Web Spy: RunPee.com

By Laura

One of my favorite ways to spend a cold and rainy day is at the movies, which means I’ve got a lot of movie dates coming up. And that’s fine by me; with all the holiday movies still showing and quite a few Golden Globe nominated films out there, I’ve got plenty to see. However, one of my biggest pet peeves about going to the movies is that I almost always have to go to the bathroom at some point (sometimes more than once – thank you, Diet Coke!), inevitably missing something important.

But now there’s a solution for those of us who love going to the movies but were cursed with small bladders: RunPee.com. 

Just log on to the site before the movie, and it’ll tell you when the best times to go to the bathroom (or, more importantly, run to the snack bar) during the movie without missing too much of the plot.  The site indicates these breaks both by how far they are into the movie and by what’s happening in the movie at that point so you know it’s time to go.  It also tells you approximately how long of a break you have before something important happens, and even what happens while you’re gone (so you don’t have to annoy your friends and everyone around you by asking them what you missed)!

You can even print out the “pee times” to read while you’re picking your seat (close to the exit), or you can download their amazing iPhone app that has a timer that vibrates a few minutes before you should get up and go to the bathroom.  And for those of us without iPhones, RunPee also has mobile-internet designed site (check it out at m.runpee.com). All are more helpful than you’ll ever know.

So the next time you’re at the movies, go ahead and buy that extra-large blue ICEE without worrying about whether you’ll have to go to the bathroom and miss something important. With RunPee, you won’t miss a thing.