Is pissing in public (as in behind some bushes) such a bad thing??

[Chessic_Sense]

@CyclopticXander

I really don’t know how you could begrudge any poor soul who follows these basic rules of consideration. Unless someone tried to make a slippery slope

Well, that can only happen if it’s below freezing outside anyway.

@DrDeth

Or the entire **Tenderloin **district of SF.

Heh.

@Johanna

In India I saw many walls along streets with a cryptic message written in big letters:

DONT PASS YOUR IN HERE

You realize it says “Don’t pass urine here”, right?

[DrDeth]

@CutterJohn

Pissing(and shitting) is permissible on any patch of dirt of decent size.
It is also ok into any natural body of water.

No, it’s not OK to *shit *into a natural body of water. That spreads diseases.

[WOOKINPANUB]

@Cat_Fight

If it’s an emergency, okay. But if you just can’t bother to hold it in a little longer or don’t have the foresight to whiz before you leave a bar or house… well, it really doesn’t put you much above a dog. Even toddlers can hold it in while Mom or Dad looks for a washroom.

Well said. How often is it really an “emergency”? I think lots of men do it because they can and that is frankly not a man I want to be around.

[Broomstick]

@CyclopticXander

• Prevention is key! Go before you leave or don’t drink a gallon if you know you will likely be separated from a restroom for a while

Go before you leave, ay?

I did that once, peed before I left - before getting stuck for over four hours in a traffic jam from hell on the Damn Ryan expressway. Let’s see… I can cross 6 lanes of traffic that way and climb up a concrete wall then cross another two lanes of frontage road and piss in the bushes over there… or cross 3 lanes of traffic that way and piss on the third rail of the south end of the Red Line El. Hmm… decisions, decisions…

I pissed in a half crumpled paper coffee cup and dumped it out the door onto the pavement. A further annoyance was that the capacity of my bladder exceeded that of the damaged cup by a factor of 3 or 4. The only thing worse than desperately trying to hold it in is having to stop pissing and hold it again until you get the cup emptied and can start filling it again.

No, there wasn’t a discrete way to exit the vehicle and “whip it out” - I’m a girl, shorts around my ankles just isn’t that discrete.

I guess my point is that if you HAVE TO go in public be absolutely as discrete and unobtrusive as possible.

Also, for some reason I felt compelled to share that story.

[Ann_Hedonia]

@Cat_Fight

If it’s an emergency, okay. But if you just can’t bother to hold it in a little longer or don’t have the foresight to whiz before you leave a bar or house… well, it really doesn’t put you much above a dog. Even toddlers can hold it in while Mom or Dad looks for a washroom.

Reminds me of a time I was stuck in a traffic jam. Not even a jam really, a highway had flooded out, closing the road and people were stuck…for hours.

After about hour 3 I saw both driver’s side doors open and an older woman got out of the front passenger seat, walked around the car and stood between the two doors. Then she squatted, I see from under the door pants around the ankles then the telltale yellow stream.

Then she arranged herself and walked around the car and got back in, looking a little embarrassed. I really felt for her, she had probably never had to do anything like that before.

[Daylate]

Was stuck in a 3 hour wait to get across the Canadian Border at Blaine, Washington. Some of the adjoining fields were dotted with large bushes, etc. Noticed quite a few folks, particularly with kids, exit their cars, disappear behind a bush, and shortly reappear looking much happier.

Seems that if the Gov’t is really worried about that ( and a 2 - 3 hour wait at Blaine is not all that uncommon) they could provide some Porta Potties spaced out at intervals. Although this alfresco arrangement did seem to be working pretty well.

[MarcinCiez]

@Gyrate

It was such a problem in the West End of London that Westminster Council have installed on-street urinals.

What a great idea!!

[Jackmannii]

@WOOKINPANUB

I think lots of men do it because they can and that is frankly not a man I want to be around.

Sounds like lyrics from a country song.

@bufftabby

I’ve been known to pee in all sorts of strange places

Yep, definitely.

I guess it was inevitable that a poster would show up to decry laws against public urination as an example of Americans being too straitlaced about sex.

Piss on that, I say.