The Diaper Pail
A Story inspired by garbageman2014 on flickr
It was Saturday Morning around 8 am when Mommy came into my room to wake me up for my morning diaper change. Mommy Sara opened the side of my safety bed and found that my diaper had leaked all over the bed sheets over night. Luckily the mattress was waterproof but mommy still was frustrated at the fact that I was using so many cloth diapers inside of my disposable diapers at night and during the day. Mommy had gone to a diaper service to get some of their old diaper rags to use inside of my disposables as absorbency boosters hoping that it would end the leaking. Over the last five years, mommy had bought me enough cloth diapers to fill an entire 97 gallon trash tote and she even bought one to keep my clean cloth diapers in. the trash can was kept next to the foot of my safety bed and the diaper pail where mommy tossed all of my disposable diapers and those of her other kids, in my room, at the head of my bed. At the first of every month Mommy called to order my diapers and those of my siblings as well. I usually got a case of 96 diapers, Medium and some large, two packs of booster pads and a case of bed pads from my Medicaid. I also got eight packs of size six Cuties diapers which mommy modified by taping two together back to front and cutting the tapes off the front diaper to put onto the back diaper to stretch the reach of the tapes. She used these diapers when I ran out of booster pads inside of my disposables. When I ran out of my Cuties, she switched to using my cloth diapers underneath my disposable diapers. Mommy always liked to use between six and eight layered toddler sized cloth diapers inside of my disposables. On some days, Mommy got mad at me for my diaper leaking and made me wear some of my siblings’ wet diapers as a punishment and she made me sit inside the diaper pail for 6 hours so that in case my diaper leaked, it would already be in the trash can when it did.
Today seemed different for some reason. It seemed that mommy Sara was in a weird mood as she came in to change my diaper, as though she had something weighing on her mind.
Mommy Sara: (To Nick) Good morning little Nick, did you sleep well? I sure hope so, because your father and I have been talking the past week and we just don’t want to take care of you any more after I’ve caught you taking wet diapers from the diaper pail. We just don’t to diaper someone that likes wet diapers all over them. Your Father and I have decided to dispose of you when we take your diapers out this week, as a punishment.
Nick: Is Daddy going to put me into his trash truck?
Mommy Sara: We talked about that and your father wants to put you into his trash truck. For now, you and all of your clean and dirty diapers will be going into the diaper pail right after your diaper change this morning. That is where you will stay until I take out the diapers from your sister and brother as well as your diapers. Nick this is the way it is going to be…
Nick: NO! Mommy, Please! Don’t throw me away! I will be good, I PROMISE! I won’t take ANY more wet diapers from the diaper pail! HONEST!
Mommy Sara: Your father, Daniel and I have already made up our minds. Your father decided to take you in his trash truck like we have been for the last three years since your bother and sister arrived. You can have ALL of those nice, wet diapers you like pressed against you now!
Mommy Sara finishes layering all of the eight layers of toddler sized old stained up and slightly ripped cloth pre-fold diapers into my large Attends brand Blue adult diaper, she adds a lot of baby powder then slides the diapers underneath me then pulls it up between my legs and fastens the tapes.
Mommy Sara: Oh HONEY….can you help me carry and put little Nick here into the diaper pail liner, and then the pail please? (Said Sara to Daniel who was in the other room)
Daniel: SURE honey, be right there….
Daniel comes into the room, his rather strong stature and build, filling the doorway for a few seconds before he came over to Nick’s safety bed and picked Nick up and carried him over to the diaper pail. Daniel then lowered Nick into the empty new trash bag that has the two corners poked out for leg holes, then mommy Sara empties the diaper pail into the bag with Nick inside, before Daniel started removing his hands from out from underneath Nick’s diapered bottom as the diapers that were being poured into the bag around Nick’s diapered body began to settle. Nick Turns to his daddy and says;
Nick: Daddy!!! PLEASE!!! Don’t throw me away!!! Will I get my diapers changed again if this one gets wet?
Daniel: NO, I’m afraid not….and for the next 48 hours, you will be stuck in that bag until it’s time to take the diapers out for disposal! Yes, we will give you bottles and a pacifier until it’s time to go out with the diapers.
Nick: But, but, what about when my sister’s diapers need to be thrown away?
