Oh...I don't think so. I used to work as a test engineer for a company that made municipal sewerage processing equipment. At some point in the development process it was necessary to test new designs with raw sewerage. You guessed it, we would have to pay a septic tank pumper to drive his "honey wagon" down to our local sewerage processing plant and bring back a couple thousand gallons. Since we payed him about $100 per trip that works out to about a nickel a gallon.
Since the stuff he brought back was technically not "raw", having been in transit through the underground conduits for three days or more and had begun the anaerobic digestion process, it was necessary to develop other sources. We finally built an "outhouse" with a flush toilet, magazine rack, electric lights and a locking door. It was actually the only two story outhouse I've ever seen. The plumbing below was connected to a heavy duty garbage disposal unit which discharged into a fifteen gallon carboy. The drill went like this: Close door, do your thing for science, flip on the grinder, flush. Do to the limited storage it was necessary to keep an eye on the carboy and change them out as needed, hence the lock on the door! Imagine the look on the technician's face (who forgot to lock up) as he was switching the hose from a nearly full carboy to an empty when he heard the whirr of the grinder and almost simultaneously the gurgle of the flush.
Our motto was: "It may be S#!t to you, but it's our bread and butter!" I Still think of that incident every time I hear "What can Brown do for you?"
Regards,
GtG
I gather that technician wasn’t you, else your screen name would be Gandalf_The_Brown
Yechh.
I once dug a vault privy, but it hadn't been USED yet.
True story: when my dad was a student, they used to have houseparties at somebody's lake cabin, which of course had the one-holer privy "down the path", no running water for miles. My dad rigged a transmitter and speaker under the seat of the privy, and when a pretty coed went in he would wait about a minute, then transmit, "Hey, could you move out of the light? I'm trying to WORK down here!"
He said some of the girls laughed it off, but some were highly indignant and demanded their dates take them home instanter.
He met mom at a house party, so I guess she was a good sport!