My Answer: I am not a crazy-place-bathroom-goer. So, uh, crummy gas stations is as nutty as I get, and with all the travel across Northern Nevada I've been known to do, I've voided in many a nasty filling station.
My spouse, however, thinks that being a man--the pre-upgraded-plumbing version of humanity--means that on those same types of road trips peeing in a cup while driving is totally appropriate. (He's wrong.)
A few years ago, while making the move from Kansas to Sin City I was driving behind The Husband (two cars to move so we each drove the stretch alone), and I desperately had to pee. Not a gas station in sight. Curse my bitty bladder. HaftapeeHaftapeeHaftapee . . . Getting desperate. When suddenly my husband's arm, holding a Big Gulp cup, reaches out the window to dumps the cup's contents. The contents: his urine. It's landing place: my windshield.
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Um...Samoa.
Or the Plaza Hotel in NYC.
Take your pick.
I win with two stories.
1. I peed in a squat toilet in the middle of Siberia. Temperature was around -40 C. Excrement was frozen all around the footholds and the hole was frozen over. All of this while people were waiting just outside a door left ajar. It occurs to me know that finding a tree would have been better.
2. I peed outside my safari van in the great Rift Valley while the other safari goers waited in the van.
Hahaha! That was awesome. Craziest place to bathroom-- don't think it's crazy, but in the middle of the woods, both here in Hawaii and in Tahoe. But, I gotta tell you, when Keli'i and I went backpacking in Europe, I thought the European toilets were the weirdest things ever. Ashley, you do win. That's awesome.
I don't even know how to answer that, seriously nothing comes to mind. I figure if there's a toilet, it's not that crazy right?
I pee in the shower on a regular basis. I don't go in there with the intention of peeing, but if the need arises why get out?
I used to clean houses for cash back in HS and I peed in a sink once. It was a dare type situation.
I have peed in the woods or tall grass on many occasions.
It isn't crazy but it is the only place that comes to mind that is out of the ordinary at the moment. In the pool while doing laps. It is quite the talent I tell you. Not many can actually be in motion swimming and still let it flow. Several of my coworkers prefer to go during swim lessons when the kiddos are acting naughty, gross I say. Unoriginal? Yes, but it is still quite the feat.
Living with 3 boys, car trips are easy. They can just get out and pee on the side of the road. It leaves me with a problem because we never have to stop at a gas station because the boys don't need to. So in many cases, I have peed on the side of the road as well.
And let's chat about when your husband tried to pee in my car into a cup when we were driving back to Utah a few weeks ago. He proceeded to tell me and Caitlyn not too look while he whipped it out. I immediately started screaming and pulled over and kicked him out of the car so he could do what boys do on the side of the road. It was not cool.
Once during a torrential down-pour in hurricane-like conditions, in the middle of the blackest of nights, while driving the backroads of Mississippi, I needed to goooo sooooo badly that I used the six-pack sized Thermos brand cooler stowed in the backseat which housed our road tripping nosh. I emptied it out of course...and to be honest it fit my backside perfectly...! I would do it again in a pinch, and this technique would work on a boat too! This is the woman's answer to peeing in a bottle/cup...no splashing, perfect containment for said voidment and great butt suction.
aren't you glad your window wasn't open?
i pee in normal places. bathrooms. when camping? the woods. on road trips? in gas station bathrooms (Chevrons tend to be the best). i don't stray too far from the beaten path this area of my life.
pants. always pants. when i was in jr. high, i was playing soccer and to go pee you would have to around a fence and to the grocery store on the other side. well, i couldn't make it, so i peed in my pants, and then saw a puddle, so i "tripped" in order to make my wet pants look like a clumsy mistake, rather than an incontinent one.
I've totally peed on the side of the road many times. Men seem to think women can't do that or something, because my husband was so impressed that for the rest of the day it was like I was suddenly really cool.
Peeing in a cup while driving though? Crosses my personal threshold.
(Bee-Tee-Dub, Thanks for the comment today, I hope I did not give off the impression that choosing to work wasn't good, because actually it is one of the things about you that I really respect, I love your choices and I think you're rad. How's that for cheese? True cheese.)
Rat, of course I didn't misinterpret you. Anyone would love your days; they just aren't mine and I know that we both appreciate our difference there.
Speaking of "rat," y'all, I am planning on ratting out a few of your more terrific bathroom escapades tomorrow. They need sharing in a broader forum.
Kathryn, you had me laughing aloud.
Oh, and Whit, the fact that my husband tried to pee in a cup in your car is another thing we can blame on his mother. She wasn't like you; she wouldn't pull over to let the boys pee on roadtrips. She handed them a cup instead.
I just remembered I peed in cave in Brazil on my honeymoon. Why was I in a cave on my honeymoon? I was canoodling.
In the woods. Off the side of a boat. In a really remote part of Bolivia where you have to pay to use the restroom and buy tp but it was the grossest bathroom ever. My friend had to pee so bad on the bus ride she made the bus driver pull over and she hung it all out there on the side of the bus, with not a few people peering out to see what was going on.
Sometimes I'd rather pee in the woods than bother with particular bathrooms.
In a slot canyon somewhere deep in the San Rafael Swell- both one and two. Let me tell you one thing about going in a canyon, the echo was out of this world.
In a port-o-potty with a huge pile of crusty poop on the back of the seat (there maybe have even been flies hovering about). No toilet paper either...thank heavens for the classifieds. I think I would have been better off taking care of business in the bushes!
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