TMI ThursdaySince it seemed to go so well last week, I will share with you another TMI from Wife the Teacher.  Seriously, she should just have an entire blog herself entitled “Disgusting Thing I Had to Touch Today”.  It would be epic, and nobody would want to read it, because it would make their soul sad.

On this particular day, Wife didn’t have her classroom aide with her (she has 27 four year olds, she’s the only teacher.  Technically, she has a “full-time” aide, but the phrase “full-time” is up for debate.)  She gets the kids to line up along the wall by the door so they can go to lunch. Kids are holding their lunch boxes and things.  As she walks down the line, she sees a large puddle on the floor by one of the boys.

“Teacher, I had an accident.”

She looks at his pants and sees that they’re NOT wet, so she’s kind of confused as to what made the puddle.

“Did you spill your juice?”

“No, I had an accident.  My mom gave me orange juice in the car this morning.”

“Is that…orange juice that you spilled?”

“No, I had an accident.”

“Are you wet?”

“….A little.”

She looks again at the puddle and sees that its making a fairly large splatter pattern, as if something was poured out.

And then it dawns on her: this little kid whipped it out and pissed on the floor in the classroom. 

After talking to the parents later that day about the incident, she learned that apparently he is scared of bathrooms and doesn’t like to go in a toilet.  Since he had to pee, the floor of the classroom seemed like a reasonable alternative.

Anyone who’s been around a four or five year old knows their favorite hobby is tattling.  However, not one kid said anything to her; there was not one “TEACHER!  HE’S PEEING ON THE FLOOR!” yelled from the line.  I think it was because even the other kids were shocked and doing the kindergarten version of “What the hell?”

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