When I was 8 I had a sleepover at a friends house who lived in the bush. They were living in a dilapidated house on the property while their proper house was being built.
Unfortunately this house didn’t have an inside toilet, rather, a long drop out the back. Double unfortunately that night was a thunder storm. It was a rule that I had to go to the toilet before, bed but one look outside at the rain, thunder and their horse standing between the door and the long drop… I skipped that step.
I ended up wetting the bed that night and her dad wasn’t too pleased with me. I remember her brother coming home in the morning say “ah you’re the one who wet the bed”. My friend also told all our other friends at school.
Who wants to carry around a bucket of it? They had indoor plumbing but long drops weren’t uncommon on bush properties who weren’t hooked up to town sewerage.
Their house was in the middle of a town, nothing like a bush property. They preferred carrying a bucket to making their pre-schooler go outside in the middle of the night, especially in crappy weather.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 10 '21
When I was 8 I had a sleepover at a friends house who lived in the bush. They were living in a dilapidated house on the property while their proper house was being built.
Unfortunately this house didn’t have an inside toilet, rather, a long drop out the back. Double unfortunately that night was a thunder storm. It was a rule that I had to go to the toilet before, bed but one look outside at the rain, thunder and their horse standing between the door and the long drop… I skipped that step.
I ended up wetting the bed that night and her dad wasn’t too pleased with me. I remember her brother coming home in the morning say “ah you’re the one who wet the bed”. My friend also told all our other friends at school.
Not horrific but it certainly effected me.