On the side of the road.
I was driving on the motorway yesterday, when I saw something I’d never seen before.
It made me realise that times are changing. The days of letting your child go to the loo on the side of the road are well and truly dead.
It makes me laugh though, I remember being brought on long journeys as a child. I was always warned a hundred times before we set off ‘Go to the toilet’, ‘Have you gone to the toilet?’, ‘Go again just to be sure’. But it never mattered how many times I went, after twenty minutes in the car, I needed to go again.
This lead to the inevitable piss-stop on the side of the road, which consisted of the car door blocking one side of my arse and my mother blocking the other side. I have to admit I never felt any shame, it broke up a long trip anyway!
But yesterday, when I saw a man and a woman emptying a potty on the side of the M7, it just got me thinking. I know parents don’t want their child’s butt put on show, but the last thing you can see driving at 120km’s an hour is a little pink ass. Or maybe people are now so paranoid about paedophiles they think they’re stalking the sides of our motorways with cameras, waiting for a child to stop for a loo break?
I don’t know what’s going on but I have to wonder where we go from here. Maybe the next step is to have a loo built into your car or have a portaloo fixed on to a trailer so it can be brought anywhere.
But the strange thing about what I saw yesterday is that I couldn’t actually see any kids in the car.
Dirty fuckers!
