RunPee… When you have to run… And pee!

 You know this has happened to you… You head out to your favorite movie theater…. Buy your $48 dollar tickets..  Pick up a giant popcorn and an even bigger soda after you take out a second mortgage on your house.. You settle into your seat to watch 3 hours of previews… The movie is just about to start… By now you’ve already eaten all of the popcorn… And uh oh.You just realized that your soda is empty.Now you’re in big, BIG, trouble. You’ve just spent all that money and inevitably, right at the best part of the movie, your bladder will fail you and you’ll be making a mad dash to the bathroom. It will have to be one of the quickest pees of your life so you don’t miss those major plot points that only seem to happen when nature is calling… But it has to be done. You can’t hold it any longer or you’ll burst.You get up and at the same time, everyone next to you in your row let’s out a collective harrumph because they hate you right now.. Then you have decide whether to leave the row front ways or back ways… You decide to stick your butt in their faces so you won’t have to look at all of the dirty looks thrown at you as you shuffle your way out while ensuring you don’t knock anyone’s popcorn over while simultaneously bumping the back of all the seats in front if you.. Youmake it out in one piece.. And run like hell.. You do your business and then have to decide if you want to take another 20-30 seconds to wash your hands…ALWAYS WASH YOUR HANDS, PEOPLE!
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Even after washing your hands, you make it back to your seat in record time! But only to be confused as to what is happening on the big screen. Even though you managed to get to the bathroom and back in under a minute and 30, you’ve just missed the major turning point in the movie… Like when Luke finds out who his real father is… Or in Hill Valley after the Enchantment Under the Sea dance at precisely 10:04 PM when 1.21 gigawatts hit a speeding DeLorean… Will Marty make it to the starting line? Will Doc Brown fix the cable in time??? You’ll never know…

But… All is not lost, my friends !! There is an app called RunPee made by the folks at polyGeek. If any of the above has happened to you – and you know it has – this app is your answer. You’ll never miss an important part of a movie again.

It’s really quite simple… The app has a huge list of movies and maps out all of the best “peetimes”. It recommends which one would be best and even offers information as to whether you should bother sitting through the credits for that super secret scene at the end.

It’s very easy to use. You start the timer when it tells you to and it will vibrate a minute or so before each peetime to give you a warning, then again when it’s time to run and pee. It even has a synopsis of what happens during each peetime so you know what you missed. And – if you’re running late because you had to pee BEFORE the movie – it has a synopsis of the first 3 minutes. It’s really quite glorious.

The app does have a bunch of ads when you open it which is why I think it went free.  It used to be 2 bucks and people were complaining in the reviews about paying for an app with ads, so I guess the developers listened. But a few ads are a small price to pay for an app so useful. And it’s also themed pretty dark (except for the super bright ads at the beginning about bladder control issues) as to not annoy your neighbors. So that’s good.

Another cool feature is that since it’s a decently dark app, you can sneak a peak during the movie to see how much time is left since it has a running timer. You can never see your watch even if it has those little glowy hands and you end up trying to perfectly angle your wrist to try and get the light from the screen to let you see what time it is… Never works. Now you don’t have to worry about it!

I used the app during Maleficent this past weekend and, while I did not have to actually run and pee, I must say, it was right on the money with peetimes during the not so important parts and it was also good with the synopsis of what I would have missed.

So that’s the scoop! Hopefully it stays free! Get it while it’s hot !!

RunPee.com by polyGeek