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Qwest field crews told to use bags when they had to pee
Looking for a bathroom can be such a waste of time. That's why a Qwest supervisor recently gave disposable urinal bags to about 25 male field technicians and said they should use them when they had to go. (Rocky Mountain News)
March 21, 2008 | Permalink
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They're men; why would they need anything more than someplace semi-secluded? A bag just seems wasteful. And kinky.
Posted by: Tracer Bullet | Mar 21, 2008 5:51:27 AM
Dunt make sense. If you have the privacy to...um...unsheath your sword from its scabbard...to use this bag, they why not just whizz on the ground? Or does this bag fit in your pocket or something, and a hose fits over the ...er...pommel of the...um...sword.
Posted by: Dave | Mar 21, 2008 6:02:43 AM
yeah, really, what kind of "Man" doesn't use the great outdoors as his toilet when he's gotta go?!
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 21, 2008 6:14:50 AM
Using the great outdoors these days will get a man slapped with sex-offender status because of so-called 'indecent exposure.'
The bags allow the guys to sit inside their truck cabs to tinkle.
My issue with this is that the bags could possibly spill and make a stinky mess. Why not just give them those containers they use in hospitals? They're hard paper, making them biodegradable, and the only way a guy's gonna spill is if he drops the container.
Plastic bags. Pffft.
Dave: love the imagery. I'll never look at a cutlass the same again!
Posted by: Soo | Mar 21, 2008 6:30:20 AM
When I saw Qwest field, I read Qwest Field and wondered why they just didn't use the bathrooms at the stadium.
Posted by: pnwguy (no relation) | Mar 21, 2008 6:41:11 AM
So do they have to carry urine-filled bags around with them all day? Because that would just be gross.
Posted by: Lois Lane | Mar 21, 2008 6:52:38 AM
I wonder if any women were on these crews.
Posted by: Rock Marine | Mar 21, 2008 7:05:30 AM
I had to carry bags like that when I went caving a couple of times. If you had to go, you couldn't just go in a corner, (didn't want people to pollute the cave) you had to carry bags full bags of pee out of the cave.
Posted by: twerp | Mar 21, 2008 7:09:13 AM
I know which supervisor's car would my pee-filled bag. Everyday. I'd even save my off-the-clock pee for him.
Posted by: SteveO | Mar 21, 2008 7:09:22 AM
why didnt they just go in their lunchboxes?
Posted by: buddy | Mar 21, 2008 7:23:23 AM
Sure they want you to pee in a bag, but when you pee in the coffee pot at work they get all bent out of shape.
Posted by: G-Man | Mar 21, 2008 7:33:17 AM
Why not just give them a towel? They can do all their business on it, and even wipe their butt if they need to. Then wash it at night. Much more nature friendly.
Posted by: beavis | Mar 21, 2008 7:44:31 AM
I too was confused why stadium employees couldn't just use one of the hundreds of conveniently placed bathrooms. See Qwest Field.
Posted by: The Tim | Mar 21, 2008 7:58:05 AM
Don't some areas already have a big problem with truckers and such leaving plastic milk/drink jugs fill of piss by the road?
Posted by: Mook | Mar 21, 2008 8:15:38 AM
Mook: yep, here in Washington State, we even had a delightful poster on the matter. (Ew!)
Posted by: The Tim | Mar 21, 2008 8:26:15 AM
I think it was Idaho where in an effort to eliminate those Gatorade bottles of urine on the roadway, they finally made it legal to "unsheath the sword", but only on the right side of the vehicle, standing at the back tire, and "pointing" parallel to the road. Spread on the ground, it's not much of a problem. Cooped up in a bottle in the hot sun, it's a veritable petri dish.
Posted by: merkin4 | Mar 21, 2008 8:58:26 AM
Isn't the problem not that people are peeing in jugs but that they are then leaving them by the side of the road?
On the 2 or 3 occasions where I couldn't pee outdoors due to people around or an urban environment, I stayed in the car and peed in a bottle or large cup BUT THEN kept it and threw it out in a trash can. I better not get a ticket for that.
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Posted by: Lou Sussler | Mar 21, 2008 10:36:09 AM
I think the real issue is that their supervisor wasn't happy that they (*gasp*) had to actually stop work occasionally to answer the call of nature. So he's making them pee into bags as punishment. Not sure what this asshat wants them to do for #2, though I'd be tempted to leave it on his dashboard.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Mar 21, 2008 10:46:34 AM
There are a few times I wish I would have had those bags, if they were properly equipped for a female of course.
Posted by: lawdog | Mar 21, 2008 10:52:31 AM
Rock,
Yes there are, there also women on power crews (you know the folks that go out in an ice storm to restore your power so you don't miss the final four) And there are piss solutions--there's an equivalent of brief relief for the ladies. I've used it. Very useful, esp. in places where indoor plumbing is non-existant and/or to disgusting to use. It was handy in Mali, also in Philly (sorry STS, but I did have to pee on part of philadelphia).
Posted by: nellagain | Mar 21, 2008 10:55:50 AM
Nell, I've peed in Subway stations, on Alleys, in bushes, behind cars. One time dead on the sidewalk (Drunk with a capital D! I got lost going home that night...boy) When I live in the country I will pee outside exclusively. Actually, one of my first apartments, a rowhouse, in Philly had a back porch with a door that opened into the "crack alley" (literally) and that was our official Second bathroom. In fact, when we had parties, the bathroom was "Women Only." So feel free to pee wherever, but watch yourself around touristy places, especially South Street, because the po is on the lookout for that kind of behavior.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 21, 2008 11:07:12 AM
sometimesilie, trust me, you wouldn't pee outside in the country if you have a well.....
Posted by: twerp | Mar 21, 2008 11:11:20 AM
I can't believe that, here in the official "world class pun site" I'd get all the way down here without someone else calling this just another pissing contest.
OK~~~~
This is just another pissing contest.
Posted by: A.V. | Mar 21, 2008 11:13:11 AM
twerp, lol. I don't think I'll have to go that much though!
Posted by: sometimesilie | Mar 21, 2008 11:48:56 AM
Quite a few years ago some funky innovators in Europe introduced a funnel-like device for women so that they could not only pee outdoors, but without the mess and able to aim as well. Pretty awesome. I don't remember what it was called.
Posted by: Soo | Mar 21, 2008 3:38:08 PM
Pissing in a bag would be better than the Comcast tech I caught pissing on the side of my house. I was like, WTF dude, water the bushes, not the house.
Posted by: Peter | Mar 21, 2008 5:57:57 PM
I have just two words: astronaut diapers.
Posted by: pug mahone | Mar 23, 2008 2:57:33 PM
