I am a doctor; my friend is a patient.
I caught my friend taking a piss. I forgot to give him a pee sample tube to check on his health via urinal test, and I want to ask him:
Perhaps you are taking a piss, eh?
What is a more natural and polite way to write that sentence a native English speaker would use in a situation like this?
Best Answer
This might vary some by region, but, at least in the U.S., pee is a much more polite term to use than piss. Piss is considered rather vulgar.
To say this politely, I would probably say something like:
You might even make this more polite by asking:
A health professional might skip the word pee, and say:
Not surprisingly, there are many different ways this can be said, and they vary in terms of formality and politeness, and the familiarity between the people talking. Generally speaking: