day. The previous January, Rob 
decided to stop putting training briefs and rubber pants on Robbie 
during the day, because he was always making it to the toilet. The day 
they went to K-mart to buy new Fruit of the Loom regular briefs for 
Robbie (they call them undies), was followed by a victory lunch at 
Burger King for this great achievement. Yeah, they still had to buy 
some Pampers that day for at night, but the big victory was won and Rob 
wasn't going to push his son out of diapers at night until he woke up 
dry the next morning. Rob told Robbie that this might not happen for 
quite some time, and not to be anxious for it to happen. "When you're 
ready to sleep without a Pamper, we'll know it."

Jack was Robbie's cousin, and he had turned 14 the previous June, and 
was going into the 9th grade next month. His dad John tried toilet 
training Jack during the Christmas break that he was in the 7th grade, 
but he just wasn’t ready. After a couple of weeks of struggles, 
frustrations, and many accidents, John decided to keep Jack in diapers 
and try toilet training again during summer vacation. During the summer 
of 1983, Jack mastered toilet training during the day, and by the 
spring of 1984 he was staying dry at night. About 6 weeks before his 
14th birthday, Jack stopped wearing Pampers at night. Robbie and Jack 
slept over at each others houses at least monthly, so Robbie knew when 
his cousin was no longer diapered, and figured that he too might be 
about 14 before he was able to sleep without a Pamper on.

From January to April of 1984, Rob never diapered his son Robbie during 
the day. Both father and son donned white Fruit of the Loom briefs 
under their pants every day. Then one Saturday in April, all the guys 
in the family met at Robbie and Jack's grandfather's house to spend the 
day cleaning out the basement and hauling away junk. That's the day 
that Robbie got so into his work that he wanted to postpone making a 
trip to the bathroom until it was convenient for him. While sitting in 
a chair sorting clothes, Robbie peed himself big time, and ended up 
with a huge dark wet spot on the back side of his jeans and a puddle of 
urine in the wooden chair. He tried to clean up the chair discreetly, 
but everyone could see the big wet spot on his pants when he walked. 
His dad was shocked when he saw Robbie wet, and insisted that he needed 
a diaper. Dad was embarrassed that he allowed his 12-year-old son to go 
to his own father's house undiapered when he had such a massive 
accident. He felt that he looked bad as a parent, and that his other 
family members might be critical of him. Rob was really overreacting, 
and his own brother, father and uncle assured him that it was no big 
deal, and that boys can have accidents even after we think they're 
completely trained. To make a long story short, Jack's dad John 
(Robbie's uncle and Rob's brother) took Robbie to his house next door, 
put him in one of Jack's Pampers and gave him a pair of Jack's jeans to 
wear for the rest of the day. The jeans were too big for him and at 
times revealed ample amounts of his white plastic Pamper, but everyone, 
including Robbie and Rob, quickly ended-up forgetting about the 
accident and had lots of fun with all the male members of the Smith 
family that day. Plus, they really got grandpop's basement clean.

THE FUNERAL DAY:

Grandpop's oldest brother Joe had been sick for some time, and was not 
present the day 4 months earlier when they cleaned the basement. The 
day of the funeral was a Saturday in August, and as usual, Robbie woke 
up to his alarm clock, got up, took off his wet Pamper, threw it away 
and hit the shower. When he came back into his bedroom after the 
shower, his dad was there waiting with a changing pad and a Pamper 
lying on the bed. Rob could see a sort of confused and disappointed 
look on his son's face and said: "Robbie, I'm going to put a diaper on 
you because it might be really hard for you to get to the bathroom when 
you need too today. We've got to drive a long way to the funeral 
parlor, then there's the church and we don't know where the bathrooms 
are, then the slow car ride to the cemetery where there's no bathroom, 
then the ride to the restaurant. I don't like to do this to you, champ, 
but I think it's the way we got to go today, my man." Robbie 
appreciated his dad's apologetic tone, and told his dad "I understand; 
it's better to be safe then sorry."

