That scraping noise on the floor...

We had a neighbor, a kid who wasn't so well, who died from the same thing. Clearing the spiders and other critters that might be waiting for you was just part of the deal.
 
Maybe the old folks wanted all of us youngens outta the way. We were never told to clean under the seat.:rolleyes:

A couple of buddies and myself used to use my grandpa's old outhouse for a place to hide so we could smoke.
After the grandparents walked west my uncle and his family moved in the old home place.
Never mind the half case of old sweating dynamite that uncle Bud kept in there we still used it for a smoke hole.
The funny thing is that everyone including the folks knew we smoked in there because of all the smoke from 3 teenage boys
cigarettes.
I guess outta sight outta mind, because we never were busted there.:D

Uncle Bud's old place up the hill had a double holer in it. Personally I think there's way to many fun things for a couple to do together besides use the outhouse at the same time, but after all the old folks were from
Arkansas.:rolleyes: ;) :)
However I could see the wisdom of having a double holer since I've had more than my share of turning it up to a cold north wind outside in the dead of winter with the wind blowing 25
mph.
Not a lot of difference really, but the windbreak was nice.
And sometimes you just have to go. NOW!!!!!:)
Sometimes the wind blew just right and it would blow from underneath and up the hole.
Now that was downright COLD.
You really had to have an urge those early mornings.
Almost everyone with kids old enough had the household rule that the last one to use the slop jar or 'Thundermug,' as it was fondly called at our house, had to empty it.
And of course it had to be emptied down the outhouse hole.
Heaven help you if you missed and made a mess on the seat and didn't clean it up!!!!!!!:barf:
Believe you me, Kids were a lot more careful when they pulled that chore.:D
One nice thing though, if you were a guy, is that in 99% of outhouses the seat didn't raise.
That meant you had to be careful, but you didn't ever have that age old household quarrel about the toilet seat.;)
 
Originally posted by Yvsa
However I could see the wisdom of having a double holer since I've had more than my share of turning it up to a cold north wind outside in the dead of winter with the wind blowing 25
mph.
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I remember frozen throwns like that when I was really little. BRRRRR!!!!!


Heber Ellsworth
 
I'll never look at a Sears catalog the same way :D

So much info on this forum and not all about knives. Lighting barbeques, making catalog pages soft enough for the butt, etc. hehe...

me learns lots just hanging around here :) I wonder if I'll ever have to use a catalog for toilet paper though... :D
 
...beats the heck out of a handfull of dry leaves...That's a "Walosi in the Canadian Wilderness" story. That's all you'll hear about it, too :D
 
We had the two holer, also, and the thundermug for emergency use when the weather prevented a journey to the s**thouse as my sainted grandfather used to call it.
 
"I'll never look at a Sears catalog the same way "BruiseLee.

LOL!:D

The only reason I ever looked at the sears catalog as a young man was to see the ladies in their undies:o :D
 
What have I started here?:eek:

Future viewers will see that my intro thread degenerated into toilet habits and, well, erm, I wont elaborate on the other!

I can remember using the outdoor toilet at my Grandmothers when I was little, ( 28 now, so it must be 22 years or so ). No magazines for afterwards, though newspaper was the chosen thing before bog roll became cheaper. Never used a p**s pot though-more of a middle/upper class thing over here I think-we couldnt afford 'em!

Now I never used to open the mail order catalogues to ogle scantily clad ladies. Honest. ;)
 
Mike, these threads travel the breeze (or, in this case, the wind :eek: ). You never know where they will go, and sometimes you can't tell where they've been.....hopefully:rolleyes:
 
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