Posted on 01/25/2007 5:06:58 PM PST by SJackson
Well growing up in DFW I never used an Outhouse. But in scouts, our camps still use latrines which is essentially a full bathroom outhouse. But most of those are going to the wayside since most of the kids now days refused to use them. The flushing toilets up by the pool are heavily used and thus heavily stopped up. The future holds for more flush toilets because of the liberal TRNC guy in the county. Evidently latrines are hazardous to the environment. This guy has put us through the ringer on the new dining hall. The general contractor left off or forgot to research about a new septic system. The rest of the camp (except for the pool) was built in 1929 and use dry tanks with the liquids running out on the ground type septic system. This county guy comes in and tells us that we can do that with the new dining hall. So we spend another $120,000 for a three pool lagoon system. AND NOW! AND NOW! the prick is trying to pressure us to tie the rest of the old buildings and shower facilities into the new septic system. Instead of being a rustic scout camp, its turning into a resort.
And wasp nests, they were a real problem, for some reason wasps liked to build their nests in outhouses, and I have been run out of an outhouse by wasps............Hint, the main diet of wasp are spiders!
Why Doc, you ole rattlesnake you.
An uncle of mine, soon after putting a bath in his farmhouse remarked, "Life sure is getting turned around. It used to be people would cook inside and s--- outside. Now they're s------ in the house and cooking outdoors." I guess Kentucky humor was pretty simple at the time, but it seemed funny to this kid back in the late 40s.
Pardon my crude story, but that was what he said.
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