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Title: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 11:43:20 PM
for me, four-lane divided expressway.  US-395 in the Owens Valley.

never done an interstate.  Perhaps I should change this fact.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: J N Winkler on July 19, 2011, 11:48:46 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 11:43:20 PMnever done an interstate.  Perhaps I should change this fact.

I am sure I have done it at some point (probably on I-70 when encountering an unexpected rest area closure).  When you do it, could you kindly look for a culvert and do it out of sight, please?
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Post by: Fleetwood Mac Attack on July 19, 2011, 11:53:23 PM
I-65 somewhere between Montgomery and Mobile. Boom.
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Post by: corco on July 19, 2011, 11:55:05 PM
I don't think I've done an interstate. I'm usually pretty picky. I did take a piss next to US-90 between Nome and China, Texas back in May and I'm pretty sure that's the biggest road I've ever pissed next to.
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Post by: NE2 on July 19, 2011, 11:58:34 PM
I pissed into the wind once. Does that count as an airway?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Riverside Frwy on July 20, 2011, 12:55:09 AM
Only a 2 lane road, somewhere in Northern California along US 395. I only go if I'm in the middle of no where and have to go NOW. Most of time I can find a bathroom.

I'd imagine it would be odd to go next to an interstate though, people zooming by at 70+ mph and you go walking into the bush and trees....they might think you got a body down there.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: agentsteel53 on July 20, 2011, 01:00:19 AM
Quote from: J N Winkler on July 19, 2011, 11:48:46 PMWhen you do it, could you kindly look for a culvert and do it out of sight, please?

no.  while I will turn away from traffic in a manner that makes it obvious what I am doing, I like to be seen so that if traffic has the choice between careening off the road and killing me, and careening off the road and not killing me, that option isn't left solely to chance.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kurumi on July 20, 2011, 02:31:30 AM
County Road PP, outside Plymouth, Wisconsin*. Seemed oddly appropriate.

*(this is not actually true)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 09:11:15 AM
I-77, standing on the shoulder in plain view of traffic that was at a total standstill (so my car was stopped in a thru lane).
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: thenetwork on July 20, 2011, 10:50:34 AM
As recently stated in another post (perhaps the basis of this one???  ;-) ), I can claim a multiplex and turnpike in one fell swoop -- Ohio Turnpike/I-80/I-90 near Berlin Hts. and I want to say I had to find some "relief" on I-77 in north of the tunnel which is solely in Virginia.  There was an accident in the tunnel and traffic was stopped for almost 2 hours before they 2-wayed the other portal. 
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: mtantillo on July 20, 2011, 11:26:18 AM
Interstate - ticket toll road....and a busy one at that: the NJ Turnpike. 

Left Long Island, drank a big bottle of water.  Got over the Outerbridge Crossing, and bam, 440 is at a standstill because of an accident between the Parkway and the Turnpike.  Finally squeezed over onto the shoulder and got off onto US 9 south, then took 9 to West Main Street (Freehold exit) to NJ 33 to the turnpike.  By this time, the situation was getting quite urgent, since we were delayed for quite a while in that mess and through that detour, and the whole bottle of water.  But of course we had gotten onto the Turnpike south of the Molly Pitcher Service Area.  And it was a summer weekend, traffic was crawling.  Was only maybe 5 miles from Richard Stockton Service Area when I gave up and pulled off the road and dove into a ditch. 
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: formulanone on July 20, 2011, 11:40:46 AM
Off the side of the road of I-40 as a kid...pretty much a rite of passage as an American boy. Nowadays, I find a proper location, although county routes suffice if you've gotta go.

About 15 years ago, I got a little lost by some orange groves, and pulled over onto a dirt path, walked a few feet away, and completed my transaction. Walked back to the car, and a pickup truck with two Bubbas shouted "Hey, you ain't taking any fruit, are ya!" I pointed to my puddle with both open hands, and they laughed and sped off. Never steal any citrus fruit, from what I'd heard. Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: hbelkins on July 20, 2011, 12:33:44 PM
Now that I am an adult, I can't remember exactly which bridge it was, but as a kid there was a certain bridge on I-64 between Frankfort and Louisville where we invariably had to stop for my brother and me to pee. It was an overpass with a crossroad going over the interstate, but there was enough room to where we could go far enough off the road that we couldn't be seen.

Most recently, I had to stop at a roadside park along US 50 in Missouri. There were no restrooms, but I stepped past a picnic table. No one else was there and I was not visible from the road.
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Post by: apeman33 on July 20, 2011, 03:30:34 PM
Not right by an interstate but on a couple of exit ramps or underpasses.
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Post by: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 03:41:22 PM
I'm tempted to start a thread with the subject line "What is the highest classification of road beside which you have defecated?" But that seems a little over-the-top.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: agentsteel53 on July 20, 2011, 03:42:40 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 03:41:22 PM
I'm tempted to start a thread with the subject line "What is the highest classification of road beside which you have defecated?" But that seems a little over-the-top.


and then vomited, masturbated, buried a body, built an interstate on the exact same right-of-way ... yes, that last one would surely be over the top.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 03:51:57 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 20, 2011, 03:42:40 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 03:41:22 PM
I'm tempted to start a thread with the subject line "What is the highest classification of road beside which you have defecated?" But that seems a little over-the-top.


and then vomited, masturbated, buried a body, built an interstate on the exact same right-of-way ... yes, that last one would surely be over the top.

I haven't done any of those, but I have taken a dump next to US-1 (behind a bridge abutment to try to make it less obvious what was going on).
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: roadfro on July 20, 2011, 04:04:41 PM
Interstate 80 in California, somewhere between the west side of Donner Pass and the Nevada state line. I was with a group of fraternity brothers heading back to Reno from a service event in southern CA. It was February and it was snowing in the Sierra Nevada. I think the Interstate must have been closed for a while due to snow, cause there were numerous cars just stopped on the freeway for at least an hour. Several of us had to go, so we ended up actually going against the tires of our truck on the freeway, as the snow was piling up and none of us were dressed for snow.

Surprisingly, I don't think I ever went along the side of the road while I was a summer intern with NDOT several years ago.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: SSOWorld on July 20, 2011, 04:10:22 PM
I ended up having to take a dump off I-90-94 between Wisconsin Dells and Portage. It was night during the winter. :ded:
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: J N Winkler on July 20, 2011, 04:15:50 PM
Quote from: Riverside Frwy on July 20, 2011, 12:55:09 AMI'd imagine it would be odd to go next to an interstate though, people zooming by at 70+ mph and you go walking into the bush and trees....they might think you got a body down there.

Actually, if you have to do a body dump, you want a far lower classification of road, to give decomposition enough time to destroy any forensic evidence that might tie the corpse to you.  Interstates have too much traffic and therefore too many potential witnesses; also, the culverts, basins, and other drainage appliances get too-frequent maintenance attention.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: SSOWorld on July 20, 2011, 04:18:44 PM
You also have fences deliminating the right of way.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Truvelo on July 20, 2011, 04:27:21 PM
You have to be careful piddling behind trees and bushes. I had to take a piss here (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.840047,-2.109289&spn=0.021557,0.072098&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.840055,-2.109358&panoid=8Pod1vRtgxzBGhGamDBo4g&cbp=12,96.78,,0,9.27) today and the area in among the bushes was covered in used toilet paper, not to mention a pile of the brown stuff that comes out your butt. I only ever piss in locations like that. If I need a poo I'll always use a proper restroom.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: 1995hoo on July 20, 2011, 04:56:18 PM
Quote from: Truvelo on July 20, 2011, 04:27:21 PM
You have to be careful piddling behind trees and bushes. I had to take a piss here (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.840047,-2.109289&spn=0.021557,0.072098&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.840055,-2.109358&panoid=8Pod1vRtgxzBGhGamDBo4g&cbp=12,96.78,,0,9.27) today and the area in among the bushes was covered in used toilet paper, not to mention a pile of the brown stuff that comes out your butt. I only ever piss in locations like that. If I need a poo I'll always use a proper restroom.

