This is my annual summary of the ladies I saw pee outdoors in 2011, my 18th such summary. This is the icing on the cake of all the sightings I get during the year, I write stories of all of them that I've been sending to my sightings e-mail list for years. I've decided to post this year's summary here, in addition to sending it to my readers. It's different, the mix of a wide range of dynamics that produce the sightings I get that you've probably never thought about; the sight of a desperate lady peeing outside is not as random as you might think. You'll find this fascinating reading!
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2011 was a marvelous bounce-back year for me with 124 sightings, most due to the emergence of a new spot in the area ladies peed in this year: or was it that I just discovered so many ladies were peeing there? I reached 100 sightings for the 16th time in my 19 years of sightings, as they were so hard to come by last year that amazes me even more. This summary will again include the net sightings difference in each category from last year and where the changes came from, a feature that makes it more interesting! This year's net is +49, the difference between this year's 124 sightings and last year's 75.
Total Sightings
124 sightings in 2011, 49 more than 2010's 75 sightings (65% increase). Overall I have 2488 documented sightings in 19 years, a yearly average of 135.5 sightings that is up slightly from 2010's overall 134.6 average. This year's 124 total ranks it my 11th best year out of 19 sightings years.
The ladies who peed
111 were white (89.5%), 4 were black (3.2%), 8 were Hispanic (6.4%), and 1 of other races (0.8%).
Net numbers: 44 more white ladies, 4 more black ladies, the same number of Latino ladies and 1 more lady of other races peed than last year for the net gain of 49 sightings.
Age-wise the area continues to be dominated by twenty-somethings, no way to know how many ladies were older.
Attire
Jeans remain the top peeing attire, with 53 (42.7%) of the ladies who peed wearing them. Short dress/short skirt was 2nd with 40 (32.7%), 18 ladies wore shorts (14.5%), 6 ladies in non-denim pants (4.8%), 5 wore a long skirt/long dress (4%), and 2 wore leggings (1.6%).
Net numbers: 24 more ladies who peed were wearing jeans than last year, 16 more wearing a short skirt/short dress, 10 more wearing shorts, 5 more wearing a long skirt/long dress; 3 fewer wore leggings and 3 fewer wore non-denim pants for the net gain of 49 sightings.
Big bladders
The ladies who peed longer than 30 seconds, or peed visible puddles that were bigger than the average puddle size of what most ladies make. 19 big pisses in 2011, 15.3% of the ladies and up from 8 last year and 10.7% of last year's sightings. Both are still well below my 19-year average of 32 big pisses per year and 24.4% of the sightings.
Who ladies were with when they peed
Who was actually there with peeing ladies, close enough to see or hear them doing it. This includes others who peed with a lady or stood guard for her, does not include people who waited some distance away while the lady went to a different spot and peed.
48 ladies had another lady with them when they peed outside (38.7%), 34 were alone (27.4%), 22 with a group of men and women (17.7%), 18 were with a boyfriend/husband (14.5%), and 2 were the only lady in a group of men (1.6%).
Net numbers: 15 more ladies peed in front of another lady, 14 more in front of a M/F group, 10 more in front of a boyfriend/husband, 10 more alone, same number in front of a group of men as last year, for the net gain of 49 sightings.
The interesting trend here is how ladies continue to become more comfortable peeing outside in front of men as the numbers of ladies peeing in front of boyfriends/husbands and mixed groups of men and women continue to rise. I remember when ladies would never pee outside if a man was anywhere around, many are still like that but a lot of them now are comfortable with it. But they are still reluctant to do it if she is the only female among a group of men, which makes me wonder: is desperation the main factor that determines if a lady will pee outside, or is it more her social comfort level with the people around her?
When and where
80 sightings were on Saturday night/Sunday morning (64.5%), 44 on Friday night/Saturday morning (35.5%). No sightings on any other days of the week.
Net: 39 more sightings on Saturday nights, 10 more sightings on Friday nights for the net gain of 49.
Time-wise, the 2 a.m. hour continues as the busiest pee hour with 75/38 sightings (60.4%); 1 a.m. was next with 37/24 (29.8%); midnight 8/11 (6.4%), other times 4/2 (3.2%).
