Men: Urinating
 

Here's the scenario. You are male, and enter a public restroom to urinate. All of the urinals are occupied, but there is a stall available. What do you do?


Not the most weighty of issues, but my office only has one urinal and about 22 guys, so the question comes up often (at least in my mind). Ladies, you can vote for what you think your man does, if you want to vote, or feel free to comment.

#2 in most cases

#2 in most cases as well, unless i feel unsafe then i close the door

Well, this is gonna be some fascinating insight into the male mind...

Can we female types ask the question WHY? on some answers?

(Glad to see this isn't a he-man woman hater's club thread :)

So far I'm with the majority.

Hey, you forgot a option... piss in the sink. (I've seen it at sporting events several times. And no, I've never done that in a public restroom.)

I always use stalls unless the urinals have very high dividers. I had a bad experience as a kid using a urinal (creepy pedophile guy looking at me while I was peeing). I don't like other guys staring at my wang when I am relieving myself.

In the stall, door closed. Don't know why I close the door really, just habit I guess.

Dude, you had to qualify that statement?!?!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

In most cases it would be number 3 but with two key exceptions...

1) I close the door but don't lock it
2) I will wait for a urinal if the stalls are really gross

I've selected other, as it depends on the stall size. If it's small enough where I can hold the door open with my knee by standing there to pee, then I'll leave the door open, but if I cannot do that, then I'm shutting and locking the door, because the have a tendancy to swing shut and then get opened into my back by some unsuspecting bathroomgoer, causing me to fall headfirst into the toliet. Ok so that's never happened, but I have been hit and stumbled once or twice, leading to the devlopment of this rule.

#2 or #3 is fine, what ever you are more comfartable with

Why would one close the door when using the stall to piss when the urinal affords no such option? Weird...

I don't use urinals at all, number 3 it is for me even if the urinals are unoccuppied... *shrug* I like my privacy.

#3.. i jus dont feel comfortable with the thought of someone jus starin at me.. lol

I'd hate to deny someone the opportunity to drop a load. It's usually not a problem for me to stand and wait for the next available urinal.

I just wait and go in the urinal, unless I REALLY have to go, and there's a line or something. :D For example, at a bar after hours of drinking. :lol:

See my post above yours: to avoid falling in the toliet!

One of the great things about being a guy, the world is our urinal.

I'll go in the first available spot (not the sink), i wouldn't bother with the door.

Fortunately for me my office is equipped with a multi urinal configuration so this scenario rarely presents itself. The counter consequences however are that many guys feel like that's the perfect place to strike up a conversation. I'm not a fan of this phenomenae and prefer to complete this operation in silence.

ill use the toilet (standing ofcourse) and depending on how dirty/lazy im feeling i may or may not latch the door. ill usually just swing it near closed and if it opens, no ones going to see anything unless they turn me around.
so i guess i voted other

Ok -- so when you deem it necessary to use a stall - do you have a preference as to which stall? Studies have shown that in a public ladies room, the stall closes to the door is generally the least germy.... do y'all care?

/me is not gonna ask if y'all wash your hands either...

For a time, I was a #2. Then converted to #3. Some guys kept trying to walk in, thinking that a stall with an open door is empty. And let's face it, people are more likely to walk through an open door than a closed one :)

actually it's germs on the door, the flusher handle, and the lock on the door (not to mention the water faucets and the bathroom door handle itself) there are germs everywhere I tell ya -- everywere...

/me hides under the bed

No, why would we care, it's 2 feet away (pole vaulting germs, maybe?). And yes, some of us wash our hands.

Yes, I wash my hands and then use the paper towel used to dry my hands to open the door for that very reason.

I hate guys who don't wash their hands. I wash my hands when I enter the bathroom and before I leave. I use paper towels to open door handles.

I totally agree. This is not the time to discuss anything. I am concentrating hard enough on just loosening up so I can pee if someone is there. I don't need to be asked how it's going or anything about work at that moment.

for the record, I close the door and lock it. I also do this at home. Mostly because one of my dogs noses open the door if it isn't shut, and stares at me wondering I guess, why I don't lift my leg. Maybe not that, but they do stare. And the cats come in to investigate. Talk about stagefright, and trying not to piss on a cat in the process while they have their head over the bowl totally intrigued.

