oops, an accident

This is one of those things that I think is a rite of passage of elementary school. Yes, peeing in your pants.

yesterday in Science class, we had a lesson on lungs. I had the boys run in place furiously to demonstrate that you breathe more times when you are running versus when you are sitting. After they finished running in place, the boys sat down. 30 seconds later, Samuel, sitting right in front of me, looks at me with a surprised, somewhat, what the heck is going on look and says "bathroom, bathroom, can I..."
"yes Samuel, you can go to the bathroom" myself somewhat dismayed by his own look of urgency.

He jumped out of his chair, grabbed the hall pass, got to the door, looks at me and says "uh-oh"...
"what uh-oh Samuel" as I look at him and then down at his feet and see a stream of yellow arriving on the floor. "Quick, quick Samuel, get to the bathroom..."

I guess he had a lot of water. And running in place for Science didn't help. After he changed, he was fine. I went and got him a change of pants, and told the other boys to be really nice to him when he came back, which they were, because well, that's not fun and it could happen to any of us I told them.

I was laughing a lot privately though, because, well, in the grand scheme of things, this is one of those things that's just part of life.