Hourly net: The 2 a.m. hour had 37 more sightings than last year, 1 a.m. hour had 13 more sightings, other times 2 more, and the midnight hour 3 fewer for the net gain of 49.
Combining days and times, the Sunday 2 a.m. hour (Saturday night) is the busiest with 58 sightings, Saturday 2 a.m. (Friday night) 17, Sunday 1 a.m. 15, Saturday 1 a.m. 22, Saturday midnight hour 4, Sunday midnight 4, other Friday 1, other Saturday 3.
Day/time net: Sunday 2 a.m. had 39 more sightings than last year, Saturday 1 a.m. 12 more, other times 2 more, Sunday 1 a.m. had 1 more, Saturday midnight 1 more, while Sunday midnight had 4 fewer, Saturday 2 a.m. 2 fewer sightings for the net gain of 49 sightings.
Monthly
July was my top sightings month with 25 sightings, it's highest total since 28 in 2000 which was the last time it was my top sightings month. October was next with a monthly record-tying 24 sightings, August had 22 and September 21 to give me 4 months with 20+ sightings for the first time since 2001. June had 15 sightings, May 8, April 7, and March 2. No sightings in January, February, November or December for the 2nd consecutive year, this year's pattern was feast or famine during the times I was out for sightings: either lots of ladies peed or nobody did.
Monthly net: 6 months had more sightings than last year, led by July with 16 more sightings. October had 14 more, June 9 more, August 6 more, April 4 more, September 3 more. May was the same, as was January, February, November and December while March had 3 fewer sightings for the net gain of 49 sightings.
4 months exceeded their 19-year sightings averages this year (July, August, September and October, the best sightings months) while the other 8 months finished below their sightings averages. July regained the top sightings monthly average over August with it's productive month this year, 20.16 sightings average to 20.05 for August, after losing it to August for the first time ever last year. July has led in monthly sightings average 18 of my 19 years of sightings, it has 383 sightings overall to August's 381. September is 3rd with 342 sightings, June 4th with 324, and October a distant 5th with 246 sightings. At the low end, December has just 43 sightings overall in 19 years and Feburary is next (11th ranked) with 45. In their defense, I don't go out much for sighting during those months unless the weather is warmer than usual or there is a big event in the sightings area.
Locations
I caught ladies peeing in 35 different spots/areas this year, up from 31 last year. The year's top spot was an alley that produced 32 sightings (25.8% of the total), amazing since I did not get my first sighting in that alley until July when I started watching it regularly for the first time ever. This alley did not have a sighting at all last year, which makes me wonder: did ladies just start peeing there this year or were they always and I didn't pay attention to it until this year? I think the latter is probably true, why wasn't I watching this area before? Because during the time ladies are peeing in this alley I was getting sightings in other parts of the area. Production dropped off so much this year that I started going to other parts of the area during those times and discovered ladies going into this alley. It points out the limits I have, while I'm in one part of the area ladies could be peeing somewhere else and I'm missing those sightings. That's OK if ladies are peeing in the part of the area where I am, but of course if nothing is happening I could be missing sightings somewhere else....my terminal dilemma! Fortunately I guess right most of the time, I watch the ladies more than I do particular spots and they lead me to where they have decided to pee.
Busiest locations
Alleys/dumpsters led with 70 sightings (56.4%), parking lots 33 (25.6%), sidewalk/driveway 8 (6.5%), tree/bush/grass 3 (2.4%), beside a building 7 (5.6%), on or near steps 3 (2.4%).
Net numbers: 44 more ladies peed in alleys this year, 8 more in parking lots, 4 more by a building, 3 more on or near steps while 5 fewer used sidewalks/driveways, 3 fewer used a tree/bush/grass, 1 fewer used parking garages, 1 fewer in another location for the net 49 more sightings.
All this points out what I have to do to consistently get my sightings: follow the crowds (ladies), as the pee areas constantly evolve a bit as they move to different spots and I can't get too comfortable with productive spots thinking they will always produce sightings. The amazing thing is that this is random but it also isn't: different ladies come to the area every weekend and find themselves bursting to pee at some point, they don't know other ladies peed outside or where they would do it. But there continues to be a consistent pattern of not only new ladies in the area being desperate to pee, but going to mostly the same outdoor spots to do it: the 'culture' of the area and accepted behavior for ladies, the way I like to think of it!
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