Daniel: OH…your mother or I will toss them in there on top of you!
Nick: But what will happen to all of MY clean diapers?
Daniel: They are going out with you too.
Nick: How come my onesies and footed sleepers are being disposed of?
Mommy Sara: Because, We don’t need them any more!
Nick: What is going to happen to me? Am I going into Daddy’s trash truck?
Mommy Sara and Daniel both look at each other.
Daniel: You’ll find out when we take you out in 48 hours.
Then both Daniel and Sara walk out of the room where the diaper pail is and where Nick has been put into a tall, white kitchen trash bag filled with dirty disposable diapers of his sister’s and bother as well as his own loose, wet unrolled disposable diapers then put into the diaper pail with the bag wrapped around the lid of the diaper pail, then the lid put on.
The smells of wetness from the diapers, begins to loom inside the diaper pail as poor Nick is stuck in the diaper pail the rest of the night.
In the morning, mommy gets up, goes down the short hallway to Nick’s sister’s room to wake her up and change her wet morning pull-up. Once she has finished doing that, she then goes to change Nick’s toddler brother’s diaper as well. Once she finished doing that, Mommy Sara took both wet, unrolled disposable diapers to the diaper pail where Nick was and she opened the lid and dropped them in then closed the lid.
Nick: Mommy! MOMMY! My diaper is wet! Can I get a diaper change please???
Mommy Sara: Nick, that’s NOT going to happen! Now shush please!
Then Mommy Sara walks out of the room and leaves.
About three hours later, mommy Sara came back in and dropped two more dirty diapers into the pail, but these diapers were rolled up tightly this time. Then Mommy left again.
As Nick waited for his and the diaper’s fate, he could hear the crinkling of the plastic trash bag and the smells of the wet, unrolled disposable diapers of his and his sister and brother too. Then Nick heard some heavy footsteps coming closer and closer. Then the lid opened up and Nick turned around so see for a split second, Daddy Daniel about to empty his now dried up formerly wet cloth pre-fold diapers into the pail along with the rest of Nick’s own wet disposable diapers that still had all of the six to eight wet toddler sized cloth pre-fold diapers still inside them.
Nick: HEY! STOP THAT! NO! Those are MY cloth diapers! They aren’t trash! Aren’t you going to wash the cloth diapers daddy?
Daniel: NOPE! Sorry, they are being thrown out with you too! They are dirty son! Dirty diapers go into the trash!
Nick: I want my diaper changed! It’s WET! Daddy! It’s HOT in here!!! It STINKS in here!
Daniel: NO son, once you are in the diaper pail, you are trash! You don’t get to have your diapers cleaned, washed or changed! Why would we wash trash? I don’t care how stinky you are! Enjoy this while it lasts son! Your hours are numbered!
Nick Sits there pouting and gets rather turned on inside his diapers by the wetness and the sweet smells of the Huggies, the Honest Diapers and the Cuties diapers that are covering him and surrounding him in his plastic, disposable cocoon.
Then Daniel opens two of Nick’s packs of left-over Attends large adult diapers and then tosses them all into the pail. Then Daniel tosses in the remainders of Nick’s Parent’s Choice size six diapers as well as the unopened packs that had not been used.
Daniel: Hey Honey? The pail is almost full. Are you going to take it out soon?
Sara: (To Daniel from the other room) Yes honey, later on today after the kids get done swimming and before their bedtime.
Daniel: (To Sara) OK, I am going to put the rest of nick’s clean diapers into the pail. Do you want me to throw in the rest of his cloth diapers too?
Sara: (Coming into the room to see what Daniel is doing) um…yes, but you will need to use another bag for those.
Daniel: Ok, How many diapers are there that need to be disposed of?
Sara: Oh, that whole 97 gallon trash can and what is left over from Nick’s Medicaid shipments. Stuff what you can into the pail then tie up the bag and pull it out. Then leave it in the Kitchen next to the Kitchen trash can. Make sure that you get rid of all of Nick’s dirty onesies and even his new ones that I bought for him two weeks ago. Make SURE to bring out all of his clean disposables and cloth diapers too.
Even all of his all-in-one clean diapers and the diaper covers too, throw everything that belongs to him!
Daniel: Yes honey.
