# How many times have you peed in the shower in the past month? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 24, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419 "2015-11-24T11:40:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/1 "2015-11-24T11:40:19Z")
Prompted by a discussion at work. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/2 "2015-11-24T13:14:30Z")
While showering? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/3 "2015-11-24T13:29:05Z")
What?There’s a drain?! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/4 "2015-11-24T13:48:33Z")
I’m a guy. Who keeps count? Is there an app for that? ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/5 "2015-11-24T14:22:23Z")
I shower in the morning. I need to pee in the morning. Why waste a flush when I’m going to be showering anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/6 "2015-11-24T14:32:41Z")
Probably once per shower. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/7 "2015-11-24T14:38:05Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > I shower in the morning. I need to pee in the morning. Why waste a flush when I’m going to be showering anyway? While I agree with this on a logical level, I’m just grossed out by the idea of peeing in the shower. I have never in my adult life peed in the shower. (I’m a guy) ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/8 "2015-11-24T14:47:14Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > While I agree with this on a logical level, I’m just grossed out by the idea of peeing in the shower. I have never in my adult life peed in the shower. (I’m a guy) From what I understand pee is sterile. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/9 "2015-11-24T14:49:56Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > While I agree with this on a logical level, I’m just grossed out by the idea of peeing in the shower. I have never in my adult life peed in the shower. (I’m a guy) Oh, I totally get it. I live alone so it’s not an issue but when my former boyfriends would shower at my house, I had to put the thought out of my mind or I’d be bleaching the tub every day. It’s not really rational but I think we all automatically think “ewwwwwww”. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/10 "2015-11-24T15:04:03Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > From what I understand pee is sterile. Little things like facts are powerless against my “Ewwww, gross!” reaction. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/11 "2015-11-24T15:05:54Z")
I’m not at all grossed out by it and I’ve done it on occasion, but the hot steam of the shower sends the smell right up my nose; I’m a morning showerer myself and morning pee is kind of concentrated. But yeah, pee is sterile and if I lived with someone who did it regularly, it wouldn’t disturb me in the slightest. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/12 "2015-11-24T15:40:45Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Prompted by a discussion at work. Some day I need to visit your work place. 🙂 Once or maybe twice and the few times I do I usually aim for the drain. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/13 "2015-11-24T15:56:06Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > While I agree with this on a logical level, I’m just grossed out by the idea of peeing in the shower. I have never in my adult life peed in the shower. (I’m a guy) This. And I don’t understand how others can do it. > [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > From what I understand pee is sterile. [It’s not](https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/urine-not-sterile-and-neither-rest-you). It’s just relatively free of bacteria compared to other bodily fluids. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/14 "2015-11-24T16:05:48Z")
I do so quite regularly. I get up to shower at 4:45am on workdays, and any step that can be cut out of the morning routine is a-okay by me. I would never pee in anyone’s shower but my own, I clean it regularly, and there is not even a hint of a smell. Female. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/15 "2015-11-24T16:10:28Z")
I’m not the only person who uses my shower. I am, however, the one who cleans it. Yecccccch! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/16 "2015-11-24T16:11:41Z")
Pretty much every time I shower. I understand, folk are sqwicked by different things - but how is the idea of standing somewhere that someone has peed - with flowing water and soap/shampoo, worse than all the other stuff that gets sloughed off one’s body during a shower, or sharing a bar of soap/wash cloth someone else used who know’s where? I guess I’m a pretty firm believer in the power of soap. When I scrub the toilets out every week, I just use a cloth and my bare hands - after which I launder the cloth and wash my hands thoroughly. If I’m not bothered by that, why would it bother me that I stood on a surface where someone peed, after which I had water and soap running over that surface and washed my feet? ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/17 "2015-11-24T16:39:46Z")
George Costanza would approve :“it’s all pipes”!:o ---
**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/18 "2015-11-24T16:58:20Z")
Fecal residue from your ass crack also goes down in the shower. Every other bit of dirt or contaminants on your hair or skin. Mold that was growing on the tub. Your sweat itself supposedly contains a small amount of urea. Anyways, adding a little pee to the mix is no big deal. I don’t purposefully skip the toilet to hit the shower but if I feel like a tinkle I just let it rip. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/19 "2015-11-24T17:16:30Z")
Probably 50% of the time. It’s all going to the same place anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419/20 "2015-11-24T17:18:37Z")
Peeing in the shower is fucking disgusting and there is no argument to the contrary. It all goes to the same place? Okay, let’s see how you feel if someone takes a shit in your kitchen sink. It’s all going to the same place. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-have-you-peed-in-the-shower-in-the-past-month/738419.md?page=2)