Well, when you stand at a urinal, there's no door. So, if you are standing in a stall, I was wondering if is it overly fussy to close the door, or is it potentially rude to leave it open? It looks like most people who use the stall close the door either way, so I'll now feel better about doing so.

:lol: I'd forgotten about that. It's been a while since I lived with cats.

I sit down because its a pain in the ass to pee standing up with a PA and not dribble on yourself! :p

I'm not overly concerned about other guys seeing my dangly bits; I've spent my fair share of time in locker rooms, modesty tends to go the way of the dodo in places like that (you all have to shower after all, unless you're just really disgusting and don't bathe after getting sweaty). So if the urinals are unavailable I'll use a stall but I'm not going to bother closing the door.

I also agree that bathroom conversationalists are just odd. When you're there it's specifically to drain the lizard and I've always been a believer in eyes straight ahead, no talking.

As for people who don't wash their hands.. well, that's just disgusting. I'm hardly a neat freak or anything, but I was taught at a young age that you was your hands after using the washroom and before preparing food. No exceptions.

Very interesting discussion going on here. I always wish that I were a guy when I have to go to the bathroom in public. We have no choice. Well, actually we do...

Toilet that's not flushed with pee on the seat
Toilet that is flushed with a pee on the seat
Toilet that looks like it may not have been used yet today
Other, though I'm sure no one lady would choose a nasty unflushed toilet
And of course, the door would be closed

*blech* I agree with mal, germs are everywhere...

I close the stall door even if I'm standing. Of course, that isn't always a safeguard as demonstrated in this thread.

I prefer my privacy whilst engaged in this particular function, maybe I'm a bit kooky this way, but I prefer avoiding circumstances like what happened when shesus and I first started dating. I went to her parents' house for dinner and went to grab a soda. In order to do this, I had to go down to the basement, past one of their bathrooms and what did I see but her father with pants around ankles, bathroom door wide open and whizzing away gleefully. So yeah, I always close the door, even in a public restroom.

Living in a dorm for a few years have made me unafraid of any bathroom problems. Ill go with the entire restroom watching me. I just want to go!

I voted #3... I've had the door swing shut behind me, and then some guy slams the door open thinking the stall is unused. Scares the piss right out of ya! :lol:

Depends on whether there are other guys in any of the stalls.If no one else is in the bathroom, I usually pick the farthest one. If there is someone else in the bathroom, the "MPPNBA" rule comes into effect, and there must be a least 1 stall in between occupants (see the International Center for Bathroom Etiquette for more information on the MPPNBA rule).

I voted number 3 for Dave....he says #1 his mother always taught him to shut the door so he does it in public bathrooms too by habit :lol: and #2 He says some people will do what ambient posted and he hates that :)

I was watching some show with George Carlin, and he addresses this issue as such (not verbatim) "Why bother washing your hands? If your that worried, maybe you should be washing what your holding instead?"

Kind of made me think, how many germs does the wang collect just sitting there? Assuming you showered that morning that is. I always wash my hands, with soap in public restrooms. Never at home. I guess in my own house, I don't feel the need. I put it down to this, I don't know what is in a hotdog, but I have never gotten sick from eating one. I don't wash my hands at home, and I have never gotten sick then either.

I wash my wang before I touch it and after.

Well, a clean wang is a happy wang, right? :)

I went with #3. I like to do my business in private. I don't want conversation or some stranger pissing on my shoes (it's happened...) so I avoid the urinals like the plague I assume they carry. I use the stall and I close the door. It's just common courtesy. I don't want to see your package, I assume you don't want to see mine.

As for what stall...well, I always pick the handicap stalls. They're usually far away from the door, they're nice, roomy and for some reason always cleaner than the other stalls. I don't know if that's because they see little use and able bodied folks are afraid to use them or if they just do a better job cleaning up after themselves because they feel the plight of the handicapped. Either way, I don't care as long as they're relatively clean.

My roommate used to do everything with the door wide open. It didn't matter what he was doing beforehand, he'd just carry on as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Eat a sandwich, talk on the phone, carry on conversations across the apartment all from his 'throne' in the bathroom. It's not that he had anything to brag about, he just didn't think it was a big deal.

