By the summer of 1986, I had already transformed into a Shameful Shitter. Since it was the summer, I spent most of my days either chilling with the grandparents or down at the local pond fishing with my best buddy and his older brother. My parents both worked full time, so staying home alone wasn't an option -- and this, considering my Shamefulness, turned out to be a problem. I would normally try to back out a deuce early in the morning before Moms would drop me off at the grandparents or at my buddy's house up the street. In hindsight, I really wish they had just given me a damn key to the house! But then again, being eight, I couldn't keep track of shoes, let alone a house key.
This particular day, I was hanging out with Grandpa. We were shooting the shit while Grandma was across the street doing Grandma things. We spent the day gorging ourselves on sugar, chocolate, caffeine, and everything else that was really bad for us and would have me bouncing off the walls by the time Moms came by to pick me up. One lesson I would later learn is the havoc that all these sweets would wreak on my system. Another is that just because candy just came out of a bag doesn't necessarily mean it's okay to eat.
Moms came by to pick me up at around 2:30. I was literally crazy with energy and that didn't make her all that happy. I was screaming, running around, pretty much acting like an eight-year-old lunatic. My stomach, meanwhile, was acting like a giant blender for the garbage that was inside. I came down off my sugar high and after a few more minutes of gabbing, we left the retirement village and headed back to normal civilization.
We made it about ten minutes before the first wave of gastric pressure hit me. My mother saw me wincing in the backseat and asked if I was okay. I nodded and watched the trees whizzing past at sixty miles per hour. The pressure continued to build, but it wasn't painful yet, and I felt I wasn't in any imminent danger. So I said nothing. About twenty minutes from home, the pain began to set in and I knew, even at eight years old, that I was in a dire situation. I began to feverishly sweat and churn in my seat. The train was approaching the station and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
Again my mother asked if I was okay. Knowing full well that if I said anything even remotely close to admitting my need she would pull the car over at the nearest gas station and make me dump, I still didn't utter a word. I sat in my seat and just prayed for God to kill me or that I would pass out. Either would have been okay at that particular time. Had I known the end result, I would have probably chosen death.
Then it happened. I gave in to the demons and let nature take its course. I totally and utterly shit my eight-year-old pants. I distinctly remember the moment of relaxation and then the moist, warm, nasty feeling in my shorts. I didn't make a sound and didn't move for fear of Mom knowing -- if she knew I crapped myself she probably would have beat me in the middle of traffic. So I sat there, silently, in my shit-filled shorts, praying for every red light to turn green. The only thing on my side was the heat. Since it was a pretty hot summer day, all the windows were open. This helped dissipate the stink from the rotting carcass in my shorts.
But Moms always knows when something is amiss. As we sat at the intersection waiting for the green light, Moms asked that fateful question. "Did you poop yourself?" Me?! Poop myself? Why would she say such a thing to her own flesh and blood? I'm eight years old, goddammit! I do not shit myself! I screamed a resounding "NO!!" but Moms was not convinced.
"You pooped your pants, didn't you?" But this time, it wasn't in the nice, normal mom tone. It was in the you-just-filled-your-shorts-with-crap-and-are-stinking-out-my-new-car tone. Again, I told her no. We proceeded home.
Pulling into the driveway of our house, I knew that I would have to come clean to Moms. The way I figured it, as soon as I stood up, the evidence in my pants would become the evidence on the floor of the car. She turned the car off and I just sat in my seat. She got out and I didn't move. I sat there, petrified, knowing that I just shit my pants in the back of my mother's brand new 1986 Mercury Marquis station wagon. She came around to the back of the car and opened the door for me. Again, I didn't move.
"Are you getting out of the car?" she said.
I slowly stood up, hoping not to awaken the sleeping grogan in my pants. I stood in the back of the car for a second, trying with all the power of my eight-year-old mind to assess the situation. But fate was not on my side this day. As I stood there, the shit in my pants became the shit in my driveway. Just as I took the first step out of the car, one of the many turds in my pants came out of my shorts and plopped like a lump of warm clay onto the driveway.
My mother looked down at it, and then up at me. And then she took a second glance at it.
Then it finally clicked in her head that she was looking at a piece of shit on her driveway. She started yelling. "You had to go and you didn't tell me! Why wouldn't you tell me! We passed six gas stations on the way and you'd rather just go in your pants!"
And I stood there, petrified. I just wanted to run in the house and get the remaining brownies out of my pants. But instead I had to sit there and be harangued by my mother, in my driveway, in broad daylight. "Get inside and clean yourself up!"
And just as I turned to walk in the house, my mother decided to give me a good wallop on the ass -- smashing all the fresh poop into my shorts, my ass and whatever else was back there at the time. When I got in the house, my ass was just about spackled shut from the shot that Moms gave me in the driveway. I tossed my tightie whities in the garbage, threw the ruined shorts on the floor, and cleaned my ass as best I could. When my father got home from work I got another haranguing from him. He didn't smack me, though.
And so it goes now that at just about every family function, my mother decides to regale everyone with the time I crapped my pants in the back of the Marquis wagon.
-- Pill Pooper