Sometimes you simply can't wait to find one (as in the time noted in my prior comment about roadside crapping)!
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Sykotyk on July 20, 2011, 05:16:49 PM
Interstate. Sometimes it happens. Just because you think you can hold it to the next exit doesn't mean you can.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: triplemultiplex on July 20, 2011, 06:00:39 PM
I-65 north of Nashville, TN.  Traffic was stopped in both directions due to a collision requiring flight-for-life, so after tossing a football around with my brothers for a while, I wandered to the vacant SB lanes and wizzed in the brush in the R/W.  I was able to take a look at a small creek from there that contained numerous suckers and minnows.
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Post by: DeaconG on July 20, 2011, 06:01:36 PM
What a hilarious thread!  Me? I-95, somewhere in the Carolinas, years ago.
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Post by: KillerTux on July 20, 2011, 07:25:33 PM
lol. This is a great thread. For me, Interstate 97, around 2-3 in the morning.Tip: When taking a piss, You have to put a lean to it so no one pulls over thinking your car is broken down.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: shadyjay on July 20, 2011, 09:57:18 PM
Interesting topic here!

Aside from stopping at rest areas, parking areas, etc, the two times that come to mind were around 2000-2001 and both on the Mass Pike on the same day:

We were stopped in traffic EB on the Mass Pike between I think Exits 11 & 11A and my cousin and I ran into the woods.  Of course right then, traffic started moving. 

Several miles later, we were stuck at the then-east end of the Mass Pike waiting to get onto the Central Artery-NB in the left lane and I got out and relieved myself.  The funny thing about it was another "passing" motorist asked directions to how to get to Logan Airport!

Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: lkjljlkj on July 20, 2011, 10:33:56 PM
Back in the winter of 2003, a friend and I were driving thru upstate SC on I-26 during a snow and ice storm.  A trucker had jack-knifed and everything was at a standstill with lots of troopers there with lights flashing.  I had to pee really, really bad, so I just jumped out of the car, walked over to one of the troopers & asked him if I could pee on the side of the road without getting arrested, and he said sure.  There weren't even any trees anywhere near the road.  So I walked maybe 20 ft off to the side and peed right there.
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Post by: wriddle082 on July 20, 2011, 10:45:04 PM
Wow, what a great thread!  OK, back in the summer of 2002, my father and I were traveling from Nashville to Greensboro, NC for my stepsister's wedding, and we got stuck in a traffic jam on I-40 somewhere near Crab Orchard, TN.  We had not moved for at least 15 minutes, he really had to go, and I was behind the wheel.  I told him he could get out and go if he would hurry and I would get a turn afterwards, and he agreed.  He got out and went, then took the wheel while I got out and went.  As I was about to run back, I saw traffic finally start moving ahead, so we were lucky!  Never did figure out what held us up, other than seeing a lone THP car on the shoulder about 3-4 miles ahead of where we were stopped.
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Post by: thenetwork on July 20, 2011, 10:59:38 PM
Quote from: shadyjay on July 20, 2011, 09:57:18 PM
Several miles later, we were stuck at the then-east end of the Mass Pike waiting to get onto the Central Artery-NB in the left lane and I got out and relieved myself.  The funny thing about it was another "passing" motorist asked directions to how to get to Logan Airport!

Did ya "draw" them a map on the ground???   :biggrin:
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: dave19 on July 21, 2011, 12:55:04 AM
I-68. Traffic was stopped, backed up for several miles because of a wreck. Everyone sensed what was going on and stayed single file, although every so often some guy would go flying by. The vehicle in front of me was large, it was dark out, so I went in front of my car and did it on the road.
It was funny when traffic finally started moving again, because I saw at least two dozen more piss spots on up the road - evidently more than a few motorists had relieved themselves in the same fashion.
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Post by: huskeroadgeek on July 21, 2011, 01:17:26 AM
I've never done it myself on any road that I can think of(I'm fairly modest in that respect-I don't even like going in the woods unless I have to), but I have seen it done before. When I was in college and traveling through the Southwest on a choir tour, we were in the mountains on I-8 E. of San Diego when the lead van(out of 3) indicated it was pulling off on the shoulder. The other two vans followed and one guy quickly jumped out of the first van, and turned his back to the 25 or so people watching from the 3 vans and did his duty off the side of the road.
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Post by: Brandon on July 21, 2011, 07:41:57 AM
Why does this thread make me think of a certain roadgeek who thinks pooing is cool?
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Post by: codyg1985 on July 21, 2011, 08:30:21 AM
US 60 east of Springfield, MO. It was the middle of the night and foggy and hardly a soul on the road.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Ian on July 22, 2011, 04:32:36 PM
I went to take a leak on the side of the southbound I-87/New York Thruway just past exit 17 when traffic was backed up from just above Harriman (exit 16).
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Truvelo on July 22, 2011, 04:54:16 PM
On freeways and other roads where signs say emergency stopping only does taking a leak qualify as an emergency? I know here in the UK it doesn't and police take a very dim view of people stopping on the shoulder of motorways to acidify the nearby vegetation.
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Post by: J N Winkler on July 22, 2011, 05:46:42 PM
Quote from: Truvelo on July 22, 2011, 04:54:16 PMOn freeways and other roads where signs say emergency stopping only does taking a leak qualify as an emergency? I know here in the UK it doesn't and police take a very dim view of people stopping on the shoulder of motorways to acidify the nearby vegetation.

In general, American police don't take "emergency stopping only" regulations as seriously as British police.  Whether or not urgent need to micturate fits the legal definition of an emergency in any given state, you can usually expect not to be bothered by the police.

However, I would not expect this generalization to hold in states where the population density approaches that of Britain.
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Post by: agentsteel53 on July 22, 2011, 09:00:12 PM
I have only stopped by the side of a fully limited-access freeway once in my life - I-80 in Utah, to take some photos.  so I might not be the most accurate identifier of bias.

but I have stopped by all kinds of roads, and been harassed very rarely.  usually, if the sheriff drives by, they wave and I wave and that indicates "I am all right, no need to render assistance".  I've even waved mid-pee; no problem there.  when you've gotta go ...

therefore, in the US, I believe the general rule is "park on the shoulder, walk well away from the right-of-way but remain visible ... basically, don't make yourself a safety hazard, and do your business".

I've had a few stop and ask me questions about why I was stopped (not to pee, just to take photos), but each and every time my explanation of "just taking some photos of your lovely local scenery" has been sufficient.  

(I've noted county sheriffs, and their deputies, to be the paragons of reason.  This makes sense: they are elected officials, and usually well-known to their constituents.  No use in stirring up trouble among those who would, or would not, vote you back into office next time around.)
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Post by: deathtopumpkins on July 23, 2011, 01:23:06 AM
My experience has been similar to Jake's. I've actually never been stopped that I can recall when parked on the side of a freeway taking photos, even times I've walked down the shoulder a considerable distance, but I've noticed over time that so long as you are clearly doing something like taking photos, urinating, changing a tire, pouring over maps, or anything of the like, police don't care. It's only if you're doing something dangerous or sketchy that they would really have a problem with you stopping. That or if it's in an area where doing so is unsafe because of conditions like the lack of a full shoulder.

Other motorists are sure to give you plenty of "what's this freak doing on the side of the interstate with a camera!?" looks though.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: formulanone on July 23, 2011, 12:46:06 PM
Quote from: J N Winkler on July 22, 2011, 05:46:42 PM
In general, American police don't take "emergency stopping only" regulations as seriously as British police.  Whether or not urgent need to micturate fits the legal definition of an emergency in any given state, you can usually expect not to be bothered by the police.

Basically, cops can use it as an excuse to give you a citation, if they they want to claim "public intoxication", but from I'be heard that's more of an issue with city areas where you're more publicly visible.
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Post by: Duke87 on July 23, 2011, 11:02:15 PM
Don't think I've ever done it off of any sort of numbered highway, just local streets. Almost got a citation for it once in Brooklyn, but the cops let me go when they realized I wasn't drunk (not that time, anyway!) and was generally a respectable citizen.

