New Outhouse Too Fancy For Farmer

[conlor]

A new outhouse built by a Cincinnati non-profit group is simply too fancy for Elbert "Lew" Preston, the Ohio farmer says.


The 79-year-old retired tobacco farmer said the outhouse built by People Working Cooperatively is a far cry from the simple wooden structure he once had sitting above a hole in the ground, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Sunday.

"It's too nice and complicated to be an outhouse," Preston said of the concrete and treated lumber outhouse. "I call it a privy."

The senior citizen said his old outhouse not only survived decades of usage, but even being uprooted by a tornado in 1997.

Yet a visit by board of health officials resulted in the outhouse being condemned and that's when People Working Cooperatively offered to build a new structure for Preston.

While the farmer apparently misses his dilapidated outhouse, he's relieved he can still relieve himself outside.

"When you're in a house, sounds carry," Preston told the Enquirer. "Everybody knows your business."

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/06/...9421212946971/

[Woodmonkey]

I'm glad he's happy

[conlor]

I worked with a woman who retired a few years ago. One of her uncles became a plumber and offered in put indoor plumbing in his father's house. Her grandfather said, "Ain't nobody gonne s*** in MY house!"

[Woodmonkey]

That's one way of thinking.

[Snowden]

That was the way a lot of people looked at it at one time.

[Woodmonkey]

Originally Posted by Snowden

That was the way a lot of people looked at it at one time.

The good ol' days!