A bit of background: I, along with my best friend and roomie, was on a road trip from Florida to NYC. At one of our many stops, we found ourselves at a giant rest area somewhere in Delaware. Roomie and have to use the facilities so we wander into the restroom and end up in stalls on either side of a woman who was in the stall with a young boy, presumably her grandson.
Boy: “Girls pee with their vaginas and boys pee with their penises!”
Grandma: “That’s right, dear.”
“Heh” I say to myself but whatever, no harm in a little anatomy lesson. But that wasn’t all:
Boy: “What would happen if someone had both?”
Grandma: “No one has both, it’s one or the other”
Boy: “Daddy’s penis has a lot of hair!”
:eek:
Grandma: “Someday yours will, too.”
Boy: “Then I’ll shave it off!”
:eek: :eek:
Boy: “What if your vagina was somewhere else? Like your mouth? Then you’d pee from your mouth!”
:eek: :eek: :eek:
Grandma: <something about that being funny>
At this point I leave and meet up with my roomie outside, both of us all “did you hear that shit? heh heh”. And we weren’t the only ones- hordes of women are running out of the restroom, trying manfully to stifle their giggles, most of them failing.
And the best part? Dad was sitting outside waiting for them. Couldn’t have looked the man in the eye if I tried. So we left and laughed all the way to Manhattan.
To be fair to Grandma, without knowing exactly how she was saying this, I’d say she was just quietly agreeing with the Little Boy in the hope that he’d shut up and they could get out of there…
It’s probable she was just humouring him. I mean, would you really have a conversation like that with a kid in public toilets?
“No, Jimmy, that’s the urethra. Here, gets out diagram as you can see, while in males the same tube is used for both reproduction and urination, it’s not the same for women. Here is the vagina…”
When I was kid, I somehow got the impression women pee out their butts. Maybe because I sit to shoot stuff out my butt, and they sit to pee, so ipso facto…
You’d think! She didn’t seem to be trying to discourage the conversation though, they were just happily chatting away, much to the amusement of the rest of us!
Why do you think his dad was there? Do you think he glanced over at the next urinal and realized right then and there that his dad had a hairy penis? I’m pretty sure he was just associating something he previously saw with the current “conversation”.
Ah, right you are. That is ridiculous, then. I think it was the “what if your vagina was in your mouth” that made me :eek: so much I couldn’t read the rest of the OP.
All I remember is that it was in Delaware and it had like a food court inside- a starbucks, roy rogers, some other places that i can’t remember. There were video games near the entrance, too.
As the aforementioned best friend, I can tell you it was one on I-95 – AFAIK, the only one between Maryland and the junction with I-295 to NJ. Looking at Google Earth, I would say between Chapman Road and Salem Church Road in Newark.
I too found it more than a little strange that Mom and Grandma would take the little boy into the ladies’ room while Dad and the empty men’s room waited nearby.
Wait a minute, I’m confused. You left while boy and grandma were still in the stall, right? The place was filled with other women, right? Sitting outside was a man, alone. So why did you assume he was the dad? Did you see grandma and the boy leave and go up to him? Couldn’t he have been just some guy waiting on one of the other women?
I agree - in fact, if that was Dad, he should have taken Curious George into the men’s room with him. (and why gramma? why not ‘change of life’ mom?) And just because he was waiting outside the womens’ room doesn’t mean he had a companion inside - he could just have been a pervert…
I, for one, would be relieved at being able to maintain that level of relative innocuousness in a semi-public conversation on that subject with my 4yo boy. :o
