Stopped to relieve myself and noticed I was standing in a bed og Poison Ivy!!!
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That's good that you've done that Anthony, that's very good that you turned that cyclist into a one piece bar and stem.....

Fixed for correct incorrect grammar.

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...remembering back to some visits to Paris, when the pissoirs were on most of the major boulevards and streets. I was young and it was an adventure to relieve yourself out in the 'open'.
Some front shields lower were open tall enough to see trouser legs, other stations were quite large structures. I do remember most of them being mostly circular and loaded with posters and advertising...
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Odd to see someone reviewing a poster closeup and at the same time seeing legs inside the pissoir... LOL !
i it seemed sort of 'civilized' for a city to provide relieving stations (at least for the male contingent...).
These days you're lucky if you can find any place which will let you use their facilities... at least here in the US... and many that do, you DON'T want to use !!!

Ride On
Yur

Found these public sanitary restrooms in Switzerland, Totally automated and the whole thing gets washed with high pressure water after the flush. Dog knows how much each cost but they were amazing.
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- we don't even go into our own houses to pee when knocking around doing yardwork or having a bonfire.

I miss living in the country! Can't say I'd do it in town.

These days, I don't do many longer rides. Mostly, it's <15mi jaunts ... and on those I find it rare I need to take a 'nature' break. Further, since such routes rarely take me multiple miles from any opportunity for relief, it's an almost-never thing for me to be faced with an outdoors situation.

For myself -- On longer trips, I try to await a shop where I can make a small purchase and use the facilities. If impossible, I seek out a 'country' spot that's not clearly someone's property (a somewhat-wooded spot in an area of many acres of meadow or fields), and when I use such a country spot I make sure it's nowhere near watercourses. If it's at the larger parks, there are outhouses, and at some of the 'developed' ones even a visitors' center with proper restrooms.

Short of taking along a water-tight, expandable container for such eventualities, I don't know what a better alternative might be. I suppose with a rack and small panniers/bags, such a container is carried easily enough. But, in the end, if Nature calls then that's pretty much it. One does what can be done about it, trying to be as accommodating and discreet as possible.

Angry people will do what they do. I don't find it unexpected in a reasonably built-up area when someone complains loudly about such things. But out in a 'country' setting that's not clearly someone's marked property, then I'd likely just ignore such complaints as an angry person's rant. (Such people can't seem to wrap the noodle around the fact that hikers face this situation all the time, particularly on trails such as the Pacific Crest or the Appalacian. Long cycling rides in the boonies aren't all that dissimilar.)

I try to plan ahead

was just re-reading an old log entry & was reminded that I have a favorite shed behind an office building which works well early morning before ppl arrive