No. Wait. It started with the SITS Spring Fling…
[cue dream sequence]
On March 9th SITS hosted a giveaway party. Bloggers offered prizes and visited each others’ giveaway posts like comment Aguileras.
There were hundreds.
Giveaway booty included lots of baby and children’s items. There were handcrafted goods, high end loot, last minute “I-wasn’t-prepared” stuff, and some unusual things.
One blogger was offering a Shewee. Even I was disgusted.
The Shewee allows women to urinate while standing.
Maybe you’re thinking; germs abound on toilet seats in public restrooms.
My retort is, “Yea, and they’re put there by women who try to hover. Cuz they’re pi**ing all over the seat.”
The greatest risk for the back of my legs to contract a seat-borne illness comes when I follow HoverGirl, and sit in her Liquid Leavings.
I don’t use a throne with a wet seat.
I will wait.
Cuz I sit.
I don't hover.
And I will never stand.
Not with a Shewee, a Whiz Biz or a P-Mate. Not with a Go Girl, My Sweet Pee, or any of the dozens of devices designed for this unthinkable business.
It’s gross.
But evidently there’s a demand.
Several sites claim It’s The Wave of the Future.
(I prefer jet packs and hover cars, robot maids and meals in pill form.)
When I rushed my Traveler's Bladder into the restroom at Culver’s I thought, “OMG it’s happening.”
There were two urinals.
They serve delicious “Butter Burgers” and delightful frozen custard. They have great onion rings and my people love their deep-fried cheese “curds".
Let’s just say I’m Culvers savvy.
All Culvers have the same menu. They have the same prices, the same uniforms, the same décor. If you eat at enough Culverses it even appears they have the same people behind the counter; smiling, happy faces ready to take your money and give you food that’s the living end of deliciousness.
All Culvers have the same design.
So why was the ladies room divided by a real wall with a real door, instead of metal stalls?
I was surprised that there was only a single toilet on the other side.
“Wow,” I thought, “Culvers really wants the ladies to Pee Standing Up.”
“No,” I reasoned, hurrying to the business side of the real door, “that’s for moms who bring their sons into the ladies room.”
Hurrying now to Go cuz I'm over forty (and there were onion rings waiting)...
No place to hang my purse. That’s odd.
Peeing.
OMG! I’m in the men’s room!
Over forty does NOT stop peeing mid stream. (Over forty is happy not to pee unexpectantly. )
But man, did I rush.
Go to Culvers. Their food is scrumptious.
But beware; sometimes the ladies room is on the left.
Here's your sign.




Oh my. Well for the record, I have peed standing up...I was backpacking and had a 30 pound pack on my back (and had hiked for 5 miles at that point). If I squatted - I wasn't getting up. ***GORY DETAILS AHEAD***I hiked my leg up on a downed tree, pulled my running shorts aside - a la wet bathing suit pee stance - and absolutely relieved myself right there in the middle of nowhere. I was pretty impressed with myself.
ReplyDeleteI think it really scarred the hubbs.......
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B
Sounds like it's either time for bifocals or Depends... (I kid! Because I'm in the same boat! But not the same urinal...)
ReplyDeleteI have no desire to pee standing up. None whatsoever. But now that you've alerted me to it, I think I want a Go Girl just on principle.
I did that exact thing at Target once! I kept thinking, "why is this dude in the ladies room?" Talk about here's your sign. Total idiot. Me.
ReplyDeleteThose pee while you stand up thingies are gross. Now that I'm older I appreciate the fact that I can sit and "rest" while I'm peeing.
I was just talking to my MIL about the "hover" thing last week. Neither of us do it because we're too short and we can't!
Although, my mom, for years, tried to get me to do the hover thing. Messy.
Macey
I may or may not have left a message already.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember if I pushed enough button, or not.
HA HA HA HA HA It could have been worse, the door could have opened and some "standing up pee sounds" could have happened.
Maybe if anyone saw you coming or going the might have thought you were just cross dressing for the day.
