Using a pocket urinal on a flight?
 

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Wake them up. No one wants people peeing out in the open plane.

I was a truck driver for many years before getting into my current business. Lots of those guys go in Gatorade bottles. It's disgusting.

Using a pocket urinal on a flight?
 

It would be disgusting to have someone next to you doing that. Besides a flip of the blanket and you could be arrested indecent exposure!

Be an adult and hold it. If your bladder won't allow for that, might I suggest an aisle seat?

Just bring one of these; then you'd never have to get out of your seat.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...0L._SX300_.jpg

Wake them up, if I caught someone next to me doing that, I would call the FA.

I think I speak for most normal people when I say that I would rather be woken up than have the guy in the seat next to me taking a leak into a plastic bag.

We're going to continue this discussion in the FT Travel Products Forum.
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I am having an unpleasant mental image of unexpected turbulence hitting while someone is at full stream with this thing. I wonder how far the misdirected stream would fly before control was re-established?

OP, just wake your neighbor or select an aisle seat. Then your neighbor will be waking you when he needs to go.

It was 5:45 am at FLL, we had just arrived from LAS after flying Spirit on a red-eye. The dawn was slowly turning the sky from dark to light. There we were, sitting about 200 yards from the gate, like we had been for the last 45 minutes. The pressure had been building, but I found it off. "Stop," I told myself, "You can't let yourself have these feelings." Yet there that feeling was, rising, trying to break free. I could tell others around me were feeling the same. One man, several rows ahead, clearly was feeling the same sensation as I was. He rose, trying to make it to where he could freely "express" himself. "Stop!" came the voice "We are on an active taxiway. You will sit down. FAA regulation prohibits any movement while the seatbelt sign is illuminated." I knew I couldn't keep my feelings hidden any longer, so I faced a dilemma. Do I express myself in a way that everyone can see, or a way only I can feel, but everyone can smell. Finally, the time of decision came. I grabbed an empty water bottle from my backpack, thanked my lucky stars that I had been smart enough to book an entire row for my wife and I, and while my wife held up a jacket to keep any glances away, I let it go, along with any dignity I had left after deciding to fly Spirit. Not one of my proudest moments in my life...

Using a pocket urinal on a flight?
 

Believe me, IME, no one has any qualms waking up others to get to the bathroom. If you think that might be a problem, take an aisle. This is one reason I hate the 3-3-3 config as opposed to the 2-5-2

'No' to the pocket urinal.

Occasionally I end up in a middle/window seat. I'm going to have to get up during the flight; if it's a long flight, I'm going to get up multiple times. If it's a flight where we're likely to have sleep time, I let my seatmate know and ask what s/he prefers: me climbing over or waking him/her up.

On a recent FRA-ORD flight, I was in a middle seat. While we were still taxi-ing, my aisle seatmate said he'd be popping an ambien, planned on being comatose most of the flight and told me that if I needed to get out, feel free to climb over him, don't bother trying to wake him up. I really appreciated that.

Big4Flyer, I sympathize with you (long waits on the tarmac when you can't leave your seat can be beastly).

Re: tight space in coach. It's no picnic for middle/window seat pax in business/first either, and it's a lot more hassle if you have to wake a reclined sleeper up to get out.

I have a pocket urinal. Its called a bladder.

Wait till you're 70.

Under those conditions you might be able to completely avoid having
to get up at all, but it requires some discipline in advance.

Avoid drinking too much liquid about 4 hours in advance of the sleeping
situation... just sip when thirsty.

If I do this I can often sleep 9 hours straight through without getting
up at all. Then at breakfast you re-hydrate yourself.

I don't understand why the ambien poppers don't get window seats? I see that fairly often that people insist on isle seats, then they pass out and are in the way for others. Seems more appropriate and comfortable to opt for a window seat in that case...

I flew from MUC to MIA once with my 6 year old son who had panic and asthma attacks on cramped planes. We had middle seats on a 4 people row, not our option but what was left as available. When we got there, my son was in the middle of a asthma attack and the aisle seat would have been much better for him so he can get distracted and have a feeling of getting air (for psychological reasons it would have helped him a lot). I explained it to the aisle person and asked if he would switch with me. He was very rude and told me to get lost. He sat down and fell asleep. I think I woke him on a 15 minute basis all the way to Miami. What an idiot.



