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[–] Lolgeese@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just because you don't have any issues doesn't mean other people don't. I, myself, have a lot of anxiety when it comes to using urinals and have trouble sometimes. Why? No idea. Having to piss doesn't override the anxiety, so you just end up feeling miserable.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I just didn't realize it was so common. Sorry, that sucks. Are you an otherwise confident and secure person?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Yes, other than pissing I'm pretty confident.

No,. I have no idea why peeing in private is important to my lizard brain. It wasn't when I was a kid.

[–] Lolgeese@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's okay. Sorry I got snippy back at you. Funny enough, most of the time I feel as if I am very confident and secure. Naturally as people do I have my times where that slips, but I'd say 80% of the time I'm cool as a cucumber

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No worries, I think a lot of people thought I was being an ass instead of honestly just having never thought about it. I wonder if it has something to do with growing up in a big family and playing sports and stuff. Like, I think I just became to desensitized to it. If I needed privacy to pee, I would probably wouldn't have peed through all of high school and college lol.

The amount of time I've dumped a whizzer while someone was right next to me, talking to me, or once while two other people were in a tiny bathroom at a party... at bars where there was no urinal and no door on the stall... that last one was a pretty notorious bathroom, because like I said, the stall had no door, but also the door to the bathroom itself was a pair of those swinging doors like in wild west movies. I'll admit having to take a shit while you could still see the people at the bar was pretty awkward. One of my favorite dive bars. 🤣