Cindy moved the class to an area with several balance beams and said, "All right let's work on your balance now!"
The class was then paired off with instructors. The older participants were sorted into small groups while the youngest were alone. Doris was placed with Jenny, the 10 year old led Doris to one of the balance beams.
After taking off Doris' shoes and socks, she said, "Ok Doris! You just need to walk across as fast as you can! Alright?"
"Otay me un'stand," Doris replied nonchalantly.
When Doris placed one foot onto the beam, what felt like a small electrical current began running through her. Behind her, Jenny was encouraging her on, so Doris ignored it and walked across easily and was called back across.
She proceeded that way several times and slowly began having trouble. First she needed to slow down to keep her balance. After a few tumbles, she started looking down for each step to make sure she didn't miss the beam with her steps. Soon after that, Jenny began walking next to her to offer support when Doris' balance wavered.
So intently focused on walking the beam, Doris hadn't noticed the growing need to pee until she saw the front of her jeans growing dark. Doris stood in place mortified.
"Uh oh looks like someone had a little accident! Come on let's get you cleaned up!"
Doris hopped off the beam and was led to a small changing area in one corner of the gym. There Doris saw that she wasn't the only one having this problem. A few instructors and students were all ready there. Ignoring the crowd, Jenny instructed Doris to remove her wet clothes so she could be cleaned up.
Doris balked, "Me no wan nakey."
Despite her perfectly reasonable objection, Jenny giggled. Patting her head, Jenny replied, "Part of the class is working on your modesty."
"What mody-tea?" Doris frowned as Jenny giggled again.
"Don't worry about it. Come one don't you want to be in dry clothes?"
Unable to think of any other counter arguments, Doris obliged and pulled off her pants and underwear. Jenny expertly cleaned Doris' crotch and legs then dried them off, "There we go all clean. Now go ask Miss Cindy for some new underwear."
Before she could ask Jenny to do it for her, the girl had snatched up the wet clothes and walked away. Gulping, Doris walked over to where Cindy was helping a boy into a pair of pull ups.
The woman turned to acknowledge her, "Hi Doris what can I help you with."
"Me need un'wear."
"Why do you need that?"
"Cuz me go pee pee."
"Oh well that's not good! Let's get you some special underwear then," Cindy replied as she pulled out a pair of Frozen pull ups.
"No dat! Wan big girl un'wear!"
"Well didn't you just tell me you went pee pee in your big girl underwear?" Cindy countered holding the pull ups out for Doris to step into.
Once again finding herself unable to find any reason to object, Doris put her feet through the holes and let them be pulled up until they were snug around her waist. As soon as they were, Doris found her earlier reluctance baffling. Why was she so insistent on remaining in her wet clothes again? They were so sticky and gross! Plus now she could get back to the class and Cindy was telling her it was now time for...