"Peeing in the street causes a sty in your eye"

This is what I was always told as a child, every time I would have to go pee in the car my parents would say “you need to hold it, peeing in the street causes sty’s in your eyes” or if I happened to have a sty in my eye, “have you been peeing in the street?”.

Well, I am sitting on the porch with Sally blowing bubbles, and when I say blowing bubbles, I mean Sally trying to blow and bubble soap getting all over her and myself and the front porch, any who, phone rings “Kathi, Sam is on the corner naked” my sister says, “What?” was my response, and again “Sam in on the corner by McKnight’s naked!” Well sure enough up the street comes Sam with no pants on, luckily he did have a shirt on, but as luck would have it the shirt he picked out for the day happened to be a couple of sizes too small and was more of a belly shirt. So, instantly I knew that my son had peed his pants somewhere and found the wet pants to be to annoying to wear so chose to go commando around the neighborhood!! And yes, the story gets better; Sam then tells me that his pants are at the school park “OK”, over to the school park I go, and no shorts!! “Sam, come and show me were your pants are”, back over to the school we go, were he tells me that he has buried them in the sand. So we begin to dig with Sam saying “Mom I think there are here” “No, I think they are here” “Oh, here they are, just kidding”!!!! This goes on for about 20 minutes and no shorts!! We had just given up the search, resolved to the fact that I will be buying my neighbor a new pair of shorts because, yes, they were not our shorts (due to an accident he had at their house) and were heading to the car, when Sam says “Ok Mom, there at Livy’s house”, and in fact that was the case, and the shorts were found.

At Target a couple of weeks ago, “Mom, I really need to pee”!! “Mom, I need to pee really bad”, “Mom, I need to go now”!!, so we run to the restroom, where being the expert Mom that I am, rip down his shorts and plopped him on the toilet within seconds, but he could not hold it any longer and forgot to push his little pee pee down, and peed all over his mom (Me).

My son has peed at the park, on the grass, on a tree, in the sand, on the sidewalk, on his Mom, on the neighbor’s flowers, on my neighbor’s carpet, in the creek, in the car, and yes, in the road and NO STY!!! Coincidence? I think not!!!