In fact come to think of it, for it's a walking around a city thing, not a driving thing. Driving I've never had problems finding legit bathrooms.
Although, I did pee in an empty soda bottle in my car once in the parking lot at the train station. That was a long night...
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Post by: hbelkins on July 24, 2011, 12:07:46 AM
Quote from: formulanone on July 23, 2011, 12:46:06 PM
Basically, cops can use it as an excuse to give you a citation, if they they want to claim "public intoxication", but from I'be heard that's more of an issue with city areas where you're more publicly visible.

Seems to me that "indecent exposure" would be a more logical charge.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: formulanone on July 25, 2011, 06:28:10 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2011, 12:07:46 AM
Seems to me that "indecent exposure" would be a more logical charge.

Ah, but they can't always prove you didn't wet yourself.

Maybe the citation is the better part of valor in this case...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jwolfer on August 01, 2011, 03:05:26 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 11:43:20 PM
for me, four-lane divided expressway.  US-395 in the Owens Valley.

never done an interstate.  Perhaps I should change this fact.

watch where you pee you could get arrested for indecent exposure if the police officer is a jerk
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Post by: Dr Frankenstein on August 01, 2011, 08:31:30 PM
Interstate 89. At 3 AM.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Brandon on August 01, 2011, 09:34:48 PM
Quote from: jwolfer on August 01, 2011, 03:05:26 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 19, 2011, 11:43:20 PM
for me, four-lane divided expressway.  US-395 in the Owens Valley.

never done an interstate.  Perhaps I should change this fact.

watch where you pee you could get arrested for indecent exposure if the police officer is a jerk


They do that in Naperville, IL.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: ftballfan on August 01, 2011, 11:49:47 PM
Me, along US-31 a couple of times.
My mother once used a portajohn alongside I-75 in Georgia while I watched her climb up an embankment, use a bridge over I-75, and down an embankment just to reach said portajohn *cue Dueling Banjos* ;)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: yakra on August 06, 2011, 02:11:43 AM
In summer `06, my car overheated on the big hill on I-80 west just outta West Wendover. While pacing around waiting for it to cool down I took the opportunity to water the plants. I'd been chugging Monster energy drinks since SLC; I'd swear it came out green...
I may have hit 95 and/or 295 in ME; really can't remember for sure.

As for vomiting, in September `010, I bagged a state route, US route, and interstate (if turnpike rest areas count) on the same trip.
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Post by: njroadhorse on August 06, 2011, 01:52:49 PM
PA Turnpike, somwhere right around Exit 14.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Duke87 on September 18, 2011, 07:52:47 PM
US 9, in Adirondack Park.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Brian556 on September 18, 2011, 09:05:52 PM
As a DOT employee, I have urinated on all types of roads. I usually pulled my truck up against a treed fenceline for privacy.

I had a co-worker who was just a dumb nasty guy. He would s*** out in the open on the side of the road, in full view of passing cars. He would just drop his pants, touch his toes, and let it fly. Once a liqour store owner would not let his use his restroom, so he ducked behind a 4 ft fence on the side of the building, and did his business there.

While driving I-40 between Jackson and Nashville, I had to use the bushes at the Cuba Landing exit because there are no services for an incredibly long distance in that area.
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Post by: florida on September 18, 2011, 09:15:11 PM
A county route, in the FL Panhandle, which dead-ends at a church.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: M86 on September 19, 2011, 01:18:06 AM
Mine would be US Highway 281 north of Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: signalman on September 20, 2011, 03:23:48 PM
PA 402 this past Memorial Day, it was late at night and a Ford truck passed by while I was pissing and yelled   "WOOOOO"
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Laura on September 23, 2011, 12:44:47 AM
This is such a man topic - I love it.

Anyway, I am a repeat offender on the same route in the same spot - US 22/322, southbound, just north of Millerstown, PA. There is an extra large emergency pull off there...and my family would stop there to whiz. To complete the image, half of my family would get out of the standard cab of the Ford F-150, the other half out of the bed of the truck... *Cue banjos*

(Haha, actually, I do miss those days. Just ain't the same with the extra large cab...)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: agentsteel53 on September 23, 2011, 11:37:43 AM
Quote from: Laura Bianca on September 23, 2011, 12:44:47 AM
This is such a man topic - I love it.

no no, girls pee too.  they just don't poo.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jbnv on April 22, 2014, 10:23:41 AM
I-10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Traffic stopped for four hours due to an accident. There was something quite satisfying about christening that bridge.

I once tried to go on the left shoulder of US 290 in Houston, in rush hour traffic, but nothing came out.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 10:35:52 AM
This is a thing?

I don't piss outside of a bathroom. If I have to go while on the road, I find the closest establishment with a bathroom in it.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: sammi on April 22, 2014, 11:26:10 AM
Do tollway rest areas count? :bigass:

I just mostly use rest areas on tollways or restaurants with washrooms elsewhere. But I've had to go on the road 3 times, mostly because bad timing.

US: Nope. Never.

Canada: (3) Tranmere Dr in Mississauga. We were waiting for my mom at her workplace after a 40-min trip so I really had to go, but she wasn't out yet so I couldn't go in to use their washroom. My dad told me to go by a tree.

Philippines: (2) Highway 3 southbound outside of Luna, La Union. About 10 km from home. I also vomited around this spot at least twice, because the combination of A/C and the sun makes me really uncomfortable. (1) Toll Highway 3 southbound outside of Mexico, Pampanga. :) This was bad timing, because we had just passed the rest area about 10~15 km back.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: ET21 on April 22, 2014, 11:57:37 AM
Puked and then pissed on the side of I-294 between Cicero and 95th somewhere. Gotta love food poisoning
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Post by: hbelkins on April 22, 2014, 01:58:03 PM
On my recent trip to the Hampton Roads and Delmarva meets, I took a whiz alongside US 311 in North Carolina, just south of the Virginia border.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: hm insulators on April 22, 2014, 02:16:38 PM
Aren't we asking for too much information here? :spin:
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Post by: Truvelo on April 22, 2014, 02:37:14 PM
Quote from: hm insulators on April 22, 2014, 02:16:38 PM
Aren't we asking for too much information here? :spin:

Not if you don't give out the exact location.

This time of year is great if you need to go and there's no proper facilities nearby. The vegetation is starting to grow and leaves will obscure you from passing drivers. That's the problem with winter when there's no decent cover.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: DandyDan on April 22, 2014, 04:39:49 PM
I-29 in Iowa shortly after the time I blew a tire in my original Saturn.  It was after midnight, so it was out of view of everyone.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: shadyjay on April 22, 2014, 05:16:11 PM
For me the highest classification would be an interstate tollway.  Mass Pike.  On the way to Warped Tour.  We were stuck in traffic EB due to an accident somewhere between Exits 11 & 11A and ran off into the woods.  Traffic wasn't moving.  Then an hour or so later, I "relieved myself" in the median trying to get on I-93 in downtown Boston, pre-I-90 extension to TWT/pre-CAT days.  Funny, someone asked me how to get to the Ted Williams Tunnel as I was getting back in the car!
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: 1995hoo on April 22, 2014, 06:10:02 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 10:35:52 AM
This is a thing?

I don't piss outside of a bathroom. If I have to go while on the road, I find the closest establishment with a bathroom in it.

Guess you're fortunate never to have been stricken while in an isolated area or a traffic jam. When you're five miles from the nearest exit, traffic hasn't moved in over 45 minutes, and you really have to take a leak (or, worse, a dump)......
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: signalman on April 22, 2014, 06:12:55 PM
On the eastbound shoulder of I-80 near exit 19 in NJ with my back to traffic.  I wasn't far from home, but I was drunk (I wasn't driving, driver was sober) and I really had to let some beer out.  Had a stream running down the shoulder.  It was pretty late at night, so traffic was light.  But it was completely obvious to anyone who did pass by what I was doing.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jakeroot on April 22, 2014, 07:03:59 PM
I-57 somewhere in rural Illinois. I was 15. Traffic was really bad because IDOT was performing maintenance on an old bridge, and I couldn't hold it any longer. I really didn't care if anyone saw. I'm sure at least 10-20 did. But hey, who hasn't seen a dick!?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 07:08:40 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 22, 2014, 06:10:02 PM
Guess you're fortunate never to have been stricken while in an isolated area or a traffic jam. When you're five miles from the nearest exit, traffic hasn't moved in over 45 minutes, and you really have to take a leak (or, worse, a dump)......

