Are You Thankful For Your Toilet?

I’ll bet you that you have never thought about the need to being thankful for your plumbing. If you are like me, then you have never had to daily use the restroom outdoors (“Johnny”, “Outhouse”, etc.). As long as I can remember, thankfully, I have been able to use the toilet… INDOORS!

We moved in with my Grandma in the middle part of my sixth grade year. The house was built by my great grandfather. He built a strong and tight structure, but put it in the wrong location. It was at the bottom of a hill from two directions, and was at the middle part of a hill from a third. Simply put, when it rained, our front yard could became a funnel forming a small river. Of course, in the interest of availability, the septic tank was placed in the front yard where all of the water would flow through. Most of the year things would be fine, but if it rained a lot, then the tank would fill; backing up the system. This meant that if you wanted to bathe, you had to wash in the sink. If you flushed the commode, then you had better be “prayed up”. Many times it would run over. THAT IS NASTY!

One year in particular, in February, it snowed and sleeted. The ground was frozen and the tank was full. There was no way to get it pumped. We just had to be careful. We took showers at my uncle’s house, and tried to use the bathroom there as much as we could. We were sorely inconvenienced. At an early age, I began to understand the importance of being thankful for my indoor toilet!

Any hunter has had to use the facilities when at the most inopportune time. There is nothing much worse than to be hunting in a godforsaken place and nowhere to use a toilet. In your mind you are wishing for a nice warm commode seat with soft toilet paper. With your favorite magazine on your lap, you take could care of business. That is all it is… wishing! All of a sudden you are thankful for that nice cozy bathroom fitted with that ivory colored throne. With such flushing power that nothing stays behind! You are so thankful that when you arrive back at home, you take an extended stay in there! HA HA!

Humors aside, let’s face it! We should be thankful for our toilet! We should be thankful that we have a plumbing system, whether septic or sewer. Many parts of the world have no real sanitary place like our facilities here in America. I guess we are spoiled. I think about how awkward Crocodile Dundee was when he saw the bathroom in New York that time. You know… he did not know just how good it was. He was used to things a different way. Whether yours is red, yellow, green, or the stock color of ivory white, be thankful for that throne. Even if it does not have the old style, muscle car flush of yesteryear. Be thankful!

Please pass along your “clean” and “sanitary” comments! Kindly pass this along to your friends… especially the guys! LOL