Nah, I liked theirs.

They're positively golden.

Well, you're just going to have to break a toe or finger so you can go back to the hospital and check your records to see who took care of you.

Btw the modern equivalent is awesome when hiking or using gross portapots

This person definitely doesn't type like they're 63 too

Yesterday I was given socks and two self help books I certainly didn't ask for by my mother. I actually think your dad's gift rocks!

I'm almost your age. All's well that ends well! May y'all have many more happy years together.

This is adorable. He sounded like a great dad!! Mine never got me a present. He also yelled at me one year because he didn’t like my wrapping paper.

There were functionally equivalent products at least as far back as the early 80s. I remember seeing them explicitly marketed toward people going fishing.

Not a TI, or a FU! This sub is now anything goes, basically lol

Did she keep it?

Yeah, I'll be that person; that's not how you use a semicolon!

BEST Christmas story ever! 😂😁🤣

It's ruined.

It is. And this whole story is a current viral tiktok. I call bs.

I said far before the 90s, I don’t know when it was, but my dad is also 63 like this guy and they were quite young. Wasn’t when he was a kid, but I don’t see any reason the idea couldn’t have existed before it caught on in America

also TIL needing to sit to pee as a person without a dick is a ... disability

The 1990s would still be 15+ years after this would have happened which was 1975. It may not be entirely made up, but as written it is entirely false.

I can't find any device on the market at that time. In fact the first device to market seems to have been in 1993, a few years before the SheWee.

However, there are two parents of interest in the right time period:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3177500A/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3964111A/en

The second, from 1975 has the exact purpose as the SheWee, and it's patent expiration of 1993 coincides with such products hitting the market. It's theoretically possible the original inventor sold some small scale in the decades between 1975 and 1993, and the sudden adoption when the patent expires shows there was intetest, but no way to prove it that I can find.

Not to mention that Google was founded in 1998. Prior to Google there really wasn’t an easy way to search out knowledge, let alone e-commerce being a thing. But the first credited search engine that I know of is Archie, which was created in 1990. This story takes place 6 years before I was born: in 1975. Either this story is completely fabricated, or the names & details have been changed to protect the innocent. Such as the “dad” in the story is actually OP, and this story actually happened within the last few years.

It's not exactly a product meant to be used at home with a toilet. More of a "camping or stuck in traffic emergency but want to expose self as little as possible" product.

Definitely worth practicing with in the shower to prevent unforseen mess in case of actual use though.

Yeah, fun fact: Before '99, literally nobody had the idea for women to pee through a funnel, and there were no such products.

Shee-wee was the first and only brand.

/s

What, like the diversity of humans within the autism spectrum? We're all technically at some point within it.

Yes, there are "weird" people and also people who were raised in a very secluded environment. But there's also just people who exhibit many symptoms which make ASD a very understandable explanation to anyone who knows what having autism is like

If anything this is probably what sealed the deal

Hah, noooo thank you.