--- title: Egyptian Bus Driver Learns Wife is Pregnant, Uses Her Pee for a Drug Test description: Surprise! canonical: https://time.com/3557036/egyptian-bus-driver-wife-pregnant-drug-test/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-04T20:51:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:22.384Z og:title: Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant After Using Her Urine for Drug Test og:description: Surprise! og:url: https://time.com/3557036/egyptian-bus-driver-wife-pregnant-drug-test/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt458c5ed890879f03/69876427e20a8728dda82d32/103586955.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 103586955 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant After Using Her Urine for Drug Test twitter:description: Surprise! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt458c5ed890879f03/69876427e20a8728dda82d32/103586955.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant After Using Her Urine for His Drug Test by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 4, 2014 8:51 PM UTC  Pregnancy Test Positive Pregnancy Test PositiveGetty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 4, 2014 8:51 PM UTC An Egyptian bus driver found out that his wife was two months pregnant, after submitting her urine in place of his own for a mandatory drug test, the [_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29898500) reports. After he assured officials that the sample was his own, he was reportedly told, “Congratulations, you’re pregnant.” While more details were sparse, the BBC reported that some officials didn’t see this incident merely as a lighthearted prank, given that drug use is on the rise. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-29898500)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3557036/egyptian-bus-driver-wife-pregnant-drug-test/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3557036/egyptian-bus-driver-wife-pregnant-drug-test/"},"headline":"Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant After Using Her Urine for His Drug Test","datePublished":"2014-11-04T20:51:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:22.384Z","description":"Surprise!","url":"https://time.com/3557036/egyptian-bus-driver-wife-pregnant-drug-test/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","News","World","Pregnant","weird"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt458c5ed890879f03/69876427e20a8728dda82d32/103586955.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt458c5ed890879f03/69876427e20a8728dda82d32/103586955.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"103586955","caption":"103586955","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3557036/egyptian-bus-driver-wife-pregnant-drug-test/","name":"Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant After Using Her Urine for His Drug Test"}}]}] ```