# Naked in the parking lot. WTH is with parents?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846 "2013-03-02T20:36:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/41 "2013-03-07T22:22:28Z")
> [@chela](#): > > naked babies are innocents, let them enjoy the breeze in peace. > > nothing to get excited or outraged about imo. > > offended? tough tushies I don’t think anyone is really upset about the nakedness. It’s the teaching your kid that the parking lot is an acceptable substitute for a toilet that is the problem. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/42 "2013-03-07T23:02:01Z")
> [@chela](#): > > naked babies are innocents, _snip_ Two year olds aren’t babies, they’re toddlers. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/43 "2013-03-07T23:49:55Z")
> [@Dr.Woo](#): > > Quite a few years ago I saw a woman holding her son over some bushes in the mall parking lot. While I know how tricky potty training is, pooping AND peeing right there in the parking lot at 11:00am on Saturday morning is indicative of some poor planning on the mother’s part. The world is not your child’s toilet. Problem is that sometimes the kid’s gotta go. With babies it is easy, as they have diapers, but travelling with very young kids _out_ of diapers sometimes results in a frantic search for somewhere for the kid to pee, because pee is gonna happen momentarily. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/44 "2013-03-07T23:51:20Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Well, at least here, public urination is illegal. I’m sure the cops would be delighted and not think it at all a waste of their time to be called in to arrest a two year old for public urination. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/45 "2013-03-08T07:26:36Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > I was driving by and noticed a guy walking along the sidewalk with a stream coming out in front of him, then I noticed he had his fly unzipped and was holding with one hand for a wiz, smoking a cigarette with the other hand while walking along. This is really sick. Everyone knows that you’re supposed to walk backwards while taking a whiz, Jeezus, some people got no class. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/46 "2013-03-08T14:33:16Z")
Something very like this happened during the Thirty Years War. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/47 "2013-03-08T21:27:21Z")
> [@](#): > > **Naked in the parking lot. WTH is with parents?!** Look, if you don’t want to see my 90-year-old parents naked in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot, you can stay home. They’re not hurting anybody! ---
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/48 "2013-03-11T08:45:49Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > My daughter developed a terror of public toilets, specifically their loud flush, around the age of 3. Once when I stopped at a rest stop on a long car ride, I took her into the family room (a large bathroom with a private stall in it), and sat her down on the bench just inside the door, where she wept in terror as I went into the stall to do my business. I promised her I’d not flush until she was outside the door, but the fear took over and she started flat-out screaming, and somehow got the door open and took off. So there I was, racing out of the bathroom after my daughter, fumbling with my trousers and shouting for her to come back. > > Got some looks, I’ll tell you what. > > While the dude was obviously in the wrong, I have a bit of sympathy for him. my cousins kid was alarmed by those things, we watched ‘Drop Dead Fred’ a couple times (outrageous potty humor that tickled the heck out of them) and proceeded to concoct _ **no bite my butt fairy dust ™** _ (i forget what all we put in it, glitter, black pepper to make the beast cough and choke and sneeze, some other stuff)) which the kids would sprinkle in the toliet before climbing on. the toliet monsters were terrified I tell you, absolutely terrified, if you listened closely you could here them whimpering in the pipes waaay under the floor. silly? hell yes, but it basically took an afternoon of being creative and life moved on. I the no butt bite fairy dust got four batches or so mixed over the next couple months and then there was some new wierd thing we were dealing with. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/49 "2013-03-11T09:50:49Z")
While the facts seem inexcusable, I have lived through the hell that is potty training a child, and would cautiously give the parent the benefit of the doubt. Og knows my little cherub has put me in some awkward situations that probably looked inexplicable to a bystander. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/50 "2013-03-11T16:31:04Z")
I’m upset about the nakedness. Not that it happened, but that he condones it. You do not condone behavior in a child that you would not condone in an adult. We dislike the concept so much that we have laws against it. Peeing in the parking lot just adds more fuel to the fire. No, it is not preferable for the kid to pee in the parking lot, becoming everyone else’s problem, instead of in her clothes, which is the parent’s problem. If the parent is potty training a kid and doesn’t have baby wipes and backup clothes available, he’s a moron. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846/51 "2013-03-11T22:47:50Z")
I was hoping the guy would be naked. Not interested in little girls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-in-the-parking-lot-wth-is-with-parents/651846.md?page=2)