Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 15, 2021

depends on where that was

That doesn’t even make sense, Mr. Dodson.

Yep … Outhouses don’t care if it’s a male or female deposit ;-)

We had one when I was a kid. Hated the spiders. Learned to be in and out quickly to avoid a sting on the rear. For number-one there was always a tree…..Cheered when Dad put in a cesspool and we had an indoor toilet. (Pretty sure cesspools are not allowed any more.)

Huh? What? How old are these Pluggers that didn’t have internal plumbing?

We once visited a friend in Florida whose was a two holer over the bayou about 150 feet from the house. Snakes everywhere.

They even required “cleaning out” from time to time. Mom feared the snakes, for good reason.

My grandfather had an outhouse we had to use and an indoor chemical potty he used at night and we were only to use for EXTREME emergencies! He had two pumps on two wells, one for drinking water and one for washing. This was in the 1960s.

The new trend for single public lavatories (potties) is being gender neutral. I noticed more and more Starbucks having signs to that effect..

Pluggers changed from working class stiffs to rural senior folks so gradually, I didn’t notice.

One holer with a locked door. We so need to go back to that format.

My mother’s parents had an indoor bathroom, but still had an outhouse in the 1950s. Grampa was not allowed to smoke his pipe inside. He’d buy stale cigars, chop them up and put them in his pipe. A real cheapskate. As kids we thought the outhouse was “interesting”. Even had a Sears catalog instead of toilet paper.

And “toilet paper” came from Sears & Roebuck, JC Penny’s,and Montgomery Wards if you were lucky. From the corn sheller if you weren’t.

One had to be careful. On Halloween, sometimes they’d be set a few feet back. In the dark, . . .

Yeah but there were still only TWO genders.

Me, 90.

My uncle had a two holer so you could visit while you went. Seemed natural enough at the time.

Uh… bathrooms in houses are also gender neutral. There is nothing special about an outhouse.

Brings to mind, a comment in an old “TRUE the Man’s Magazine” sent in by the owner of a Dog breeding facility…

Seems one of the uppity city gals was totally confused by the signs on the facility doors…

One said “Pointers” the other “Setters”…

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they were also full of spiders

Park a few outside Walmart. Problem solved!

10 people and one bathroom growing up, you are darn tooting right……

I remember a famous pair of restrooms at The Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz, CA – labeled simply “Us” and “Them”. Make of it what you will.

how long did it take for the outhouses to reach maturity…?

And to think some are trying to rewrite our history.

My mother had an outhouse when she grew up, I think until the family moved when she was in high school. She and my aunt (R.I.P. to both of them now) would still laugh about when the dog jumped in through the outhouse hole! (Dog was safely retrieved.)

I never used those damn things. Full of black widows. Would go to the woods with a shovel if needed.

Coming from the midwest farm country… there are many of us still around.

When people go to the toilet they don’t rest, or have a bath.So why call a toilet a rest room or a bathroom?Toilet is NOT a rude or objectionable word, and it describes the room completely accurately. Can never figure that out.