While Daniel gathers all of Nick’s diapering supplies and all of his clean and dirty onesies, tossing them into the large black plastic trash bag. Sara takes Nick’s sister and brother swimming in their diapers. Two and a half hours later, Sara brings Nick’s wet siblings in to dry them off and change their diapers again.
Once Sara has changed both of Nick’s siblings’ diapers she comes into the room where the pail is and opens the lid then makes sure to drop the soaking, bulging disposable pool diapers onto poor Nick’s face. The diapers rest against Nick’s face and head with all of the clean and dirty disposable and cloth diapers rising up to Nick’s nose now in the bag. Then Sara uses her shoes to give the diapers and Nick a GOOD packing down inside the diaper pail so that she can pull the bag handles nice and tight so to close the trash bag up and get the bag ready to take out.
Nick: UUUH! STOP that Mommy! STOP! UUUUH! Look what you did! You got me wet with diaper juices!
Mommy: GOOD! I thought you’d like that you little perv!!!
The bag forces the diapers up tightly against Nick’s almost naked and thickly diapered body and face inside the bag and as the bag was cinched up, Nick’s head was enveloped by the bag and covered with open, wet, unrolled disposable diapers and a few wet cloth diapers of his own. All that could be seen from the top of the bag were diapers that slightly stuck out.
Sara: Honey? When you are done gathering up Nick’s things, can you help me get Nick and the diapers out of the diaper pail please? It’s too heavy for me.
Daniel: Certainly, I’d be glad to.
Daniel drops the last of Nick’s clean cloth diapers into one of the tall, white kitchen trash bags and then walks out of the room and into the room where the diaper pail is. Daniel then releases the bag from the lip of the diaper pail, then tips the can to the side and then pulls the bag that Nick is in, free from the pail.
Daniel: Honey, instead of taking the diapers out to the burn barrel like we usually do, may I suggest that I take them to the landfill in my trash truck?
Sara: I’d MUCH rather you took them to the burn barrel myself, but do what you wish with it.
Nick: Where are you taking me Daddy! HEY! These diapers are WET! HEY! Where are you taking me???
(Daniel ignores Nick’s cries while he carries the bag with nick and the diapers out)
Daniel then takes the bag that Nick is in, out to the pick-up truck and loads it into the bed.
Then he goes back into the house to finish bagging up the rest of Nick’s diapering supplies and all of his clothing and everything that is in his closet as well as Nick’s safety bed and disability pushchair/stroller. Once all of the bags of Nick’s cloth diapers are loaded into the bed, Daniel loads the stroller and the folded up safety bed into the bed of the pick-up truck. With the bed almost full, Daniel closes the tailgate and goes in for the night. At around 4:00 am, Daniel comes out to his pick-up truck, get in, starts it, then drives off into the darkness, to work.
Daniel arrives at the trash collection company yard and parks his pick-up truck close to where he will have to drive out from the yard so that he can stop at the pick-up so that the can load Nick and all of his things into the hopper of his rear loader trash truck.
Once Daniel clocks in and does his equipment check on his truck, he starts it up and then once it’s warmed up, he drives it out of the yard then stops at his pick-up truck to start loading all 16 bags of Nick’s things, Nick and the diapers, the safety bed and the stroller into the hopper.
Daniel then lowers the tailgate then takes the stroller out and sets it aside then takes the safety bed out and sets it against the side of the bed of the pick-up for a few minutes so that he can start tossing the bags into the hopper first. The first bag into the hopper was Nick’s bag of clothing. The second bag into the hopper was a bag of Nick’s plastic pants, the third two bags into the hopper, were to bags of Nick’s onesies and footed sleepers.
The next bag into the hopper was the first of seven bags worth of Nick’s cloth diapers.
Then the second bag, the third bag, the forth bag, then the fifth bag, the sixth bag, then, the seventh bag was tossed into the hopper.
Nick: (Stirring and waking up in the trash bag) HEY Daddy? Where are we? What is all that loud noise? What are you doing with all of those bags that were in here???
Daniel: I’m tossing them into my trash truck which is where YOU are going next!