Haha! I've never done this, if it makes you feel better. Have you used the Shewee? Should it be my next As Seen on TV product?
ReplyDeleteMy seester and I got one of those things and took them to China (along with our Seventeen Day Underwear. Did you read and enjoy and gain insight to the hugest culture in the world via my China Blog?
ReplyDeleteWe had heard about the pee-ing conditions over there, and found the rumors to be grossly understated.
Miraculously we returned home with no major diseases.
I can't pee standing up because my stream flows sideways. Toward my right leg/sock/shoe. I also despise hoverers because their aim is worse than a sleepwalking boy's aim. Grody to the maximum. I am such an avid sitter, in fact, that in first grade, I was wise enough to pee myself in my picture day tights rather that sit atop someone else's mellow yellow or attempt a rudimentary hover.
ReplyDeleteGo sitters! Down with tubal attachments and hovering!
That's fantastic. I have yet to do that but I know my time is coming.
ReplyDeleteAnd the hover peers ruin my day. I always wonder how women manage to pee on a seat. Now I know...
I have never heard the term "hover" used before. We just called it squatting in NM. Whatever you call it, it results in yellow liquid ALL over the damn seat and the floor. Apparently, a lot of these women have little or no quadracep strength and they are unable to hold steady in a squat position--thus resulting in urine being sprayed all over the place. I have always hated having to use an airline restroom, thinking it was the men who made the messes. WRONG! I actually think men have better aim! I would never use one of those "tools" to help me pee standing up. I want to sit, and I want a toilet seat cover paper( or 2 or 3) to sit ON! Why can't more public restrooms provide them, anyway? Could it really be that much more of an expense?
ReplyDeleteI spent many a drunk night at a dance club in Tulsa peeing in the mens room, you see, I have a shy bladder and if I have to pee whilst other ho's are waiting on me, it will not come out so I would go into the men's room with my guy friends and go. Not in a urinal though. Not that drunk.
ReplyDeleteI have learned to hover.....but I wipe the freakin seat if I pee on it!
ReplyDeleteSavant, it grossed YOU out! That's going some, deary.
For our anniversary one night the hubs and I went to a fancy schmancy restaurant. Our first red flag should have come from the small sign that simply said WC. But undeterred the hubs figured out this was water closet. It was when he got to the doors marked yin and yang that things got tricky!
ReplyDeleteDone! Put a fork in me! I am cackling aloud. By the way, we are big Culver's freaks, even though Butterburgers made me barf when I was pregnant with my first. Ironically enough, her favorite restaurant is now Culver's. Poor little heart-attack-in-the-making. By the way, I had no idea there were so many peeing contraptions for women. What snappy names. I personally think men should just sit down, but my husband tells me that's not anatomically conducive to peeing a healthy pee. Whatever. I'm not peeing standing up either. To sitters!
ReplyDeleteI find it hard to believe that the market is expanding so rapidly that there are now that many companies manufacturing these contraptions. Oh, and I am going to out myself as a follower of Go Girl on twitter. I had no idea what the heck the product was until I had one of those "a ha" moments. I will also admit that I get excited when the seat cover dispenser is fully stocked. Seriously, has anyone ever someonee to buy one of those products? What I'm wondering is what you do afterwards, wash it in the sink and then put it back in your LV purse *shudders*
ReplyDeletehaaa!! you should have left the seat down, just to throw them off! and yikes...a shewee??? blech. gross! does it come with a carrying case? where do you put it when you're done?
ReplyDeleteYes. Disgusting indeed. I just know I'd eff this up. And I can only imagine the blog post that would follow my lame attempt to humor myself in trying one.
ReplyDeleteNo Culvers here in Hawaii...I guess thank goodness or I'll be walking into the men's restroom :)
Oh my...
ReplyDeleteThis makes me think of my 6'6 boyfriend accidentally wandering into the ladies room, then hearing the high heels and realizing the mistake. He was gonna hide in the stall but there were only 2. He was gonna open it reallyreallyFAST and run out. Well he PUSHED the door instead of pulled and tore it right off the stall hinges. Spectacle, anyone?
