When I had my first (see, there is a parent CC connection) I was offered a sitz bath in a special room. It was heavenly. Warm water on sore tired places. I rang for the nurse after about 10 minutes and told her that I needed to get out and pee. She laughed and said urine is sterile unless you have a UTI , (plus the water wasn’t recirculating) so just let loose. That felt very strange.
Pee in a public health club shower? OMG NO!
oh no no no no no. cannot read this thread.
I’m amazed this is an issue. My default assumption would be that most men do, in fact, pee in the shower.
I refuse to ask H, since it would mean that I would never scrub the shower basin again if true. Ugh! We have toilets for a reason, people!
Peeing in the shower helps to prevent foot fungus. I swear. It’s an old military trick.
OMG I honestly can’t believe people do this! Have never heard of it. Wow.
I heard once that the definition of a WASP is someone who gets out of the shower to pee.
What happened to the good old days when you peed in the urinal or toilet before taking a shower? Is it a time saving measure or multi-tasking thing now?
I don’t pee in anyone’s shower. And another reason I shower at home. <:-P
Top of the google search:
http://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1053599/8-reasons-you-should-pee-in-the-shower-today
Did not know this was a thing. I remember the Seinfeld episode and thought it was funny, but assumed it was unrealistic, like Kramer washing vegetables in the shower (something else I have never done and plan never to do).
Ewww.
@doschicos Great, now I will have to share this with my husband! Does this mean he wins another debate?
This thread makes me glad my husband is anal…
Scratch that…
Pee is way cleaner than anything you’re stepping in in public showers.
Wear shoes in the public shower, but not because of pee.
Related- The American habit of flushing every time we pee is just weird and unnecessary. It wastes SOOOO much water. Yes, I do it out of habit but I wish I could break it.
There are lots and lots of bathroom habits that we have that make little logical sense. Like, why don’t we wash our hands BEFORE we go to the bathroom? We can wash them after but really, dirty hands shouldn’t go near our “potty” areas.
Midnight thoughts…
Unthinkable. Hubby agrees.
LOL, this thread is cracking me up. First somehow I made my way to “what to wear when moving my kid into prep school” and now this. I don’t know who in my house pees in the shower, not normal dinner conversation, nor do I care. My kids were quite adept at peeing in all kinds of places when younger…we often spend 8-10 hours on the beach without bathrooms (4x4), hiking without bathrooms. Urine is not nasty or dirty, in fact has very (insignificant) amounts of bacteria. Jeesh.
As for flushing, those of us who grew up in very rural areas with wells (I still have one) will always recognize “if its yellow, let it mellow”.
If you think about what else is being washed down the shower drain (sweat, dirty hair, dead skin, etc.) and what grows on the surface of a wet shower floor (mold, athlete’s foot fungus) it seems to me that relatively antiseptic urine should be the least of one’s worries. I don’t pee in the shower but I think if I were logical I would. We waste a whole lot of water flushing pee.
Thanks for starting this thread. We’ve all learned a lot, even if some would now like to un-learn it.
Another favorite joke/story (from the internet):
“The lifeguard caught me peeing in the pool yesterday.”
“Really!?”
“Yes, and he blew his whistle so loud that I nearly fell in.”
That’s a real Dad(x) joke!