Mom smiled nervously and my heart started to beat really fast, but I didn’t know why it was doing that.
“Alvin sweetheart,” she reached out and took my hand, “this will keep you from wetting the sheets tonight.” Mom said trying to sound positive.
I tell you what, Sherlock Holmes I am not, because I was still clueless.
I crinkled up my nose and asked, “How’s it going to do that?”
Without answering me she began to unfold it and I saw that it wasn’t a towel in a plastic bag at all, it was … GULP … a disposable diaper!”