Did you ever have to stop on the side of a road to pee???

United States
October 27, 2007 10:45pm CST
My son just called me and was roaring with laughter because he and his fiance just drove to Maine where she is from and she had to go so bad that she pulled over and went in the woods! It's a long boring drive and really no place to stop with a rest room and I guess she couldn't hold it! Personally, I've never had to do it! I think I would probably wait because eventually there has to be at least a gas station up ahead somewhere. Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever had to pee on the side of the road?
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
28 Oct 07
Oh lucky you!! I wish I could say that! I've had to do it a few times, much more than I wish. One time when I was a kid, we went from Virginia to Arkansas to visit a friend and on the way back home I got so car sick and couldn't hold it so dad pulled over and I ran up into the trees and got sick. Another time, hubby and I on one of our trips, just stopped and got something to eat and got gas and went to the bathroom. We get on the highway and lo and behold! My stomach starts churning like crazy and I had to tell hubby to pull over for I can't hold it and he did, I flew out of the car and can you believe my luck, all up hill! I had no choice but to try and the more I climbed the more I lost it and it went all over me. I finally got behind a big ole tree and tore off my pants and underwear, left them behind, cleaned up the best I could and came back down the hill got some napkins and cleaned up some more and got a towel and sat on it till we could get to the next gas station so I could finish cleaning up. I was so sick and I guess it was due to the food I ate because it was so sudden.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
lol....sounds like that was a great trip!! Recently I was on a 2 hour bus ride and I hate the toilets in busses but I couldn't hold it any longer so ran in not checking to see if there was any tp. The light didn't work so it wasn't immediately noticeable anyway. When I was done I reached for the tp and it was empty!!! I sat there for a while thinking the other riders on the bus must have been wondering what I was doing...lol...I finally decided to take off my underwear and use them...so I did and threw them in the trash!! Horrible experience being without them all day!
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
28 Oct 07
Either CVS or Wal-mart has a little thing of toilet paper in a plastic container that I keep in my purse for such momentous occasions. I think it costs $.99
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
28 Oct 07
Look at that ctrymuziklvr! lol We're getting told where we can get toilet paper to have on hand. A day late and a dollar short. LMAO! I'm just joking Debs, please don't take offense. It's all done in good ole humor. However thanks for letting us know about that! Bless you!
• United States
28 Oct 07
In my much younger days, I have been known to do that. But I haven't done that in years now...lol I remember my boyfriend/husband pulling over to pee once and it was snowing, trying to write my name as he did it....haha The things we use to do when we were young and in love I suppose.
• United States
28 Oct 07
lol...did he get your name written? Yes, the things we did huh?
• United States
28 Oct 07
He sure didn't.... I guess it was more than likely too long of a name to do so with...hahaha He did do my initials tho... :O) Hope you are having a great day today! xo
@SViswan (12051)
• India
1 Nov 07
A couple of times....especially when I was pregnant. Here in India, it's difficult to find a gas station with a clean toilet. I'd rather go in the woods or outside than go to one of the public toilets. When I visited a country in Africa(my parents live there), we found people peeing on the road and my father said it was quite common there.
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@SViswan (12051)
• India
26 Dec 07
lol..thanks! I never thought I'd get a BR for peeing by the road!
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
28 Oct 07
I had to do it often during the days while I was going out partying, ctry. It didn't matter a whole lot then because I lived in the country, and once you left the city limits of the nearest town it was country all the way home, lol. I found it much harder to pull off once I moved to the city where I now live. But there were always many gas stations and friends homes to stop off.
• United States
28 Oct 07
Yes, it's always best when there are plenty of trees to hide behind!
@raychill (6525)
• United States
28 Oct 07
I'm pretty good at holding my pee till I need to go. I learned from never wanting to use public bathrooms in school. I hated that you had to get "permission" just to go to the bathroom. Like what teacher has the right to tell you that you can't pee. But when I used to go out drinking a lot, behind my car became a place I'd pee all the time. Otherwise, like I said, I'm pretty good at holding it.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
I remember those "drinking days" and yes behind my car became my private toilet! lol
@Amberina (1541)
• United States
28 Oct 07
I have had to go but it was when I was about 20ish and I really had to pee so my boyfriend stopped along side the road and he had a van that had doors that would open so that no one could see my face but they would be able to see me squating to pee alongside the road lol. Hey I really had to go he stood next to the door so that they couldn't get too close of a look at my bare butt...lol. I have never done anything like that since I try not to drink alot of liquids when I go on a long trip lol. -Amber
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• United States
28 Oct 07
It sounds like you have learned your lesson. No more liquids before a long drive...lol...
