A Poll: Bladder Emergency
No, I’m not just a sick, warped fuck. This is a true scenario that happened to me as I was driving home from doing a photo shoot for one of my websites this morning.
I should have thought twice before downing half a pot of coffee and trying to hold it until I made it home. Bad choice. Especially because I do still have some trouble with prolapse.
I want to know what you would have done in my situation. As always, the results are anonymous… so you can be honest.
Loading ...And which one do you think I chose?
I’ll give you a hint… every single one of these options passed through my mind. It was a matter of choosing the lesser of all evils.
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Using the baby’s diaper is probably not a good idea. I don’t think it’d be able to hold it all. So you’d still end up in a puddle of pee, but with a diaper between your legs…
May 26th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I think peeing in a coffee cup would be hazardous. It’s hard to hit the little cups that they give you for drug tests, and that’s while hovering over a toilet. Put a steering wheel and solid seat into that equation, and bam! Your car smells like piss, forever.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
i’ve considered pulling over to the side of the road, opening both doors on the passenger side, and peeing on the shoulder between the two open doors. don’t know if it would work, though.
if i was a guy, i probably would take my chances with the coffee cup.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
My daughter, who does a lot of driving in her various jobs and doesn’t even have to contend with a sleeping baby, often pulls over – opens both doors and pees by the side of the road. It’s what I would have done. Was it your choice? I’ve also considered all those options on more than one occasion.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Peeing on the side of the road is not without risks.. This one time in band camp .. I mean while I was pregnant with my first I was driving back to SC from Fl. My mother and I were going to stop soon so I was holding my bladder. Well what do you know, the car breaks down a few miles before the exit. There was no where to go. I had the option of peeing in a container or doing a double door. I chose the double door because lets face it when you are 6+ months pregnant there is no way you are going to pee in anything and aim perfectly. Just as I felt relief pass over me a car stopped and started backing up there where we were. Can you say panic? I had my mother rush their vehicle to hold their attention while I finished.. it was like this .. “Mom .. GO GO GO! AGH!” I still laugh about it.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I said cup, and have done that before. But, I have no idea what you chose. I would say diaper just b/c of the verbage you used in describing it.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I said stop at a gas station and risk waking the baby. If I couldn’t find a gas station though, I would pee in the cup. True story: On our way to florida a few days ago, my mother packed a plastic bed pan. She’s a nurse and got one from work, just in case there was no where to stop. She’s nuts, but there were times we didn’t see a gas station for a long time. I’m glad we didn’t need it.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
LOL everyone! Your stories are seriously cracking me up! Okay, so today I decided to brave it… I said a prayer and came like *thisclose* to pissing myself. My backup was going to be the diaper trick if my bladder let lose, though.
But it didn’t, thank goodness. I got home, rolled down the windows, raced into the house, peed like Niagara Falls, then ran back outside to get my sleeping baby out of the car. I have NO CLUE how my bladder didn’t actually rupture. There must have been a gallon in there.
However, I have done the whole “pee in a cup” thing a couple of times. Disgusting, I know. Horrible to admit. Today I just couldn’t find a secluded enough spot to pull over to do it, though!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
[...] down to start getting some work done before heading off to do the photo shoot that led to my bladder nearly rupturing all over the interior of my car. I had made up my mind that I was not going to let the stressful [...]
May 27th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
This scenario calls for sharing my most favorite pee story. It is second hand, as my college roommate was witness and shared it with me…she and some girlfriends were out bar hopping, as they began to walk home, one young “lady” realized she wasn’t going to make it to the house, nor back to a bar. She slipped behind a dumpster in an alley while the others stood lookout. A cop immediately arrived wondering why a heard of drunken girls was standing at the end of an alley…unable to warn the “lady” behind the dumpster, they had to just stand by and watch what unfolded. The cop had a great sense of humor, and with a big, deep voice, sternly said “come out with your PANTS up.”