# My office smells of wee. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2006, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686 "2006-09-22T09:13:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**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 22, 2006, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/1 "2006-09-22T09:13:06Z")
Seriously. My office is a ground floor room in a fairly old (1960s) brick warehouse; we had unbelievably heavy rain last week and now the wall underneath the window smells of piss. I thought maybe some kids had peed on the outside and that it was soaking through, but it’s the whole wall, and it only smells on the inside. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/2 "2006-09-22T09:16:33Z")
You’ve discovered an historical workman’s loo, I betcha. > [@Christy Moore](#): > > And if you want to do it don’t you do it agin’ the wall. > If you want to do it don’t you do it agin’ the wall. > Never seen a toilet on a building site at all. > There’s a shed up in the corner where they won’t see you at all. > Mind your sandwiches. ---
**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 22, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/3 "2006-09-22T11:51:47Z")
Oh, it wasn’t the wall! It turned out to be the waste paper bin - it’s a solid plastic bucket lined with a poly bag - some liquid must have been spilt in there and been festering between the two layers of plastic. Didn’t smell anything like wee when examined closely - it was much, much worse. The connection with the recent heavy downpour must have just been coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/4 "2006-09-22T16:28:14Z")
For some reason our Hollywood Video always smells like BO. Do old VHS tapes start to smell that way and my small collection doesn’t tip the scales? It’s mostly in the not-new-releases section but none of the staff smell that I’ve noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/5 "2006-09-22T17:27:56Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] For some reason our Hollywood Video always smells like BO. Do old VHS tapes start to smell that way and my small collection doesn’t tip the scales? It’s mostly in the not-new-releases section but none of the staff smell that I’ve noticed. [/QUOTE] I bet it’s the carpet. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/6 "2006-09-22T19:23:24Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] I bet it’s the carpet. [/QUOTE] Do you think they’ll notice if I splay myself on the ground to get a good sniff? All in the name of SDMB research! ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/7 "2006-09-22T19:25:15Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Do you think they’ll notice if I splay myself on the ground to get a good sniff? All in the name of SDMB research! [/QUOTE] I just wouldn’t do it in the “Adult” section.. ewwww… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/8 "2006-09-22T19:37:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I thought maybe some kids had peed on the outside and that it was soaking through, … [/QUOTE] That’s either some piss-pore brick or really creepy urine. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/9 "2006-09-22T20:10:05Z")
[QUOTE=934spe] I just wouldn’t do it in the “Adult” section.. ewwww… [/QUOTE] The small private video store near us has a curtained off ‘adult’ section. It always smells like wet zoo animals when walking near it. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/10 "2006-09-22T20:12:48Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] The small private video store near us has a curtained off ‘adult’ section. It always smells like wet zoo animals when walking near it. :dubious: [/QUOTE] ewwwww… They need a new jizz mopper… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-office-smells-of-wee/373686/11 "2006-09-22T21:35:36Z")
My office also smells of wee. Then again, I work in a public library. Wee would be an improvement, sometimes. (Every time, I say I’m not going in the public restroom ever again, and every time I’m too lazy to walk down to the staff one.)