I opt no on the device and say everyone has a right to stretch their legs, breathe, use the lavatories, whatever. If you don't want to be bothered, pick an inside seat.

In case of dire emergency, a bladder pad would be far preferable to an external device on an airplane, but most people just wake up the others in the aisle...

I agree, no to the device. If you have issues with urgency then, as Hoyaheel suggests, a well placed bladder pad or adult briefs will be your best friend. Wake them up, wake me up, it's a public space.

What if those 2 pax sitting next to OP are strangers and female, would you still go undercover ?? I think not & if they suddenly awaken and realized, OMG :rolleyes:
I always opt for the aisle seat whereas DW like the window when traveling together & her bladder isn't as good as mine - I always get bumped to get up to let her out if she must go. The same idea applies if a stranger get the window seat on a full flight, as a matter of courtesy - I/we always tell them before reaching our cruise attitude & before lights are dimmed on a long haul - to always tap & let us know if s/he needs to get up, stretch and/or go to the restroom.
Metered one's fluid intake & keep those "free" beers & wine, etc. away until you are on the ground & beyond the gates, those are our rules for travel.
What about disposal of that warm & "fuzz" bottle - leave it for the FA or cleaners to "discover" it or DIY disposal into the "loo" before deplaning - and, you carry hand sanitizer to cleanup before grabbing the bag of chips or snacks afterward (not getting another beverage refill, I hope ...)
What if the pax in front or behind decided to get out of their seat and catched you in the middle of the act and screamed ... not a nice way to be on the news, IMO.

If you were doing this in an airplane close enough to me that I saw you, I'd for sure file indecent exposure charges.

I think that any mishap using that device would be far worse then asking your neighbors to let you out into aisle.

Yup. This.

A more discrete option:

https://www.ehow.com/how_7390648_use...-catheter.html

If you're so afraid to wake someone up that you'd use a catheter, you might have an anxiety disorder.

Another more discreet option:

http://www.stadiumpal.com/what-works.html

Never be afraid to disturb someone sitting on the aisle. It's a risk we take to have our preferred seat. I'd rather have someone else crawling past me, than me having to crawl past someone else. When my bride travels with me, I usually book us both on an aisle seat. Either right across the aisle from each other or in a 2-3-2 configuration I'll book the two aisles in the center section with a good chance no one will book the center seat. If they do, it's my wife's call if she wants to move to the center or let the 'stranger' keep the center seat. But I won't give up my aisle for anyone, including antsy kids with asthma. I'll be polite and accommodating but don't call me rude just because you didn't plan far enough in advance to book seat that were not in the middle of a four or five seat row.

Yep. Not sure why though but I'd rather be disturbed than to have to disturb someone. Even on a 12 hour transpacific or whatever when it seems the guy next to me wants to get out just after I fall asleep.

Wake the aisle person
 

I always pick an aisle. I assume I will need to stand up for those inside. If I didn't want to stand up I would not take aisle. Sometimes standing up is a nice break to the monotony.

^ that! You have to wake them up.

You ought to stand up anyway.

Why on earth someone would do something so unsanitary in such a public place is beyond me (said the RN). I mean, really - would YOU want to sit next to someone using a travel urinal and have the aircraft hit turbulence (let alone have them using one at all, turbulence or not)? You also know urine has a distinct odor, correct?

I'm a nurse and don't particularly care to encounter that....while that might not be outside the realm of possibility for me while at work, I do not expect to have that happen in a plane!

Surprise, OP never came back.

Not really surprised. High chance he was trolling, seeing what sort of stink he could raise.

I see what you did there...:D

100% get the F up.

And still managed 3 pages so far. Not sure a good thing.

Ya think? @:-)

I can't believe people would seriously try to file a lawsuit over this. Get a grip.

It's disgusting and I would definitely let the FA know but for god's sake...chalk it up as a funny story and move on. Surely you have more important things to do with your life. But then again, here I am on FT reading a thread about it, so maybe not!

Yep. Far too many people became pissed by this thread...

Definitely taking the piss.

Seems urine the minority that finds the humor in it.