Things I am grateful for

[Stuart G]

7. Two of the things that we take for granted was mentioned in the original post by irisblue

...Flush toilets and safe drinking water.

FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY, GOING BACK TO BIBLE TIMES WE DID NOT HAVE THOSE TWO.

i visited Versailles in Paris France...(King Louie's home) and the tour leader mentioned that the king had
servants that came each day several times to the rooms to take away the human excrement that was left
in certain rooms that were used for that purpose.

,,,,,,,,,,NO FLUSH TOILETS FOR THE KING AND HIS CROWD (they hadn't been invented yet, and water
systems were not pipes and sewers like we know today)..So, when you turn the faucet and out comes pure
water to drink, as Iris said above, be grateful. Hard to imagine what it was like...but I can imagine..

Once in the late 50s, I went to Boy Scout Camp. for 10 days. At the camp..(overnight camp) there were tents,
and guess what else? ...OUTHOUSES...a place to sit and take a sh*t......
....And it was each tents requirement to clean the sitting places in the outhouse one day during the stay.
.... So, I took a bucket of clean water and washed the area & the seats with soap all around the places where
..people sat and pooped. Yes, everywhere in that place. I remember doing so and it was over 60 years ago.
We cleaned seats and the floor, we ...did NOT remove anything from the places that people had pooped in.
That stayed in the ground...............................
..........I guess someone would remember something like that...It was not pretty, but it was how Boy Scout Camp was.