I overheard two male workmates having a conversation whilst walking home recently. They were roadsweepers, like postal workers, have to work outdoors in most weathers, even when it is cold and freezing.
“Thank god it isn’t cold today,” said the first one.
“Why’s that?” asked the other.
“Well, if it was, at times you gonna want to need to piss, innit?”
They both laugh.
“I’m a bit lucky, because there are three sets of toilets in my area- two cafes and a DIY shop.”
“You lucky bastard! There aren’t any in my area, and if I need to go, then I just have to hold it. but if I can’t make it, either I find an alleyway to pee or just piss myself!”
“Good grief, do you?”
“You gotta go sometime, and if you can’t hold it, you gotta do it.”
“The amount of times I’ve been desperate, I thought I’ve had it hard, but you have got it worse.”
They got onto a bus they were waiting for. I could not believe these grown men were talking like that so openly.