Loo Loo Skip to My Loo! Skip to My Loo My Darling!

What can you get for $37?

A haircut

A pair of jeans

About 9 loaves of bread

Or a toilet.  Now isn't that one of the last remaining true bargains EVER?  $37!  For a porcelain wonder that we all take for granted. The ‘designer’ ones can go as high as $250 or more which still seems like a bargain. (Especially considering the alternative.) And who are these ‘toidy designers’ anyway?  Don’t you kind of feel sorry for them in a social situation?  “What do you do for your job?” 

“I design decorative functional household objets d' art.”   

“Oh, cool!  So, what kind of function?”   

“For eliminating human waste, you know, defecation, urination, that sort of thing.”  

It's a conversation atomic bomb.

It wasn't always so unmentionable.  Back in the Middle Ages, homes used to have two holers in the ‘privy’ for commode comradery, Loo laughs, tête-á-têtes.  Conversation...etc... flowed! 

I wonder if that is why, to this day, women always go to el baño in pairs?

Prior to the early 1900’s, so for most of human history, people had no toilets or municipal sewers whisking bodily functions to Never-Never Land. One, two and three ply tissue was instead such things as corn cobs, wool, the Sears Roebuck catalog, or, in the case of one ancient people, "reusable pebbles one carried on their person in a special bag."  'Special' bag, indeed!

My great aunt had her family’s first ‘indoor plumbing’ built as a room accessed only by the back porch.  She declared, “Nobody is going to do 'THAT' in MY house!”

In a recent bathroom remodel we bought a toilet that is 'Comfort Height' as opposed to 'Chair Height.' Presumably some hoity toidy designer thinks the latter would function in the dining room as well--(if nothing else, it would be efficient). Ours has a patented 'Quick Release Seat' and, when I asked my husband what that meant, he replied, "That's for when you gotta go really bad, you run into the bathroom and the lid pops up automatically."

It was while doing this remodel that we discovered the opening price point of a toilet is $37.  Truly, truly amazing!

Well, that's all!  Gotta go! 

        

©2011  Jana B Patrick

(Speaking of "chair height,"  you gotta see thisScroll to #3:   http://www.delish.com/food-fun/weird-restaurants: 

Also, check out Bill Bryson's new book,  "AT HOME: A Short History of Private Life" where I discovered the Middle Ages info!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper (special bag of pebbles)