Then the last of the three remaining bags filled and stuffed with Nick and the diapers as well as two other bags filled and stuffed with Nick and his siblings’ wet and dirty diapers were tossed into the hopper. Nick’s bag was the last to be dragged out of the bed of the pick-up and then over to the back of the trash truck with Nick’s legs still dangling out of the corners of the bag. Daniel then made Nick stand up for a few minutes so that he could get Nick and the bag loaded into the hopper. Once Nick settled into the hopper on top of the bags of his cloth diapers, Nick tried to ask his Daddy, Daniel a muffled question.
Nick: Daddy? How come I am being thrown away????
Daniel: What was that?
Well, we just don’t want you any more! Your mother told me that you liked having wet diapers smooshed against you and that she caught you taking some of the wet diapers from the diaper pail quite a few times and she doesn’t want to get stuck with diaper duty after your sister and brother are out of them. SO, since you like having wet diapers pressed against you, this is how we are going to punish you!
Nick: What is going to happen to me and my diapers daddy?
Daniel: I am going to crush you into the truck Nick. I will do you a favor though…I will wait until we get to the first stop before I run the packer.
Nick: Can I get a dry diaper please daddy? Mine is leaking and is soaking wet!
Daniel: Nick, you’re trash now! I don’t care if your diapers are wet or not! You now are the property of the trash company I work for. You no longer belong to me. I HAVE to take you to the landfill now!
Daniel then proceeds to load the folded up disability pushchair/stroller into the hopper. It lands and then rests on top of Nick’s bag. Then Daniel loads the pieces of the Safety bed that used to belong to Nick into the hopper, sliding it along the edge of the hopper floor. Then he goes to the cab of his pick-up and takes out the three still fully stocked diaper bags that also belonged to Nick and tosses them into the hopper before closing the door to his pick-up truck.
Daniel: Can’t talk any more, I’ve got to go to work now.
Daniel then walks around to the driver’s side of the cab and then opens the door then climbs in and shuts the door. Then he puts the trash truck into gear and drives off to the first stop of the early morning. Daniel pulls up and then backs up to the large 40 yard dumpster at the first stop of the day, a day care with not one but two large dumpsters always full of diapers and other trash. Daniel gets out of the cab and walks to the back of the truck to push the dumpster closer to the truck so he can raise, tilt and empty the trash into the hopper. The dumpster bangs against the back of the truck and Nick hears the loud noise.
Nick: Daddy! Daddy! What is happening????
Daniel: Don’t worry, it was just this large dumpster full of diapers and other trash that I am about to empty in there! Ready? Here….it comes!
The bags of diapers and bags of office trash as well as some food trash spills out of the dumpster and tumbles into the hopper. The bags begin to fall on and cover Nick’s bag. Daniel can’t see nor hear Nick now.
Daniel: it’s packer time……..
Then Daniel starts the first half of the packer cycle then he hits the switch that activates the second half. The blade comes half-way down and stops then starts to come the rest of the way down, scooping the bags of daycare trash, Nick and all of his things and the safety bed, the stroller and Nick’s three fully stocked diaper bags as well as his stuffed animals too, into the packer body. The cycle finishes and then Daniel empties the rest of the load into the hopper then lowers the dumpster back to the ground. He then pushes it back into place before starting to go towards the cab to reposition the back of the truck closer to the second dumpster. Just as Daniel gets out of the cab and walks over to the second dumpster, three people walk towards the truck. One is somewhat short and the other two are taller. Once the three come closer, Daniel can see that one is a thickly diapered Midget man, one is a maid and the other is the janitor of the daycare.
Maid: Hi there. We heard you out here and wanted to catch you before you left so that we can give you this (pointing to the thickly diapered midget) and a trash cart full of more diapers. Would that be ok?
Daniel: Um…I guess so…. (shrugging his shoulders)
Maid: Great! The maid then turns to the Janitor and tells him to go inside and bring the trash cart full of diapers out so that the trash man can empty it. The janitor walks back inside and brings out the rolling, grey trash cart full of loose disposable and cloth diapers to the back of the trash truck.
Daniel tips the second dumpster load in and then starts the packer with half the second load already in the hopper. Then he lowers the dumpster a little bit so that he can load the Midget in after the packer cycle is finished.
