Men...why do you pass up urinals to pee in the toilet?

I notice this alot. I’m out and about often so I make frequent use of public restrooms. Ill see another guy walk past a bank of open urinals just to duck into a stall and pee (loudly) into the toilet.
I would understand, for privacy, if you passed on the open one if you’d be book ended…so to speak.

What’s the deal guys? Stage fright?

I don’t get it.

I’ve run across a lot of urinals lately where those plastic things in the bottom just splash back right at me no matter where I aim. That’s one reason I’m about to adopt the policy that you question.

I’ll generally take a stall over a urinal if I’m also going to be breaking wind.

I always use the urinals myself, but I do find that some tend to splash back a little. Maybe I just stand too close. Maybe the guys who prefer the stalls are trying to avoid splashback?

Yes. Didn’t occur to me. Good reason.

I pee against the back wall. I’ve not noticed backslash ever.

I don’t want to be intimidating to others.

I only do that in the airport, when I am carrying a bag or a laptop. There is a hook on the door to hang it on. You don’t expect me to set it on the floor next to a urinal?

Lots of us are shy, and like the privacy of a closed door, even when just taking a whiz.

We can imagine women in toilets, not in urinals.

I try not to because most people can hold their water, but someone who Really needs a “sit down” bowl fast is SOL if they are all full.

I will if the lines behind each urinal is as long as a train of guys in a Static Ramp Jump Line of a C130…

People get really annoyed when I shit in the urinals.

I need privacy if I am going to rub one out.

:smiley: Just kidding.

I prefer the urinal for number one, actually. I suspect a lot of guys learned to pee in the middle of the toilet and never broke the habit. Jeez, at least aim for the sides so it’s quieter.

In my office, I have learned through extensive testing that there are only two ways to avoid splashback:

  1. Restricting flow
  2. Getting very close and peeing off the side of the urinal

Number 1 makes each visit an excruciatingly long affair because I drink a lot. Number 2 looks weird. There you have it.

I thought that cake looked a little old.

(It was Way too easy to write my name in it with pee too…)

I do when when I need to sandwich between two other guys. I get stage fright.

Or if I need to get a good scratch, or resettle the whole gang.

Sometimes, I can only pee if there’s no one else immediately around, unless I start peeing before they arrive. Primitive defense mechanism? Also, when you pull up next to a stranger, some of them will talk to you while you’re doing your business. Does it need to be a social event? And doing the post-pee penis shake along with others is something I’d rather miss out on.

When I am king of the world men will be required to watch this video and pass a test over it before allowed in public restrooms:

You don’t have to be as accurate so I can practice my belly dancing without being judged by uncultured swine.