Man urinating in park

[Caramac045]

Maybe IABU because I feel quite unwell.
Dog still needed a walk. Thought there is a
bench around this hedge line, I’ll sit down for a bit. Not happy to see a man urinating up the hedge between the park and tennis club.
I didn’t feel comfortable to sit on the bench right by a man with his penis out.

I’m a mature woman who manages to not wee in the park.
This was a man probably in his 30’s, not an older chap with prostate issues. AIBU to think he should not have been doing this?

There's a difference between pissing behind a bush in the country and pissing against a wall on a busy street in a town, yes?

Yep, I hate that as well. But it's usually much smaler streams, and I can tell you the piss-walls where I live stink all the time. The places the dogs pee don't really.

I don't know why some posters are so invested in pretending this isnt a problem. I'm glad all you have to worry about is a little bit of dog piss. Where I live, it's men, lots of men, and it stinks and it makes the streets wher it happens nasty places.

I suppose it really differs between places. What you describe sounds really unpleasant.

However, this thread was started by a woman who took her dog to piss in a park!
And I really hate how dog walkers like to pretend that dog wee is really nothing and no-one can be unhappy about that.

Sorry, wasn't fair to point my irony to your post specifically.

@retiringtoCelesteville I think caramacs are no longer produced but they used to be in Co-Op’s and Iceland even when they weren’t in other shop. Might be worth a look.

It’s gross.
I think it stems from childhood when little boys are allowed to pee anywhere but girls have to wait for the potty or for a public loo somewhere.
Dog piss is grim though too.

I don’t see men pissing in the street ‘all the time’, no. What streets are you frequenting?

Zone 3 London.

Do you see as many women pissing in the streets as men? If so, where do you live?

So dogs can wee wherever they please.

Some men believe that because they have a penis, they can urinate whenever and wherever they please. It’s disgusting. If you truly get caught short and cannot wait, find somewhere where you will not be seen, and where the smell won’t cause offence.

I live in London now, and there is an old, Victorian, “public convenience” near us, which has been closed for about 30 years. A sign on the padlocked gate helpfully informs people that the nearest public toilets are 3 miles away. One of the pubs used to be part of the “Wee Care” scheme, where you could just pop in for a wee, but this has changed with new owners and you now need a code for the door. Paris has those free standing, free to use self cleaning pod loos everywhere - why can’t we have something similar?

I would just have walked away. He probably didn't think that anyone was around. I sometimes need to have a wild one myself when out on a dog walk.

Your drinking days must have been quite extreme

And foxes?

No one, male or female, should be urinating in public. But, there is a shortage of public loos, so it happens. 🤷‍♀️

As long as they try to hide out of view, and in woods etc, I wouldn’t get stressed about it.

I don't think there is anything wrong with going behind a bush for a pee if you are desperate and there are no toilets around but going where you know you can be seen by others walking past is gross.

I went through a period of a few months a couple of years ago when the urgent need to piss would come on with less than a minute's warning (I had undiagnosed T2 diabetes and clearly raging glucose levels). God, it was embarrassing. I pissed myself a couple times. Sometimes I would have to pull over while driving, at almost no notice, to do it by the side of the road, already on the verge of wetting myself, and often with zero time to do the usual thing of finding somewhere a bit more private and hidden. It's sorted now, but there are sometimes reasons for people doing this...

I think if there is a medical issue then measures to support the sufferer would be to their benefit. Wear an incontinent pad.
If you know you are struggling with continence issues then there is no excuse.

Why?

It is better to just take the wee when necessary than spend days in a pad, potentially wet one.

Yes, people should think about the best place to do it and more public toilets would be better for everyone.

However, you were taking your dog to the park! The dog owners can hardly throw stones, letting their mutts urinate and defecate outside intentionally all the time.

I saw a taxi driver pull up in my street, get out and pee down an alleyway at the end of the street. It was broad daylight, close to school chucking out time. I managed to get a pic of him and his taxi and sent it to the council who gave him his licence. They were uninterested, did absolutely nothing.

I take it he wasn’t actually waving it around? No really such a big deal then, is it? We seem to have got quite unnecessarily puritan about this recently.

What would you expect them to do?
He obviously wasn't attempting to cause an offence, which afaik is the test here.

You are simply jealous.
You'd do the same if you could

It's grim, it makes places stink and as far as I am aware it's against the law (in England at least).

There is a man who shits n my local park. He lives in my road.

Was just about to say exactly this. Men and women, if they know they have urgency issues, be prepared.