Ever since I was a kid, I wake up in the middle of the night, every night to go to the bathroom. No matter how few liquids I imbibe during the day, I cannot avoid this.
When you are camping in the wiles of Africa, getting up to pee in the pitch dark is not only inconvenient, but terrifying. This lead me to seriously weigh the pros and cons of wetting my pants while in the Serengeti.
The campsite for the Serengeti is literally in the middle of the Serengeti amidst all the shit you see on National Geographic. There are animal tracks and droppings all around the perimeter of the camp, so you know they are not keeping a safe distance. In fact, we had heard that lions have invaded the camp on several occasions, causing everyone to flee to the safari vehicles for the night. Supposedly another camper was nearly trampled to death by an elephant while in their tent. As soon as I heard these stories upon arriving at the camp, my first thought was "This is going to create some real issues when I get up to pee tonight."
Without fail, around 2:00 a.m. I awoke with a bursting bladder. And my bladder does not negotiate.

All I could hear were the terrifying, ungodly howls of hyenas all around. If you've never heard a hyena howl, it sounds like a freakish animal/ghost/creature that wants to suck marrow out of your bones (that third part is pretty much what they do). I know, I know, they are scavengers and don't actually kill anything. I was finding logic difficult to cling to amidst their terrifying sounds.
Could I make it to the bathroom? It was 150 feet away. Even if I ran in the dark, there would be lots of time for a pack of hyenas to get at me. What's that? The howls are getting closer and growing in number? Dear God. Should I pee my pants? How would I wash my sleeping bag? How would I explain this to Shannon? Would the pee smell ever come out of the tent? Would the smell of my pee ATTRACT the hyenas even more?
It was a quandry.
In the end, I grabbed a tissue, hopped about 2 feet away from the tent and let loose. I hid the tissue under a rock and that's how I helped turn the Serengeti into the Serenghetto.