# Male Dopers: Do you pee in the sink? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349 "2004-06-20T21:20:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/61 "2004-06-22T11:44:09Z")
Something from a Rita Rudner routine: Men don’t live well alone . . . They live like _bears with furniture_. And one of the (long) list of advantages of being male: The world is your urinal ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/62 "2004-06-22T20:47:03Z")
> [@WILLASS](#): > > I’m really digging it, my girlfriends brother is going to drop off my multi-album minidisc recordings next weekend so I will get to hear the rest of the stuff in depth. Meanwhile I have ‘Reelin in the Years’ to get me through my hellish four hour train journey tonight, all things considered I’m actually looking forward to it even though I am gonna be wading right through London at rush hour - I find that ‘The Dan’ just brightens my day so much that I can’t get stressed. Swell. Great! I guess I was thinking you already had the entire collection. I didn’t realize you still just had the one. ‘Reelin in the Years’ is great, though. Glad you’re enjoying it. If you think about it, let us know how you like it when you get the rest of their music. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/63 "2004-06-22T21:26:51Z")
For the record, I have never peed in a sink and I hope none of my sinks have been peed in. However, I have seen a woman pee in a sink at a bar. There was a line (of 3 or 4 people), she was _very_ drunk and apparently couldn’t wait. So she got in the sink, with some help from her friend and peed. Best part: a woman in line was waiting in the door, with it propped open, so the whole bar got a great shot of her peeing in the sink. And being very loud about the need for more women’s stalls. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/64 "2004-06-23T10:36:33Z")
Been reading **The Great Pursuit**? If I’m feeling pwecious in the mornings i kneel down before the toilet to pee so i dont… miss. I think i may have peed in the sink once or twice but i can’t really remember so i must have a good excuse for it. ---
**Author:** ![mrsam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5ac83/32.png) [@mrsam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsam)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/65 "2004-06-23T12:43:38Z")
My drinking buddies and I have a running gag about pissing in sinks. One time when we were rather blotto, one of my mates decides that he really, really had to go right now rather than waiting for the loo, so he went for the sink instead. The weird thing was that he admitted to it own his own free volition, even though this was at someone else’s house! We’ve kept a careful eye on him round our bathrooms ever since. :o ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/66 "2004-06-23T12:48:21Z")
Nope. Never had a need to. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/67 "2004-06-23T19:35:13Z")
Not in the sink. I’ll own up to watering a few trees in my time, but I’ve never used the sink. I might, in some sort of emergency, I suppose, but in the normal course of affairs, no. (Single male, been living alone for years. But there are depths to which I will not, dare I say it, sink.) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/68 "2004-06-23T21:12:20Z")
Sinks? Hell sinks aren’t that bad. When one has consumed what could be called a heroic quantitiy of pints, all sorts of new and fun places can be found. Closets, However, I myself am not a regular sink pee-er. I fancy myself an outside pee-er. As a matter of fact, I’d rather have a go outside than in the bathroom any day. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/69 "2004-06-23T22:57:29Z")
never. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/70 "2004-06-23T23:13:50Z")
Bathroom sink-yes. Kitchen sink-no. A guy’s gotta draw the line somewhere, after all. And you guys _do_ know to wash the sink out when you’re done, I hope? ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/71 "2004-06-23T23:30:57Z")
Surely I’m not the only guy tall or short enough that splatter would be a real issue? I just can’t imagine being too lazy to sit down, if I couldn’t aim. And no, it could never be too cold outside, as long as I had shoes. I did piss in a sink, once. I was just another college student drunk to the point of barely being able to stand, and all stalls and urinals were taken. It was time to break the seal, and I really had to go. And the building I was cutting through had large numbers of people outside. And I didn’t want to get arrested for using the woman’s room. And I thought it was disgusting at the time, but could think of no alternative. I don’t care if it is sterile. It stinks. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349/72 "2004-06-23T23:52:39Z")
> [@Dog80](#): > > It is just a couple of feet away, but the important thing is that the sink has the right height. The bowl is quite low, so I usually miss and pee all over the place ☹ How old are you? Christ! SIT DOWN ALREADY!! Plenty of guys sit down to pee and the women who love them LOVE THEM ALL THE MORE FOR IT! What is it with guys, anyway? Jeeez!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/male-dopers-do-you-pee-in-the-sink/251349.md?page=3)