Mrs. Warren visited Doug around noon on Sunday, which was great for Doug's plans. After she left, he watched the diaper van exit the apartment complex's parking lot, and as soon as it disappeared, he ran upstairs and took off his diaper. He was going to leave it at home, but on second thought, just to be safe, he folded it carefully and decided to take it with him, on the off chance he saw Mrs. Warren on the way to the grocery store. He wasn't going to take any chances. He pulled his jeans back up, and immediately noticed how strange not wearing a diaper felt after only a couple of days. It felt weirder, of course, because he didn't have any underwear to wear, so his normally-insulated skin was in direct contact with his rough jeans. In addition, for the first time in fifteen years, he had no pubic hair, so he felt the odd sensation of breezes drifting through his crotch periodically.

But he had to hurry. He didn't want to be out of his diaper for more than forty-five minutes this first time. It would be too horrible if she found out. Later, he might explore the limits of his freedom, but right now he wanted to play it very conservatively. So he took the spare diaper, grabbed his keys, and jumped into the car.

He drove carefully to the grocery store, keeping an eye out for pastel-colored vans, but as he expected, didn't see any. He quickly made his way inside the store, grabbed a cart, and efficiently started collecting the items he needed. He was organized and fast; he wanted to take no chances.

He breezed through several aisles before seeing the one thing that could make his heart skip a beat. Mrs. Warren was in the store! He saw her near the cash registers, but she didn't see him, he thought. She didn't have a cart, so it appeared that she must just be looking for something specific. Suddenly it hit him. She was looking for *him.* He didn't know how, but she'd found him. He peeked down an aisle and saw her crossing it at the other end. He knew what he had to try to do: guess where she was heading, and go the other way. He could still escape, get home, and get into a diaper before she caught him. It wasn't a sure bet, but it was possible. He could be quite savvy in these situations.

But damn! How had she found him? And now he questioned why he had even taken this chance. His bottom tingled. He didn't want to cross this lady again. He was still a little sore from the first spanking. Forty-five minutes out of a diaper was hardly worth this risk, he realized.

Thinking quickly, Doug reversed his direction and turned down an aisle, pushing his cart with urgency. He was halfway down the aisle, thinking he might actually make it past the registers and safely to his car, when Mrs. Warren suddenly appeared directly in front of him at the end of the aisle. How?...Doug froze in panic. Seeing him, she turned and strode toward him.

Doug began to feel queasy. What would happen now? He was in an extremely vulnerable situation: he'd snuck out of the apartment without telling her, and he wasn't wearing his diaper. He feared the worst, and Mrs. Warren wasn't one to disappoint.

"Well, Douggie, what a surprise it is to see you here," she said with a hint of sarcasm. "Maybe we've forgotten some of our rules." She paused, letting her eyes sweep over him in a quick, practiced assessment of his diaper status. Doug felt his body tense; he (correctly) surmised that she now knew that he was undiapered. He stared at her face, looking for any sign of this fact, but her expression didn't change.

"Well, Doug, I know it's early in your ICP, and there are a lot of rules to remember, so why don't we go easy on you here?" she said, with just a little too much sweetness in her voice for Doug's taste. "We'll just play the Wet Bet and leave it at that. Okay? If you win, no punishment. If you lose, though, you lose."

Doug mind swirled. The Wet Bet. He'd read about it, he knew. But what was it?

She read his mind. "I know you haven't yet played this little game, so I'll describe it for you. It's very simple. I make a bet with you that you're not wearing your diaper now. I know you're a good little boy, so I'm sure I'm wrong, but you just need to prove it to me. So I ask you simply to wet for me right now. You pee, and then we see who wins the bet. If you win, and you're wearing your diaper, then you only end up with a wet diaper that we can change very easily. If I win, and you don't have a diaper on, that fact will become very obvious very soon. In that case..." Her voice trailed off, indicating the undesirability of that outcome.

"But either way, I have to insist you take the bet. Your only other option would be a particularly severe spanking right here in this aisle. Most of my boys don't like their pants pulled down in public, so I don't get to do that very often. They always take the bet." She sort of smirked at him.

"Well, what'll it be? You wanna take the bet?"

