Sometimes, a writer will be very absorbed in what she is writing, so she will ignore the need to urinate until the absolute last minute. But, many times, she will have been sitting cross-legged in her chair, so that when she begins to stand up to walk to the bathroom, she will realize she cannot support herself, because her entire left leg is asleep from ankle to thigh. But because she has waited until the last minute (and the last minute is very pressing indeed, because she has had at least three giant cups of coffee), she cannot wait for her leg to wake itself up, and so must make an immediate and crucial decision: should she drag herself along the floor to the bathroom, or should she pee in her chair? What do you think?
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