# Peeing Outside **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 11, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164 "2008-11-11T05:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/1 "2008-11-11T05:53:59Z")
When’s the last time you peed outside, where, and why? Me: About 1/2 an hour ago, behind the shed, it was cold, dark, and I should have gone before I took the garbage out. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/2 "2008-11-11T06:06:02Z")
I mostly pee outside. I can go days without peeing indoors. I prefer it and I feel it saves water. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/3 "2008-11-11T06:20:46Z")
Never date a woman who can’t pee outside. I have only anecdotal evidence, nothing that would stand up to a “Cite?”. It’s true anyway. ---
**Author:** ![PopeJewish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@PopeJewish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PopeJewish)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/4 "2008-11-11T06:46:15Z")
I pee outside pretty often. I honestly think it feels better, especially when you get to pee on a tree. I almost always do it when I’m drunk and outside. What’s even better is that in Japan you can have alcohol in public, so you can pee on a tree while smoking a grit and drinking a beer, the kinda thing that makes life worth living 😃 edit for typos typos typos ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/5 "2008-11-11T07:04:37Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > Never date a woman who can’t pee outside. > > I have only anecdotal evidence, nothing that would stand up to a “Cite?”. > > It’s true anyway. 2nd either today, or saturday can’t remember ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/6 "2008-11-11T07:15:03Z")
Here in Dallas they have a vigilante group that will take snap shots of you peeing outside if you do it on Lower Greenvile. Then they’ll post it on their website. It’s a popular area lined with Bars and other sorts of Night life stuff. Problem is this area sets right snak in the middle of a residential area. So the home owners around there get pretty pissed at all the party goers pissing on their lawn. Anyway, the cite was always good for a laugh. Some of the looks on these peoples faces when they were getting their photo snaped while pissing outside is classic. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/7 "2008-11-11T08:06:40Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > Here in Dallas they have a vigilante group that will take snap shots of you peeing outside if you do it on Lower Greenville. Then they’ll post it on their website. > > It’s a popular area lined with Bars and other sorts of Night life stuff. Problem is this area sets right smack in the middle of a residential area. So the home owners around there get pretty pissed at all the party goers pissing on their lawn. > Anyway, the site was always good for a laugh. Some of the looks on these peoples faces when they were getting their photo snapped while pissing outside is classic. Link? ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/8 "2008-11-11T11:04:14Z")
I piss on the lemon tree and mango in my back yard every night. Hey, I’m a greenie and I love the fresh night air and looking at the stars when I do. I do refuse to crap on the peach tree though. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/9 "2008-11-11T11:11:32Z")
Saturday night. I live in a tiny 1 bathroom house on acreage; I have no problems dropping trou behind the hay pile. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/10 "2008-11-11T11:18:09Z")
Just a few minutes ago. Why let my pee go to waste in the septic system, when I can spread it around and establish my territory? For a while my neighbors had a dog who’d go apeshit whenever he saw me, but would get absolutely apoplectic when I’d go pee along the property line. (Yes, I did it to deliberately piss him off.) So…this is my garden, this is my driveway, this is my hedge line…oh yeah, over here, too… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/11 "2008-11-11T12:31:55Z")
> [@fifty-six](#): > > I mostly pee outside. I can go days without peeing indoors. I prefer it and I feel it saves water. Honey? Is that you?? My husband pees down the hill into the woods. A lot. He and his buddy pee outside so much that I’m considering nailing a “Men’s Room” sign on the tree next to the garage. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/12 "2008-11-11T12:38:14Z")
It saves water. I call it “contributing nitrogen to my vegetable friends.” ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/13 "2008-11-11T12:45:58Z")
I drop trou if I am on a road trip, and between bathrooms and i got to go … and I have been known to hie out into the woods to emulate a bear when the power is out though now I am a gimp that probably wont happen [got a camp toilet that uses bags filled with some sort of absorbant sanitizer stuff for when that happens and I cant get the generator started to pump water for the bathroom.] I dont see what the big deal is, the tp I use on the road goes into a zippy bag and gets disposed of at the next available trash can so all i am leaving is a bit of very biodegradable matter [either liquid or solid] and to be perfectly blunt, all humans fall into one of 3 categories, male genetalia, female genitalia and intersex. If you are driving past and accidently see someone off in the shrubery emulating a bear, deal with it. The sight of a body wont kill you and it beats pissing ones pants… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/14 "2008-11-11T12:47:00Z")
It has been recent, but I don’t know when for sure. I live in a very rural area and if I’m out far enough that going back to the house would be a chore, I make sure no one can see and I go. My place is surrounded by trees, so no one could easily see me. ---
**Author:** ![masterofnone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@masterofnone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/masterofnone)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/15 "2008-11-11T16:59:56Z")
Last night. I live in the woods. It’s not that I’m worried about wasting water, as that’s a non-issue here. It’s just convenient and there’s no reason to go back to the house just to waste electricity pumping water to flush the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/16 "2008-11-11T17:16:08Z")
Sunday, south parking lot outside of Soldier Field before the Bears game. Once right before we went in at about 11, again when we finally packed up to leave after the post-game tailgate. Nothing like warm pee on cold asphalt and the resulting steambath. ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/17 "2008-11-11T17:34:47Z")
That’s one thing I miss about growing up in the country. It feels so…efficient. I’ve lived in cities for so long that I haven’t peed outside in ages. It’s gotta be over 10 years. I remember learning to pee outside when I was 3 or so. I’d follow my mom to the garden, and when I had to go it would have taken far too much time to take me back to the house. The problem was, I’d pee in my shoes every time. (I’m a girl.) So I’d end up running around barefoot until Mom finished, and then she’d have to take me in and give me a bath. I don’t know why she persevered. Took me at least a year to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/18 "2008-11-11T17:39:34Z")
This uis supposed to be one of the perks of Bohemian Grove: > [@](#): > > …And former California governor Pat Brown has said publicly, many times, that the presence of women would keep Bohemians from enjoying their hallowed freedom to pee. > > The peeing is ceaseless and more than a little exhibitionistic. Everyone talks about it. Bohemian reminiscences describe such bizarre initiation rites as escorting new members to the redwood at which one of the founders “did his morning ablutions.” The Owl Hoots, which are poster-size cartoons racked up each day near the Camp Fire Circle, are filled with pissing pictures. One featured a spurious design for a commemorative stamp of club member U.S. Postmaster General Anthony Frank relieving himself on a redwood. [http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian\_grove\_spy.html](http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove_spy.html) > [@](#): > > And according to the New Statesmen, the no-girls-allowed policy means peeing on trees is all the rage. [http://www.infowars.com/articles/occult/bg\_feeling\_bohemian\_its\_camp\_time.htm](http://www.infowars.com/articles/occult/bg_feeling_bohemian_its_camp_time.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/19 "2008-11-11T17:53:29Z")
Last night in my local city park, in right field of one of the baseball diamonds. The sun had just gone down, it was dark, and I was running the dog around alone. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164/20 "2008-11-11T18:00:43Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > My husband pees down the hill into the woods … to Grandmother’s house we go. Last week at a hunting ranch while sitting around a firepit. That water disappeared from a Scottish brook about 20 years ago, sat in a cask for 18 and then comes flying out onto some south Texas caliche. What a trip. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peeing-outside/472164.md?page=2)