From the email archives:
A social worker from a big city in Massachusetts recently transferred to the mountains of North Carolina and was on the first tour of her new territory when she came upon the tiniest cabin she had ever seen in her life.
Intrigued, she went up and knocked on the door.
'Anybody home?' she asked.
Yep,' came a kid's voice through the door.
'Is your father there?' asked the social worker.
'Pa? Nope, he left afore Ma came in,' said the kid.
'Well, is your mother there?' persisted the social worker.
'Ma? Nope, she left just afore I got here,' said the kid.
'But,' protested the social worker, 'are you never together as a family?'
'Sure, but not here,' said the kid through the door.
'This is the outhouse!'
2 comments:
ROFL! When I was a kid We had nieghbors with one of those and kept ours from before the time We could get electric. I had to explain to my husband what they were when people talked about them as a city boy He had never heard of them.
When I was growing up there was an old farm house nearby with an outhouse behind the barn. I understand why they had to be kept away from the water well, but never could fathom why it had to be so far away from the house.
I was hunting rabbits around the old barn one afternoon and my dad came over to see if I had been having any luck. He got to poking around the dilapidated outhouse and with a flick of his pocketknife, discovered that the seat was made of cedar.
We salvaged it and I made a lovely letter box for my girlfriend's best friend.
When I worked on the rigs, I always felt "lucky" that the rig had a "crapper". It wasn't much fun to run behind the reserve pit and do your business when it was below zero.
In fact, I always figured that was where the term "havin' yer ass hangin' out in the breeze" came from. -grin-
Never liked Porta-Potties; they're so nasty. Always preferred the steel ones that had no bottom. When the oil company had the rathole and mousehole drilled for the rig, we'd get them to drill another hole for our little house. We'd keep a bag of lime in there and dust some down the hole after we were done; that way it wouldn't stink and the lime would help dissolve "what" was down there.
Thanks for posting!
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