To wee in the shower?

[AngeloMysterioso]

First of all, I am not a pee troll, I promise. This is following on from a conversation I had earlier this evening.

Friend and I discussing what we’ve packed for Glastonbury, and I asked if she had bought herself a SheWee, as I’d suggested it a few weeks ago. She said she had but wasn’t sure if she was going to use it as she’d tried it a couple of times at home to practise and hardly anything came out. I said that had happened to me too and the best way to get used to it is by weeing in the shower as you use different muscles when you wee standing up.

She was horrified! Made all sorts of comments about it being gross and unhygienic, and said that if she needs to wee when she’s in the shower she gets out, dries off, goes to the loo and then gets back in the shower. I thought that was slightly bonkers as a) wee is sterile b) it all gets washed straight off you and down the drain anyway and c) you save time and water by not getting out, going to the loo and flushing. She brushes her teeth in the shower which I find far more bizarre!

I always thought weeing in the shower was a fairly common thing. Am I wrong?

Yes, and it has a very clever design, perfected over centuries, that helps urine run away.

What's so terrible about it if you're already in the shower and need a wee? Doesn't the shower water go to the same place as the toilet water, ie the drains then sewage system?

Yes, and it has a very clever design, perfected over centuries, that helps urine run away what shape is the base of your shower / bath that liquid don't run straight to the drain?

Spreading misinformation that it's sterile could lead to a ton of teenagers doing really stupid shit with their pee and potentially getting seriously ill.

Wait... like what? What could they do with their pee specifically because they think its sterile that would make them ill? I need to know!

@SleepingStandingUp and people go into the pit?

SleepingStandingUp

Funnily enough it’s a slightly slanting fairly flat tray. Whereas the loo is more like a jug, with a special all the way round flush. I’m sure you can get showers this shape too but I haven’t found one. Or you could put a shower head over the toilet bowl?

Abra1de my shower is positioned so that the water flows down the drain. It isn't discriminatory, it accepts all kinds of fluids. It isn't like the wee runs to the far end and sits there waiting to be drunk by a confused teenager who thinks its sterile

Wait... like what? What could they do with their pee specifically because they think its sterile that would make them ill? I need to know!

Use it to dilute their heroin before injecting? (might have bigger problems in that case)

Reminds me of a convo I overheard on the bus. One girl was talking about her exs new girlfriend and said 'She just strikes me as one of those people that doesn't pee in the shower' and her friend, me and a couple of people nearby who were listening all nodded their head as if to say 'ah yeah I know the type' xD

To be fair - virtually nothing that goes down a shower drain is sterile, and of all the un-sterile things, wee will definitely be cleaner than the sweat & grime & menstrual blood & poo crumbs and other human-stew-ingredients that will be swirling all around.

I understand the initial psychological ick-factor, but it really isn't actually logical.

I trust none of the posters are using Southern Water - peeing in the shower is the least of our worries.

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I can say I’ve never done this, just asked dp and the my ds’s, and none of them do it either- and all said the same, they have a wee before they get in the shower or when they come out, as they are old enough to control their bladder.

there seems to be a lot weird toilety and bleach threads on mn today.

Nope, I always go for a wee before I get in the bath or shower, otherwise I can guarantee I'll need to go about 2 minutes after getting in the water!

The girls in our family tend to favour baths over showers too, and the thought of wee splashing up the sides of the bath and not all being washed away with the shower water, then ending up in the bathwater turns my stomach a bit.

I don't know if DH wees in the shower - after reading all these responses, I'm afraid to ask!

Put together seeing in the shower with the number of people who don’t wash their legs and I’m starting to be concerned...another part of the puzzle as to why so many MNers need to wash their towels after every use or they smell!

My cat used to wee very neatly over the plug hole in the bath. Then she suddenly stopped doing it, I don’t know why. It’s an unsolved mystery to me.

and the thought of wee splashing up the sides of the bath Surely for women it just dribbles down your leg. Not sure how much a wild, unheld but peeing penis flails about but surely you'd hold and aim for the drain in which case the water would trajectory it towards the drain.

I'm not asking DH in case he is freaked out I like to pee in the shower.