Robbie took off his robe and lay naked on the changing pad, while Rob 
grabbed some diaper cream and applied it to his son's entire diaper 
area. Then he wiped off his hands with some wipes, dried them on a 
blanket from the bed, and put the Pamper on his son. Then Robbie got up 
to start to get dressed, and Rob suggested what would be good for him 
to wear to the funeral. Rob picked out a short-sleeve white shirt, and 
a pair of greenish-gray khaki-type pants with a black dress belt, and 
dress shoes. Robbie put all of the clothes on. The pants fit fine over 
his thick Pamper, and he looked really sharp. Both his mom and dad 
complemented him on how sharp he looked.

Before the family left for the funeral parlor, which was about 45 
minutes away, Rob went into Robbie's room to get an extra Pamper. He 
tucked it into the inside pocket of his sport coat and it fit fine, not 
causing too much bulk. He also had a very thin packet of wipes that he 
put in the other inside pocket of the coat. Then the entire family got 
into the car and headed for the funeral parlor.

Ever since Robbie's big pantswetting accident in April, Rob has kept a 
duffle bag with Pampers and a clean change of clothes for Robbie in the 
trunk of his car. Since then, Robbie has been doing excellent with 
getting to the bathroom on time and Rob has rarely diapers his son 
during the day. The only exceptions have been these: After the big 
accident at his grandfather's house last April, his grandparents had a 
yard sale two weeks later. Rob was in Robbie's room waiting with a 
Pamper that day, just like he was this morning. The other times were on 
vacation this summer. Robbie wore Pampers on all the long car rides, as 
well as while swimming and on long walks.

On these rare occasions when Robbie wears a diaper during the day, he 
knows that he is just supposed to pee right where he is whenever he 
needs to. No holding it until he gets to the bathroom, these rare days 
he is just supposed to pee right where he's at. Rob diapered Robbie 
about 8:30 am, and at 10:30 when they were getting ready to leave the 
funeral parlor, Rob felt Robbie's bottom with his hand to check and see 
if he needed changing. He felt dry to Rob, and he asked his son if he 
was doing ok down there, and Robbie said that he was in good shape. 
Robbie had peed a little bit in his diaper after breakfast back at the 
house, but the ample absorbent padding and stay-dry lining made him 
forget about that almost as quickly as it happened. The diaper absorbed 
it so well that his dad could not detect that Robbie had wet in it when 
he did a butt pat check.

At the church, Robbie peed in his diaper again while kneeling. The 
position he was in made the pee go right to the middle of the diaper 
where the most padding is. Again, the ample padding and stay-dry 
lining, coupled with the layer of diaper cream he had on, kept him from 
feeling any wetness touch his skin. Off to the cemetery.

For August, this was a particularly cold and windy day. With just a 
short-sleeve thin cotton shirt on, and the hill that the cemetery was 
on made the wind feel really cold, Robbie felt the urge to pee really 
bad from the cold. He was really thankful at that moment that dad had 
diapered him. Robbie peed a really good volume that time, and he 
thought to himself for a minute that he might need a change once they 
got back to the car. Because he was standing when he peed, the wetness 
went right to the center of the diaper again, and spread a little bit 
toward the back padding, but was absorbed as quickly as it hit the 
diaper. The stay-dry lining was still keeping Robbie dry, and when the 
cemetery service was over, Cousin Jack came over with another cousin 
who was 14, whom they had not seen in a while, and they started to hang 
out. They were having such a good time hanging out, that Rob and John 
agreed that the 3 boys could ride together to the restaurant in Uncle 
John's car. Robbie forgot about his diaper.

The restaurant was maybe a 10-minute ride from the cemetery. When they 
got there, the air conditioning had been shut off because it was so 
cool. However, no window could open and the place got really hot. Sodas 
were free from the bar, so all of the boys had a couple of them. By now 
it is 12:45, and the food is coming out. The 3 cousins and the 3 sets 
of parents and the other siblings sit at a large corner circular table, 
and proceed to get food. Robbie and his dad are so involved in talking 
to different people that they have both forgotten about checking his 
diaper. Rob took off his sport coat and put it on the back of his chair 
as soon as he was seated, due to the heat. When he was wearing it, at 
times he could feel the extra diaper in his pocket. When they first got 
to the restaurant, Rob was going to immediately find his son and check 
him to see if he needed changing. As he was going to get his son, some 
relative whom he had not seen in ages caught him and engrossed him in 
conversation. Then they went into the banquet room which was too warm, 
and the men started taking off their sport coats. When Rob took off his 
jacket, there was no bulky diaper in the pocket to remind him to change 
his son.

