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I have a few more chapters, 23 in total + an epilogue. Of course, I will keep posting the new chapters. And I agree that what follows can easily be considered a "part 2". I don't promise that part 2 will be as good as part 1, but I certainly hope that it remains engaging enough to keep following until the end.

Just a diaper and tee even if  the boys  stop in , now if there wifes are tagging along i cover up with shorts or a robe,  Wish Slomo the best on getting his rating increased.. Mine happened by shear accident.  hugs

You sure you aren't confusing them with Tom & Ray formerly of the program Car Talk on NPR?

Interesting dystopian society

I went to two summer camps as a kid. One standard church camp for two summers at ages 9-10, then a wilderness camp from age 11-15. I later worked 3 summers as a counselor at the wilderness camp. As a camper, I remember bedwetting not being uncommon in the younger ages, but don’t really have a recollection of how it was handled. The only time I wet my bed at camp was on the last night at church camp when I was 9, and no one found out about it. I just quietly changed out of my wet PJs and hid them up in my rolled up wet sleeping bag to be dealt with when I got home.  As a counselor, I was surprised at how common wet beds were as I didn’t remember so many as a camper. We worked on a small group model with several groups of  5-6 each boys and girls with one male and one female counselor each session. Each group would typically have 1-2 kids who identified as bedwetters on their medical forms. At the start of the session, I would work with those kids in my group to set up a plan for how to handle accidents. It usually wasn’t every night, but could be a number of times over a two-week session. This was pre-Goodnites, so usually it was a way to discretely handle a wet sleeping bag and clothes. The best way I found was for them to just leave the wet sleeping bag/clothing in the tent (in camp, we slept in platform tents - basically a wooden deck with canvas tent that held 8 beds) and one of the counselors would retrieve them while the kids were at breakfast/morning assembly and get them washed and dried. What surprised me, though, were the number of wet beds from kids who didn’t list bedwetting on their medical forms and seemed quite surprised and unprepared for it to happen. Often, they would try to hide it, but the pee smell would give it away fairly quickly. I started giving a general talk to my group on the first night where I would tell them that sometimes campers have wet beds and explain how to best handle it. I know there was some teasing over wet beds and occasional daytime accidents, but we really tried to nip it in the bud and create an environment where the campers supported each other when these and other difficulties arose. The fact that it was a rugged outdoor program that challenged the groups and required teamwork and cooperation really helped the groups bond, and for the most part, that’s what happened. Any camper teasing or trying to embarrass another who wet the bed or had some other issue was generally shut down by the majority of the group. Peer pressure can work both ways.