Well, I've held in a lot of piss (when I went I spent about 2 minutes with a constant stream) during an intermediate school (Grades 5-6) field trip. There were bathrooms - port-a-potties to be specific, but I could not stand the awful, foul, vomit-inducing stench wafting from those things. So, for about 8 hours or so, I held it in. Boy, I've never ran faster to the bathroom in my life when we got back to the school though. Sheesh.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jakeroot on April 22, 2014, 07:13:20 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 07:08:40 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 22, 2014, 06:10:02 PM
Guess you're fortunate never to have been stricken while in an isolated area or a traffic jam. When you're five miles from the nearest exit, traffic hasn't moved in over 45 minutes, and you really have to take a leak (or, worse, a dump)......

Well, I've held in a lot of piss (when I went I spent about 2 minutes with a constant stream) during an intermediate school (Grades 5-6) field trip. There were bathrooms - port-a-potties to be specific, but I could not stand the awful, foul, vomit-inducing stench wafting from those things. So, for about 8 hours or so, I held it in. Boy, I've never ran faster to the bathroom in my life when we got back to the school though. Sheesh.

I don't know if you are just completely mad, or intelligent for avoiding the viruses in port-a-potties. Actually, no, you are insane. That must have taken an un-Godly amount of manpower.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 07:16:17 PM
Quote from: jake on April 22, 2014, 07:13:20 PM
I don't know if you are just completely mad, or intelligent for avoiding the viruses in port-a-potties. Actually, no, you are insane. That must have taken an un-Godly amount of manpower.

I can still do that today unless I drink a (single) bottle of water. That stuff literally makes me piss twice in a 4 hour span.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jakeroot on April 22, 2014, 07:18:32 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 07:16:17 PM
Quote from: jake on April 22, 2014, 07:13:20 PM
I don't know if you are just completely mad, or intelligent for avoiding the viruses in port-a-potties. Actually, no, you are insane. That must have taken an un-Godly amount of manpower.

I can still do that today unless I drink a (single) bottle of water. That stuff literally makes me piss twice in a 4 hour span.

I remember when I drank my first beer...4 weeks ago. I had to piss three times within two hours. It just flew right through me. ONE PINT.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jbnv on April 22, 2014, 10:30:16 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 07:16:17 PM
I can still do that today unless I drink a (single) bottle of water. That stuff literally makes me piss twice in a 4 hour span.

I drink a lot of water during my sedentary office-bound workday. I'm obviously not sweating it out, so I get up frequently to visit my "other" office. I think it's actually a good thing: sitting for long periods of time is bad for your health, and flushing your system frequently is good.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jakeroot on April 22, 2014, 11:35:51 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 07:08:40 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on April 22, 2014, 06:10:02 PM
So, for about 8 hours or so, I held it in.

Proper response:

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Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kkt on April 25, 2014, 01:22:40 AM
2di: I-80 in Wyoming.  Way too far between rest areas or exits.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Tom958 on April 26, 2014, 06:36:56 PM
I don't consider peeing beside an Interstate to be a memorable event. Except for that one time... it's not strictly on topic, though.

I peed here, on GA 83 (http://goo.gl/maps/oYa8O), several times while I was driving to Statesboro and back every week. Apparently that bridge is exactly one pot of coffee from my house, and there's a paved shoulder there so I didn't have to risk driving into a ditch in the predawn darkness. I hit this little fuel storage area next to GA 296 (http://goo.gl/maps/MDwt6) more than once, too.

Then there was Mary. That's off topic, too, though.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: DaBigE on April 27, 2014, 07:03:16 PM
Off-ramp along US 151 near Columbus, WI, last summer. Wouldn't have happened if my car wouldn't have broke down. I thought I could hold it, but it took an hour and a half for the tow truck to show up. :no:   Of course there wasn't much vegetation, and that off-ramp (which normally sees very little use) had to have a lot of traffic. Ended up using the tow truck to shield me as the guy winched my car on the flatbed.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: bugo on April 28, 2014, 02:53:45 AM
Quote from: Brandon on July 21, 2011, 07:41:57 AM
Why does this thread make me think of a certain roadgeek who thinks pooing is cool?

Bandit is not a roadgeek.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: bugo on April 28, 2014, 02:56:25 AM
I pee peed in the MIDDLE of AR 298 near the north shore of Lake Ouachita in west central Arkansas.  It was night and that road doesn't get a lot of traffic anyway so it wasn't a big deal.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Duke87 on April 28, 2014, 10:31:09 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 10:35:52 AM
This is a thing?

I don't piss outside of a bathroom. If I have to go while on the road, I find the closest establishment with a bathroom in it.

I prefer to use an actual bathroom if one is conveniently available.

However, I have a rule: if I cannot use the restroom without asking someone to grant me access, I do not consider that "conveniently available". I would rather piss in the bushes than ask someone if I may please use their bathroom. I hate asking for permission for things, it means voluntarily giving someone authority over me.

Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Zzonkmiles on April 28, 2014, 11:03:25 PM
I came REALLY close to having to pull over on the side of northbound I-95 in southern Georgia because of sudden diarrhea resulting from a lunch I had eaten in Daytona Beach.  There are a lot of exits with restaurants and restrooms in Jacksonville (FL), at the welcome center at the FL/GA border, and at the St. Mary's/Kingsland exit in Georgia.  But once you pass that area, there is absolutely NOTHING.  (Even the swamps look lonely.)  And that's when the diarrhea hit.  I had to drive in excess of 90mph to make it to the next exit which only had one or two gas stations with only one stall.  And I occupied that stall for a good 15 minutes, much to the dismay of other customers who needed to take care of their stinky business.  Oops.  Lesson learned.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Alps on April 28, 2014, 11:08:10 PM
Quote from: Zzonkmiles on April 28, 2014, 11:03:25 PM
I came REALLY close to having to pull over on the side of northbound I-95 in southern Georgia because of sudden diarrhea resulting from a lunch I had eaten in Daytona Beach.  There are a lot of exits with restaurants and restrooms in Jacksonville (FL), at the welcome center at the FL/GA border, and at the St. Mary's/Kingsland exit in Georgia.  But once you pass that area, there is absolutely NOTHING.  (Even the swamps look lonely.)  And that's when the diarrhea hit.  I had to drive in excess of 90mph to make it to the next exit which only had one or two gas stations with only one stall.  And I occupied that stall for a good 15 minutes, much to the dismay of other customers who needed to take care of their stinky business.  Oops.  Lesson learned.
Aaaaaaaaaand welcome to the forum!
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Zeffy on April 28, 2014, 11:19:58 PM
Quote from: Alps on April 28, 2014, 11:08:10 PM
Aaaaaaaaaand welcome to the forum!

They say make your first impression count...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jeffandnicole on April 29, 2014, 08:19:19 AM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 28, 2014, 11:19:58 PM
Quote from: Alps on April 28, 2014, 11:08:10 PM
Aaaaaaaaaand welcome to the forum!

They say make your first impression count...

You ain't going to get discussions like this when talking about butterfly collecting.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: spooky on April 29, 2014, 08:45:47 AM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 28, 2014, 11:19:58 PM
Quote from: Alps on April 28, 2014, 11:08:10 PM
Aaaaaaaaaand welcome to the forum!

They say make your first impression count...

pooing is cool?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: signalman on April 29, 2014, 02:57:27 PM
Quote from: spooky on April 29, 2014, 08:45:47 AM
pooing is cool?
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Pete from Boston on April 30, 2014, 09:41:55 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on April 28, 2014, 10:31:09 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on April 22, 2014, 10:35:52 AM
This is a thing?

I don't piss outside of a bathroom. If I have to go while on the road, I find the closest establishment with a bathroom in it.

I prefer to use an actual bathroom if one is conveniently available.

However, I have a rule: if I cannot use the restroom without asking someone to grant me access, I do not consider that "conveniently available". I would rather piss in the bushes than ask someone if I may please use their bathroom. I hate asking for permission for things, it means voluntarily giving someone authority over me.

