Carol 10/17 9:47 m
Do you have a funny story about an outhouse experience that you'd like to share with us? How did you feel about using them?
I remember being so scared to go to the outhouse at my grandmother's house. It was always full of spider webs and creepy, crawly things. I often imagined that some wild thing was down in that hole and would bite my butt when i was doing my business.
I've never gotten over that feeling. Sometimes Dave and I are in parks that have outhouse type toilet facilities. I have my hovering technique pretty down pat, but I still think about something being in there that will bite my butt.
Hilda 10/17 8:16 p
I had a Tom Turkey one time that loved to chase us.When we started to go
to the outhouse he would take off after us.Then stand by the door and we
couldn't come out.I have hollered for Mama many times to come get Tom so
I could get out.
And also I have been sitting on the hole and look up over the door and
there would be a snake laying there.I knew I had to go out the door
under him.I was scared to death.It would just be a rat snake,but back
then I was scared of ALL snakes.
It sure makes me thankful for indoor plumbing now. LOL I'm with you
Carol,I don't like using those plublic outhouses either.
Wayne 10/17 8:24 p
NO FUNNY STORIES BUT A MEMORY. WHEN DAD BUILT OUR HOUSE IN GOSHEN HE HAD
TO DIG THE HOLE FOR THE TOILET. WELL GOSHEN HAS HEAVY BLACK GUMBO SOIL
THAT TURNS STICKY LIKE CLAY WHEN WET AND IT RAINED EVERY DAY IN GOSHEN.
SO MY BROTHER (6) AND I (8) HAD TO DRAG THE SHOVEL LOADS OF DIRT AWAY
FROM THE HOLE WHEN DAD THREW THEM UP OFF HIS SHOVEL. THAT OFTEN LED TO
CLOD FIGHTS. IT TOOK DAD ALMOST A WEEK TO DIG THE HOLE. WE HAD TO USE
THE NEIGHBORS OUTHOUSE UNTIL HE FINISHED. THEN HE BUILT A SHED OVER THE
HOLEWITH A TWO-HOLER SEAT AND A SEPARATE ROOM WHERE WE STORED FIREWOOD.
I JUST REALIZED WE WERE SO POOR WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A HOLE TO POOP IN!
I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE TWO HOLER. I NEVER SAW TWO PEOPLE USE THE
THING AS THE SAME TIME.
Darlene 10/17 9:48 p
I DON'T HAVE ANY FUNNY STORIES. WE LIVED IN A HOUSE FOR 5 YEARS IN
NEBRASKA WITH ONLY A OUT HOUSE. WE MOVED FROM A MODERN HOUSE IN LINCOLN
TO THE COUNTRY JUST TO GET OUT OF THE CITY SO WE COULD HAVE OUR HORSES.
WE HAD RUNNING WATER IN THE HOUSE, JUST NO BATHROOM. TOOK BATHS IN A
OBLONG GALVANIZED TUB ALL THOSE 5 YEARS. THERE WERE 8 OF US. I STILL
HAVE THAT TUB.
THE WORSE THING ABOUT THE OUTHOUSE WAS HAVING TO GO OUT IN BAD WEATHER.
ABOUT THE PUBLIC ONES-- WHEN WE LIVED IN COLO THERE WAS A MURDER. THE
BODY WAS STUFFED DOWN IN ONE OF PUBLIC OUT HOUSES. EVERY TIME WE WENT
SOME WHERE AND HAD TO USE ONE I ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AND YES I
LOOKED IN THE HOLE.
Mary Jane 1018 8:04 a
I can't remembr ny funny stories pertaining to me, but there is a funny story about my ister sona and m sister in laws Carol, Connie an I` thn one other family female. They were all at grandma Tyggle's and were in her outhouse smoking. Someone mentioned that Grandma was headed to the outhouse. Well, grandma , being the VERY STRICT person she was, despised smoking as one terrible sin. Sona & the others didn't want her to know they had been smoking, but she was approaching the outhouse & they had to vacate it.
When grandma reached the outhouse, the door opened up & out came Sona & all and a big cloud of ciggarete smoke, ha ha. They were caught redhanded, lol!
This same grandma was the one who had Mom & her sisters to color & make clothes on calendar picture of females in bathing suits. She also got after my Mom and me when she saw me wearing a pair of shorts (not short shorts either), when I was eighten yrs old. She said I should be ashamed to be showing my legs. Boy, it's a good thing she doesn't see the way young & some older people dress now days, haha.
Sammy 10/18 9:51 a
A GROUP OF BOYS IN A SMALL TOWN IN AR. COULDN'T LET HALLOWEEN PASS BY
WITHOUT TIPPING OVER AT LEAST ONE OUTHOUSE. ONE HALLOWEEN THEY TIPPED
ONE OVER ONLY TO FIND IT WAS OCCUPIED AT THE TIME. THEY RAN OFF AND LEFT
A POOR OL BLACK MAN IN THAT OUTHOUSE TIPPED OVER AND LAYING ON ITS DOOR.
