From Paul Tester, author of “The All Day Girls“. This is the another account of his train station sightings concerning older women.
A well-built lady in her thirties, wearing tight red cord trousers and a sweater, she was alone as she came onto the station and went through the routine of looking for the Ladies and then finding that the door was locked.
She stood, considering what she could do, keeping her legs very tightly crossed. Then, deciding that there was nowhere else she could pee, went and looked at the train departures board. Selecting the train she wanted, which was not yet in the station ready for passengers, she stood on the platform where it was due. Once more she crossed her legs in a very deliberate and intense way. She stood with her legs simply crossed and her feet some distance apart, and then twisted her body through more than 180 degrees, so her legs were twisted tight together. Every few minutes, perhaps when she felt the benefit of the crossed legs was wearing off, and she wanted to pee more urgently, she would ‘untwist’ her legs, and then twist them again, but even tighter. She kept up these actions for some time, each time seeming to try to cross her legs even more tightly than before, sometimes going into a half crouching position at the end of the twisting, so as to press her legs together even more tightly. She was trying to help herself wait by the other, well known, furtive, holding on actions; both hands in the pockets of her trousers, trying to pull them up. They were already tight on her and this might have pulled them tighter between her legs, but was not doing anything else. Once or twice she might have even made a quick hold between her legs, but she was standing in the open in full view of all waiting passengers, and watchers like me, and must have though that holding herself was not something she could do. Never mind that she was making it quite obvious that she was desperate to pee, perhaps she thought or hoped that just crossing her legs would not be noticed.
It was nearly 20 minutes before her train came, and then it was one the modern, no toilets, type of train, so while she might have got some comfort from being able to sit, she was still not going to have a chance to pee. Another 20 minute train journey and then a walk home. How on earth was she going to wait? Did she wait or did she pee on the train, or when she was nearer home? Her trousers were a shade of red that would have gone darker when wet, and any wetting would have been clearly visible. I think that when she found the Ladies shut, she had more or less panicked, and not being able to think what to do, or where to find another toilet, she was trying to wait, when she might have known that she would be pushed to her limit before she got home. More sensibly, she should have left the station and quickly found some doorway in a side street to squat and pee. Thinking logically, which I do not think she was able to do, being too desperate, it would have been better to have been seen squatting for a pee then to have to walk home in wet jeans.