To Pee Or Not To Pee . . . That Is The Question
December 7, 2009 
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You’re a guy and you’re eating in a restaurant. Â You get up from your table and walk towards the back where you see the two bathrooms, one marked “Women” and one marked “Men.”
You head for the men’s room, but when you touch the door handle it doesn’t move. It absolutely doesn’t budge.
You think to yourself, “Someone’s in there.” You then go over to the ladies’ room door and try it. It opens.
The question then becomes: To pee or not to pee?
Are you a rule breaker? Will you grab the chance and use the ladies’ room (or use the men’s room if you are a woman) if you know you can get a quick pee in before you’re going to risk meeting up with a member of the opposite sex coming to use the bathroom?
What happens if you get caught coming out of the men’s room (or coming out of the ladies room)? Are you going to say that the men’s room (or ladies’ room) was full?
To pee or not to pee, that is the question. It is the question I want you to answer today. In this situation, are you going to pee or not pee?
Personally, I don’t really want to go into a bathroom in which someone has just spent an extended period of time. Sometimes I’ll wait long enough for someone to finish if they are just peeing.
If they are in there longer than it takes the average human to excrete liquid from their bladder, flush the toilet and wash their hands, then I don’t want to be the first one to go in there after that. In that situation, I am definitely going to break all the rules and will enter the first other available bathroom I can find.
So what about you? What would you do – pee or not pee?
What does this topic have to do with dating? Who cares! Every so often I just feel like writing a ‘rant and rave’ blog about something I notice about other things.
I suppose we could turn this into a dating blog for those of you who would decide not to pee. You could just wait in line and talk to all the other people who are standing outside the bathrooms not peeing.
For those of you who care a lot about your bladders and don’t like the burning sensation you get from holding it, you are going to — like me — choose to pee. So who’s going to join me for a pee?
Lol good one David. Ive actually broken that rule already and they saw me on the way out. We laughed about it and kept having a good time.
Great pic btw!!! Classic
It was the first DC bootcamp…(I’m not sure if Yakub remebers this), but while waiting in line at Starbucks to use the restroom, Yakub started a conversation with the girls next to us who were waiting to use the restroom too.
We had been teasing Yakub all wknd about the amount of tea that he drinks during bootcamps, and then somehow that came up in the conversation. “Yeah we call him the tea guy,” I said and the girl responded with “Well that’s alot better than The Teabagger.”
LMAO, I nearly lost it! That was the funniest response ever! I don’t think Yakub and the girl’s friend got the joke, but I couldn’t help but laugh out loud!
*Teabagging of course refers to putting you balls on somebody else’s face
In that situation I would definitely hit the ladies restroom! A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do…
Fernando–great example of using your environment (or Yakub in this case) to strike up conversation and being in the moment!:)
I have, and would absolutely take a leak in the female restroom.
You see rules and observe norms just about anywhere you go today. I have a part time job in a corporate environment and the extent to which people follow ‘rules’ is comedic. I don’t neccessarily disike these people, rather I just feel sorry for them and wish they would loosen up.
The job is at a coffee shop, and as you may imagine, ‘protocal’ calls for rules on everything from dress code to change counting to garbage bags. I always do things as I see fit, and like David I would assume, do not like being told what to do, especially when I see a better solution.
The looks and reactions I get from fellow-empoyees when I go about duties in my own way are priceless! Some people a) take themseleves too seriously and b) lack the instinctive to challenge what is ‘commonplace’
I hope these people they gain the confidence and initiative to act originally.
I find that working in a coffee shop is unique in that you can really learn about people’s personalities and character traits.
of course to PEE! I’ll go the ladies’ room. Thanks to Men’s Health, they informed me that holding in your urine can cause a problem to your bladder. So why the hell would I want to hold it in? So, yeah, let it out!!!
I’d definitely “break the rule” and go into the ladies’ room as long as no women were in line.
It’s just a bathroom! Who cares if it says men or women on the door.
This reminds me of the time when I went shopping for sweaters with my g/f at Macy’s. I wait for my g/f to try on various sweaters in the hall of the ladies’ changing room.
And as I wait for her to show me her various sweaters, this random customer tell me: “This is the WOMAN’s fitting room” with a very mean tone.
I’m thinking to myself “And?” I’m not actually GOING IN the woman’s fitting room. I’m just in the hall that separates all the fitting rooms. Who cares?
Why do people get so stuck on rules beats me.