Almost every time I shower…
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Um, yeah, except it’s kind of disgusting.
There’s a Jim Thompson book (I think it’s Rip-Off ) in which there are at least 4 instances of characters peeing in sinks, male and female, with some sexual connotations. It reminded me of the Tom Robbins/anal sex thing. The book wasn’t published until after he died, other than the sink-peeing and some wierd violence, it’s a perfectly ordinary crime novel…
I had a room in a garage for a while, and it was a LOT simpler to pee in the utility sink that the washer drained into than to go outside and back inside the house. That might require putting on pants and unlocking another door.
So, yeah, often.
I did, frequently in college, as others have mentioned, when the toilets were way down the hall and the sink was just right there, beckoning with its gleaming white porcelein and proximity.
Lots of guys in the dorm did it. And here’s a good, related story that exemplifies the downside of NOT pissing in your dorm room sink:
There was a guy who lived about 6 rooms down the hall from me and my roommate–I think his name was something ridiculous like John Bullwinkle. Anyway, young Bullwinkle rarely touched a drop of alcohol and was a little too dandified to consider using the sink as a urinal. One night, he did get drunk, and when he woke up in the middle of the night and had to go to the bathroom, instead of turning left and walking 6 doors door and using the bathroom, he got turned around (we’re reconstructing events here, trying to understand exactly what happened) and opened the sixth door he came to. Recall that our dormrooms were 6 rooms apart. So my roommate woke up–I happened to be out of town that night–to discover that Bullwinkle was having a loud, copious, splashy piss on my roommate’s turntable. If only he had developed the habit of pissing in his own sink.
Much hilarity ensued as this event was recounted the next day all over the dorm.
Well, I was past the age of 60 before I ever urinated in the shower and when I did, it was because of an SDMB thread on the subject. But, in spite of this thread and the apparent common use of various sinks as urinals, I ain’t gonna piss in no sinks and that’s final.
When I lived in a college dormitory, the rooms were more like cells–there were no sinks, no showers, and no toilets. We had to leave the room and hike to the communal bathroom, so pissing in a sink was a nonexistant option. Things were primitive in those days, back in West Texas.
I’ve done it, having rented in a few hole-in-the-wall places where the room had a sink but the toilet was down the long cold hall.
One problem is that the sink doesn’t flush, so the urine collects down in that little upside-down U trap, and while urine is indeed sterile it is also chock full of bacteria-food, so for the same reasons that you should not leave the toilet sitting around unflushed after you pee in it, peeing into the sink can create a nasty undersmell that can pervade the room. I suppose you could address this by running the tap for several minutes (not just a few seconds) after peeing into the sink.
When one pees in the shower it’s odd to see that single stream going perpendicular to all the others.
Years ago my volunteer fire company built a special service truck with air bottles and so forth. We also installed a sink that was fed with a pump from an RV style water tank and pump, and it drained out over the right rear tires.
We were headed to a parade, and one of the guys had to pee, and he let it go into the sink. I glanced out the back windows and saw the elderly lady in a Buick who was following us put on her windshield wipers.