- Sep 17, 2012
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Black People : Outside Toilet - Historical Outhouse - Ever Use One?
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In the Spirit of Sankofa,
... What? A box of rags,
... now if that don't beat all
. Oh well, it got the job done though Fieldpea...Newspaper wasn't plentiful way out in the country. But even the sears catalog sheets had to be rubbed and softened up
. Peace In,
Coger you know de real ting..Lol
From my experiences, it was the old Sears Catalog
In the Spirit of Sankofa,
...Yes Ma'am, lol... Learned it all in Jasper, Texas by spending summer months with my grandparents as an adolescent; it was an invaluable experience that I will never forget dunwiddat, you know the deal
Peace In,
In the Spirit of Sankofa,
... What? A box of rags,
Newspaper wasn't plentiful way out in the country. But even the sears catalog sheets had to be rubbed and softened up
Peace In,
She gave me that rag box because I got so sick for so long (including real bad diarrhea). I know I got raw as all git-out,
and must of been using up her precious Vaseline way too fast! I don't remember the kind of paper everybody else stayed using--I only remember that it jabbed--too uneven and hurt my behind a lot--when I had to try to make it into a pad and do any rubbing back there.
As for newspaper? Well, before we all moved to the southwest, my daddy's last job was him doing what folks back then called *day forman*--supervisor of operations--on a big ranch. Part of his salary included the use of a house just for us on the actual property. He'd of had access to newspaper because of the family he worked for. In fact, there had to be alot of newspaper handy, cause I remember my family saying more than once that the living room of our Day house had newspaper on the walls as if it was wallpaper!
It just hit me, too--the last name of the family he worked for in Arkansas was 'Day'...lol.
He was *the* Day forman.
One Love, and PEACE
