His friends refused to pull over on the narrow highway shoulder, so they handed him an empty, wide-mouthed sports drink bottle.

Instead, her foot slipped. She crashed straight through the ceiling grid, landing legs-first through the tiles—right into the adjacent men's restroom, directly behind the CEO who was washing his hands.

I didn't question why the toilets were located in the dungeon. I didn't question why the hallway was getting progressively damper. I just ran. I left my husband in the dust, clutching my jeans like my life depended on it.

My friend Sarah, a 34-year-old lawyer, swears she has never been more humiliated than during the "Great Elevator Incident of 2019." She was returning to her 15th-floor apartment after a three-margarita lunch. As the doors closed, a maintenance man propped the door open and hung an “Out of Service” sign.

The third button. CLANG. The heavy metal button at the top of the jeans shot off his pants like a bullet. It ricocheted off the elevator wall, pinged off the ceiling light, and landed directly into the coffee cup of a man standing next to him.

: At a Taylor Swift concert, the bathroom lines were so legendary that fans were performing "pee dances" to stay in place. One woman eventually lost control, which triggered a literal chain reaction: she peed, then her friend peed, and then the storyteller peed, all while standing in the same line.

"Take a leak," "Tinkle," "Wee," or "Spend a penny" (a classic British term). Do you have a specific scenario

I had to spend the rest of the networking event walking backward away from people, holding a folder over my rear end, pretending I had a severe back injury." 4. The Childhood Miscalculations

He decided to hold it. But the elevator kept stopping. Every floor. More people got on. By floor 22, Dave was sweating. By floor 25, he was seeing stars.

He looked down. The zipper pull tab had broken off completely. He had a tiny metal hole the size of a pinhead to aim through. He tried to force it. No luck. He tried to squeeze his fingers through the gap to manually spread the teeth. He managed to open it about one inch.

Road trips are prime territory for bladder disasters. Marcus and his friends were driving down a remote stretch of highway with no rest stops for 50 miles. Marcus could not hold it any longer.

Because we all need a laugh (and a reminder to drink less coffee before road trips), here is a collection of the best, most cringeworthy, and downright from the trenches of everyday life.

There is no purer test of a relationship than a road trip with a small bladder.

Do you have a specific you're looking for, such as childhood mishaps , travel emergencies , or maybe even some weird "pee facts" like the 20-second rule?

Monkey see, monkey do. Human see, dog pee? Apparently, yes.

Deserts make you think of water. Water makes you think of waterfalls. Jen began crying.

But one August day, a tourist asked a question about stalagmites that took 15 minutes to answer. By the time Red reached the "Hall of Giants," she was doing the Potty Dance—a subtle heel-toe maneuver she thought was invisible.

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