snowyday Posted December 19, 2012 Share Posted December 19, 2012 It was during the Great Depression and the family didn’t have money to buy lumber for the new facility. The head of the household saw a want ad which said somebody had ten old doors and they would be given to anyone who would haul the doors away. Outhouse-needing man rushed over in his wagon and got them. He used the large doors for the sides of his privy. The master john he built was three doors wide in the front and back and two doors wide on the sides. Since the finished job was rustic the builder didn’t bother to remove the door knobs and locks from the doors. They say there is no describing the frustration, nervousness, and sheer panic of anyone who made an emergency run down the grape-arbor path to the outhouse and couldn’t figure which of the ten old doors was the real entrance to the makeshift privy. Said one outraged visitor of the builder of the ten-door john. “People have been ridden out of the country on a rail for a less dastardly deed.†* * * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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