It displays great self-awareness that you have this so well understood.

As a kid, when public bathrooms in stores were less common, I learned that asking for one often meant a trip behind the scenes into the stockroom or something.  I still often ask in places where there's not a public bathroom evident, half-consciously hoping I'll get a peak into into some inner sanctum.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Duke87 on May 01, 2014, 08:26:49 PM
Heh, yeah, I definitely remember occasions like that when I was younger, where I ended up in the back of a store because I or one of my sisters really needed to go. It always kind of freaked me out, though - even if I was told it was OK, I still felt like I was doing something naughty because the sign said employees only and I was not an employee.

Contrast this today, where I am frequently walking into all sorts of areas marked "authorized personnel only" as part of my job (I do inspections for an energy efficiency incentive program). So now, to me, the idea of seeing the back area of a store is utterly mundane. I've seen thousands of them.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: sbeaver44 on May 02, 2014, 07:46:32 PM
I-90, South Dakota.  Somewhere around the area near Interior where some of the exits don't have names, just "Exit 127".
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: wxfree on May 03, 2014, 01:11:35 AM
US 67/377, a four-lane divided highway, between Brownwood and Comanche, right in the road in the middle of the night with the car stopped in the left lane, because for some reason I was feeling especially stupid.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: corco on May 03, 2014, 02:05:39 AM
Probably on I-15 somewhere around Monida Pass.

I think my most "dangerous"- when you consider traffic and distance from road was on US 380 just east of Bryson, Texas.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: US81 on May 03, 2014, 08:05:05 AM
I-820/TX 121 in NE Ft. Worth (probably really Hurst, but who cares?) Traffic at a dead stop, no sign of movement for close to an hour. It was night time but otherwise very public, so I tried to be discreet, and thankfully had a jacket just long enough to help obscure what I was doing.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Mike_OH on May 03, 2014, 03:08:09 PM
I-75 somewhere between Cincinnati and Sarasota, FL.  Probably more than once.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: -NCX75- on May 04, 2014, 12:16:40 AM
Well, what an... interesting question!  :-/

I'd have to say that I left my mark on the side of I-40 in NW Texas, between Amarillo and NM. It's worth noting, though, that there was of course no one on this stretch of road at this time. It would be a whole different animal if I did it in Ft. Worth like US81.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kendancy66 on May 04, 2014, 02:07:09 PM
I-40 West of Needles and before Ludlow.  The road has a big drop off on the right side, so no one can see you anyway.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kendancy66 on May 04, 2014, 02:13:15 PM
I also did number 2 in a drainage culvert off the south side of the San Diego Freeway in Westminster CA.  What was so awesome though was the tree nearby that had leaves softer than toilet paper, and was large enough to wipe with.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 16, 2018, 04:49:22 PM
Interstate.

Southbound I-35 somewhere in central Iowa, and also southbound I-57 somewhere near Kinmundy.

My eldest son has defecated on an Interstate, although he was actually on a potty seat inside a minivan at the time.  I thought a 75-mph poop would be good at saving some time.  I was so smart.  Except that, when he was done, the whole car smelled like poop and we had to pull over anyway to dump it out.  Not so smart now, are you?  It was then, during the potty seat dump-out, that my own urination beside I-35 in Iowa took place.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: NoGoodNamesAvailable on November 16, 2018, 05:49:59 PM
I don't know if this counts as the highest classification, but definitely the highest traffic road I've peed next to is the Taconic State Parkway. A bit south of the NY 301 interchange there's an abandoned alignment that runs east of the current northbound roadway. You can pull into it where it meets back up at the northern end and you're nicely shielded from the eyes of northbound traffic.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jp the roadgeek on November 16, 2018, 06:26:19 PM
I vaguely remember because I had to be about 3 or 4, but it would have to be somewhere along US 302 in Maine.  We were going from CT to visit my father's old college buddy in Bridgton, and apparently, I made it all the way from home to about 5 miles from Bridgton before I couldn't hold it any longer.  A few years ago, one of my passengers was forced to go along the side of one of the ramps from NJ 3 to the NJTP.  It was a January weeknight, so it was pretty desolate.   We were forced off the Saw Mill Parkway, and ended up driving down 5th Ave, and even took a daring drive through Central Park before managing to escape unscathed onto West 96th St.  About there, she had to go, but I wasn't stopping in the city.  I managed to hoof it down the West Side Highway and through the Lincoln Tunnel to try and hit a service area on the NJTP, but we didn't make it.

Also peed on the side of CT 9...before the section even opened.  We were on an earth science field trip to look at rock formations, and one was located on the road where they had blasted through for the ramp from I-91 North to CT 9 north.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jon daly on November 16, 2018, 10:15:05 PM
Do weigh stations count? I've used the Exeter ones on I-95 in Rhode Island; both north and south bound. I'm not a savage. I'd prefer to use a gas station restroom. However, sometimes nature calls and you can't wait.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Flint1979 on November 17, 2018, 12:07:03 AM
Does an exit ramp off an Interstate count as an Interstate? If so I have done that before.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on November 17, 2018, 03:11:41 AM
This summer I made the mistake of pounding a couple large water bottles driving NM 4 through the Jemez Mountains. By the time I couldn't hold it anymore I found some meager looking trees and bushes next to a big open range area. Traffic wasn't too heavy but wasn't nonexistent either and there was some guy working in his truck visible down the hill, probably too far to notice me.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 01:08:50 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on November 17, 2018, 03:11:41 AM
some guy working in his truck visible down the hill, probably too far to notice me.

...or care.  A guy in a work truck is not going to care about some random traveler taking a leak.  He's probably done the same thing at some point.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on November 19, 2018, 01:52:58 PM
Expressway; AZ 87 on the Beeline Highway to be specific.  There was a brush fire that had traffic stopped for hours, I was going to stay comfortable. 
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: epzik8 on November 19, 2018, 02:11:33 PM
Two-lane undivided state route. I went down a random farm driveway off Route 372 in Lancaster County, PA one time and went pee because I didn't want to clinch 372 with a full bladder.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Rothman on November 19, 2018, 02:27:39 PM
Interstate.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 03:05:28 PM
Quote from: Flint1979 on November 17, 2018, 12:07:03 AM
Does an exit ramp off an Interstate count as an Interstate?

I'd say so, if you're still visible from the highway.  I certainly counted it when I posted.

The only freeway mainline I've actually had a potty break on was in Mexico.  Cross-posting from an ancient thread below:

Quote from: kphoger on January 12, 2012, 11:43:54 AM
Though this is not the U.S. interstate highway system, I've stopped along the brand-new roll road from Monterrey to Saltillo in México.  I mention this because it was probably the trickiest place I've had to get out.  As you can see in the picture (link below), the shoulder is very narrow, bounded by a steep down-slope.  We were eight people in two vehicles; those on the passenger side had to step down directly onto the drainage slope (including a blind guy), while those on the driver's side had to get out in the lane of traffic.  The reason we stopped is that my then-three-year-old son told us he had to go to the bathroom right at that point exiting Monterrey where the next gas station I knew of was more than 100 km away.  I've learned not to argue when a three-year-old mentions Number Two......
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=25.68924,-100.638049&spn=0.000039,0.019205&t=m&z=16&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=25.689242,-100.642139&panoid=ocu1JZecPMvJNKDe-m3FGw&cbp=12,261.36,,1,10.05 (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=25.68924,-100.638049&spn=0.000039,0.019205&t=m&z=16&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=25.689242,-100.642139&panoid=ocu1JZecPMvJNKDe-m3FGw&cbp=12,261.36,,1,10.05)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

Does this also win as the most male-centric post on this site?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Duke87 on November 19, 2018, 07:52:04 PM
Now that this thread has been bumped up, I can state that since my last post here I have now urinated beside an interstate - specifically, I-30 near Hope, AR. A nasty crash had the road completely blocked and I was stuck in the group of vehicles that had already passed the last exit before it.

So I exited my vehicle while it was stopped and turned off in the left lane, walked across both lanes of eastbound I-30, and down to the bushes off the right side of the road in order to contribute to the local nitrogen cycle.

