Monday, September 19, 2005

PEEING IN THE DARK — by Steve Nadis

It’s taken roughly half a century, but TV–a medium I do not watch but nevertheless follow (in the same way I follow hockey, etc.)–has finally confronted the important issue of peeing in the dark. The subject was taken up in the ill-fated Blind Justice, a show cancelled last spring, in which Detective Jim Dunbar (played by Ron Eldard) advised another young blind man about how to pee with pride–standing up, that is. “Go slowly, at first, and when you hit the water, let ‘er rip.” Those weren’t his exact words, but you get the drift.

Larry David took up the same subject–from the perspective of a middle-aged sighted man–during the fourth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, recently out on DVD. (I don’t get a kickback but should.) Larry, you see, has to get up in the middle of the night to pee, which is something that happens to middle-aged men, sighted or not. He doesn’t want to turn the light on, which would wake him up, so he pees sitting down–a shameful posture for men. Except his wife sometimes forgets to put the seat down, and on one occasion he falls in, getting his bottom wet and injuring his back as well.

It was a light treatment of an important subject that had not, to the best of my knowledge, been addressed on primetime before. Now that the ice has been broken, I’m sure we’ll all be hearing more about peeing in the dark–and laughing about it all the way to the bathroom.

Posted by Snake at 18:47:47
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8 Responses to “PEEING IN THE DARK — by Steve Nadis”

  1. OldRoses says:
    September 20, 2005 at 2:53 am

    Whoever has to clean up the "misses" is not laughing. It’s one of those things women talk about when men aren’t around: how bad their aim is.

  2. Snake says:
    September 20, 2005 at 3:01 am

    That’s an excellent point, Roses, and a perspective on this subject that may have been missing were it not for the invention of blogs. The thing I’m wondering about is this: How long will it be before TV breaks the taboo and shows women (i.e., the misses) talking about the faulty-aim problem (i.e., the misses)?

  3. MarcoPolo says:
    September 20, 2005 at 5:34 pm

    Don’t pee when wading thru a rainforest swamp! Just learned from PBS (SO educational) there are little, barbed FISH that swim to any urine source & snarl ‘emselves in good. Only fix?
    Cut ‘em out w’ a knife. I kid U not.

  4. Snake says:
    September 20, 2005 at 6:34 pm

    Thanks Marco. As I said to Roses, this is the kind of information that people depend on blogs for. In fact, there may be no other source.

  5. Turd Blossom says:
    September 20, 2005 at 7:59 pm

    The Mrs. cleans up the misses.

  6. Snake says:
    September 20, 2005 at 10:00 pm

    I could be wrong, and certainly profess no expertise in this area (nor would I want to), though I somehow doubt the Mrs. in the Turd Blossom household takes care of the misses. But the proof, as they say, is in the cleanin’.

  7. Turd Blossom says:
    September 20, 2005 at 11:44 pm

    I was only speaking hypothetically. The Blossom takes the shameful posture.

  8. Snake says:
    September 21, 2005 at 1:34 am

    Sorry, Turd, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot. At least that saves the misses from the misses–to drive another good pun into the ground.

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