The packer cycle completes and then Daniel walks over to the Midget and then reaches under his armpits and lifts him up then carries him over to the hopper and tosses him in. The midget lands on the hump of the hopper and slides down on his diapered butt then Daniel tips the dumpster’s remaining load into the hopper, pinning and covering the midget under the load. Daniel runs the second Packer cycle and then puts the dumpster down and then back into its position before he walks over to the trash cart. Daniel then pushes the cart load of cloth and disposable diapers over to the back of the truck and then hooks it up to the tote tipper and then tips the cart over, spilling all of the loose diapers into the hopper. Then he starts the packer cycle again while he lowers and then rolls the now empty cart back to the janitor and the maid.
Maid: Thanks a lot.
Daniel: (waving) You’re welcome.
Daniel then gets back into the cab and then drives off to the next stop.
Daniel drives to a trailer park on his route and pulls up to the first house. Then he and his co-workers get out and get the first of the tall 96 gallon rolling plastic trash cans.
The first of two cans were emptied into the hopper, spilling household trash, a few diapers as well as a few old baby clothes into the hopper. Then, Daniel gets back into the cab while the other trash men jump up onto their step rails before Daniel goes to the next house. At the next house right next door, a woman comes out escorting a thickly diapered man that is an exact twin of Nick who is already in the packer container.
Daniel stops the truck and the two co-workers jump down and start to take the first two 96 gallon trash cans full of trash. The first 96 gallon can has clean cloth diapers and clean disposable diapers that are still in their unopened packages and the second 96 gallon can has been over filled with the man’s wet disposables and wet cloth diapers.
Woman: (To the Trash man) Hi, I have this diapered man here to be disposed of. Will you take him please?
Daniel: yes ma’am.
Daniel instructs one of the other trash men to take the diapered trash and toss him into the hopper.
Jason: (Diapered trash) HEY! Let GO of me! I thought I was out here to watch my diapers being disposed of!!! HEY! It stinks in there! It’s all YUCKY in there! WHOOOOOOA! (THUMP!) Jason lands into the hopper and tumbles to the back.
Trash man: OH…shut up! In a few minutes, after I am done loading this trash, you and the rest of the trash will be on the way to the landfill! NO! Don’t EVEN try to get up! Lay…DOWN!
Jason: HEY! Those are my nice, clean cloth diapers!!! They aren’t trash!
Trash man: YES! They ARE trash! If they are in the trash, they are trash! Since they are in the can, they are considered dirty!
Jason: I don’t WANNA be in here!!! (Jason attempts to climb back out of the hopper)
Daniel sees something going on in the back of the truck and puts the truck in park and applies the air bakes, then gets out of the cab and walks back to the rear of the truck to see what is taking so long.
Daniel: What is taking so damned long guys? (Daniel looks into the hopper and sees Jason trying to escape the hopper) OH…NO you don’t!!! Get RIGHT back in that hopper RIGHT now! I don’t have TIME for this!
Daniel grabs Jason and holds him like a large toddler for a few minutes while the other two trash men start to load the first diaper-filled trash dumpster load into the hopper. Then the two men finish emptying the first dumpster and then they wait for Daniel to toss Jason in on the load before they start the compactor cycle.
Daniel gets closer to the hopper and then starts trying to peel Jason off of him and then one of Daniel’s co-workers comes over and helps him peel Jason off and get Jason tossed in on top of the loads of loose disposable diapers that are on top of the trash bags in the hopper.
Jason: NOOO! Don’t put me in there! STOP! I’m NOT trash! PLEEEEASE!
It STINKS like dirty diapers in here! HEY MOMMY! Make them STOP! (Said Jason to the woman standing and watching) MOMMY! What is going to happen to me???
Daniel: We are taking you to the landfill! This is where the TRASH rides to the landfill!
Jason: (landing in the diaper and trash filled hopper, props himself up on his right elbow and tries to talk as more diapers and trash is being loaded) HEY! I want OUT of here! Mommy! MOOOOOMY! GUYS! GUYS! Hey Sir? Can I get out of here?
Daniel: NO! You’re trash! I’m about to run the compactor in a second!
Jason: NOOOOO! Please! I promise! I will be good!
Daniel: It’s too late for all that man! It’s trash time!
Daniel then goes over to the compactor levers and then starts the cycle. First the packer begins to swing outwards, and as it does, the trash loads already inside start to fall back into the hopper.
(More to come soon....)
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