Oh. And...I LOATHE hoverers. They are the causes of most all public restroom problems. I've had this fight on messageboards many a time.
Happy Thursday!!
(Visiting from SITS :D)
Michelle @ DomesticationOfTheSingleGirl.blogspot.com
At concerts, when the line for the ladies' is waaaay long, grab a girlfriend and stalk into the mens' room like you belong there. Use the sit-down loo, and stalk back out. You have to be brazen, but it really saves time!
ReplyDeleteThat was funny!
ReplyDeleteTania (visiting from SITS)
Is this for real????
ReplyDeleteThe only time I hover is when I pee in the woods while I'm camping. Yeah, yeah, there are germs on public toilets, but most public toilets now have ass-gaskets available. Use those instead!
HA...that is hilarious. And what a weird thing, never heard of a shewee before. That is disgusting
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious! The only time I have penis envy is when there are porta-pottys involved. At moments like that, I would consider using a Shewee...ugh. Still, gross.
ReplyDeleteNo!
ReplyDeleteYou didn't.
I have used the Men's Room before, but it was when there was a ridiculous line at the Women's and my Hubs kept was on look out for me. I did it on purpose.
Hysterical. :)
That Shewee seems like a very bad idea. I'm sure it's great not having to sit on a pee covered seat, but I have a hard time imagining that you could pee into that thing w/o getting it all over you your own hand.
ReplyDeleteI pass...
I'm still wiping the tears out of my eyes........!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThere is too much Kelly Brilliance here, for me to pick my favorite.......
From one "Forty Plus" bladder, to another.......
You GO, girl!!!!!!!
I've never wandered into the men's room, accidentally......
I've wanted to march in boldly, and on purpose, a few times.....
( I bet they actually have toilet paper in there.....)
I love my sisters in arms......
truly......
I do..........
but women are NOTORIOUS for the quarter scrap of paper left on the roll........
What am I supposed to do with that?????
anything in my Southern Hemisphere requires 3 ply...... and a lot of it.......
I don't do the Air dry thing......
Whoopsie, this happened to me but the funny part is my husband told me he was going to the bathroom, I waited and then decided I needed to go and went into the men's room and realized it when I saw my husband in there. Oops.
ReplyDeleteHILARIOUS!!! Oh...still laughing. I think that the ladies rooms should come with self cleaning thingies (high educmacation here) that wipe the toilet seats clean and disinfect after every flush! I need to invent something. Oh and yes, toilet paper holders that hold 10 rolls of toilet paper. I mean come on! 2 rolls? How long do they really last? Get someone in there with a heavy flow of Mr. Friendly that month and 1 roll could easily go out the door. Or a bout of "ooh no feel so good" with the runs and both rolls could be gone in a blink! Then what happens, one of us ladies run in to the bathroom with major pee alarms going off that we don't notice the toilet paper is empty because our bladder didn't give us a chance to look and we sigh in relief and drip, look around and notice NO TOILET PAPER!!!
ReplyDeleteLove your blog! I'm following you. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Did you see my giveaway?
http://maxedmom.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-first-giveaway-woo-hoo.html
That was hilarious! I have actually used the me'ns room before just because the wait to the women's was crazy. There were stalls and I went inside, closed the door and no one even cared! You ,at least, got a funny story to share!!
ReplyDeleteI sit, too. I make sure my undercarriage is in line with the hole, so no delicates can touch the infested seat, but oh yes - I sit. Besides, I don't know if my over forty knees could take all the straddling anyway. I'm not going to ask them. This pee-thingy looks so butch, dontcha think? Ay, ay, ay...
ReplyDeleteOK. I admit it. I have hovered. BUT! or BUTT! Whatever...
ReplyDeleteI only did it because I was in Russia (i know, how many times have you heard THAT excuse...) and the toilet seats were old and wooden and splintery and...well, WET. Yes, because everyone else hovers. Probably because of the splinters. Anyway. There you go.
Oh and have you ever heard of the 'stadium buddy?'
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