Now it's close to 1:30, and conversations have not ceased. Robbie feels 
the need to pee and forgets for a minute how much he had soaked his 
diaper at the cemetery. Because he has temporally forgotten, he doesn't 
ask his dad to change him. Instead, he just sits there and pees. The 
stay dry-lining has still kept Robbie feeling dry up to this point, 
even though the padding has had a lot of pee in it since the cemetery. 
Robbie sits in his seat and pees, but then, his diaper leaks.

As soon as he feels wetness touch his thighs, he gets a horrified look 
on his face and looks down at his crotch. Cousin Jack sees Robbie's 
face, and looks down at Robbie's crotch at the same time Robbie does, 
and he can see pee quickly seeping out of both sides of Robbie's gray 
pants between his legs. Jack says excitedly, "Robbie, you're peeing!" 
Rob hears it and says, "oh no", and he immediately gets up, pulls the 
Pamper and the wipes out of his sport coat that is draped over his 
chair, goes over to Robbie and says "come with me." Robbie responds, 
"I'm sorry, dad."

"That's okay, just come with me now." The people at the next 2 tables 
can hear, and they see that Rob is hurriedly escorting his son out of 
the room and that he is carrying a diaper, and that Robbie doesn't seem 
very happy. The people at the other tables cannot see the wet spots on 
Robbie's pants or on his chair from the angle that they are sitting. 
The people at his own table do catch a glimpse of the wet spot on 
Robbie's chair, which is plastic and can be wiped off very easily. 
Grandpop goes to the bar and asks for several paper towels. The 
bartender asks if something was spilled that needs to be cleaned up, 
and he says, "I'm sorry, but my grandson had a little accident on one 
of your chairs."

"Oh, no problem," says the bartender, who comes and wipes up the spot 
of pee, and says "no damage done," with a smile.

Rob takes Robbie down a hall to the men's room to change him. In this 
world, it's acceptable for a boy to walk around in public without pants 
if he has a diaper on, especially in the summer. That was Rob's plan 
for Robbie, that he go back to the reception hall in his shirt, Pamper, 
socks and dress shoes. As they get ready to leave the men's room, Rob 
puts the little packet of wipes in his pants pocket, throws away 
Robbie's wet Pamper, and both wash their hands. A relative comes in and 
sees Robbie walking out without pants and say's, "You got the right 
idea; it's too hot out there."

Rob then says, "I'm going to take your pants out to the car. You can go 
back to the dinner."

"Dad, can I change into the clothes out in the car?" says Robbie.

"Sure you can if you want, are you a little self-conscious about going 
in there with your Pamper on?"

"Yeah Dad, a little, I'm getting kind of big for that."

"Okay," says Dad. Instead of going through the reception hall and down 
the steps, Rob takes his son on an elevator, and they walk out to the 
car by themselves without relatives seeing Robbie in his Pamper. Rob 
gets the duffle bag out of the trunk, gives him the jeans, and Robbie 
slips his shoes off in the parking lot, puts his jeans on, then puts 
his shoes back on. Rob says, "This shirt is probably more comfortable 
than the one you've got on; you want to change that too."

"Sure Dad," says Robbie. Rob gives his son the shirt, then grabs a 
Pamper out of the duffle bag and walks back to the reception with it, 
just in case Robbie needs changing again before they go. Rob wants to 
hang out for a while to catch up with the relatives at his table whom 
he was really enjoying talking too. This might take a while, so an 
extra diaper on hand is important.

When they come in together, everyone is happy that they're back, and 
one guy at the table says, "Robbie, you look a lot happier and a lot 
more comfortable."

"Definitely," says Robbie. Rob is carrying the extra Pamper in his 
hand, and he puts it in the windowsill by the table where they are 
sitting, and father and son proceed to sit down, except Robbie checks 
to see if his seat is dry.

"Don't worry", says Grandpop, "We got it all cleaned up for yeh."

Soon, a report comes that there are pinball machines and air hockey in 
a back room downstairs. The boys all go as a group, with other cousins 
ranging in age from 11-14.

The End.


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