Now Doug was scared. She had him pinned against a wall, and she knew it. Wetting his pants in public versus a spanking in public. He'd had a spanking before, though, and decided that even public humiliation by wetting his pants be better than that. Anything would be better than a *public* spanking! He swallowed hard, as he realized he really had no choice. At least if he sucked it up and wet himself right now he'd avoid any other punishment. It would be humiliating, but it would be otherwise painless, and over very quickly. Then he could go right home and change. He stared at the floor and nodded.

She smiled cruelly, though he didn't see it. "That's a good boy. Now, here's how we'll do it. I'll turn around, and you can start peeing. I'll tell you to start, and then you pee for at least ten seconds. Then you'll tell me when you're done, and we'll try to figure out who won. If your pants are dry, I'll need to see your diaper, of course, to make sure you didn't cheat. That would earn you a spanking, too." She smiled that fake smile again as she said, "Of course, I'm sure you wouldn't cheat." He nodded nervously.

"Okay," she said, turning away to pretend to look at some spaghetti. "Fire when ready."

Doug glanced nervously down the aisle both ways. Not seeing anyone, he tried to relax and empty his bladder. He felt a trickle come out, and then more, so he said, "Okay."

She said, "Okay, now ten seconds."

Doug felt his urine rush out now. He really had needed to go. He watched in horror as his crotch darkened quickly, and then he shuddered as he felt hot pee flowing down his legs, soaking his jeans. (These were the same jeans, in fact, that he'd wet just last week in his bathtub.) The insides of his pants legs turned dark blue, and he felt his socks get warm and wet before he saw his tennis shoes flood and then overflow. It would be unmistakable to anyone who saw him what had just happened. By the time he figured ten seconds was up, he was standing in soaking wet jeans, in a small puddle on the floor.

In a weak voice, he said, "I'm done, um, Mommy." (Maybe she wouldn't make fun of him if he buttered her up.) He just wanted to go home and change his pants. They were already turning cold and uncomfortable.

But when Mrs. Warren turned and saw Doug in wet pants, her expression changed to one of anger, something he'd not seen since that first morning last week. He watched her with growing apprehension as she opened her large purse and pulled out what he recognized as one of his diapers. How did she know to bring one, he thought idly. And what was it for?

"Here," she snapped. "You'll need this." She put the diaper in one of his hands and grabbed the other.

She yanked on his arm, dragging him with her in the direction of the registers. He tried to follow, uncertain of what was happening, but acutely aware now of his cold, wet pants. He hoped they were headed outside to the car, but his hopes sank as she led him up to the nearest register. Doug withered with embarrassment as moms and children turned and one by one saw him, wearing wet pants and holding a large diaper.

"Could you tell me where the little boys' room is?" Mrs. Warren inquired of the young lady at the register. She looked about sixteen and had surprisingly large breasts. Doug couldn't help staring at her blond hair and beautiful face. Mrs. Warren was not similarly mesmerized: "I've got one who needs his pants changed."

The checkout girl's eyes widened, and she nodded. "Yes, he sure does. He seems a little big to be having accidents."

Mrs. Warren snorted with derision. "Well, he's apparently not as big as he seems, is he?"

The girl took a moment to study Doug's stained jeans. "No, I guess not. Well, that's what the diaper's for, right? Too bad for him he wasn't in one earlier," she giggled, seeing Mrs. Warren's obvious anger at Doug. Noting the determination on her face as well, she added, "I bet he'll wear one from now on. But anyway, the restrooms are in the back corner of the store. You can change him there."

Doug could have died. He felt his face burn with embarrassment. Could this day get any worse?

"Thank you," he heard Mrs. Warren say. "And I'm afraid this little boy also left a puddle in Aisle #3. If you give me a minute to get him dressed a little more appropriately, I can have him back out to clean it up in a moment."

The girl nodded, staring hard at Doug's pants, clearly trying not to laugh. "That's fine, but you probably need to see the manager first. She likes to know about things like this, and she can get him a mop or something. Oh, by the way, if you need more diapers for him, we ARE having a sale on Attends down in Aisle 7."

