re: Who here has used an outhouse?

When I was kid I grew up in the middle of a sizeable cotton patch and was one of three white kids withing about a 10 mile radius. As kids are wont to do I was friends with all the kids near me and they were all black but the other 2 white kids. All of the black kids were still share cropping in the mid 70's. I know that is hard to imagine but its basically true. They lived in the same saw mill sided shacks that their families had lived on for several generations. They did not have indoor toilets but had a sink with running water in the kitchen. They had a shack in the yard but it wasn't over a hole in the ground, they would move it around. I used their facilities when I was at their house. If it weren't for the chickens pecking at you arse when you were taking a dump it wasn't a terrible experience, as a child.

One of those kids father got a job at a carpet mill a few months after my family moved back to Atlanta and they moved to town. He called me one night and we talked on the phone about an hour when I said "we better hang up....your Daddy's gonna beat you to death when he gets the phone bill". He responded "Oh I'll be in bed a long time before he gets home". He had never had a phone and did not know that the bill came once a month....I suspect my prediction came true LOL...

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There's a carwash/truckwash in Port Allen on 415 near the interstate and I've been told the employees there use an outhouse.

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Damn…too bad you didn’t mean Port Barre. Had a visual of an employee out house at Daddy Boo’s Auto Rub and car wash

My great-uncle had one at his property where we used to have family reunions. Just throw a little lime in there when it gets too stinky.

There's also one on 167 on Kisatchie NF. I sometimes stop there when driving so I don't have to use a gas station bathroom.

LSU geology summer field camp check in..

Not only have I used many of them, I have also built them

Our boy scout camp had them.

Called Kybo. Keep your bowels open.

There was a no-longer-used two-holer on our place. We'd stop in if it was closer than the house.

I spent my first 13 years using one. The back side faced north.

Used plenty. The worst was camping on the Pine Ridge in Belize. The ground couldn't absorb anymore crap. To the rim. My friends kept asking if I wanted a Sunday paper to read.