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Well, Do You?
updated: Sep 13, 2012, 2:37 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

Recently I was having a conversation with friends and we had a debate on something that I thought was completely normal but they adamantly disagreed. I wanted to get the edhat opinion on a somewhat weird topic. Do you pee when you're in the shower?

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SBSURFERLIFE	2012-09-13 02:40 PM
Totally, it saves water. Brazil had a huge ad campaign a few years ago promoting this.
COMMENT 319435	2012-09-13 02:42 PM
Who doesn't?
COMMENT 319436P	2012-09-13 02:42 PM
If I have to go, then, yes I do.
ZENYATTA19	2012-09-13 02:43 PM
Only in my own shower. I think everyone does or has a sometime. What's wrong with that? Now if you were to pee in the shower at the gym that's a different story...
COMMENT 319439	2012-09-13 02:44 PM
Absolutely!! :) And blow my nose there too
REXOFSB	2012-09-13 02:44 PM
A while back when WASP jokes were being circulated, a WASP was defined as someone who gets out of the shower to pee.
ROGER DODGER	2012-09-13 02:49 PM
Hell I pee in the sink!!! It's Un American SNOT Too!
COMMENT 319449	2012-09-13 02:51 PM
Peeing in the shower is absolutely disgusting. Who does that?? SICKOS!!!!!
COMMENT 319451	2012-09-13 02:51 PM
No. Never.
COMMENT 319454	2012-09-13 02:52 PM
Only when showering alone. I used to think it was disgusting, but now, meh.
COMMENT 319455P	2012-09-13 02:52 PM
Another shower pee-er here! Big deal.....
COMMENT 319456	2012-09-13 02:52 PM
I do.... I pee in the pool too, and anyone who says they don't is a liar!
COMMENT 319457	2012-09-13 02:55 PM
I do it in the shower, pool, hot tub, and sometimes when I laugh really hard.
COMMENT 319461	2012-09-13 02:56 PM
Is it different depending on if you're a male or a female?
COMMENT 319462	2012-09-13 02:57 PM
Pee is totally sterile. You can actually drink it. There are people who even say there are health benefits to drinking it (this I don't agree with). In fact, if you are ever stranded with no water, you can keep yourself alive by drinking your pee, pee it back out, drink it again, and so on.
COMMENT 319463	2012-09-13 02:57 PM
I wont addmit it.
COMMENT 319465	2012-09-13 02:59 PM
If you live in Ojai and specifically Golden State Water District water rates then you're already on board with this.
COMMENT 319470	2012-09-13 03:04 PM
Hands free, I try to pee everytime I take a shower. The worst is when you take a shower and need to take a dump as soon as you get out.
COMMENT 319472	2012-09-13 03:05 PM
Not in the shower, but I do when "checking the prop" :)
COMMENT 319473P	2012-09-13 03:05 PM
Peeing in the shower is OK. Especially for women. Standing to pee more fully empties the bladder. Peeing in the shower once in a while could help prevent bladder infections that are much more common in women.
COMMENT 319475	2012-09-13 03:10 PM
Sometimes, and sometimes I pee in my pants coz, what can I say.....the ol' bladder aint what she used to be ; )
COMMENT 319476P	2012-09-13 03:12 PM
Of course! Why not? Pee is sterile and it beats wasting water in the toilet when you're about to shower anyway.
COMMENT 319478	2012-09-13 03:16 PM
You can't stay alive by drinking your pee as the salts in it will build up in your body as you recycle it until you destroy your kidneys. Maybe you can do it once or twice but not indefinitely without any other source of liquid to dilute the salts. I knew a guy that had a really bad burn on his hand, looked horrible, and then two weeks later I saw him again and he was fully healed. I asked him what he had done, and he told me that he peed on it several times a day. I was amazed but also resolved to never shake his hand again. I knew a plumber that was totally grossed out by the thought of people peeing in the shower, which said to me he was in the wrong business.
COMMENT 319479	2012-09-13 03:16 PM
Yes I agree, that is a weird subject:-)
COMMENT 319485	2012-09-13 03:26 PM
Yes! ...err, well no. My wife won't let me. But I used to!
COMMENT 319491	2012-09-13 03:31 PM
478 - if you are stranded for a long enough time to build up kidney stones or destroy your kidneys, then you would probably have died by then anyway. Its a survival tactic to try and stay alive as long as you can to get rescued. Not something to do "indefinitely".
COMMENT 319495	2012-09-13 03:39 PM
I used to save it in shampoo bottles. Boy was the wife pissed, but her hair was never shinier.
COMMENT 319499	2012-09-13 03:41 PM
what does "checking the prop" mean?
COMMENT 319500	2012-09-13 03:41 PM
449 Wait till you get old!
COMMENT 319506	2012-09-13 03:54 PM
Who doesnt is right ! Funny thing is I have been involved in several conversations about this same topic..
COMMENT 319510P	2012-09-13 04:00 PM
No and that is Gross that anyone does
COMMENT 319517	2012-09-13 04:09 PM
Yes of course. Saves water and, as someone pointed out, is COMPLETELY sterile and not gross at all.
