20 years ago.
Living near the Canadian border, I had a date with a French-Canadian girl in Montreal, an hr north of the border.
Supposed to meet at a restaurant, but traffic was a mess. In downtown Montreal, still about 10 blocks away from restaurant, my bladder gives me the "2-min warning".
Looking for a gas station, a bar or something; then, while at a red light, the "30-second warning" goes off. I knew that walking into a date wearing yellow pants was not an option, so I look over to my right, see a parking spot along the curb and a small sapling tree, next to a city sidewalk crowded with pedestrians. I pull over, keep the engine running, run to the tree and try to shield myself best I can from the hundreds of people walking on the sidewalk 3 feet from me with my back to them, and go "Niagara Falls" on that poor tree.
It was like time stopped, I couldn't believe what I was doing, so I tried to detach from reality. I couldn't hear the traffic or anything except I could hear the stunned silence from the dozens of pedestrians behind me...with occasional mutterings in French, something like
"blah-blah-blah-ohhh Amerikan". In about 30 seconds, it was done, I zip up and jump into my still running car, and pop right back into traffic and take off before any "policiers" arrived on the scene. Got to the restaurant, had a great date, and a great night, went back to the US the next morning.
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