The urination/expectoration connection

The setup:
I’m on vacation w/ Mrs. Spritle and her family when her dad uses a public restroom. When he returns, Mrs. Spritle asks him jokingly if he spit. He replies that he did, of course.

Spritle quizzed the Mrs. on this spitting thing. She says that guys spit when they pee.

Spritle must state, for the record, that he does not spit when he “drains the vein”, as it were, unless, of course, he hacks up some freaky lung biscuit.

A scientist by training and a statistician by re-training (that didn’t sound right) I started doing a VERY informal study while taking my trips to the loo. I tried to note (without looking) if others at the porcelain convenience were expectorating. Some do, some don’t, some do repeatedly.

Do you spit when you pee?

ERO(Equal Response Opportunity), lassies may reply, too, if you wish.

Only when I’ve been drinking, come to think of it. But yeah, it happens.

I presume the reason we gals don’t do it is because if you don’t aim right, you get your thighs wet. And if you’re overweight, you don’t have a chance at getting that loogey into the bowl.