Being stuck there sucked but it is fun being able to say I walked across an interstate. :sombrero:
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 09:14:53 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

That would win the thread.

But hopefully it wasn't from an overpass.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on November 19, 2018, 11:52:31 PM
Apparently my wife has me beat and has had to pull on 54D a couple times for an emergency potty break:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4627/40509893531_bba9d96bd8_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24HHN1c)54MEXDa (https://flic.kr/p/24HHN1c) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr

That is literally the one road-related anything she has me beat on.  Edit:  She wanted me to emphasize that this is a common practice and all her relatives have done the same thing during travel in Mexico. :-D
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: CNGL-Leudimin on November 20, 2018, 05:04:26 AM
Nice to see this hilarious thread back! :-D

I'm pretty high on the classification, since I've peed besides a freeway twice.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 20, 2018, 11:06:17 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 19, 2018, 11:52:31 PM
Edit:  She wanted me to emphasize that this is a common practice and all her relatives have done the same thing during travel in Mexico. :-D

Back in 2001, my dad and I traveled by bus from Ciudad Juárez to Batopilas, Chihuahua (https://goo.gl/maps/owKksC33fhG2).  From Creel to Batopilas, it's a 5-hour bus trip through the mountains (at least it was back when most of it was unpaved) with basically no services along the way.  Just before reaching the really fun section (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sicQoHcozQ0/URBUgPJeO-I/AAAAAAAACTY/PW485E5bBio/s1600/road+down+to+batopilas.jpg), the bus stopped to let everyone out and enjoy the scenery and go pee.  With no bathrooms, what else are you gonna do?

My other group-peeing experience in Mexico was while driving from Parras to La Constancia, Coahuila (https://goo.gl/maps/Af9bjTCu1E92) on a mission trip a couple of years ago.  That was at least three hours of driving down rocky desert tracks (https://i.imgur.com/C6sUR84.png), including some portions along creek beds.  Same deal:  no bathrooms, what else are you gonna do but just stop among some bushes (https://i.imgur.com/sqarB18.png)?

In general, public restrooms are–or at least used to be–fewer and farther between in Mexico than here in the USA, so making a pit stop to pee on the gravel is a normal part of life.  There's also the fact that bathrooms are less private in many Mexicans' homes than we're used to; the toilet might be separated from the laundry area by nothing but a tarp hung from the ceiling, and that whole part of the house might be separated from the living room area by hardly anything more.  Growing up in that environment, a person is more used to people knowing/seeing him or her take a leak.  But, having said all of that, peeing along the toll road is just not something I've seen a lot of.  Granted, my experience is limited to about 6000 to 7000 miles of Mexican driving, but most toll roads have at least one or two public restrooms along the route–either at a toll booth or a roadside truck stop area.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: frankenroad on November 20, 2018, 11:21:49 AM
I-74 in SE Indiana.   There was 6+" of snow on the road and we were at a dead stop.   After a couple hours, I did what I had to.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: thenetwork on November 20, 2018, 07:08:16 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 09:14:53 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

That would win the thread.

But hopefully it wasn't from an overpass.

From my earlier post, I did pee IN THE MIDDLE of the Westbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike/I-80/I-90 (A Multiplex, no less!), Friday, December 13th, 1985 (My last day of finals).  A jackknifed truck blocked the westbound lanes due to the snowy conditions a few miles east, and I was talking with 2 people who were my dorm room neighbors 2 doors down.  Their car slid off the eastbound lanes about a half-hour earlier, and I just happened to see them when I slowly passed by.  So we chatted on the westbound lanes (pre-3-laning era) and I took a pee as well.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Rick1962 on November 20, 2018, 07:12:41 PM
US-71 between Carthage and Jasper, Missouri (about 25 years before I-49), late at night, IIRC. When ya gotta go...

SM-T580

Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: TheHighwayMan3561 on November 20, 2018, 08:04:09 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 09:14:53 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

That would win the thread.

But hopefully it wasn't from an overpass.

The splatter potential would probably make me want to do so from an overpass if I had to.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 21, 2018, 12:53:17 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on November 20, 2018, 08:04:09 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 09:14:53 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

That would win the thread.

But hopefully it wasn't from an overpass.

The splatter potential would probably make me want to do so from an overpass if I had to.

You need to work on your distance.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: sbeaver44 on November 21, 2018, 02:48:45 PM
I-90 in South Dakota
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 21, 2018, 02:55:58 PM
State route.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: jbnv on November 22, 2018, 09:31:20 AM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

Does the shoulder count? If you're on a bridge where urinating *beside* means committing suicide, does it count?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 22, 2018, 03:37:24 PM
A friend of a friend used to kneel in front of cars like he was checking the tire and then urinate into the gutter, does that count as urinating in the street?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 22, 2018, 03:37:24 PM
A friend of a friend used to kneel in front of cars like he was checking the tire and then urinate into the gutter, does that count as urinating in the street?

Ask a cop, and you'll know the answer.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 23, 2018, 06:12:24 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 22, 2018, 03:37:24 PM
A friend of a friend used to kneel in front of cars like he was checking the tire and then urinate into the gutter, does that count as urinating in the street?

Ask a cop, and you'll know the answer.
Public urination is public urination regardless of where the urine lands.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 23, 2018, 06:12:24 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 22, 2018, 03:37:24 PM
A friend of a friend used to kneel in front of cars like he was checking the tire and then urinate into the gutter, does that count as urinating in the street?

Ask a cop, and you'll know the answer.
Public urination is public urination regardless of where the urine lands.

Touché.

(That 'friend of a friend' isn't you, now, is it?  ;)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 23, 2018, 07:48:51 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 06:45:28 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 23, 2018, 06:12:24 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 22, 2018, 03:37:24 PM
A friend of a friend used to kneel in front of cars like he was checking the tire and then urinate into the gutter, does that count as urinating in the street?

Ask a cop, and you'll know the answer.
Public urination is public urination regardless of where the urine lands.

Touché.

(That 'friend of a friend' isn't you, now, is it?  ;)
Haha, no. Frankly, I'm not sure how he did it without urinating on himself. And I've met him and asked him how he did it, and I still don't understand.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: webny99 on November 23, 2018, 07:49:22 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Touché.
(That 'friend of a friend' isn't you, now, is it?  ;)

I see that opening, and not closing, a parenthetical has become a thing around here. Still wondering what happened to your original one in the now-locked OT thread.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: skluth on November 23, 2018, 10:53:37 PM
I hitchhiked around the country during the summer of '78. I'm sure I've peed (and then some) next to several interstates. I did not keep a running tally.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 24, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: webny99 on November 23, 2018, 07:49:22 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Touché.
(That 'friend of a friend' isn't you, now, is it?  ;)

I see that opening, and not closing, a parenthetical has become a thing around here. Still wondering what happened to your original one in the now-locked OT thread.

Well, what the...

In the first instance, back on the now-locked thread, it was the result of editing my post and not removing a couple of words from the first draft–one of which had an left parenthesis by it.

But now it's just getting silly.  Maybe it's because I typed the emoji rather than picking it from up above, and in doing so my brain registered the last keystroke as my closing parenthesis.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 24, 2018, 03:55:56 PM
Quote from: skluth on November 23, 2018, 10:53:37 PM
I hitchhiked around the country during the summer of '78. I'm sure I've peed (and then some) next to several interstates. I did not keep a running tally.

When I used to hitchhike (roughly 2002 to 2008), I tried to reduce my chances of being approached by the police, not increase it.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 24, 2018, 07:09:15 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 24, 2018, 03:55:56 PM
Quote from: skluth on November 23, 2018, 10:53:37 PM
I hitchhiked around the country during the summer of '78. I'm sure I've peed (and then some) next to several interstates. I did not keep a running tally.

When I used to hitchhike (roughly 2002 to 2008), I tried to reduce my chances of being approached by the police, not increase it.
Wow, that seems really recent to be hitchhiking. I'm pretty sure I can count the number of hitchhikers I've seen in my entire lifetime on one hand.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: hotdogPi on November 24, 2018, 08:38:02 PM
Quote from: webny99 on November 23, 2018, 07:49:22 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Touché.
(That 'friend of a friend' isn't you, now, is it?  ;)

I see that opening, and not closing, a parenthetical has become a thing around here. Still wondering what happened to your original one in the now-locked OT thread.

