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Looks like most of us pee in the shower
By: Ryan Benharris (Collegian Staff)
Issue date: 5/1/01 Section: News
It was pop superstar Madonna who told David Letterman, "Everyone does two things. Everyone picks their nose, and everyone pees in the shower." Though it may be, no doubt, an insightful way to look at the world, it was never really proven, until now.
According to a press release entitled, "Survey reveals that students are so lazy that most pee in the shower," from Lazystudents.com, 75 percent of the 840 college students polled answered "yes" to an online question asking, "Do you pee in the shower?"
Andrew S. Hazen, founder and CEO of Lazystudents.com told the Collegian that the poll results came quite a surprise. The poll stayed online for more than six months, gaining a lot of response.
"It was kind of like that [report] from years ago about not taking mints in a restaurant because people weren't washing their hands," Hazen said. He also pointed out that it was an obvious example of how college students can be lazy, citing that if most are admitting to not even have the physical desire to leave the shower if they feel the need to urinate, then that is a sure sign of indolence.
Studies of UMass students actually proved that a lot of people do go to the bathroom in the shower, possibly coming closer to proving the survey's results as accurate.
Asif Sayani, a Senior Neuroscience major said he understands a person's frame of mind when urinating in the shower.
"It just makes more sense," Sayani said. "Why not conserve water while you're at it? Plus with all the water flowing from the shower, it makes you want to pee anyway. As long as you aim for the drain, I'm your friend. Just don't play around with it on the floor."
Sophomore English Major Andrew Caouette wholeheartedly admitted that he is guilty of urinating while taking a shower. "I do, but not all the time," he said.
However, Caouette's initial response to the survey was one of disgust. The amount of people that the poll actually found was what got to him. He said that it was, "pretty nasty" that 75 percent of students studied answered in the affirmative. He, however, was not surprised.
"It's time efficient, and you see it all the time," he said. "You're washing your hair and you see a stream of yellow wash by, so you know the guy next to you is doing it."
Caouette even laughed about it, and told how urinating in the shower is a regular joke between he and his roommate.
"My roommate calls it 'peeing in the shower day," Caouette said. "He'll come back from taking a shower and say, 'hey, guess what day it is!'"
Some students did not find the results funny, but were actually repulsed by them. Lonna Steinberg, a senior Legal Studies major showed disgust and said, "It's a good thing I wear flip-flops."
Chris Henry, a sophomore English major said he does not urinate in the shower for a variety of reasons. "I have a schedule," he said. "I get up in the morning, I go to the bathroom, and then I take a shower. It's not that tough."
Henry also explained that living in Orchard Hill makes it more difficult for anyone to physically be able to do it anyway. The showers in Orchard Hill are only two side-by-side stalls with a central drain in the middle. Because of this, Henry explained that it would be much easier to actually urinate on someone else, and people seem to have the common courtesy to refrain from doing so.
"I actually don't think I've ever experienced anyone else peeing in the shower," he said.
According to medical reports published online, urinating in the shower can have its helpful effects, but is not encouraged. It can aid in the treatment of Athlete's Foot and genital Herpes. Also, the sound of a shower has been found in some people to actually trigger a psychological response to physically relieve oneself. University Health Services said it was unable to find actual evidence supporting any benefits to urinating in the shower.
Andrew S. Hazen said the poll comes as one of many on the company's site, marketed to college students in an attempt to use interesting polls of questions that he said people would not normally ask, to grasp interest. Some of the other polls the site has displayed were questions like, "Do you have a tattoo," or "Were you a high school bully?" Hazen said the bully question was remarkably interesting because most people refuse to acknowledge if they were the aggressor in violent or demeaning behavior towards others. "They just won't come out and say it, or admit to it," he said.
Hazen said that even though the site seems to have more absurd topics, it is something that a lot of work is primed into.
"Here in the office, we have weekly meetings to discuss what polls we are going to use," he said. "That idea [urinating in the shower] just happened to come up."
He said that the poll about urination partly came about because it could possibly lead to positive benefits.
"It's disgusting, and if it gets to the right person, who actually wants to make a difference, they could do something with it," he said. He compared it to the committee that sparked awareness about regularly checking your body for cancer years ago, which he claimed has shown remarkable success. He did say that no one has officially commented to him yet about the results aside from the online voting.
Hazen said that he ultimately reaches to educate and entertain at the same time. "The ultimate goal of this site is to make student's lives easier he said." Perhaps this means that one step to improving your life is to stop peeing in the shower.
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