# weird bathroom happening... ever happen to you? (Men only) Maybe TMI, but IMO funny **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478 "2009-05-15T00:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/1 "2009-05-15T00:52:21Z")
ok, so I like to read as I sit and have my morning constitutional. Well, when I defecate, I usually urinate, figuring I’m killing two birds with one stone, multitasking, and generally feeling completely “voided”. Woohoo! I won’t be back for hours! So anyway, I’m at work and I’m reading the sports section. I’m holding my winkie down between my legs like I was taught many moons ago. It seemed like a foolproof method. Until now! I find that somehow urine has escaped the bowl, gone between the space above the bowl and below the seat. Maybe 1/8 of an inch? Not that this would be dreadful, but I ended up peeing all over the back of my pants, as they were down around my ankles as I read and poo’ed (and peed). Fortunately, I have a gym at work, was able to get over to the locker room unseen (I think) and clean things up and go on about my day. But it got me wondering… How did this happen? Has it happened before and I never noticed it? Has it happened to anyone else? So men of the dope, I ask you. Have you ever had an accident in the bathroom like this? (I didn’t mean to exclude women, but I’d have no way of understanding how a woman could pee between the seat and the bowl.) ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/2 "2009-05-15T01:28:31Z")
Yup, I’ve had it happen to me too. Fortunately for me I was at home, so realization & clean-up were not as traumatic as they could’ve been. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/3 "2009-05-15T01:48:34Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I’m holding my winkie down between my legs like I was taught many moons ago. Is that a one-eyed wink? Just be careful if you do that in the Minneapolis St. Paul airport bathroom. You might attract a politician. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/4 "2009-05-15T02:20:33Z")
Been there too. Always thought it happened 'cause I had a short member. Glad to hear it happens to others. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/5 "2009-05-15T03:02:04Z")
What stands out in your sad tale to me as a woman is that you enthroned yourself, with reading material and all, at work. Most women do not poop at work. Not enough privacy. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/6 "2009-05-15T03:02:21Z")
I bet it happens all time and you’ve never noticed, Mr. Pee Pants. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/7 "2009-05-15T03:36:27Z")
> [@Jodi](#): > > What stands out in your sad tale to me as a woman is that you enthroned yourself, with reading material and all, at work. > > Most women do not poop at work. Not enough privacy. Unless they’ve started installing glass doors on bathroom stalls, I’ll submit that this is more a mental thing than a privacy thing. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/8 "2009-05-15T03:38:08Z")
**Jodi** , if I have to poop at work, I do. I don’t like to only because I don’t like to feel rushed, but here’s one woman who has pooped at work lots of times. Sometimes I think it must be fun to have a penis. Then I hear stories like this and realize that maybe it’s just as well that I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Casserole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b77776/32.png) [@Casserole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casserole)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/9 "2009-05-15T03:52:35Z")
+1, if anyone’s counting. Hasn’t happened in awhile though, although because it’s happened before, I almost always “check” before I break the seal. ahem. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/10 "2009-05-15T04:06:36Z")
I’ve had this happen once to me as a child; but it was because I was quite erect at the time, and thus I wasn’t pointing down, but uncomfortably wedged under the seat pointing forward. Other than that incident (nearly four decades ago), I got nuttin’. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/11 "2009-05-15T04:32:22Z")
I’m not alone… sure, someone called me Mr. Pee Pants, but I’m not alone. I believe I would have never asked anyone this IRL. Too embarrassing. However, not to hijack my own thread, but I have to ask… **Jodi** , if you have to go, what do you do? How much privacy do you need? Everyone knows it’s you because of your shoes. Are women who don’t poop at work afraid they will be outed for the smell? The farting? ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/12 "2009-05-15T04:35:45Z")
Yeah, me. Only at home so far thank Og. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/13 "2009-05-15T04:38:29Z")
Yeah, once, ages and ages ago. I think I was twelve or so. I noticed and stopped pretty quickly, though. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/14 "2009-05-15T07:38:34Z")
This has happened to me, but rarely. But it happens to my partner more often. He has to rest his genitals on the seat to avoid getting them wet (and cold), and sometimes accidents happen. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/15 "2009-05-15T07:44:24Z")
I’ve heard guys complain of this before. I have a question… WTF are your pants doing around you ankles?! Girls drop trou only enough to take care of bidness. ---
**Author:** ![MrFinch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MrFinch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFinch)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/16 "2009-05-15T08:55:35Z")
Oh God, I can’t help but join this thread. Even though I know I shouldn’t. Yep, count me in too-its happened to me. PlainJain, I don’t get the whole pants around the ankles thing either-for the simple reason that men are somewhat lax in the aim department, and I don’t want my pants lying on the floor in all the drips… panache45, I actually had to read your comment three times before I got the visual. And now I’m stuck with the visual, thank you so much. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/17 "2009-05-15T10:44:05Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > I’ve heard guys complain of this before. I have a question… WTF are your pants doing around you ankles?! Girls drop trou only enough to take care of bidness. Trousers are around the ankles so the knees can be further apart making the penis, that is wedged down between the legs, feel more comfortable. To the OP, yeah that’s kind of happened to me, though it didn’t go on any clothes. Basically I hadn’t pointed myself down far enough. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/18 "2009-05-15T12:11:04Z")
I had a morbid fear of that happening to me, back in my late teens. It was almost OCD - I’d sit down, pee, and do a near-somersault bending down to check that I wasn’t pissing between the bowl and the seat. Then one day it happened when I wasn’t paying attention, but I caught it early on and adjusted myself, then cleaned up afterward. Oddly enough it turned out to be no big deal and I haven’t cared that much about it since. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/19 "2009-05-15T12:12:13Z")
Curse you, lousy wireless internet signal! (And maybe the hamsters.) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478/20 "2009-05-15T12:43:43Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > This has happened to me, but rarely. But it happens to my partner more often. He has to rest his genitals on the seat to avoid getting them wet (and cold), and sometimes accidents happen. I… Just… Well I guess we know what _you_ look for in a man 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-bathroom-happening-ever-happen-to-you-men-only-maybe-tmi-but-imo-funny/496478.md?page=2)