Pondering

[ami]

I have been pondering all day - after reading the article (that may or may not be fiction) about sex and how women were supposed to play really really hard to get! haha

Anyway, so during the CW was the time of outhouses (I could be wrong, basically I know nothing of the civil war and all I learned about the time after that I learned from "Little House"). And I just can't help but imagine how much it must have sucked to pregnant before the invention of the water closet.

I get up anywhere from 2-8 times a night to ahem relieve myself, I don't even want to think about having to find my shoes, possibly a coat and making the mad dash across the yard before I wet myself.

Makes me very thankful my toilet is only about 8 feet from my bed.

 

[oldpete63]

I have been pondering all day - after reading the article (that may or may not be fiction) about sex and how women were supposed to play really really hard to get! haha

Anyway, so during the CW was the time of outhouses (I could be wrong, basically I know nothing of the civil war and all I learned about the time after that I learned from "Little House"). And I just can't help but imagine how much it must have sucked to pregnant before the invention of the water closet.

I get up anywhere from 2-8 times a night to ahem relieve myself, I don't even want to think about having to find my shoes, possibly a coat and making the mad dash across the yard before I wet myself.

Makes me very thankful my toilet is only about 8 feet from my bed.

I believe they used a chamber pot, and dumped it in the morning (ahem - sometimes had to be a BIG chamber pot).

 

[diane]

My great-grandma had no indoor plumbing and my aunt took care of her when she was sick. Very hard work. No laundry facilities either so everything had to be done by hand. Different people helped out but it was mainly auntie. Sure am glad we finally got plumbing in our place! Never knew what might be lurking in the outhouse at night... (Once I was pretty sure it was Bobby the Cat, or his really big brother... big green eyes.)

 

[Dave Hull]

When I was young, we had a chamber pot under the bed, which was fine unless you had a rumbling in your tummy, like Winnie the Pooh. For a guy it was pretty easy to relive himself. My wife who grew up with similar accommodations learned the fine art of the squat, but being more modest than I, she would generally seek cover. It has served her well on many of our long trips in the middle of nowhere, since she is famous for telling me she has to go 20 minutes after the last exit within 80 miles.

 

[dvrmte]

When I stayed overnight at my grandmother's she made known to us that the "pee pot" was under the edge of the bed. My mother often described being broke as "ain't got a pot to pi*s in."

 

[ami]

ewww....

so very glad for running water!