In the end, however, they made it to the edge of the playground with the still-warm stool in the back of his undies bouncing heavily against his bottom and the warm feeling of his freshly wet pants reminding him how childishly he had behaved.
Anita guided him to the women’s restroom and took him inside. She led him into one of the stalls and disrobed him, leaving him dressed in nothing but his T-shirt. The briefs weren’t as bad as she had expected. His stool was firm and had remained relatively intact. She dumped out the contents of his dirty underwear in the toilet and cleansed his bottom thoroughly with the baby wipes. Throughout the process, Howard stood in the stall shivering as if he was intensely cold.
