Why does our 26yr old room mate urinate in cups/bottles?

[tired]

I'm a 26 yr old male with a 20 yr old live in girlfriend. Our 25 yr old male friend lives with us in our spare bedroom to help with bills and rent. He is very lazy. All he does is play video games, work, eat, sleep and go to the bars to get drunk. We are relatively neat but don't have draconian rules or expectations.

All his clothes, clean or dirty, are thrown in heaps on the bedroom floor. He has two closets with plenty of room and won't use them. He leaves soda cans, bowls, plates, and cups all over his room when he is done with them. He WILL NOT throw them away unless I tell him so many times (over a week or two) that I eventually have to be rude about it.

We've been friends since childhood and get along great besides these things.

Today, I checked his room to make sure he cleaned it like he told me he did. I opened one of the cabinets and low and behold there were 4 20oz cups and 4 20oz plastic bottles all full of URINE.

The bathroom is literally 5 feet away throw his bedroom door and through the bathroom door. That's it.

What is the problem? Does he have some type of issue or is he really just that damn lazy?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!


Also, I've asked on Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2298721#ixzz0y86rSen0

[tired]

[pert -5]

Either evaluate your list of things that bother you or get a new friend...  Your girlfriend can't possibly like this, can she?

Eviction notice Roy....

[Enigma]

Haha this thread has pics that's a new one.  Don't underestimate the extent of human laziness. 

[Sparrowhawk1161]

Did you ever ask him why he likes to urinate in cups and bottles?

I know it sounds like a silly question.  But, maybe there is something about him besides laziness that creates this cumpulsive desire to not go into the bathroom!

Maybe something happened in his childhood?  Imagine a person who was told my his mother that he had to hold it until morning...and he couldn't.  So he always had a container ready, just in case?

Maybe there is something in his life that created an dread of going to the bathroom to release himself?  He might have a deep seated problem that he can't get over?

I know it might not seem logical.  But most disorders are not.

Many times, messy rooms can be associated with psych trauma extented back to childhood.

Now, I don't urinate in cups...but, I am a slob by nature.  My mother always cleaned my room...even though she kept telling me to do it.  I cleaned the room and it was never good enough...her reasoning?  "Someone might come over and look in your room.  What would they think of me?"  Her problem extended to my own room.  It was never clean enough.  No matter how I cleaned it, she'd come in and do it "Better," to her own satisfaction.  Just incase some person knocks on the door and gets lost and sees the messy bedroom.  So, since she was claeaning my room all the time and I was never good enough, I never cleaned the room.  She would do it for me.

Now, I feel comfortable in a messy apartment.  I tend to know where everything is...mostly.  I know where I left something.  Why clean it when I know no one will see it?  It can be cleaned when I know someone is coming over.

Thus I'm a cumpolsive slob.

There is reason for everything!  There is reason for him urinating in cups.  Something happened in his life that tells him to do this?  It won't be a beautiful answer...but, it might give you insight as to why he does such a thing....