I needed to pee at work – my trainer’s response was perfect

My words came out in a rush, his eyes widened and I immediately began apologising (Picture: Pk Kulasegram)

‘I can’t pee there’, I said gesturing to the spot my on-the-job trainer Lee*, had deemed the best place for me to use the bathroom. 

We were parked up by a narrow alleyway that had an ivy-covered wall, in a residential area, with no public toilets to be found, and six hours into my first shift as a delivery driver.  

I was desperate, but Lee maybe assumed I was nervous. 

‘It’s perfect’, he said to me. 

To him – a cisgender man – of course it was.

After all, in the grand scheme of public places to pee, this was perfect. As long as you had ...