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The Facts of Life
By Anonymous
What could possibly be so bad? It could only happen in an outhouse….
One day, I came home from school and didn’t change my clothes immediately.
Our outhouse had two holes, and I wanted to see how the men could stand up and use them, so I stood over the round hole.
And as you might have guessed, I fell in.
Evidently, I caught myself, since my shoes were the only part that were soiled. I tried cleaning them with the Sears, Roebuck catalog as best I could.
My mother had picked her dry shell-out beans and had stomped on them in a sack. And she was picking out the beans from the trash in a washtub in the middle of the floor.
I sat down on the floor on the opposite side of the tub, but I didn’t fool her. She knew something was wrong. I don’t remember the details, but she wasn’t very happy.
This was during the Depression, and there wasn’t much money for shoes. My mother always said she never sent any of us to bed without our supper, but I do remember not eating that night.
Nevertheless, my shoes were clean and ready to wear to school the next morning.
Now, none of this would have happened if it weren’t for the fact that we weren’t very knowledgeable about the facts of life in the old days.
] I think I must have been the most naïve of anyone. I was older than my brother, and I remember that I was made to leave the room when he was being diapered.
One day, I came home from school and didn’t change my clothes immediately.
Our outhouse had two holes, and I wanted to see how the men could stand up and use them, so I stood over the round hole.
And as you might have guessed, I fell in.
Evidently, I caught myself, since my shoes were the only part that were soiled. I tried cleaning them with the Sears, Roebuck catalog as best I could.
My mother had picked her dry shell-out beans and had stomped on them in a sack. And she was picking out the beans from the trash in a washtub in the middle of the floor.
I sat down on the floor on the opposite side of the tub, but I didn’t fool her. She knew something was wrong. I don’t remember the details, but she wasn’t very happy.
This was during the Depression, and there wasn’t much money for shoes. My mother always said she never sent any of us to bed without our supper, but I do remember not eating that night.
Nevertheless, my shoes were clean and ready to wear to school the next morning.
Now, none of this would have happened if it weren’t for the fact that we weren’t very knowledgeable about the facts of life in the old days.
] I think I must have been the most naïve of anyone. I was older than my brother, and I remember that I was made to leave the room when he was being diapered.