Friday, June 20, 2008

Public Urination

One day a couple months ago I was at the park, sitting by a big Greek theatresque structure, which had a nonfunctioning fountain at the base. There were a ton of kids playing around the area, as always, and as I looked at one little boy playing on the steps, I saw a funny sight. Ever so nonchalantly, he pulled down his pants a little and took a piss right on the steps. Then he pulled up his waistband again and went on with his play.

Tonight as I walked out of the building I work in, I saw another little boy standing outside a parked car with one of the back doors open. His pants were around his ankles and he was, for some reason, pulling his shirt all the way up past his chest. It was dark, and I thought it would be rude to keep looking right at him at such close proximity, but I'm pretty sure he was also peeing. Right at the car, too. There was someone I assume was his grandmother sitting in the seat next to the open door, who noticed a lot of people were now coming out of this and other buildings, so she hurried him up, starting to pull him back toward the car. As I got past the car, I started laughing, and so did his grandmother. I wonder if this practice segues into sleazy adult public urination, or if they curb it by adolescence...

No pictures this time. Sorry.