COMMENT 319520	2012-09-13 04:14 PM
Yep. I try not to fart in the bath, though.
COMMENT 319522	2012-09-13 04:15 PM
I used to pee in the shower when I was a young kid....40 years ago....then I grew up. And urine is NOT sterile.
COMMENT 319524	2012-09-13 04:19 PM
Wonder if my wife is the OP. She pees in the shower. I think that's disgusting. And given the choice of dying or drinking our own pee, I'm pretty sure both of us would prefer dying.
COMMENT 319526	2012-09-13 04:24 PM
Placard in the bathroom of a Bahamas Hotel: In this land of sun and fun, we don't flush for number one.
COMMENT 319540	2012-09-13 04:55 PM
The problem is that it leaves a smell. You'd think that with all the water running, it would get completely run down the drain. But it just doesn't, and there's a residual smell.
COMMENT 319545	2012-09-13 04:59 PM
George Pee -d in the shower on Seinfeld in the Health Club !! Great Episode !!!
YIN YANG	2012-09-13 05:00 PM
Ancient SB saying:" If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." Just watch out for tp accumulation. I often pee & put the tp in the trash. Yes, I only do this in my own abode or those who I know do the same. I pee in the shower. I too blow my nose in the shower. What can be disgusting about urinating in such a clean manner?! What's disgusting about urinating? We all gotta do it. Weird. And Americans think bidets are *dirty*...
YIN YANG	2012-09-13 05:14 PM
WHOOPS! Sure wish I could edit.... Sorry. "Some people" think bidets are dirty. Many of us don't know what they are; I had to find out.
COMMENT 319562P	2012-09-13 05:21 PM
Me too 439. Good for the bladder and clears the sinuses. 485, does she stand there and watch to make sure you don't? 495, thanks for the belly laugh. By the way, I am female.
COMMENT 319566	2012-09-13 05:33 PM
499 ... "checking the prop" is a euphemism used when jumping off a boat, often by water skiers, divers, fishermen etc. You claim you're going to examine the propeller but you're really going to pee in the water. I hear it all the time up at Lake Naciemento.
COMMENT 319578	2012-09-13 06:08 PM
Yup.
COMMENT 319580	2012-09-13 06:12 PM
Yup. If you ever develop Athlete's Foot, peeing on your feet will make it disappear in a day or two. Nothing weird about it, but I guess we identified the WASPs on the board!
COMMENT 319582	2012-09-13 06:18 PM
They don't call CA the Golden State for nothing!
COMMENT 319586	2012-09-13 06:28 PM
I don't know any of you well enough to disclose any details about my bodily functions. That said, I think blowing your nose in the shower is off-the-scale disgusting. My neighbor hacks and coughs and blows his elephant-blaring nose trumpet every time he showers. I never mentioned it to anyone, how vastly nauseating this noisy showering was to me. Then, one morning, my lover came outside and suddenly started in with a perfect imitation of this repulsive shower habit, as produced by our neighbor. It was hilarious.
COMMENT 319587	2012-09-13 06:35 PM
Oh My God. Peeing whilst taking a shower? Never. Someone could get hurt!
COMMENT 319588	2012-09-13 06:36 PM
Why was 474 deleted? It is not as if the pit bull in the shower had a tin foil hat on.
COMMENT 319589	2012-09-13 06:38 PM
IT'S ALL PIPES! OH, I SEE. YOU'RE FRIENDS WITH THE URINATOR! :)
COMMENT 319590	2012-09-13 06:38 PM
The really progressive permaculture types advocate peeing outside because it not only saves water but pee contains many of the things (probably more) that we fertilize plants with. As this was the practice for hundreds of thousands of years before toilets were invented (I'm including Cro Mags in there) it's probably the highest and best use for pee. I don't know what it would do to lawn grass though. Some plants are probably better candidates for this kind of watering than others.
COMMENT 319603P	2012-09-13 07:15 PM
what is urea? I see it in ingrdient labels in the gardening section.
COMMENT 319608P	2012-09-13 07:30 PM
Thank you, OP, I love that you put this to edhat. And, yes, of course I pee in the shower, but not in the yard, as my husband sometimes does. Harder for gals to get away with that, with neighbors around.
COMMENT 319616	2012-09-13 07:42 PM
Sure. Especially during morning showers. every one I've ever showered with also has no problem peein in shower (:
COMMENT 319622	2012-09-13 07:48 PM
I pee in the shower, the sink, the side of the rd, the bushes ex... I would even pee on paul ryan.
AUNTIE S.	2012-09-13 08:01 PM
Great definition, Rex. 495, I split my sides laughing - but I think I'll stick with Matrix. (There sure are a lot of uptight people here).