I closed it a few posts later.

However, in this thread, the ending parenthesis exists. It forms part of an emoticon.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: webny99 on November 24, 2018, 09:33:56 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 24, 2018, 03:54:33 PM
Quote from: webny99 on November 23, 2018, 07:49:22 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 23, 2018, 09:02:14 AM
Touché.
(That 'friend of a friend' isn't you, now, is it?  ;)
I see that opening, and not closing, a parenthetical has become a thing around here. Still wondering what happened to your original one in the now-locked OT thread.
Well, what the...
In the first instance, back on the now-locked thread, it was the result of editing my post and not removing a couple of words from the first draft–one of which had an left parenthesis by it.
But now it's just getting silly.  Maybe it's because I typed the emoji rather than picking it from up above, and in doing so my brain registered the last keystroke as my closing parenthesis.

I figured! It was good for a laugh though. And sheer coincidence, as 1 mentions, that there actually was an ending parenthesis, which got turned into and emoji when you posted.

However, a ; followed by a ) - just like that, not as an emoji - would have also implied an incomplete thought. So you can't win! (;)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: 1995hoo on November 24, 2018, 09:56:27 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

Does this also win as the most male-centric post on this site?

The latter sentence makes me speculate on whether we might have any formerly male transsexual posters who may have experience from their former lives.... ahhh, you know what, I don't know if I care to know such things.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 25, 2018, 04:07:41 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 24, 2018, 07:09:15 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 24, 2018, 03:55:56 PM
Quote from: skluth on November 23, 2018, 10:53:37 PM
I hitchhiked around the country during the summer of '78. I'm sure I've peed (and then some) next to several interstates. I did not keep a running tally.

When I used to hitchhike (roughly 2002 to 2008), I tried to reduce my chances of being approached by the police, not increase it.
Wow, that seems really recent to be hitchhiking. I'm pretty sure I can count the number of hitchhikers I've seen in my entire lifetime on one hand.

Yeah, hitchhikers are pretty rare to see these days.  I don't see many around these parts, but I used to see more back in Illinois.  I think the last hitchhiker I picked up was sometime last year.  He was at the interchange of I-135 and K-96, right at the merge point of the two, and I knew that was both (a) an unsafe place to be standing and also (b) a good place to get picked up by a cop.  He was headed back home to Seattle from...somewhere, I forget.  I always stop for hitchhikers if I have room in the car, but on long trips I often don't have an extra seat available.

Surprisingly, I did have to share an on-ramp with another hitchhiker back in 2006.  Back in the 1970s, that was probably more common, but it sure surprised me in 2006.  Peotone, IL, southbound on-ramp to I-57.  I was hitchhiking out of Chicago to get married, and I had a big white sign that said "57 / Getting Married", and then I attached a big red cardboard thumb to the end.  I was dressed in khaki slacks, had a smile on my face, looked presentable (as I always aimed for when hitchhiking).  The other guy was dressed all in black, chose to sit down on his pack, and didn't seem too keen on getting a ride.  The protocol in sharing an on-ramp (which he told me, because I didn't know, because it had never come up before) is to move farther down the ramp so the first guy there gets the first pick.  The lady who ended up picking me up crawled past the other guy, then stopped for me instead.  I told her he was there first, and she said she'd rather not because I looked more trustworthy.  I looked back, and the guy looked all ticked off that I was stealing his ride.  Well, bud, first impressions matter.  She did ask to call my fiancée on my cell phone and confirm that I was in fact meeting her for our wedding.

The farthest I ever hitchhiked was from Menominee, MI, to Chicago–through Michigan.  I did that trip in two days, pitching a tent in Paw Paw along the way.  It was one of the few hitchhiking trips I did just for fun.  I took Greyhound up from Chicago to Menominee, slept in a park, and then hitchhiked east and south back to Chicago.  Most other trips were because I needed to get somewhere and didn't own a car, generally no more than 300 miles.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 25, 2018, 05:49:10 PM
Yeah, who would've thought the key to successful hitchhiking is not looking like a psycho.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: hbelkins on November 25, 2018, 07:00:50 PM
After today, interstate (bypassed/abandoned.) I took a leak on the old PA Turnpike.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: kphoger on November 26, 2018, 01:28:35 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on November 25, 2018, 07:00:50 PM
After today, interstate (bypassed/abandoned.) I took a leak on the old PA Turnpike.

Just because of this thread, right?
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: hbelkins on November 26, 2018, 07:08:17 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 26, 2018, 01:28:35 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on November 25, 2018, 07:00:50 PM
After today, interstate (bypassed/abandoned.) I took a leak on the old PA Turnpike.

Just because of this thread, right?

No, actually because of my bladder and the fact that I'm on two diuretics. But this thread did cross my mind while I was in the process.

And by "on," I literally meant "on." I stood in front of the tour van after we had come out of the east end of the Rays Hill Tunnel and while everyone else was back near the tunnel's mouth.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: SectorZ on November 26, 2018, 08:30:51 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 19, 2018, 09:14:53 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 19, 2018, 06:01:25 PM
What about urinated on, not beside?

That would win the thread.

But hopefully it wasn't from an overpass.

State route, middle of the night. I do a few overnight bicycle rides in the summer. Plenty of times I don't have to deviate off the roadway. Possible I've done it on a US route, too.

Maybe in 2019 I'll shoot for an overpass...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on November 26, 2018, 08:37:41 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on November 26, 2018, 08:30:51 PMMaybe in 2019 I'll shoot for an overpass...
As long as you promise to make damned sure no one or nothing is under the overpass.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: skluth on November 26, 2018, 09:08:04 PM
Quote from: kphoger on November 25, 2018, 04:07:41 PM
The protocol in sharing an on-ramp (which he told me, because I didn't know, because it had never come up before) is to move farther down the ramp so the first guy there gets the first pick. 

Technically, that's true. However, it wasn't uncommon back in the 70's for someone further up the ramp to get a ride first. How you look makes a difference. By the end of Summer '78, I looked like an extra from the first Jesus Christ Superstar movie and my gaps between rides were usually longer. Although it can be the reverse too. A lot of longhairs with cars didn't trust someone with short hair hitchhiking because that person might be a narc or something. I personally thought that was paranoid, but those rides were usually from some tripped up stoners.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: cl94 on February 20, 2019, 11:31:37 PM
I'm reviving this. Interstate 81 at 2 AM. Not my proudest moment.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: MNHighwayMan on February 21, 2019, 09:24:36 AM
I partook in roadside urination exactly once: the north end of MO-139, right where it turns into an Iowa county road at the state line. I pissed against someone's shed/lean-to/whatever you want to call it. It's kind of in the middle of nowhere and I really needed to pee. Then I took pictures of the highway's north terminus.

On the left, you can see the structure I relieved myself upon.

(https://i.imgur.com/GheinRC.jpg)
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on February 21, 2019, 09:35:19 AM
Recently partook in the topic of this thread off CA 162 at Bidwell's Bar Bridge overlooking Lake Oroville, the view was pretty nice. 
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: abefroman329 on February 21, 2019, 01:00:51 PM
Fatherhood probably means I need to indulge my love of peeing outdoors a lot less frequently than I did when I was childless.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: dlsterner on February 21, 2019, 11:12:32 PM
About six years ago, on southbound I-81 in southern Virginia.  Traffic came to a complete standstill for three hours due to (found out later) a bad truck accident further down the road.  I at least took advantage of a patch of shrubbery for discretion.  And I wasn't the only one :)

(Later found out that there were no casualties in the accident, but the truck's load (strawberries) spilled all over the road and needed cleanup.)

Also about two years ago in eastern Iceland along the Ring Road (Route 1).  Extremely desolate area, the pull-off was about 200 yards from the road, no sign of civilization as far as I could see.  The gravel parking area looked more appealing than the sketchy porta-potty sitting there.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: slorydn1 on February 22, 2019, 03:12:04 AM
Ahh, the memories. First time was on the James W Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike somewhere east of Toledo in the early 1970's. Killed 2 Interstates with one stone, err, I mean stream on that one (80/90).