Simple. Urinals still allow peripheral vision. Stalls cut off peripheral vision, and make the male peeing into the toilet, with his back to the door, vulnerable to attack. I always close and lock the door when urinating in a stall in a public restroom. Peace of mind is priceless... :|

I would go with 4, and im sorry guys i dont understand the point of closeing the cubicle door!?!?!? if your just going for a p*ss.

Agreed. I mean, I don't urinate on my hands, but in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety, I always wash my hands. Also, I like to keep my hands clean, anyway.

I use the paper towel to open the door, too, because you never know whether the dirty jackasses before you washed their hands. :D I hate public restrooms that don't have paper towels. I feel trapped. Sometimes I wait for someone else to open the door, unless it swings out, in which case, I push it with my elbow.

:crazy:

I wash my hands before and after using the public bathrooms (usually just after if im at home) but its more from touching the urinals and door handles and from whatever else I've touched that day that I wash them as my dick is probably cleaner than my hands.

So you're saying that gals pee on the seats too? I wonder how that happens, considering they're sitting on them as it's happening :)

I think it's probably a product of losing one's balance while "hovering". :crazy:

I'd close the door, not because someone would see anything, but just for privacy's sake.
When it comes to washing my hands, I always do, but just to be clean. I don't really care about germs. i don't see the point in using paper towels to open the door, you're just gonna pick up the germs from somewhere else anyway. Who cares?

I almost exclusively use stalls, either door open or closed. I like the privacy, and some places have a bad habit of making urinals that are so low that using them is irritating.

I just close the door, because I don't want someone to push the door open while I'm peeing and knock me over creating a mess...

lolthe olde hovermower impression..i dont know why we bother..you know how hard it is to catch anything at all of a bog seat...almost impossible...lol :hmm:

I usually close the door, because if it's been that long since I used the bathroom, I probably need to readjust my balls and then undo my belt so I can pull my boxers out of my asscrack.

I voted #2 for doing #1 .. aren't I witty?
But it's atossup between 2 and 3 for me the scenario that most commonly fits here for me is post movie, when all 20-30 of us who didn't pee during the movie file in.

Am I the only guy who hopes that my turn will be in a urinal so i don't have to decide between 2 and 3 ... or have you wondered if the half open door of choice two is occupied so ya kinda glance for feet, hoping you don't commit to going over and finding it occupied, lose your place in line?

And you ladies thought it was easy for us men to pee.

No matter what, I cannot piss in a urinal. In highschool (a much more hostile environment compared to the uni I now attend) for some reason I never had a problem with using a urinal. Just, for some really odd reason, I've developed a serious case of "shy bladder"--to the point where even if I try, I can't go in a urinal, even if the whole restroom is deserted. It always has to be a stall, with the door locked. Perhaps I will get over this in the near future.

Oh yeah, and I always wash my hands. I'm almost as obsessive as Howard Hughes is depicted in The Aviator about having my hands clean. It's not that extreme for me, since I only wash my hands whenever I use the restroom or before I eat something. And I also do the paper towel technique of opening the door with paper towel in hand.

I assume all of the people who mentioned liking their privacy realize that's the reason the military has struggled with a policy in regard to gays. Since there's so little privacy in military facilities.


/threadjack

I like pissing in urinals. I wish I had one in my apartment.

When ones not available I'll wait. If I gotta pee really bad, I'll do the #2. (Stall, door open)

My exact reasons for starting this thread. Glad to hear I'm not alone. :thumbsup:

Go in the stall, close the door, simple.

I always close the door when i'm in the stall, and lock it if possible. Theres nothing more annoying that someone not looking where their going, knocking open the door and practically walking into you while your taking a piss. There are plenty of idiots out there, i'd like them to stay locked away from me if possible.

I go in the stall, and lock the door.

The last thing I need is for someone to walk in halfway before realizing I'm standing there taking a leak. Evwn worse (i've seen this while waiting for something to open up) is when children open the door, and just stare at the person taking a piss.

As weird as it seems to me, I still will head for the stall, and close the door.

