That other outdoors columnist named Tom says a device to help the ladies go pee-pee in the wilderness is taking a trade show by storm.
At first, the new “Shewee” looked like a gimmick, advertised as the “ultimate portable urinating device for women.” Then Susan Sosin of Florida walked up and bought three for herself, daughter and daughter-in-law.
“I’ll never have to sit on a dirty toilet seat again while traveling,” Sosin said. “And if I’m fishing with my husband on our boat out to sea, I won’t have any more emergencies.”
More on this delightful device at www.shewee.com.
You have to be kidding me. How hard is it to do a float of a couple inches above a toilet?
Or go pee outside while hiking?
I know they mean well, but it isn’t hard to learn how to it 😉
Just more outdoors gimcrackery and accessorized gewgaws! Oh, well, someone must find it useful!
I don’t see anything terribly unique or revolutionary about this product. Campmor has had something similar in their catalog for at least 20 years.
I know a couple female outdoor guides who are delighted to teach their outing participants how to “do it like a man” in an equally tidy manner. Like anything else, I guess, anything you can carry in your head is lighter than what you can carry on your back.
See, the great thing about not trying to hawk wares on a blog via those subscription set-ups is we’re free to ridicule these devices to our heart’s content.
I for one suspected this one replaced one hygiene challenge with another — who wants to carry that thing on their person once it’s been used? Ew.
When I stop rolling on the floor laughing so damn hard, I’ll get back to you……….
Okay, I’m here to be the voice of dissent among these comments. I actually think this is a promising product. The main appeal for me isn’t that you can pee standing up, it’s that you don’t have to drop your pants in order to do it. As a person who attracts every biting insect within a 3 mile radius, I prefer to keep myself covered up as much as possible.
I’m not saying I’m going to drop any cash on this as of yet, but it’s not completely without merit.
YOu may laugh at the Sheewee, as my wife did a few Christmas’s ago when I bought her a similar product called the Whizaway (or something like that) – the Sheewee wasn’t out then.
Oh how she laughed and with her friends ridiculed me for buying it. First camping trip tho’ when she could use a pee bottle in the tent instead of having to get out in the pouring rain, she soon became a BIG fan, and loved it. Now she makes sure we have it packed for every trip.
So it has a very valid use.