Grandma had as home with no plumbing. Hand well pump in side yard and outhouse in back yard. This was in the 60s. Outhouses were hot in summer. Cold in wibter.
Summer camp had latrines. a stained PVC pipe to #### into and three holes with toilet seats on a platform over a pit for dump-outs. "buddy dumps" were when you shat with a person next to you.
Countless pit toilets on public lands.
I did a lot of outdoor manual labor in my twenties. I'd hastily scratch out holes in the desert, pile out into them, wipe with rocks, and kick some dirt over it like a cat in a litter box. Sometimes false alarms led me to dig a hole, only to fart into it. Not an outhouse, but a similar crude experience.
which have leaves a quarter inch wide and make a real mess when trying to wipe with them. A nice rounded piece of gravel does a pretty good job. Kind of like dipping a frito in bean dip.
It was 5am, beginning of the 4th day of the 26 mile mountain trek. Luckily most of my senses were completely deadened or at least dulled by that point to where I couldn't take in the sheer horror of that crap hole until I started having flashbacks later in life.
With no plumbing and an outhouse about 100 ft away from the house. Well supplied water for washing and cooking. We visited in 1968, she passed in late 70s
but as far as being at someone's home and having to go to an outhouse, nope. Around what year did that go from just being how it was out in the county to a sad state of affairs for someone to still have to live that way?
an outhouse. It had a 2' cinderblock wall that you piss over into...dirt. Inside a bar. I don't think that would make code in the states, even in Mississippi.
Went camping at Congaree National Park. Ok, whatever, was scouts. Was told they have "restrooms".
And sure enough, they did. Was a building too, so I'm like ok.....how bad can this be?
Whale.....go in to pee. Walk in this structure and into a stall. There is a toilet, but something looks odd. The toilet has a big hole into a pit of blackness underneath. And the smell, deer gawd. So I pulled out a flashlight and inspected the gaping black hole. It went down into a cavernous hole. in the hole something was moving. It was a massive pit of crap, and it was covered with maggots, tens of thousands of them, maybe more. Almost blew chunks. Went outside and ALL peeing, pewping, whatever, was done off in the woods from that moment forward. I don't think ANYONE used that "restroom".
Keep in mind it was 90 degrees or hotter in there, and outside.
Not in our group. But I'd straddle a tree, or hang a terd off a stump or a big log, before I'd drop a deuce in that place. And if the toilet fell into the floor, that pit was like 8 feet, square, and no clue how deep, you could die if you fell into it. And it was probably 20 degrees hotter in the place. NO ventilation, and a tin roof in the summer sun.
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