"Thanks, but we're very well stocked already. Trust me, we have to be. Now, where is your manager?" The girl pointed at the other front corner of the store, so Mrs. Warren led Doug across the entire front of the store. They passed dozens of people in line to check out, and most of them turned and saw him. Doug started to feel lightheaded. This was horrible.

The manager was on the phone in the customer service area, so they had to wait a moment before talking to her. Mrs. Warren still had an iron grip on Doug's wrist, and Doug instinctively struggled a little to get her to loosen her grip. At this Mrs. Warren wheeled around with fire in her eyes and swatted his bottom. Since it was damp and undiapered, this stung quite a bit, not to mention the added embarrassment it caused him. He was being treated like a two year old, and the worst thing was, with his wet pants and stinging bottom, he felt just like one, too.

"Don't you mess with me, young man," Mrs. Warren said loudly, so that she caught the attention of anyone in nearby lines who wasn't already staring. "You've already done enough."

"Evidently so," said the manager, a stout stern-looking woman who had finished her phone conversation and was now studying Doug's pants with a disapproving gaze. "Looks like you're a little late with the diaper, young man."

Mrs. Warren turned her attention to her, but kept a firm grip on Doug's aching wrist. "Yes, ma'am. I was going to ask you if I could use your restroom to change his pants anyway. Afterward, I was hoping that he could clean up the little puddle he left in Aisle #3 himself, with whatever cleaning implements you might have."

"Of course," the manager said. "I'll leave a bucket and mop in the back hallway for when he's a little more properly attired," she said, smiling at the diaper in Doug's hand. "The restroom is back across the store in the rear corner. And ma'am?" the manager said as Mrs. Warren turned to drag Doug in that direction.

"Yes?" Mrs. Warren replied.

"I don't mean to give unwanted advice, but while you're back there, if I were you I'd give that boy's rear end some attention with my hand. Look's like he's earned it."

Mrs. Warren smiled conspiratorily. "Oh, you read my mind. I'll apologize ahead of time if we're rather, well, noisy."

"No problem. Those rooms are pretty soundproof, and anyway, I'd bet the folks in the store would approve. He has to learn somehow."

Doug didn't have any time to speculate on what that exchange meant. He was so embarrassed he wasn't very aware of what was happening anymore. He was now dragged at what felt like breakneck speed back past all the registers with lines of people whispering, down a side aisle, and to the back corner of the store.

They turned in a short hallway and gound a door marked "Restroom: Men/Women." Mrs. Warren tried the door, but it was locked. She knocked, and a female voice inside said, "Just a second!"

So they waited. Doug nervously held his diaper and tried to ignore the cold wetness of his pants and the pain in his wrist. Mrs. Warren was silent, staring away from him. Doug wanted to know what would happen in that little room, he didn't dare bother her. He assumed they would change his diaper and then come out and clean up the mess. He wasn't looking forward to it. What would really happen would excite him even less, had he known. He spent his time telling himself how dumb he'd been, how he'd never sneak out or not wear his diaper again.

Finally, the door opened and a woman came out. She caught sight of Doug with wet pants and a diaper in his hand, and gasped. "I'm so sorry," she said. "I didn't realize I was taking so long."

Mrs. Warren spoke up right away. "Ma'am, don't blame yourself. This happened out there in the store because someone wasn't wearing his diaper like a good boy. I just need the bathroom so I can remedy the situation."

Doug was finally so embarrassed that he totally tuned out what was happening. He pretended he was somewhere else, and ignored this humiliating experience.

"Oh," said the woman, with a a knowing look at Mrs. Warren. "Do you think he's learned his lesson yet?"

"I don't know," Mrs. Warren replied, "but I'll make sure, just as soon as I can get his pants down in there and turn him over my knee."

The woman nodded sympathetically. "Well, good luck. Don't go easy on that wet bottom, or he'll never learn."

"Don't worry," Mrs. Warren assured her. "He won't forget this."

The woman left, and Mrs. Warren pulled a distracted Doug into the small bathroom. She whipped him around and closed and locked the door, then let go of him. While Doug rubbed his wrist, Mrs. Warren sat down on the closed toilet seat. Doug waited to be told to put the diaper on.