REXOFSB	2012-09-13 09:41 PM
'K, I know in advance that Edhat Nanny is probably going to make short shrift of this, but while we're on the subject... My second car is a right-hand drive VW Beetle. One day on a trip to LA in said Beetle, I was positively busting for a pee between Camarillo and Thousand Oaks. What to do? Well, there was an empty McDonald's 20-ounce soda cup rolling around on the floor, so at 65 mph I proceded to use it as McDonald's never intended, if you know what I mean and I think you do. The problem: what do you DO with a 20-ounce container of effluent when you don't want it in your car? You roll down the window and pour it out, is what you do if you're me. I didn't notice until I had already done the deed that the vehicle I'd just passed--at 65 mph--was a Baptist school bus. The driver sounded an angry horn at me, while simultaneously turning on his windshield wipers. I laughed all the way to Hollywood.
CHILI_CON_ARTCARNE	2012-09-13 11:28 PM
OP - you really want edhat to jump the shark, don't you?
COMMENT 319674	2012-09-14 06:47 AM
I am from England and not familiar with " checking the prop" but suspect it is similar to " pointing Percy at the porcelein" Yes?
COMMENT 319684	2012-09-14 07:10 AM
Checking the prop is an excuse to pee in a lake or the ocean when boating.
PEYTON'S GRANDMA	2012-09-14 07:49 AM
I can't believe I actually read all these comments . . . LOL
FLICKA	2012-09-14 08:10 AM
Seinfield had this topic in an episode.
COMMENT 319731P	2012-09-14 08:21 AM
Eeeuw - blowing nose in the shower? Now that's really yucky.
AGENTSME	2012-09-14 08:35 AM
Ewwww! No!!!
COMMENT 319745P	2012-09-14 08:48 AM
Blowing your nose in the shower is the best way to clean out your sinuses without them being irritated by harsh tissue. What's gross about it when you are washing your hand and face right after and the snot goes down the drain? Also pee in the shower and don't get bladder infections but I used to before I stopped being uptight about peeing in the shower. Oh and yes, I am the technical definition of a WASP although I'm not religious (remember the 'P' is for Protestant). I guess I'm just not a germophobe. Personally, I think the germophobes get sick more often because they never build up immunities against things.
COMMENT 319810	2012-09-14 09:50 AM
This is the funniest comment thread I've EVER read on Edhat!! Rex Of SB, YOU are too funny! Thank you so much, I needed good laugh! ;-D Shower urination? Disgusting. Imagine your drain backs up one day and you're standing in a pool of piss. I could never feel clean showering in a giant urinal.
COMMENT 319852	2012-09-14 10:40 AM
I take baths!
EDSUP	2012-09-14 11:46 AM
I was once advised by animal control that a great deterrent for skunks in the yard is male human urine. Works great! Also, one might want to rethink shower-nose-blowing after one has had to clean mucous out of a sluggish drain.
COMMENT 319912	2012-09-14 12:00 PM
Absolutely not. Would you want to stand/sit in the residue of someone else's urine? See Cornell University post of bacteria in urine. The problem is that we don't always know who is sick, producing bacteria in urine, and spreading diseases.
COMMENT 319914	2012-09-14 12:03 PM
I'll bet you 200 bucks I can pee in this shot glass from over here.
COMMENT 319950	2012-09-14 12:47 PM
Why wouldn't you? The water is going into the sewer anyway. Why do people think it is disgusting?
CORKY	2012-09-14 02:51 PM
I was just wondering the other day as I was peeing when the bath water was going out, but ICK! on drinking. No one else uses my tub. Can't see how it hurts anything.
COMMENT 320221P	2012-09-14 08:34 PM
so does ed know who all the anonymous edhatters are who pee in the shower?
ROGER DODGER	2012-09-15 07:43 AM
I'm not ashamed of it.
IHEARTSB	2012-09-15 12:45 PM
I don't think there's any harm in peeing in the shower. As for nose blowing, which my husband does, I only have one objection to it. On occasion, I'll notice a big ol' booger stuck to the shower wall. This immediately causes a serious gag reflex. It's worse than finding a spider in the shower! For the record, I also cannot STAND hairy soap. Just sayin. And for those of you who admit peeing in the pool and/or hot tub, thanks a lot! I'll never swim in the pool at our gym again! Same gag reflex, that's seriously disgusting. Period.
COMMENT 320638	2012-09-16 07:31 AM
Peeing in the pool or hot tub is rude and messes up the water chemistry. It chews up chlorine contributing to the 'chlorine' smell as yet more chemicals have to be added. Get out of the water, check the propeller on some garden plants, then hose em down. The plants will be happy. Now get back in the tub. Thank you.
COMMENT 320843	2012-09-16 04:35 PM
mmmmmmmmm - mayo w/ fries. You won't go back to ketchup!
COMMENT 322116	2012-09-20 09:48 AM
Peeing outside can help keep coyotes away . Mark your land men !
COMMENT 341253	2012-11-10 09:15 AM
Of course I pee in the shower, I thought everyone did. My whole family pees in the shower--it goes down the drain, with LOTS of water so there is no back up of pee. And blowing noses in the shower. Again, who wouldn't? A lot of folks are grossed out by a lot of stuff. Why is that? I have two teenage boys, we have a really clean house, nothing smells, we all pee in the shower and I tell them to blow their noses in the shower when they are stuffed up. Americans...shesh...kinda paranoid of...what...not sure.

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