Tytn wrote: ↑10 Feb 2021, 14:42
Drinking in the pub with your mates is easy to get distracted, be in a rush, then not realise that actually you've not drained the tank in a while.
A common thing I've found as well was the pub closes, we all go for a piss before leaving then continue the discussion outside the pub for a while until other priorities happen and the various friends depart via the nearest dark tree or roadside bush...
Leaving pub without peeing.
Slightly tangent observation: No doubt this is sometimes a poor choice or unintentional (yes, sometimes distracted /or stand around talking for some time after closing), but sometimes also seems a little intentional as well, at least where slightly more 'experienced' demographics are concerned? …along with the inhibition that alcohol brings, is a personal favourite of mine too.
Very often I’ve observed guys I’d consider ‘know what they’re doing’ leave the pub, bypassing the bathroom on the way out, only to go, around the corner / up the next alley / behind a tree / to the park across the road / into the bush / stop on their own front lawn, and have a pee (and sometimes a good one, like they might have been holding too) though there was ample opportunity only a few minutes ago to use the facilities in the pub ...and that's OK, I do this as well.
I wrote one up earlier on. Older guy drinking for hours with younger mate, never went to the bathroom (though younger mate did multiple times), left the pub, walked across the road, proceeded to take a big pee in the park …while his mate stood by and even took photos as they both joked about it.
I’ve got lots of others, a couple of particularly ‘memorable’ ones that seemed particularly intentional:
- Mid 30s (I guess), tradie type guy, left the pub, bypassing the bathroom (to my knowledge hadn't gone the whole time he was there). I left a few minutes later, walked around the corner of the next street and found a nice big piss-mark and puddle …while I didn’t actually witness anything, it was fairly obvious what had happened, who must have done it ...and that he'd likely been holding (there was a lot). Additional context: at this local I'd overheard some (presumably drunk, so uninhibited) guys talk among themselves about "breaking the seal" and "how good it felt" or have (presumably drunken) "this is gonna be the best piss" and "I've been waiting for this since..." conversations, so had additional reason to believe potential intention.
- Couple of regulars at another local, one professional (business attire), shorter, really round (...and able to hold a lot. Longer stories, but even better, some banter overheard leading me to speculate there was sometimes a bit of a 'holding competition' with this guy being the ring leader and usual winner), other smart casual and really tall (type that has to spread his legs at /or stand slightly back from the urinal due to height ...once used "going to the cash machine" as cover for covert run to the alternate/hidden bathroom at the back without his mate knowing). Professional guy left the pub heading off via a small alley past the shopping centre opposite. Again, didn’t witness anything, but a few minutes later walked that way as well, again, massive piss-mark on the fence halfway along indicating a hold and intentional 'fun' (nice big/high 'rainbow' shaped mark stretching across). Came across other guy from the same party on a different occasion standing in the middle of the sidewalk just 'round the corner 'enjoying' (standing back and making a nice big arc) a nice big pee on a tree, he mumbled ‘sorry mate’ as I walked around (to avoid going through), but no real shame about being 'caught'.
Point is: It seems common though, at least at some locals I've been to over the years (context: a lot of my experience is outer suburban and regional AU and it’s relatively ‘normal’ to pee outdoors and in the bush anyway), to leave the pub and have a good pee somewhere outdoors nearby, and even better, often with some alcohol induced inhibition (not ashamed or embarrassed). Maybe some even enjoy holding? I don’t know, but I do imagine some men, probably a lot, have no issues with /or simply even enjoy peeing outside on the way home. So leaving the pub without peeing is sometimes somewhat intentional, maybe even a preference, in that regard.
Leaving and subsequently getting stuck on a train or elsewhere would likely just be poor choice though.
