when put into proper perspective, nothing seems shocking...

so last night the lord of the ring and i watched a fascinating documentary on this san francisco hippie drag queen group from the late 60's/early 70's , the cockettes...

it was highly entertaining...a troupe of truly unique and wholly avante garde (for their time) characters...

when it was over, the lord of the ring offered to get wingman quieted back down and to sleep with him to keep him from calling out for me if he woke up...this way, i could get some much needed sleep that maybe even perhaps would pan out to a full night of sleep...

so in sheer anticipation of really sleeping unrousted for as long as possible, i attempted to take the duke down to potty before the time i usually do...

we get to the bathroom and i realize he is fully asleep...i help him over to the toilet and run a little water in the sink thinking that will spur him awake to go pee then we can go to bed...

doesn't work, not only does he not have to pee (too soon after falling asleep) he is irritated and shouting at me, fully asleep mind you, that he does not have to pee and i need to just leave him alone...

i finally get the picture, he's not ready to pee now (which means i'll be up in an hour when he is) so i admit defeat and i say

"fine, let me help you back up to bed"

he shouts at me that he doesn't need help and a few other unintelligible things then, still fully asleep, he walks over to the bathtub, pulls down his pants, and very calmly and nonchalantly as if it is a normal every day occurrence he pees right on the bath mat...

then he says

"good night"

and i'm just standing there and i say back

"good night"

and that's that...like i didn't just get shouted at and then left with a pee soaked bath mat for my trouble...

yet, i am not in the least bit shocked... actually, i was somewhat relieved because i was thinking, well at least he peed...which brings me that much closer to a whole night's rest...

considering what some of those young men from the cockettes were doing whilst cavorting onstage in the name of free theatre and art, peeing on a bath mat doesn't seem so odd...even if it is my bath mat and my child doing the peeing...seems quite pedestrian, really...

well, as long as it doesn't become part of some sort of stage act in the future...

x.