I DON'T THINK IT WAS AL THAT FUNNY, BUT THEY SURE DID.
Shirley 10/18 11:29 a
I was too well acquainted with out-houses in my early yrs. My brothers
used to lock my sister & I inside & throw things at us through the litle hole on the end of the building--ocassionly they threw a garter snake in !! While we are on the subject of toilets---does anyone understand WHY
females always run off to the bathroom together while men go single?
Sarah 10/18 9:34 p
WE USED AN OUTHOUSE UNTIL I GOT MARRIED AND MOVED AWAY. JUST ONE OF
MANY THING I HATED ABOUT LIFE ON A FARM.
Wayne 10/19 1:42 a
WOMEN TALK IN THE TOILET. MEN DON'T. TO HAVE SOMEONE TO TALK TO WOMEN
MUST GO IN AT LEAST PAIRS.
Hilda to Darlene 10/19 8:4 a
Oh my gosh,I wish you hadn't told me that.LOL I may never use a public
one again. LOL That would be awful to find something like that.
Darlene to Hilda 10/19 9:43 a
THS WAS WAY UP IN THE MOUNTAINS IN A REMOTE AREA DURING THE WINTER. I AM
SURE HE THOUGHT BY SUMMER AND TOORIST SEASON THERE WOULD BE NOTHING
LEFT.
IDIOT! MUST NOT HAVE KNOWN COLD PRESERVES.
Dorie 10/19 13:36 p
Don't remember any....
Jo Ann 10/20 10:45 a
We had an old outhouse in back of farm house a few yards. When I was little I would throw a fit about going out in that DARK scarey outhouse.
Mom would say NO, YOU GO, NOTHING GONNA GET YOU OUT THERE. So out the door I went AS FAST as my legs could run AND got about half way there and TRIPPED OVER SOMETHING BIG, REAL BIG.....a body. Back in the house I ran (about to pee my pants) SCREAMMING ALL THE WAY! GOT INSIDE AND MY MOM SAID get your butt back out to that out house. NO way not WITH OUT HER, SHE SAID OK AND AWAY WE WENT. WE ARE GOING ALONG, ME STILL SCREAMMING AND SHE tripped over the body too....NOW we both run like hell to get dad.
HE SAYS"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO IDIOTS?" Away WE all GO TO SEE THIS BODY, SURE ENOUGH IT IS A GUY, passed out from being drunk. Dad took him into town and he told dad he had to pee and musta passed out before getting to our out house. WELL that was the END of my outhouse trips at nite from then on.
Jo Ann 10/20 11:02 a
My mother could kill ANY snake and she knew the good snakes and the bad ones. She had no fear. But as I said earlier our out house was in back of our farmhouse. It was nearing the FULL stage and dad was planning on moving it to NEW site, but just hadn't gotten around to doing it yet. She went out there to use the out house and we heard this blood curdling scream and the door flew open and OUT SHE CAME, PANTIES AROUND ANKLES , HOLDING HER ASS AND SCREAMMING FOR DAD TO TAKE A LOOK AT HER ASS. some kinda man eating snake got her and she was gonna dig all the crap outta that outhouse till she found him. I remember dad laying in the yard laughing and saying for God sakes women, pull your pants up! Away we ALL went, looking in the hole for this damn snake. Dad pulled out a garter snake and she was so happy, she would LIVE to see another day. BUT that was the END for that OLD outhouse, we finally got indoor plumbing!
Jo Ann 10/20 12:06 p
 | Guess a big part of my life revolved around OUT HOUSE MEMORIES. My dad would take the SEARS wish book and would spend what seemed like forever in the out house. UNTIL a little Jenny wren BUILT HER NEST over head in the door way. My poor dad and that bird sparred for years, and SHE ALWAYS won the war. He was completely bald headed and she went for his head. He would go in the house and mom would doctor the peck marks and scratches.
AND EVERYTIME he went back he FORGOT his hat! He never hurt her or tore her nest down, and when she died I actually think he missed her! But I can still HEAR my dad cussin that DAMN BIRD..... |
Darlene 10/20 2:39 p
I LOVE YOUR OUT HOUSE STORIES! THEY BRIGHTENED MY DAY.
I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE ONE ABOUT YOUR DAD AND THE LITTLE WREN.
Carol to Jo Ann10/20 3:51 p
OMG, how scary!!!
Carol to Jo Ann 10/20 3:53 p
Loved all the stories JoAnn. Thanks so much for sharing them. See, I
knew I should be afraid that something might bite me on my butt !!!!
Hilda to Jo Ann 10/20 8:50 p
Thanks for the laughs JoAnn.LOL I loved your stories.I can just picture
them in my mind.LOL
Sarah 10/21 2:17 a
JoANN, I THINK YOU GET THE PRIZE FOR THE BEST OUTHOUSE STORIES. THANKS
FOR SHARING THOSE WITH US. SARAH
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