Mark’s Road Trip Summary: Mark Samuelson is a 14-year-old from Minnesota and whose mom is hired by Pampers to do some marketing. The whole family moves to Colorado and decides to take a road trip for some family bonding. Chapter 1 “Mom, I don’t want to take an RV trip. I want to make some friends before school starts.” “Mark, we’re renting a very expensive RV and it will be just like home. Now, this conversation is over.” Mark went upstairs to pack his bag while his mom loaded several large boxes into the under-compartments of the RV. It was a VERY nice RV. From the outside it looked like the tour bus for some big band. Mark got on the RV with his dad at the wheel and his mom in the passenger seat. He sat down on the couch and took a nap. The family was going to spend the summer touring the country. Mark didn’t know how his mom ever got the time off but she did. The family drove to the Colorado border and pulled into an RV park for the night. By now it was around 10 at night and marks dad went out to hook up the electricity and water. Mom, meanwhile, was opening up the dining room. When dad came on he said, “Mark, time to get ready for bed.” “OK, dad” Mark went to the room that was deemed his and took of his shirt and pants. He opened the top drawer where his mom said she had put his underwear. He looked down and to his surprise he saw 2 kinds of diapers. One was labeled “teen night diaper” and the other was labeled “teen day pull-up”. “Mom, what’s going on?” “Honey, they want you to spend the summer testing the new product. Plus, we need the money, badly.” “Please mom, No.” Then Mark’s dad came in and told Mark to strip. Mark refused so his dad physically stripped him. He took the boxers that Mark had been wearing and ripped them up. He then said, “This is what you will be wearing this summer; and if you don’t behave then I’ll take your pants away.” There Mark stood, totally defeated. His dad went into the closet and took out a changing mat and laid it on the bed. Then Mark was made to lay on it while his mom diapered him with a plain white, teen-sized diaper. He went to bed and cried himself to sleep. He woke up the next morning and, to his horror, realized that he had wet his diaper. When he stood up the diaper sagged nearly to his knees. He went to the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror and when he turned around he was frightened to see, in big bold letters, PAMPERS printed on the back. He took the diaper off and threw it in the trash can. He took a shower and when he came out he saw his clothes on his bed with the teen pull- up on top. Like the diaper, on the back was the word PAMPERS. He pulled on the pull-up and put his clothes on. Luckily the diaper did not bulge very much and it only stuck about an inch over the top of his pants. It turned out the Pampers company (Proctor and Gamble) had given his mom 500 pull-ups and 500 diapers. Mark spent the entire trip in diapers and pull-ups. He was never allowed to pee in the toilet but he was allowed to poop. More updates soon.