A Visit from the Diaper Lady

[willnotwill]

This part is true:   Years ago there were more than a few cloth diaper services that catered to adult incontinence.   In Baltimore, we had two competing businesses.    Once in a while, I'd get up the nerve to inquire about the service.    I remember calling Cotton Bottoms and having a nice woman extolling the virtues of cotton diapers over the Attends I was then (or at least I told her I was then) wearing.    I never got around to ordering it (though I did get close right before I moved from town).   I'd do it now in a heartbeat, but these businesses have all disappeared.
 

Here's a story about my imagined visit from the woman I spoke to on the phone.   I posted it here before but it got lost in the crash.

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Here I was, about to make the big step.  I had prepared myself by wearing attends continuously for about two weeks.  I also had sent off for and received realistic pull on plastic pants.  My kitchen cupboards contained baby food and bottles and such.  I had been eating these and drinking milk from the bottle when I was home throughout the preceding weeks as well.

There it was in the Yellow Pages.  "Adult Diaper Service for Incontinents." I noticed the street address as the same as the "Cotton Bottoms Baby Diaper service."

I dialed...

"Hello.  I was interested in finding out about your service."

"We provide 100% cotton diapers in a couple of different styles. These are laundered in our facility, and we return the same diapers to you each time.  We pick up and deliver weekly.  Is this for you?"

"....Umm, yes."

"OK...what are you doing now."

"I'm using disposables, Attends."

"Oh, that's too bad.  And expensive too.  How many do you use in a week."

"About 36."

"OK...we can bring 36 cotton diapers to your door for just $12 a week."

"That is cheaper."

"OK let me check my schedule, where do you live."

"Out on 38th street, west of Center Street."

"We service that area on Wednesdays.  I can come out and get you started tomorrow if you like, around ten."

That would be fine."

"OK, see you then."

My heart was racing; I was finally going through with it.  Well, the next day I was going to be ready.  I went out and bought some diaper pins and another box of wipes.

The next morning, I got up and had breakfast, some baby rice cereal and a bottle of milk.  I had already gotten the pins and plastic pants ready.  Now having completed my breakfast, I had to go, so I proceeded to wet.  I then remembered it was almost ten.  I ran into the bedroom and pulled a pair of shorts on over my Attends, just as the doorbell rang.

An attractive blond woman appeared at the door carrying a large box.  "Hi, I'm Gwen from the service,"  she announced.

I invited her in.  She set the box down and pulled out a diaper pail. "I apologize for the decorations on this.  We share these with our sister company that does the baby diapers.  Now as I said, we have a couple of different styles, and I have samples here.  She opened the lid of the pail, and sure enough, it had a number of things in it."

She looked around for someplace to unpack the pail onto and decided to use the dining room table.  I had gotten my new plastic pants and pins out to look at them but had forgotten to put them away.  That was OK, but horrors, I had left the breakfast stuff out.  There were the remnants of the cereal, the emptied bottle, and a bib on the table.

"Uh, you're one of those.  I thought so.  Don't worry we service a lot of people like you.  Sit down.  Let's get started."  

Fortunately, she took it all in stride and cheerfully set about her descriptions which set me at ease.

"Many people prefer these medipants.  These are a double absorbent panel-shaped in a brief done up with snaps.  The outside is coated with a waterproof shield..."

"However, I see you have plastic pants and pins here.  Our other product is these pinnable diapers.  Just a large version of plain baby diapers.  Is this what you had in mind?"

"Yes."

"OK..I'll leave you some of the others as well.  Do you want to try these right now?  If you want I can change you."

My heart raced.  Gwen was not unattractive, and she was offering to change me.

"Ok, but I'm wet."

"No problem, She reached into the stuff she had brought.  We provide a complimentary changing pad to new customers.  Lie down over this." she said as she set the pad down on the rug.

I did, and she pulled off my shorts and undid the attends.  Carefully folded it and set it aside.  She then took one of the wipes and cleaned me off, causing me to go quite hard.  She seemed to be enjoying this. "She then pulled out the diapers and pinned me up.  She then took a pair of the plastic pants and slid them up.  She was quite efficient with the operation, only needing to say "tushie up" at the appropriate times.

"There!  You'll find these better than the Attends.  What do you do with these?"  She said holding the sodden disposable.

"There's a covered can in the bathroom," I said and picked up my shorts.

"You don't have to put those back on on my account." She said.  So I didn't.

She came back and told me about the service and billing and gave me her card to call if I had any questions, and said that she would be checking up in a few weeks to see how the service was suiting me. "Personally," she said, with a smile.

[TheBabyPants]

Another great start, I look forward to more.

[Fulldiaper]

I love the startup here. I do hope that you'll continue and develop her character.

[Drownedinp]

I read this before sorry you lost it in the crash of 17! 

[Eagle0769]

I like this. Is there going to be more?

[willnotwill]

Originally, it was a one off (I wrote it years ago).   However, I'm trying to develop it further.   I've got a chapter that precedes the above.

 

[littleDlife]

and here i was wondering why this felt so familiar

[willnotwill]

10 minutes ago, littleDlife said:

and here i was wondering why this felt so familiar

Yeah, it's a repost of one of the ones that got "eaten" by the site bug.   Most of them I'm moving to my old site, but the ones that were "in progress" or specifically were requested, I posted.

 

[Babypants]

Life, and fiction, sometimes converge.  In 1982, I was using a weekly diaper service.  The lady working their order desk was a bit younger than me, and really cute.  it took time for me to work up the courage to ask her out, but I did, and she accepted!  I took her to dinner at a very nice restaurant, and throughout, I was acutely aware of the fact that I was diapered and she knew it.  I hoped that she would invite me in when I escorted her home, and offer to change me, but alas.  The moment passed, never to be repeated, but your story took me back to that night, which turned out to be one of the most memorable dinner dates in my now long, long life.  Thanks for posting this story.  Wouldn't it be nice to talk with some of the people who have worked at adult diaper services?  They surely must have some interesting true life stories to tell. 

[CDfm]

I enjoyed this. I have attempted to get such a diaper service after seeing the show “Dirty Jobs” where the show was about adult diaper service. I was never able to find a company close enough to get the service though. I still have to wash my own diapers. 

[willnotwill]

Back about the time I had the experience this story revolves around there were adult services in:

Boston, NY, Baltimore, DC, Suburban, VA, Central NJ, SF-area, Sacremento, Portland, Seattle, Bend Oregon, Lincoln/Omaha, Suburban St. Louis, and Chicago that I can recall.

I don't know of any actually in operation today.

The real issue is that Medicaid, VA, etc... will pay for disposables but will NOT pay for cloth right now.