Over the years add I-65, I-24, I-75 for me.

Jr's first time was I-95 southbound somewhere near St Augustine FL, about 3 miles south of the rest area that my son didn't need us to stop at until we were already passing the gore sign while passing a semi. I told him to hold it the next rest area was only about 30 minutes away or so but my wife was having none of it.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: MCRoads on February 25, 2019, 12:39:23 PM
Haven't don it in years, but I have done business next to a multitude of (mostly) interstates, probably I-10, I-40, I-35, and maybe the south section of I-49.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: signalman on February 26, 2019, 06:26:26 PM
Interstate 80 in NJ back in November during a decent snow storm.  My 12 mile commute took over 7 hours, often with long stretches of sitting in one place not moving.  Eventually I had to get out and pee..twice.  I was far from the only one to piss on I-80 that afternoon/evening, even a few bold (and likely desperate) women partook.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Zeddac on March 10, 2019, 12:46:25 AM
When I was a little kid, my family went on a small road trip around our state. At one point, I had to pee really badly, and for some reason I couldn't make it to a gas station, so I peed right on the side of I-39/US 51.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Plutonic Panda on March 11, 2019, 06:56:56 PM
Elevated interstate in OKC when my car broke down I-40 before they tore down the viaduct. I had to pee man! It was a mission of stealth and situational awareness. Luckily I found a break in traffic where I could do the deed without the worry of peeking eyes in passing cars.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: US 89 on March 11, 2019, 07:16:46 PM
I was once in a huge snowstorm probably right about here on I-80 (https://goo.gl/maps/B8AyeGVCK4C2), and traffic was more or less stopped or going less than 5 mph. There was a SUV driving in the left lane, and I guess one of the guys in there really had to go, because he got out the back and took his piss into the concrete median. Of course, while he was relieving himself, the car was still piddling forward (pun not intended). When he finished, he ran forward about 20 feet to catch up to the car and got back in. It was hilarious.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: 1995hoo on April 02, 2019, 09:57:19 AM
Quote from: US 89 on March 11, 2019, 07:16:46 PM
I was once in a huge snowstorm probably right about here on I-80 (https://goo.gl/maps/B8AyeGVCK4C2), and traffic was more or less stopped or going less than 5 mph. There was a SUV driving in the left lane, and I guess one of the guys in there really had to go, because he got out the back and took his piss into the concrete median. Of course, while he was relieving himself, the car was still piddling forward (pun not intended). When he finished, he ran forward about 20 feet to catch up to the car and got back in. It was hilarious.

In 1989 six of the guys in my Boy Scout troop (myself included) and two fathers drove up from Virginia to PEI to attend the Canadian Jamboree. At some point crossing ME-9 between Bangor and Calais a couple of us started to have to go, and there was pretty much nothing around on that road, so both cars pulled over. Picture six teens and two fathers, all in full Boy Scout uniform, standing lined up along the side of the road all taking leaks. Passing truck drivers thought it was hilarious and were honking their horns in greeting as they went past.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on September 26, 2023, 10:35:57 AM
Back in June I finally stepped up to freeway twice.  I drove through the middle of the night from Fresno to Las Vegas.  I was having some stomach issues the entire night so I pulled over on CA 58 and I-15 to take care of it.  Given I was already off the shoulder I took care of number one also both times. 
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: zzcarp on September 26, 2023, 10:49:52 AM
Back in 2006 I was on a survey crew in the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70 laying out pavement grades for a resurfacing project. And yes, my crewmate and I did go behind the work truck a couple times instead of hoofing out or driving more than a mile out to the west portal port-a-john.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Plutonic Panda on September 29, 2023, 11:54:13 PM
One of the reasons why I love the west are there so many peepee spots to exit on and just hop out drain the main vein and move on.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Amaury on September 30, 2023, 12:32:34 AM
To keep it simple, I'm guessing we're only talking about numbered routes.

In any case, I don't know about the technical legalities of it, so I don't urinate out on the road unless it's absolutely necessary, where I'm in pain and can no longer hold it, especially when you're at the point where you can feel some discomfort while you're sitting down driving and you know the minute you get out and stand up, it's going to hurt to walk. It also depends on what I've had, I think. When I took my drive to Bozeman back in January, which is about 8 hours and 38 minutes (570 miles)—16 hours and 48 minutes (1,140 miles) in total for the roundtrip—about an hour into the drive there and the drive back, I had to urinate, but I was able to hold it until I got to Bozeman and then again until I got back home. Obviously, I went when I stopped to eat at Subway in Bozeman, but I ended up having to go again for obvious reasons. I also took an extra strength five-hour energy drink for the drive there and then another one for the drive back.

Anyway, as for when I've had to get out and go out on the roads, the only ones I can recall are:

WA 21 is the most recent one, which was February 27, 2021, and the only reason I remember the date for that one is because it was after I got my first dashcam and had started taking regular drives. In this case, it ended up being a drive to Spokane, Washington, and I went that way because I was going over Sherman Pass for the first time. I had to really go, so I stopped along WA 21 as I was heading north to take care of it. Obviously, any time I've had to go, I've gone behind trees. Only time I didn't was one time when I was coming back from Republic, Washington, at night—this was quite a while before I got my first dashcam—and I was on Manilla Creek/Peter Dan Road in Ferry/Okanogan County, the road connecting WA 21 to WA 155. I was pretty well off the road, and it's not a very traveled road, especially not at night, though I still went behind my truck on the side not facing the road.

Like I said, though, I otherwise avoid doing it because I don't know about the technical legalities of it. I don't know if it would technically still count as indecent exposure if somebody were to walk by or come up to you while you were urinating, for example, since you're technically out in public. Yes, urinating by itself isn't sexual, but your sexual organ is still out. I guess it's kind of like that saying: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Scott5114 on September 30, 2023, 12:34:55 AM
Over the time period between when this thread died and when it was resurrected, I actually obtained an entry for this—NM 6, just south of I-40. There aren't a whole lot of places to stop between Grants and Albuquerque that have an actual toilet...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: ozarkman417 on September 30, 2023, 12:43:02 AM
My highest is: U.S. Highway. More specifically US 54 near Eldon, MO in the early morning hours when nothing is open and there's no one on the road to see you do the business.

Before that, my highest was State Highway because I did the business on ID 3's ROW while viewing a meteor shower.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: zachary_amaryllis on September 30, 2023, 06:42:46 AM
Best I can claim is US, and I did actually do the deed in the road.

Out in the middle of nowhere east of Sterling on US 6. 2 am. Just stopped in the road (I could see for miles), and did my thing.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: US 89 on September 30, 2023, 08:48:37 AM
I used the right lane of US 27 in southwest Georgia as a toilet when I first drove to Tallahassee. Turns out there is pretty much nobody on that road after 10 PM.

I have also peed in a stream directly alongside US 12 in Montana between US 89 and Townsend. That was during the day, but the amount of traffic on those roads is very low...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: thenetwork on September 30, 2023, 11:22:13 AM
If we are talking about route hierarchy, I have peed in the westbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike/I-80/I-90 (interstate multiplex)...I guess you'd call that a 2-for-1 feat.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: Great Lakes Roads on October 01, 2023, 12:17:04 AM
On the side of NY 17 east of Binghamton at a parking area...
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: nexus73 on October 01, 2023, 09:00:50 AM
Median of the Golden State Freeway at 4:30 AM back in June 1974. 
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: MATraveler128 on October 01, 2023, 11:10:50 AM
We experienced a flat tire driving back to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania this past summer. I had to do it at the I-287/Garden State Parkway interchange in New York in the middle of stopped traffic.
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: HighwayStar on October 04, 2023, 01:06:31 AM
Interstate, in at least 3 states that come to mind. Most were with the benefit of tree cover, but not all. Couple during the covid also when all bets were off.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: What is the highest classification of road beside which you have urinated?
Post by: cl94 on October 04, 2023, 01:21:56 AM
In addition to an Interstate, I have also contributed to the local nitrogen cycle alongside the Trans-Canada Highway. I got to add that to my list this summer.