For as clean as the rest of the country is, peeing in public is surprisingly common in Japan, at least in the smaller cities and towns. Quite often I would see older(60+) men whizzing on buildings in the middle of the afternoon. On the other hand, it’s not really considered a very classy thing to do, especially since finding a public (and fairly clean) toilet is easier than finding an out-of-the-way corner in Tokyo.
Have I done it? Sure. It was a 30-minute walk from the bars to my old apartment in Shizuoka, so I frequently made some 3a.m. pit stops over the drainage canals on my way home. Never been busted for it.
I was on a cross-continent trip, on my way up to Prince Albert, SK. I stop in Saskatoon to find a can. Every gas station I try tells me no public restrooms. Every hotel I try tells me not if I’m not a guest. My last stop before I [Scotty]canna take it no more[/Scotty] is a 24-hour drugstore. Nope, employees only. Pleeeease! No.
I go to the least-lit corner of the drugstore’s parking lot and pee. Sorry, Saskatoon, I tried. Nope, I’m lying. I’m not sorry, Saskatoon. If your residents had been a bit nicer, you wouldn’t have my pee on your pavement.
I believe there is some place where you can order a car-pee-device where in you can pee while driving!
Or anywhere else for that matter.
Personally, I can’tm, but I do let my son (age 7) go in a bush if we are waiting for a bus and there is no where nearby.
How old do you have to be for it to be illegal?
During my Security Guard stint, I saw a great many things.
I was walking close to the restuarant one evening at about 3am when I heard a water hitting pavement splashing noise. I come around the corner to find a woman squatting in the middle of the patio area peeing like nobody’s business. I shon my flashlight on her and asked what the hell she was doing peeing in the middle of the patio area??? If ya gotta pee…do it on the grass…next to a building.
What a goof.
As for me, I pee outside if I have to. When I was a boy, I used to leave the house to go out and pee.
“I believe there is some place where you can order a car-pee-device where in you can pee while driving!”
Ahh, yes. They call it “the trucker’s friend.”
cm, who’d have thought our neighbors to the north would be so paranoid and/or inhospitable. I thought such behavior was only to be found in urban, American burgs. Makes you wonder.
Here in NYC, there are cabbies who pee into soda bottles, rather than stop. Naturally, they just drop them out the window when they’re full.
It’s always fun coming across one of those in the street…kinda like a sick scavenger hunt.
As for me, I’ve run in plenty of races where guys (and some women) are lined up facing a wall, line of trees, bushes, whatever, peeing up a river without anyone saying anything. Come to think of it, it’s considerably less vile than the porta-potties.
Well, I’ve driven in all 50 states and all 10 provinces of Canada, and Saskatoon is the only place where I’ve ever had to pee outside of a bathroom. So I wouldn’t tar all of Canada with that brush…and, hooray for the urban American burgs!
I’m not much one for peeing in public. Only under extreme duress. I did once have to go so bad that I pulled over to the side of Highway 101 and peed about halfway down the embankment between the road and the train tracks, as the sun was coming up. Nice view of the Pacific, and highly satisfying, as well, and it wasn’t just the relief factor.
When I was working as a security guard, and was at a bus station on my way to work, a woman got off of one of the buses and stated that she had to go. She looked back and forth, and apparently not locating one near enough for her needs, she proceeded to squat right in the corner of the bus shelter not three feet away from me, lifted her skirt and let 'er rip. I shifted down another two feet or so when I became aware I was in danger of being splashed. This was at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, in full view of the bus driver, myself, and several other passengers. She didn’t seem the least bit embarrassed, and became highly agitated when the driver refused to allow her back on the bus.
A friend of mine once did something similar at a bus stop, but it was about 7 o’clock night, and she stood back from the actual bus bench by several feet. However, this was a bus stop on a fairly busy suburban street right across from the local high school. It was incongruous for me, because she was the kind of person that people refer to as having “class.” She was wearing a fairly nice suit at the time. She just didn’t care to wait.
Hee hee!! Peeing in public is fun! If I recounted all my peeing in publis stories, this post would be eight pages long. At last year’s Fells Point Festival (Fells Point is a neighborhood in Baltimore…more bars per square mile than anywhere else in the USA!), I believe I peed alfresco three times. Of course, I had consumed much beer, so I can’t be sure of the number. I also once peed on a BMW in Fells Point (not during the Festival, a different time when I was there.)
Some girls say it’s hard to pee outside. This is not true if you wear a skirt & thigh-high stockings, but no underpants. You can just squat anywhere you want if you do that. I’ve never had any trouble with the law.
Does peeing in the ocean count as peeing outside? Because, like, everybody does that. I mean, don’t they?
I peed at Area 51. Well, actually it was next to a cactus outside the fence around the restricted zone surrounding Area 51. Luckily, my mom was the only other human within miles of the place, but there was a trailer that had what appeared to be a camera pointed in the general direction…
I’m stunned that there are actually women on this planet who will so unhesitatingly drop trou’ and let go in public places when there is no appropriate facility available. I don’t think I’d have the ovarios to do it.
“Some girls say it’s hard to pee outside. This is not true if you wear a skirt & thigh-high stockings, but no underpants.”
Stella, may I join you on your next pub crawl?
Yoiks - I actually remember seeing that item for sale in this tacky catalog once (which also included an assortment of “joke” items like whoopee cushions and nudie playing cards - realy classy). Anyway, the frightening thing was not that the product existed, but that it was, in the words of the catalog, “dishwasher safe”.
My two cents -
I’m pee shy, so I can always hold it in, but no, it’s not a big deal, and yes, it is gross. But I can get over it.
Amsterdam in particular has pissoirs, which are little shielded public urinals made for that purpose. They are essentially a shielded wall with no water, and smell exactly like you’d expect something to smell that’s been pissed on for 30 years without ever having been cleaned.
For those of you who believe women cannot pee in public, what makes you think they have some unmanly reserve of self-control? I kinda think y’all could hold it if you needed or cared to, you just have less class.
Women can pee standing up, as far as I’ve heard and seen. It involves some, uh, manipulation, but I know I saw it done once in some movie (no, not a porno). I’m sure there’s some website dedicated to it, but I’ll leave that to someone else to find.
Kinda of tangent, but. . . the summer before I went to college I was sorta dating this guy who refused to pee in front of me. We went hiking once, and when he had to pee, he made me cover my ears and close my eyes while he went about 100 feet away into the woods. This, coupled with the fact that he had fake sideburns (he grew little sections of his hair long combed them down the side of his face), made me think that he had some kind of weird emotional/self-image problems. Anyway, the relationship ended horribly and I made a promise to myself that I would never date a man who couldn’t pee in front of me again. Fast foward to a couple of weeks ago–I’m walking around campus with this fantastic guy whom I had totally fallen for, when he says “I have to pee” and just turns around. No hands on my ears, no shut eyes, no fear as I stood nervously wondering why he went so far off. So I think this could be the man for me : )
This summer my BF and I went out for a late night walk. We had been walking around for about 3 hours drinking bottled water and we both had to pee. So we found a tree and both went. It was kind of refreshing.