• Kuwait
28 Oct 07
maybe when i was young but now? i dont think i will do that or it will happen here because we are in a very conservative country.
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@patgalca (18393)
• Orangeville, Ontario
28 Oct 07
I peed on the side of a country sideroad along with another girl. The third girl with us decided to get into the driver's seat of the truck I was leaning against for support and pull away. I fell onto my butt and spent the day with gravel in my underwear. When I got stuck in a snowstorm at 8 1/2 months pregnant I found myself trying to pee into the mouth of a baby bottle (they'd had a baby shower for me at work that day), and later a coffee mug (someone in another vehicle offered it to me). We had been sitting there for 6 hours! Once on the way to a Toronto Blue Jays game we got stuck in some pretty bad traffic. There was no way you could get out in the middle of the highway in downtown Toronto and drop your pants. One of the guys had a mason jar he gave me to pee in. Then they poured it out the window. Peeing in the woods, which I have also done, is nothing compared to these events. I'd rather have woods to pee in than go through those things again.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
I'm with you! Give me a tree over a mason jar any day.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
28 Oct 07
Yes, I have been caught out. When I worked in the outback for four years, public toilets are few & far between. I travelled distances of up to 1,000kms in one day. Usually I try & use the toilets at one of the rare public facilities. One day I was in the middle of no where & busting to go to the toilet. There were no trees to hide behind. So,it would have to be a pee at the side of the road. I stopped the car, & knowing there would be no living person within one hundred kms, I squatted at the side of the eroad & did it. I got back in the car, turned the bend in the road, & there was a crew of Telstra workers laying telephone lines. I could have been very nearly caught out!!! Has anything like this happened to you?
• United States
28 Oct 07
lolol...no can't say as anything like that has ever happened to me! You were very lucky weren't you?
• United States
28 Oct 07
Yep I have a few times. I remember being pregnant and having to go ALL the time. If we went in the car for more than an hour I would have to go and go NOW!! I would make my husband pull over and let me go. Even in the winter...snow is cold on the bum LOL. Hey when you have to go you have to go!! We have stoped a few times for the kids as well. They are 3 and 5 and if you dont let them pee they go in there pants.
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• United States
28 Oct 07
lol....I can totally understand being pregnant and having to go NOW!! We used to make those "pit stops" on the side of the road for the kids too. It beats having them sit in wet pants!
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
28 Oct 07
I haven't had the need to but if I did, then I would as long as there was a big bush or woods to pee in LOL Nowadays I can't hold it in LOL
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
29 Oct 07
I don't like using public washrooms so I rarely ever use rest stop bathrooms. I have the power to hold it for hours and hours. Even my youngest doesn't like using other washrooms and held it for 24 hours because we weren't home. I tried everything to make him go. Turn on the water. Make pee pee sounds. Nothing worked. But I have gone in the woods and so has he. When we really couldn't hold it anymore. We would actually rather go in the woods then in a public washroom.
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@saucer (47)
• India
29 Oct 07
yup...i've done and man its sucha nice feeling to pee under open sky..all alone on a freeway...try it and then do get back to share what you feel,bbye/
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@darkaeon (465)
• Portugal
2 Nov 07
hi, loads of times that i did that, if theres no gas station near by i have to spot somewere so why not the side of the road
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
28 Oct 07
Oh yes Ive done that many of times.lOL Hey when you got to go and theres no bathrooms around the woods is the next best thing.LOL
• India
28 Oct 07
well i am from india and very few in india will reply in negative to this question. is'nt it funny?
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• China
28 Oct 07
yeah,I have ever seen my father bee when he was riding on the road,it was dark at night there were no hotels or some room along the road,there was even no gas station.ahead.my father can't bear,so he went to the wood to pee..this happened when I am a little girl,which made me laughed at my father until this day..lol.. Actually,pee on the side of the road is not a good manner,however,we can't not avoid .. However as for me I never do such thing.
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• China
28 Oct 07
yeah,I have ever seen my father bee when he was riding on the road,it was dark at night there were no hotels or some room along the road ,there was even no gas station.ahead.my father can't bear ,so he went to the wood to have a pee..this happened when I am a little girl,which made me laughed at my father until this day..lol.. Actually,pee on the side of the road is not a good manner,however,we can't not avoid .. However as for me I never do such thing.
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@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
19 Feb 08
There are times I can no longer contend my pee. But thanks God, I always found comfort room to release it. I haven't experience yet doing it on the side of the road. And I find it humiliating. lol
• China
28 Oct 07
nobody really want to do that on purpose.but no one perfer to pee in car either.
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