I guess it's just habit, and before I go in there, I try to remind myself to keep the door open this time, but like clockwork, there goes the door. I just laugh, because peeing isnt' really a big deal. But I suppose even when alone at home, I still close the door to do anything in there..

Just one of those things I guess.

I've been welcomed in to the "Boys Room" in crowded public places many times. Each time, the stall was cleaner than the one in the "Ladies Room". I've always been jealous of urinals to a point. They seem more sanitary. I dunno about the whole thing with someone looking at you when you're peeing, though. My ex used to fanatically lock the door. He couldn't even go at home if he thought I could hear him, much less see him. Yes, I tortured him mercilessly with that one... "Hey honey, whatcha doin'?"

However.... he called me yesterday about a new invention. Asked me repeatedly, "If I bought you some 'P-Mates', would you try them and tell me how they work?" until I said yes. Apparently, they give women the "freedom" to pee standing up. I'm actually quite fascinated. And as an added bonus, you can pee standing up in front of other people without them being able to have the full view of the nether regions! Woo hoo!

I never use urinals. Ever. Well okay, I have, and it's no big deal to me but I prefer stalls. I don't prefer standing up either. Although I have, and it's no big deal, I just prefer taking a seat.

All because that's how I grew accustomed to going for a pee. :P

Ive taken a piss in the sink before. why not?

Too many times I've had another guy walk into the stall because bathroom configuration prevented my being visible from outside. Not so much a problem as an added source of frustration/discomfort for someone else and distraction for myself. Why not?
Sinks are for hands, faces, things on the way to being clean. Peeing dicks aren't usually in this category.

I go in the stall and close the door. Mainly for one reason and one reason that I close the door... Stall doors swing in, and in my office, they are a little unbalanced, so they naturally close halfway. While this still leaves me enough room to do my bussiness standing up, the first time I got clocked by the door because someone wasnt paying attention and tried to enter what they thought was an empty stall, I damn near pissed on myself. If the door is closed and latched, there is no problem. (As mentioned numerous times in this thread)

Heres a question for you all though... Pissing in the urinal, ok to carry on a conversation? I have a really hard time talking to another guy while my cock is in my hand, am I the only one?

I had a friend in highschool that would always carry on a convo while pissing in the urinal if you happened to be there... Weird in my opinion.

One last comment... Anyone realize that urine is the only sterile fluid to exit your body? Yup, the Ph makes it very difficult for anything to live in there. Also, you all realize urine and sweat are more or less the same thing? Its simply quanities of the same chemicals and whatnot in there that differentiate.

On that note, I do always wash my hands afterwards. Though I'm sure I pick up just as many germs shutting the faucet off as I wash off.

Last thought... I heard somewhere that (in your house) your washcloth in your sink is going to have infinitly more germs on it than the toilet seat. Go figure...

Option 3 -- not for privacy, but just to make it clear that the toilet is _in use._ Believe me, I've had guys come most of the way into the stall before it quite registered on them that someone else was in there. Kind of breaks the mood.

And I lift the lid, pee standing up, and lower the lid again.

As for preference; where there are just two stalls, I _think_ I usually take the one nearest the door. Where there are three or more stalls in a row, I usually take one in the middle. I don't have any clear reason why.

Never really had an issue talking whilst whizzing, but I never liked to talk while dropping a duece. But my wife quickly cured me of that one, she often opens the door so she can hear me better.

Does anyone here pee on toilet seats?

Judging by most public restrooms I've been in, there should be an option that reads:

-Go into the stall, be too lazy to lift the seat, then proceed to piss all over the seat and floor.

all the time.

and Im not saying I piss on the seat for fun... if some guy has been sitting on that taking a crap, I dont want to touch it. I personally, if there were no spaces at the urinal, take a piss in the stall with the door open (to answer the original question) - mostly cos I see no reason to close it.

As for pissing in the sink... Im talking about a public restroom, its not like something I'd do at a friends house or whatever, but if there is no space at the urinals and no free stalls, the sink is absolutely an acceptable option.

