# How Often Do You Pee in the Shower?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-pee-in-the-shower/589398>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-pee-in-the-shower/589398 "2011-07-18T01:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-pee-in-the-shower/589398/61 "2011-07-19T10:55:09Z")

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Not often but when the occasion calls I have no problem with it. If showering with a lady though I’d gallantly step out and point Percy at the porcelain in the accustomed manner. I’m a gentleman first and last!

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**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-pee-in-the-shower/589398/62 "2011-07-19T11:01:39Z")

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> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> But just because it goes down a drain doesn’t mean it hasn’t left residue on the shower/bathtub floor. Just because everything else gets washed down, why is that any cleaner? It’s not like people are scrubbing their showers/bathtubs down after they pee in them.

When I pee in the shower, it’s right after I get in, and before I lather up, shampoo, etc. You’re also washing off sweat, grime, dead skin cells and all sorts of bacteria-laden things. I guess I am not too concerned about the possibility of a molecule or two of extremely dilute urine left behind, in the grand scheme of things.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-pee-in-the-shower/589398/63 "2011-07-19T16:38:59Z")

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> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> But just because it goes down a drain doesn’t mean it hasn’t left residue on the shower/bathtub floor. Just because everything else gets washed down, why is that any cleaner? It’s not like people are scrubbing their showers/bathtubs down after they pee in them.

Does urine have magical properties that other things don’t that allow for a residue to be left behind after several gallons of water washes it away? There ought to be even less of a residue left in the shower than in the toilet given that there’s a lot more water used during the course of a shower than modern toilet’s 1.5 gallon flushes.

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