# Jiggling when needing to pee **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583 "2008-05-25T19:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583/1 "2008-05-25T19:15:11Z")
Why do children, and some adults, jiggle, hop and generally move around when they need to pee? why does it ease the urge to go? ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583/2 "2008-05-25T20:08:38Z")
[QUOTE=I Have Hippos In My Garden] Why do children, and some adults, jiggle, hop and generally move around when they need to pee? why does it ease the urge to go? [/QUOTE] Ah, sweet mystery of Life and Death, at last you’ve found it. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583/3 "2008-05-25T21:47:43Z")
Distraction, maybe? You’re thinking about hopping around and squirming and not how bad you have to pee. I’ve noticed when I’ve held it too long, mostly due to work stuff that I didn’t want to break away from, the closer I get to the bathroom, shutting the door, lowering my pants and sitting down, the greater the need…so much so that I fear I won’t make it. I always do, but I really _must_ learn to take more bathroom breaks. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583/4 "2008-05-26T01:44:33Z")
WAG: With the body in certain positions, it takes pressure off the bladder. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583/5 "2008-05-26T10:21:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I always do, but I really must learn to take more bathroom breaks. I think i take too many. Mainly because my boss often tells me to do something that i don’t understand and so i have to run into the loo with a textbook to read up on what she has said so i can pretend i know what she is talking about. Obviously i do pee then too. Maybe that is too graphic?! ---
**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:** [May 26, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jiggling-when-needing-to-pee/450583/6 "2008-05-26T10:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Distraction, maybe? You’re thinking about hopping around and squirming and not how bad you have to pee. I’ve noticed when I’ve held it too long, mostly due to work stuff that I didn’t want to break away from, the closer I get to the bathroom, shutting the door, lowering my pants and sitting down, the greater the need…so much so that I fear I won’t make it. [/QUOTE] Ah yes, normally associated with inexpxlicably locked bathroom doors and jammed jeans zippers.