“I have to go potty.”
My shopping cart, filled to the rim, screeched to a sudden halt.
“What do you mean?” I asked in all my motherly wisdom.
“I have to go potty.” My three year old replied with an urgency I knew all too well.
A smoke cloud of burnt rubber hovered in aisle 8 as I accelerated past the frozen food. Much like Fred Flintstone, my stone aged feet were a blur as I weaved around old ladies and elbowed past soup stacking employees. My cart swayed on two wheels as I navigated corners.
We sprinted past the bakery without so much as a sideways glance (a first). We dodged the line in the pharmacy (without pausing for a look, listen and laugh). We crash landed just outside the bathroom door and quickly found our place at the end of a long meandering line.
I remained cool as a cucumber as I did the baby juggle in line. I kept my calm demeanor as I pacified my whiney 3 year old. I breathed deeply while I waited for ladies finishing their snail paced business. I sang softly to my two little ones as I listened to women cackle and gossip in their stalls. I averted my eyes when I saw ladies picking their teeth at the sink. I didn’t complain about the missing toilet seat covers. I didn’t grimace over the sticky floor. I restrained my belly aching over the two last squares of toilet paper. I was patient as I elevated my three year old’s buns over a sticky toilet seat. I smiled as I maintained my balance crouching in a football squat in front of yet another public toilet, baby draped over my lap and my arms aching from the weight of my three year old. But, I was not prepared for what would come next.
“Can’t go, Maybe try later.”
Pardon me as I give you a Mammatalk re-run as I am enjoying a lovely holiday with family. This post is from 6 months ago, back when I had two readers. Thanks for being so supportive, hubby and Wylie!
10 years ago
29 comments:
This cracked me up.
I am glad I have a little why before this.
Enjoy your holiday!
We're just starting the potty trainning phase. Frankly, I'm a little scared.
ROLF!!!!
Too funny.
FUNNY!
Such a typical potty trainee...
Yeah, that sucks. I hated that. I have one who needed and sometimes still does need to view every bathroom in every institution we happen upon. No fun.....good luck!
Remind me of myself...HA
That was too funny...I bet you were worn out..huh?
So cute. I remember these days. They weren't so long ago.
I hope that you're enjoying your vacation. I'm a little envious.
LOL Oh kids can be just too much sometimes.
My newly 3 year old is potty trained at home. I haven't been brave enough to venture in public yet. But, I do have some of those kiddie toilet covers. Better get those out to the car.
This was a funny post. Thanks for sharing it again. Have nice time with your family.
I'm so glad you reshared! I want to scream when my 3yo waits (always!) til the last minute to go when we're out. But I swear if he told me nevermind after all that I might have just left the store and tried again another day. So funny. ;)
LOL!
My 4-year-old has some strange biological imperative that makes him have to go to the bathroom *right now* at the exact moment when we are at the geographically furthest point from the store bathroom.
Oh I hate toilet training with a passion. I think it is these episodes that do it for me. AARGH!
Have a wonderful Holiday, Michele.x
Oh how I have been there so many times!! Thanks for the laugh, it was needed.
AHHHHHHHHH! No Way! That is my fear:)
Ha ha ha. Sounds ALL too familiar. :)
been there, done that! Usually when that happened it was on a day when my child had on about 14 layers of clothing too.
Well I don't remember this one so reruns are just fine! I do however remember these days...and none too fondly lol. It's posts like this that make me glad mine are all grown up! HAPPY EASTER!
Happy Easter Mammatalk and to your family.
Happy Easter Mammatalk!
Why is it that 3 year olds have to use the potty in every single store you ever go in?
Happy Easter!
It is NO joke trying to do the hover with a little one.
This reminds me of the time I had an infant in a carrier, an almost waking child in a stroller and a newly potty trained child needing to go poo.
Everyone was unbuckled since the stroller couldn't fit in the stall. I held baby #2, tried to maneuver child #1 over potty and (luckily) there was a belted seat for the infant, whom I tried to keep in the seat with one hip because I didn't trust that it could hold all his chubbiness.
It was quite a mental workout.
I roll called under you in SITS today so I wanted to say hello even though I have been here many times! I swear newly potty trained children are on a mission to use every potty in the country.
Thanks for sharing that. Hilarious. I have done that before! Hope you had a good Easter
LOL! I loathe the public restroom experience...especially when you go to all of that trouble and your little one "changes her mind." :-)
lol...not a re-run for me....oh god...I am so picturing the whole thing right now...too funny
I love it when people re-post things from before I came along!
This was so great. I love how you write about something that most moms experience and make it so hilarious and relatable. You've got talent, my friend.
Just popping in from SITS. How funny! I'll be there soon enough. I have a 2 1/2 year old.
Aw, babe. Look at you, all growing up! ;-P
ARGGGGG, I would NOT have been smiling.
My 5 year old does to us ALL the time. When she finally does pee, we'll go back to shopping or eating when suddenly, we gotta go back again...she has to do #2. Why she can't do #1 and #2 at the same time, dunno, it defies logic.
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