How did I get myself into this situation?
Graham the organist squirmed in discomfort, as the vicar's long sermon continued to drag. It would be ages before the service finished. Reverend Bradley had a tendency to drone on...
He was desperate to piss and wasn't sure he could hold on much longer.
Worse, this church had no toilets. The nearest ones were in the church hall, a good five minute walk away. He didn't have time to hurry there, relieve himself and get back before he'd be required to start playing the next hymn. Besides, there was no way to discreetly slip out of the church - he'd have to race down the main aisle, observed by the entire congregation - as happened to poor Jeff Brindle a few weeks ago.
Graham crossed his legs and shifted painfully on the hard organ stool. His bladder continued to threaten him.
Damn. Shouldn't have drunk two black coffees this morning!
The organist prided himself on always having been able to last until the end of the service before needing to head to the gents. It was only an hour and a half long and he wasn't an elderly man. Unlike Jeff.
He peered over the top of the organ and noticed the eighty-something man sat near the back of the church with his wife Marjorie, whom was far more able-bodied than he was.
Ever since his unfortunate accident during the second Sunday of Lent service, Jeff had chosen to sit at the back, no doubt so he could slip out to the toilets without everyone noticing. Graham suspected Jeff was incontinent - the faint odour of stale piss always surrounded him. Evidently he hadn't been wearing Tena Men or similar adult diapers when the accident happened, for right during the middle of the sermon, he'd stood up, somewhat agitated. Graham had felt so sorry for the old guy. He must've been mortified. A rapidly-spreading dark patch on the front of his pale blue trousers appeared as he pissed himself. Ever the stoic, Marjorie had taken hold of his arm and helped him out of the pew, whilst a few members of the congregation pretended they'd not seen anything. Jeff had left a trail of piss in the aisle.
"Thank God that's not me," Graham had said to himself at the time. "I'd hate to be old and frail like that and embarrass myself in public, unable to hold my pee."
Now here he was, absolutely bursting to go. He fidgeted and grabbed his crotch, feeling a few drops of urine leak out and wet the front of his underpants. The floodgates were perilously close to breaking open.