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When adult diapers come in handy

June 4, 1:28 PMNY Public Transportation ExaminerKatie Ett
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Having been raised on a Midwestern farm, wanting to be polite is a natural part of my personality that I have to really fight sometimes in order to keep myself from getting mugged, raped, and murdered.  So when I saw a man about to sit on a puddle of water in the bus today, I couldn’t help but stop him.  And the woman after him.  And another man after him. 

I suppose the window had been left open all night, and a spot of water about the diameter of a baseball had gathered in the butt groove of the seat in front of me.  The cloudy sky kept light from bouncing off of it, so it took the unnatural obsession with not sitting in gum, body fluids, and spilled coffee of someone like me to look hard enough to see it. 

At the next stop, more people filed in, and as the bus was starting to fill up, the empty row in front of me became too enticing, and a middle-aged man in a casual business ensemble practically dove to plop down in it.  I winced at having not been able to say anything about the water and waited for him to notice that his rear end was soaking and to jump back up.  I felt all of the people I’d warned not to sit there watching him from behind me.

But he just settled in with his newspaper to enjoy the ride.  Sadly, I had to get off the bus before he did, so I didn’t even get to enjoy watching him stand up later, pants dripping.
 

– Katie Ett, unapologeticallymundane.com

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