OT: public rest rooms hygiene question

IIRC the 2-seater was more correctly called a 2-holer. Butt I might be mistaken. One size for children and one size for adults.

Back home we had the 2-holer. I often wondered where the carpenter got the dimensions for the holes. My 24" carpenter's square (80+ yrs.old) has 100s of graduations for everything one could possibly need but nothing for butts. I never figured out why a cresent shaped moon was sometimes cut into the door either.

One thing was for certain - no one in their right mind would have had an indoor commode (thunder mug). Doing natures calling inside where one slept, cooked and ate was unthinkable! How times have changed.

Fred

you are on thin ice,you might as well dance.Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.

Lots of good stuff (related in an amusing way) here

and also here

Thanks! That was a hoot! I have been to husker country, saw catalogue holders but never saw a cob box. I'm thinking it must be a joke but one never knows. So now we are crappin in the house and barbecuing meals in the back yard - weird. LOL

Fred

you are on thin iceyou might as well dance.Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.

In fact, most people did have a china commode in the house. Well - that's what washstands were for - the 'thunder mug' went in the cupboard underneath.

I can remember as a child when visiting my grandparents, we had a thunder mug in the bedroom closet for those middle of the night 'potty breaks'. Carrying it down the narrow stairs in the morning to be emptied in the outhouse was a challenge.

Using that outhouse in the middle of a Sault Ste Marie winter - brrrr. My grandparents didn't get running water into the house until the middle of the 1950s.

MargW

He loved it...thought it was great!

Joan

You lived/visited in Sault Ste. Marie? Canada or US? We spent 2 1/2 loooong years there in the mid-1970s.

Best wishes, Ericka

Soo, Ontario. My grandparents had a farm out in Korah township. We moved to the Soo in the mid-50s, and lived there until 1961. Lots of McQueen and Stone relatives still there.

MargW

GGRRRROOOOAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!

Joan

Some old grannies` saying make sense - like "You`ll eat a peck of dirt before you die!"

I only just realised that my ex-son-in-law`s new wife must be a bit obsessive. I just brought her in a cup of tea yesterday and she leapt up saying that she MUST wash her hands first! (It wasn`t a euphemism - that`s really all she did - she left the bathroom door open and continued talking to me!).

For Heaven`s sake - (make mental note not to go on a picnic with her!).

Pat

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