You’re trapped in an elevator overnight with a case of wine. Where do you pee?
- In the empty bottles
- In the elevator shaft
- Other
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I’m sure the human bladder has a bigger capacity than a regular wine bottle, so I’d be wary to pee into one.
Since alcohol is a diuretic (i.e. extracts some of their existing body water) and they probably had partially full bladders to start, the total volume of urine would exceed the volume of wine they drank.
The book “Report to the Commissioner” had a scene with the hero and bad guy were trapped in an elevator. They ended up peeing in their pants.
Better than when Brian and Stewie were locked in a bank vault overnight. Yeccch! 
Still, I can’t imagine any of the Ewings peeing in their pants. They can afford to have someone clean up after them.
Fun Fact: One of the Mercury astronauts (Alan Shepard, I think) had to request permission to pee in his spacesuit when his launch was delayed. In those early metallic suits, no provision was made for bodily functions, something that was rectified later.
I remember that bit from the movie The Right Stuff.
Fulminate of mercury!
We still have our landline (with extension), and you can listen to the other extension. But it’s pretty obvious when you pick up, so it’s not very stealthy.
I know it’s possible with standard corded phones, I was speaking about our cordless phones. And I just checked, and they do let a second phone join the call.
Yeah, I was talking about cordless phones, too…since that’s what you mentioned.
Other.
I don’t drink…wine. So I won’t have an empty. I might pee on the floor as a “thank you” to the people that caused me to be trapped in their elevator that long.
Naw. Half liter at most. So a 750ml bottle will be fine.
In this case, size matters. (I’m talking about the spout here.)
Peeing on the floor is just … gross!
The human bladder holds about a pint of liquid, as I recall from various sources. Unless you’re drinking your wine out of a mini-bottle or a mini-box, a wine bottle ought to be more than adequate.
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That says 400-600 ml. A pint is 473 ml
Color me surprised. I could have sworn that I’ve peed much more than half a liter in one go, especially after having had some beers. But of course I’ve never measured.
I’m often surprised, interested and amused at the digressions and side paths that a thread can take, and this one is no exception. From “Retired tropes” to closing in on a couple dozen posts on the pros, cons and feasibility of peeing in empty wine bottles when trapped in an elevator. Bravo! 
Is is possible for a woman to pee into a wine bottle without a funnel? It’s a test I won’t be making any time soon.
Sorry to disrupt the discussion of peeing into bottles, but getting back to the OP, what about the one where a character has to complete some long, difficult task, finally finishes, only to have someone say “Why didn’t you just [use some much easier/faster method]?” That one goes back to Laurel and Hardy’s famous “piano movers” sketch, if not earlier. But I can’t recall seeing that gag recently.
Just encountered one in the wild. Was watching 1999s Big Daddy and there was a plot point where Adam Sandler and his son argue about what TV program to watch since there’s only one TV in the house.
I remember this would be an entire episode plot for a sitcom, almost always “One person wants to watch a super important sports event (usually the Super Bowl) but someone else keeps monopolizing the TV to watch something else”. All in the Family, Full House, and Family Matters all did this. I really forget when having multiple TVs in the house became a norm in fiction. In my current life I literally have more HDTVs in my house than people to watch them, not even counting my 2 separate computer monitors and all the phones/tablets.
Back to the Future had the point about Marty’s 1985 family having two TVs, and Lorraine’s 1955 family saying “no one has two TVs”. On the other hand, I bet the Simpsons still only have the one TV, and it is probably still a CRT.