# So, I Was Standing At The Urinal... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879 "2004-04-02T07:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/21 "2004-04-03T11:31:24Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > That was Nature calling Good thing he had a hold button. Nothing worse than when Nature is on the line and you don’t have ‘call waiting’. ---
**Author:** ![noname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@noname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noname)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/22 "2004-05-21T22:42:14Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > That was Nature calling LOL 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Studioworks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Studioworks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studioworks)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/23 "2004-05-22T03:07:55Z")
> [@Doomtrain](#): > > How about when you have the full-fledged “Holyshitacrazedsquirrelisinmypocket!!!” thrashing followed by the “Oh, it was just the phone.”? > > Not that that ever happens to me. Especially not in class or anything… LOLLOL 😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/24 "2004-05-22T04:27:57Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > instantly at a moment’s notice I wonder if that’s an oxymoron? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/25 "2004-05-24T20:43:11Z")
That OP brought back memories of the time I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my heart. Every time I moved it stabbed worse, I thought ‘my god, I’m having a heart attack and this is how it feels in the beginning’. Then I realised that the underwire in my bra had snapped and was sticking in to me. Oh the relief - it was only metal fatigue. ---
**Author:** ![Tiggrkitty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tiggrkitty/32/17966_2.png) [@Tiggrkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggrkitty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/26 "2004-05-24T21:14:40Z")
Remember those big clunky pagers from a few decades ago? I was working on a desktop computer, installing a new hard drive, video card etc for work, when my pager went off. (I had it on vibrate) I swear to God I thought I was being electrocuted! I must have jumped 5 feet and almost went into arrest, when I figured out it was the damn pager going off. After that, I never had it on me while my hands were on the inside of a computer. And yes the computer had been turned off and unplugged, but the brain didn’t happen to process that information until AFTER I almost had heart failure. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/27 "2004-05-24T21:40:52Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > Instead of pulling over (he was making great time!) he decides to go in a cup. One of my friends had to do this when he was a kid. His mom gave him a large paper cup to pee in. After the deed was done, his mom was holding the cup in her lap when the bottom disintegrated. I don’t know why they didn’t just pour the cup out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879/28 "2004-05-25T01:00:08Z")
Oooh, I’ve had the Underwire Bra-Stabbing Pain-It-Must-Be-Cancer syndrome. I do not own a pager. Yes, I know there is something seriously wrong with me. The first time I was given a pager at a restaurant, I clipped it to my waistband. I sat there with friends chatting and suddenly my entire body jolted and I spazzed out like Steve Martin in “All of Me” after Edwina Cutwater’s Soul enters half of his body. It was a damn good thing I didn’t have a drink in my hand or it would have gone flying. I will never own a beeper for this reason. That and I don’t need one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-was-standing-at-the-urinal/237879.md?page=1)