“My bladder was beginning to be insistent, too, and though I was armed with my Policeman’s Friend and would have ordinarily have let fly with the secret pleasure of a bedwetter, I couldn’t see myself pissing down a tube with a lady standing six feet from me.”
— From Wallace Stegner’s Angle
of Repose
The internet is surprisingly short on
information about the “Policeman’s Friend” apparatus that Stegner’s narrator is
describing above, but I imagine it’s a close cousin of the Stadium Pal "accessory" described by
David Sedaris below. Another reason to love curmudeonly ol’ Lyman Ward:
