# You did WHAT in the shower? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677 "2003-09-30T12:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/21 "2003-09-30T15:53:56Z")
Hmm, I got this weird image of a toilet installed right above the shower drain…the possibilities are endless. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/22 "2003-09-30T15:58:11Z")
I was just thinking about that episode of “Seinfeld.” Sorry, but people like you guys are the reason you can never have a comfortable shower in a dorm. Just the possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/23 "2003-09-30T16:00:09Z")
Running water makes me want to pee. I assume it’s because of the way that I was potty trained. My mom would turn on the sink faucet and let the water run to relax me, while talking about rainstorms and rivers and the ocean and such. Now, whenever I shower, even if I have just gone pee, it would take a monumental effort of will not to have to go. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/24 "2003-09-30T16:03:00Z")
Haven’t you people ever heard of watersports? Where else will you do it but the shower? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/25 "2003-09-30T16:08:18Z")
Uristat is asome amazing stuff. Untill you’ve used it, you have no idea how much you actually urinate on yourself and your underclothes every day. To address the OP, it’s rather disgusting to urinate in a shower that other people must also use. I have an aversion to treading in other peoples fluids and excretia. If you have your very own private shower, feel free to amuse and pleasure yourself however you see fit. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/26 "2003-09-30T16:27:13Z")
Why don’t you just go right before you get into the shower? ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/27 "2003-09-30T16:51:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*Haven’t you people ever heard of watersports? Where else will you do it but the shower? \*\* [hijack] once again you prove to me that you’re worth my hero worship[/hijack] 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/28 "2003-09-30T17:38:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arien \* > \*\*Why don’t you just go right before you get into the shower? \*\* Well, yeah, but some mornings I can’t justify the use of toilet paper to dry myself off before getting in the shower to soak and soap up my hoohah. Not that I’m terribly cheap or anything, but I sometimes wonder why I’m wiping when it’s going to get wet anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/29 "2003-09-30T18:18:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scumpup \* > **I have an aversion to treading in other peoples fluids and excretia.** So do most people. If somebody else pees in the shower, it goes right down the drain, so you are in no danger of stepping in it. What I’m much more concerned about in public showers is athlete’s foot, which is why I always wear flip-flops when I use one. ---
**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/30 "2003-09-30T20:02:27Z")
I would have to disagree that it all goes right down the drain. While living in a dorm, there were a couple crotchsniffers that would pee in the shower. It always smelled like urine. It may have just been how these showers were designed, but there were definitely some unwanted fluids lingering around. I don’t see why it is so difficult to wait 5 minutes and piss in the toilet so others don’t have to bathe in your toilet. ---
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/31 "2003-09-30T20:06:09Z")
Are you sure they didn’t piss AROUND the shower? One of my friends kids pissed BESIDE the toilet once and it took me WEEKS to get rid of the smell. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/32 "2003-09-30T20:14:54Z")
No peeing in the shower. I would feel the need to bleach it every day if someone was pissing in there. I use that bathtub and I don’t want to be sitting in anything nasty. ---
**Author:** ![terd\_ferguson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@terd\_ferguson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terd_ferguson)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/33 "2003-09-30T20:39:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pencilpusher \* > \*\*Are you sure they didn’t piss AROUND the shower? One of my friends kids pissed BESIDE the toilet once and it took me WEEKS to get rid of the smell. \*\* That is funny. It’s possible, I guess. More likely it was _in_ the shower. The entire bathroom was tiled. The area where the drains were was recessed a little and flat, so water (and fluids) would just sit there and fester. They cleaned it by hosing the entire bathroom down, which probably just help to spread the fun around. The toilets smelled better than the showers. I am not a fan of shower pissing. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/34 "2003-09-30T21:12:50Z")
It’s a good way to conserve the hot water. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/35 "2003-09-30T21:52:06Z")
**Besides, unlike American bathrooms, toilets in Australian houses are typically in a different room from the shower.** Um … why? ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/36 "2003-09-30T21:57:05Z")
Just for the record, I have a private shower. Well, my girlfriend shares it with me. We did consult on the matter because of this thread and it’s fine with her. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/37 "2003-09-30T22:03:08Z")
I don’t, but I usually take a bath anyway. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/38 "2003-09-30T22:13:38Z")
I used to pee on my ex-girlfriend’s back in the shower while she was washing her hair… just to hear her squeal. Somewhere it all went wrong. ☹ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/39 "2003-09-30T22:20:37Z")
I see it as a non-issue. What is more yucky (to me), is getting out after you are all wet and sitting on the seat. 1. You get cold real fast 2. It takes longer because you are cold 3. The seat is all wet an feels gooshy like someone just peed all over it. 4. The toilet paper gets wet and sticks to your nether regions. So, yeah…in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677/40 "2003-09-30T22:38:39Z")
You know, I’m not particularly grossed out by other people’s fluids and excretia. Must be my lab tech training (where, in a single day, I could handle pee, blood, stool, sputum, semen, and cerebro-spinal fluid from hundreds of different people!) Sure, I pee in the shower. I assume Jim does, too - I couldn’t possibly care less if he does. If he pees on the floor in the bathroom, that’s a different story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-did-what-in-the-shower/204677.md?page=3)