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architect
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Anybody old enough to remember outhouses?
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3/23/2013 3:10:47 PM
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A 13 or 14 year old boy is approaching the outhouse when he hears a commotion inside. The door flies open and out comes grandpa fuming and cussin. "What's a matter Grandpa?" inquires the young man. "Whilst I wuz atryin to git ma breeches up I dropped a quarter down the durn privy hole!" The old man then takes out his wallet, pulls out a $20 bill and tosses it down the hole. "Dang Grandpa, are you crazy?" the boy shouts at the old man. "Wael, I ain't crazy enuff to git down on ma hands and knees and crawl under the dad-blame outhouse fer jest 25 cent!"
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muddauber
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Actually had one.
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3/23/2013 5:58:27 PM
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For about a year. Bought a old "home place", 5 acres on bottom land, creek, and hilltop (think trees). No running water, very old 60 amp elec service. Took awhile to get everything up to code before I could complete the contract.
Outhouse worked just fine. Other than freezing your tail during cold nights and getting wet in the rains. They really are amazing.
Even re-dug the water well. On the plus side, met lots of folks that said dig that well....sweetest tasting water anywhere around and never ran dry. And it was. Just collapsed from non use. I'd not dig another well for anybody, but it was worth it. I should have quit work and sold bottled water.
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architect
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Actually had one.
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3/24/2013 9:32:02 AM (updated 3/24/2013 10:08:32 AM)
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Well into the 70's my grandmother's outhouse still stood at the far end of the backyard of the house she moved into when she married in 1903 (she lived there until she went to the nursing home in 1980). Her sons had built her a "modern" bathroom at the same time they put an electric pump on the well just before WW II, but it opened off the back porch. It was pretty rough running across the open back porch at 7:00 on a 20 degree January morning. I can't imagine highsteppin it all the way across the back-yard to get to the privy in such conditions. I remember my grandmother continued to have a chamber-pot, or "slop-jar" as she called them, under every bed even after she had a true indoor bath built by enclosing one end of the back porch in the late 60's. As kids growing up and spending summer weekends at "Grandma's" it was always an adventure to go to the outhouse instead of having to come to the house to take a pee. We did stop the practice for a few weeks once when a cousin, on one of his outhouse visits, stumbled on a large black snake seeking refuge in the privy! My aunts and uncles informed us that such events were not uncommon in there days of growing up in a tiny country town.
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muddauber
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Actually had one.
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3/24/2013 10:53:45 AM
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I never had a snake experience, but you do learn to ID snakes right quick, don't ya? Tried to make a pet out of a black snake for the kids. Operative word, tried. They bite. No fangs on a black snake, but a mouthful of small, sharp little teeth. They Hurt! Not a good pet.
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Old Diver
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Anybody old enough to remember outhouses?
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3/24/2013 1:05:53 PM
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On Halloween it used to be great fun at night to sneak up on one and move it back 3 feet.
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