He looked confused for a moment.
She saw he didn’t understand. She clarified, “Did you already wet your diaper? If you pee again, will your diaper leak?”
“Of course not!“ he said, startled that she thought he might have peed in this thing.
“Then feel free to tinkle away. You don’t need the potty right now.”
He looked unhappy. She knew she had to sound reasonable. “Look, you’re free to use the potty after the patients are gone and your staff is home, or if there aren’t patients waiting and your task list is caught up. But you know as well as I do that you pretty much always have a task list. If today isn’t that rare day—and it isn’t because I just saw your task list—I don’t want you wasting time in the potty. You’ve got something else you can use now.
