From Paul Tester, author of “The All Day Girls“, in this latest account of older women getting desperate and wet at train stations.
While I think that all of the desperate ladies described had been drinking to some extent, only one appeared to be really drunk as well as desperate.
This was a smartly dressed lady of 30 or more, wearing a skirt and jacket, who was on a train pulling into the station. I wondered why she was coming into London so late at night. Was she looking for a nightclub for more drinking? Or was she one of the few who lived in Central London? Who knows, but as she got off the train, she was clearly quite drunk; she was walking with that peculiar, determined but unsteady walk of a drunk trying to appear sober. She was also walking as if she was in a hurry to get somewhere, but was too drunk to risk running.
She was heading for the Ladies toilet, giving the impression that she desperately needed to pee, as well she might being drunk. Finding the door locked was a shock to her and she immediately jammed one hand between her crossed legs. She had been holding on, thinking that if he could only wait until she got to the Ladies she would be OK and could pee. No way! She was locked out and on a crowded station, with no alternative toilets. She looked round for some possible alternative, and started towards the Gents, but gave up that idea seeing that several men from the same train were going in there, then in desperation, because she was still holding herself (she probably could not wait unless she was holding), she went down a side entrance to the station that was still in use, and with no regard to who might see, squatted in a doorway, which really did not give her any shelter, hiked up her skirt, pulled her knickers down and peed a torrent.
She really did seem to be one lady who could not wait any longer, and did not care where she peed so long as it was not down her legs. Well, not all of it down her legs, because as she walked away I could see a big wet patch on the back of her skirt where she had started to pee before she had lifter her skirt out of the way of the torrent. I expect her knickers were wet as well.