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Larry NEIL

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Thepost below of people making a mess out of bathrooms reminded of a story my Dad used to tell.
He was on the destroyer Willie B. Preston in 1923 through 1925. He described the latrine aboard ship as a long trough with stalls and seats aand sea water constantly flowing through. When the Chief saw a number of goldbrick loafing in the stalls, He would light a big ball of paper on fire and send it floating downstream.
Got everones attention
 
I went back and read about the fellows teaching their sons proper toilet usage. This reminded me of a high school teaching job I had in a small school. My classroom was in the elementary building and I was the only male teacher in the building. The kindergarten boys did not use the floor urinal as they should. I jokingly asked the kindergarten teacher if she could give the boys some special training, perhaps with a demonstration of skill. Her reply was that I had no business using the restroom in the elementary building and I should walk over to the high school building because she claimed she was there first and had squatter's rights.
 
i remember very clearly and distinkly in elementary school the bath room had the old steam radiators. some of the boys figured out you could pee on them to get a loud hissing sound then the stink would arrive. after the teacher came down hard on us boys this saying arose: WHO THAT DO THAT ON THAT THERE RADIATOR?
now 50+ years later i still do not know why they didn't talk to the girls also.
 
We still did that out of boredom on a troop ship when I was in the Corps.

Ideally, you'd catch the right time of day when most seats were occupied, and run for your life.
 
Wow, Pete, you must have led a cloistered life.

I knew even while in elementary school why they wouldn't have had the same conversation with the girls. 'Course, I had 3 sisters, one of whose diapers I changed as a youth. Figured out early on that it was all a matter of physics, don'tcha know.

By the way, as a fan of semantics, I do appreciate your use of the word "distinkly" in that context. . .
 
At a girls school the teenage girls had a filthy habit of putting on lipstick and kissing the mirrors in their washroom,Leaving big kiss marks. The poor old janitor was heartbroken trying to keep the mirrors clean and happened to pass the remarks to a new teacher. New teacher said he could stop it immediately..So he told the janitor his plan.....He then brought the girls down into the washroom and asked them if they realised how difficult it was to keep these mirrors clean? All he got was a fit of giggles....So he asked the janitor to demonstrate how much effort he had to put in to the cleaning of these mirrors. The janitor took his mop and dipped it in the toilet bowl and proceded to wash the mirrors...A few of the girls were sick but he had no more bother!
Sam
 
I teach in an area that has been overrun by folks "moving in" from south of the border. I never thought I would see the day we had to talk about using the bathroom because they had never used on inside. We realized real quick when there was poop in the urinal that it was needed. Funny how it was all "No Habla" when figuring that one out.
 
They just started installing bathroom stalls with one way screws, when I was going through HS. I was the lil bas tard who figgered out how to unscrew the stall walls. I would take out all ze screws, and quietly leave, next guy to slam a stall door, got the treat of the walls falling down!
 
Dad would always tell how on the farm in North Dakota ,in winter time they a coffee can to pee in . Old farm houses had heat registers ,,which were usually just an opening from upstairs to down. One morning him and his brother were wrestling around and tipped the pee can over,,,it ran right down onto gramma"s cook stove when she was making breakfast . lol
 
Cheap plumbing I guess. My father said even after the war- since his second enlistment was till '48, he was on 2 brand new 'corvettes' on radio and weather patrol half way to Hawaii from SF Bay, with that sort of ancient head plumbing. He said every wave in rough weather make a fountain in that trough, the crew hated it. Officer's said it has to be an English designed ship. His first cutter, a buoy tender built in 1909, had flush porclin toilet bowls and sinks. Your dad's ship must have been to save taxpayer's 7 or 8 1920 dollars....
 
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