Potty Training

[Leonhardt]

You know.......I sure had a hard time naming this post. So, I decided on the main point of the story.

I think it needs to be understood where I work and that would be in the oil fields. I work with some....... let's say interesting men! Who are rough around the collar. With that understood. A few weeks back I brought up the subject of kilts and I asked the guys who would be willing to wear a kilt in public. I think.......that had to be one of the longest 30 seconds of my life, because they all stopped talking and just started at me. I think they were trying to figure out if I was asking a serious question or not and if it was a trap. In the end I got a few guys to say yes, but the rest was something along the lines of "wouldn't be caught dead or something about cross-dressing", but interestingly enough it started a whole conversation about the benefits of wearing a kilt and a bunch of "colorful" jokes.

Well, one of the benefits that came up was potty training boys and how it'd be easier to have the boys in a kilt (and going commando or going Scotsman...whatever you prefer!) and when it came time for the toilet and things have to be done quickly..........well if you ever helped potty train a kid. You KNOW what I am talking about. Timing is everything and could mean the difference between success or failure!

Well I thought it was a great idea, so as soon as my tour was over I tell all of this to my wife......and she doesn't say a thing. She gives me that look women reserve for men. "Why do men ruin everything with toilet humor!" Yeah don't pretend....... you all know that look!

So I'm back on my tour,500 miles from home and I get a text, "call me as soon as you can" I'm thinking, what happened, someone got hurt! So I get to a quite place as soon as I can and I call home and she picks up the phone laughing. Today she decided to potty train my boy and was going to let him run around naked, then remember what I was trying to tell her and puts a kilt on him.

My wife takes the kids to the park. He's running around the park having a good time and she said he got a look on his face and she know what was going to happen and what needed to be done, but before she could act he ran to tree squatted down and watered the tree. When he was done. He ran back to play. She said she's never been so embarrassed as other parents were looking at her oddly for the second time (first time was bringing him to the park in a kilt), but she counts it as a great success because he's still dry and had a general idea of what he needed to do.

So, the whole point to this story is that if you have any young boys of potty training age and you have a wife or know of someone who can sew. You might want to have your boys fitted for a kilt, because so far we seem to be getting good results.

[HootinHoller]

Makes perfect sense.

BTW I thought this was a follow up to the call of nature thread. LOL

[Benning Boy]

Once upon a time I worked in the oilfields as a roughneck and roustabout, then got involved in the cleaner end of things. I know what you're going through with the hands. As for the potty training angle, makes sense to me. I'm a dad.

[KentuckyCeltophile]

Bravo! That is a brilliant idea. If I had kids, I might pose that to my wife.
KC

[Pleater]

Boys used to wear gowns up to the age of 3 or 4 years - when they were 'breeched'.

My dad could remember being dressed in his first pair of shorts. They didn't have a fly but were made loose enough to be pulled up and out of the way.

Modern dress is far less practical than that of 100 years ago.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Liam]

I chuckled all the way through it! Great tale.