# Keep your pee away from the Food!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 26, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233 "2006-09-26T17:32:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/1 "2006-09-26T17:32:13Z")
I work in a research laboratory. Most of the research done here is on Type One Diabetes. We have strict rules about where you can have food and drink. There is an established “food fridge” and lunch area outside the lab space. Yesterday morning, I opened the food fridge to put my lunch away. There were the usual plastic containers of unknown age and origin, other lunches, and a bottle o’ piss. This is the third fucking time there has been a urine sample in the food fridge!! There are plenty of sample fridges down the hall! I’m gonna find the lazy idiot that has left this golden cup with the edibles and make him/her _drink it_. Gahhhh! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/2 "2006-09-26T17:41:44Z")
My suggestion: toss the sample in the trash, and leave a nicely worded note where it was. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/3 "2006-09-26T17:48:57Z")
“You got your urine sample into my Mountain Dew!” “You got your Mountain Dew into my urine sample!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/4 "2006-09-26T18:03:06Z")
😕 You would think that would be a given. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/5 "2006-09-26T18:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I’m gonna find the lazy idiot that has left this golden cup with the edibles and make him/her _drink it_. [/QUOTE] I’m not lazy, I’m conducting an experiment. Thanks for providing me with my first results. Man! Can’t believe it took _three tries_. This study is going to be harder than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/6 "2006-09-26T18:18:30Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] 😕 You would think that would be a given. [/QUOTE] Ahh how sweet. You still have faith that people have any common sense whatsoever. 😉 It doesn’t matter how simple or glaringly obvious something appears to be, there is an idiot out there somewhere who will screw it up. This is one of those situations. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/7 "2006-09-26T18:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor] I’m not lazy, I’m conducting an experiment. Thanks for providing me with my first results. Man! Can’t believe it took _three tries_. This study is going to be harder than I thought. [/QUOTE] The determination of whether behavior is genetic or from environmental experience is very difficult. From the results, it can be determined that an aggressive response with reference to the gential/urinary function has been achieved: I fucking pissed off! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/8 "2006-09-26T18:22:15Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] “You got your urine sample into my Mountain Dew!” “You got your Mountain Dew into my urine sample!” [/QUOTE] And now your urine sample tastes awful, I bet. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/9 "2006-09-26T18:33:32Z")
Heeeey … this isn’t the lab that does Tour de France samples is it? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/10 "2006-09-26T18:44:41Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Keep your pee away from the Food!!! 😕 You would think that would be a given. [/QUOTE] Most cats and dogs seem to have figured it out… Do mice instinctively not pee where they eat? If they do, you might leave a note comparing the intelligence of someone who puts pee in the food fridge to that of mice. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/11 "2006-09-26T18:44:45Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] “You got your urine sample into my Mountain Dew!” “You got your Mountain Dew into my urine sample!” [/QUOTE] I think you should print this out and put it on the bottle, **Mouse**. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/12 "2006-09-26T18:48:04Z")
Our office has ruthless community fridge thieves, can I borrow one of those? It would put me one half empty bottle of Mt. Dew away from victory, you know. I’ve never seen anyone store urine in the office fridge (This is possibly because I work for a dot com), but one of my closest friends once offered me a popsicle from the “Animal Storage Freezer” at her vet’s clinic. “What? They’re all sealed!” :eek: Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/13 "2006-09-26T19:06:01Z")
Presumably it’s being stored in there pending testing…why not contaminate it with something that will produce scary test results? Benzene, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/14 "2006-09-26T19:15:34Z")
Stick a bendy straw in it, and put a note under it that says: “I think this has gone bad.” ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/15 "2006-09-26T19:22:38Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Stick a bendy straw in it, and put a note under it that says: “I think this has gone bad.” [/QUOTE] Oh, that’s good. I think we may have a winner. ---
**Author:** ![Mouse\_Maven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@Mouse\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mouse_Maven)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/16 "2006-09-26T19:29:00Z")
I disposed of the sample and left this note: **This fridge is for food and drink only.** If you are missing a urine sample, please see Mouse\_Maven and she will provide you with a replacement. I do like **kaylasdad99** ’s suggestion. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/17 "2006-09-26T19:29:20Z")
I think you may have achieved what I thought was impossible - a Pit thread to which no Doper will disagree w/the OP’s point. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/18 "2006-09-26T19:42:13Z")
I guess I’m still naive about some things. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/19 "2006-09-26T19:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mouse\_Maven] I disposed of the sample and left this note: **This fridge is for food and drink only.** If you are missing a urine sample, please see Mouse\_Maven and she will provide you with a replacement. I do like **kaylasdad99** ’s suggestion. 😃 [/QUOTE] This is a good urine sample---- FOR ME TO PEE ON! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233/20 "2006-09-26T19:46:29Z")
[QUOTE=wring] I think you may have achieved what I thought was impossible - a Pit thread to which no Doper will disagree w/the OP’s point. [/QUOTE] Hey, look, it was only in there for a minute. Besides, everybody has their lunch in some kind of air tight container. And as my friend **Godwin** pointed out, this is something that the Nazi’s would have done if they worked at urine labs. You’re right, **wring**. It’s hard to muster up an argument against. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keep-your-pee-away-from-the-food/374233.md?page=2)