Otherwise, you could just go outside and piss in the gutter

I hate to take this thread in other directions, but has anyone been in the situation where your SO is taking a shower, and you need to pee, so you do. You know you shouldn't flush because she/he will be scalded or frozen or both, but right after your done, you instinctively flush? I literally have to repeat to myself, "Don't flush, Don't flush." Even then, sometimes I still do it.

I also wanted to know if anyone has had the unfortunate event of getting a WARM toilet seat. Meaning someone has already camped out there not long before you did. I can't say I enjoy this. Anyone disagree?

I'll go in whatever is available first if there is a lineup. I always flush with my foot and wash my hands.
Just thought i'd throw in the fact that although it stinks, piss is sterile.

Never understood the guys that are afraid to piss in a urinal ( I worked with a guy that would stand and wait till a stall was empty before he would go rather than use a urinal...seemed kinda wierd to me)

Leave - I can hardly ever use the restroom if there is anybody else there.

That's easy: piss on the floor. :D
No? Okay, piss in a sink. :suave:
In reality, use a stall and close the door behind me.

Here's a tougher one. You enter the bathroom, and find no obvious urinals. Instead, there're two different large fixtures, either of which could be either a urinal, or a sink. What do you do? Yes, I've encountered this situation.

THINK??? I'm jumpin' up and down, my back teeth are floating, and you want me to THINK???

Here's one for the ladies. You're coming back from Thanksgiving on the turnpike (restricted access toll highway). You need to pee. You get to a utility area which contains lavatories. Outside the women's room, there's a long line of women like you, trying not to piss on the floor. Outside the men's room, there's not only no line, but also guys clearly going in and out without a problem. You think, why not use the Mens'? What do you do? And yes, I've seen this one too. :( And I've seen how it worked out, which should tell you something.

i always opt for a stall.

HAHAHAHA!! I always thought that was just me!!

It's all relative!

If I really gotta go .. really really.. really.. really..Then I'll go to wherever, urinals usually finish quicker so there.

But then if I can hold it a while, then I'll wait for stalls to open up. And like some said, also dependent on the size of the stall whether I would lock it or not. But I prefer to to save some people from curiously pushing my door to check if there's anyone inside (which I always do to empty stalls). Lets just say.. LOCKING IS POLITE!

=)

I have never, EVER urinated into a urinal.

I have never even understood the concept of the urinal.

You can't whip your dick out in a public park or at a bus stop, even if there are only men around. But a bunch of guys can let their dicks flap free while they take a piss in front of a mirror next to one another in a public bathroom.

I'm sorry. I'm a stall guy all the way, and will keep it that way.

Well, I chose #2, but that is only because in my high school there wasnt a single stall in the male restrooms that actually had a door on it, and some bathrooms still have a single bathtub style urinal. So even if you wanted to close the door for a #2(poll or otherwise) that wasn't really a possibility, so basically you just have to get over it or hold it for hours till you get home. Well, when you gotta go, you gotta go...

//edit: Kinda weird story I just thought of, I had a friend who would go stand right in front of some of his other friends(never me) and try to start conversations and what not while they're on the john. Kinda weird and kinda funny in a way.

Wait in the restroom for the next urinal to be available.

I dunno why I would do that but that's what I would do. I'm more of a "time" person so I try to get everything done as soon as possible and have a lot of free time afterwards.

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You must be quite young, or you haven't outgrown your heavy judgemental bit. I suggest you take a look at the survey results as your comments do not seem to match the data.

Yes.... I am young and misinformed.

I voted for the stall, if there's no urinal vacant.... with the door open.... I don't embarass easily.

I always use the stall. If it is occupied, I'd rather wait than use the urinal.

Ok, here's the hierarchy for me:

1. An open urinal, no "neighbours"
2. An open urinal, one "neighbour"
3. An open stall, door open
4. An open urinal, two "neighbours"

I dunno. I can deal with one dude because i can at least know if he's taking a peek by the way he holds his head up (always should be keeping eyes straight forward, if you ask me).


On a side note, this is quite interesting and related:
The Straight Dope: Aim for the back wall or the water?

If I wash my hands, it's before I relieve myself. You may think that's gross, but I don't care, my tool is much cleaner than anything in that place. So I just don't touch anything, or use paper if I have to.