Danny sprinted through the aisles to the employee break room. He’d just finished helping a customer by modeling clothes for them. Unfortunately, the customer had taken ages, and the coffee Danny had that morning began to kick in halfway through. Danny was worried that if he ducked away to use his potty while helping a customer, he’d get in trouble, so he’d had to just hold it. Now, he was in serious danger of using his diaper for number two. He hadn’t done that at all in the month he’d spent as a toddler, and he didn’t want to start now.
A cramp rippled through Danny’s abdomen. He pushed open the door to the break room and rushed to his potty. Only a few steps away, his control failed him. With a soft fart, a thick log began to enter his diaper. Unable to stop it, Danny bent his knees into a squat to try to speed the process along. He grunted as he pushed.
“Uh, Danny?” Danny looked over. Kristof was sitting at the table, watching him. “Are you messing yourself?”
“It- I-”
“Finish up and then pee, too. I’ll change you once you’re done.” Danny nodded sheepishly. He deepened his squat. With a final push, he finished messing his diaper. He released his bladder as well, flooding his diaper with warmth.
“Done.”
“All right.” Kristof got up from the table and walked over to Danny. He picked Danny up, laying him on his back on the changing table. “Care to tell me what happened?”
“Helping a customer took longer than I expected,” Danny mumbled. Kristof removed Danny’s shorts and diaper, then began to wipe him down. “I guess it’s a good thing I was wearing a diaper instead of training pants.”
“Yes, it is.” Kristof carefully taped a fresh diaper onto Danny. “Unfortunately, because of this, you’ll have to be diapered at work constantly.”
“What?!”
“From the moment you set foot inside the store to the moment you step foot outside, you need to have a diaper on. Clearly, your potty training can’t be fully relied upon. I won’t have any poop in my store.”
“If I go for a period of time without messing myself, can I get out of diapers?” Danny asked hopefully. Kristof shook his head.
“You’re three now, right? I want you diapered until you’re five. When you’re five, you can move on to training pants.”
“But-”
“Do you want to be unemployed?” Kristof asked pointedly. Danny sighed.
“No, sir.”
“Good boy.” Kristof set Danny down on the floor. “I’ll keep your training potty in here so that you can still use it. Just because you’re diapered doesn’t mean you can’t use the potty. It’s just a safeguard.” Kristof checked his watch. “Feel free to start your lunch break a bit early.”
“Thanks,” Danny mumbled. Kristof left the break room. Danny grabbed his cellphone out of his back pocket and immediately texted Greg to tell him what had happened.
While eating his lunch, Danny texted Greg back and forth about how he would now have to be diapered all the time at work and how this would change things for them. Then, to Danny’s surprise, Greg asked if Danny wanted to lean into being a toddler and let his potty training slip. He wouldn’t just wear diapers and training pants, he would use them, both at work and at home.
More surprising, however, was that Danny was seriously considering it. He hated having to rush to the potty constantly, and he kind of liked the idea of forcing his boss to change him at work, given that his boss was the one who was keeping him in diapers.
After thinking on it for a bit, Danny knew what he wanted to do.