When I was a kid back in Allamakee County, in the few years before the house was plumbed and the septic tank installed, we depended on an old-fashioned one-holer a ways down from the house. It even had a quarter-moon cut in the door — you don’t mess with tradition. Needless to say, it was smelly in summer and cold in winter, and it inspired my Mom to a fit of poetry:
There once was a house on Bear Creek.
Its owners thought it really unique.
The scenery was spiffy,
But to get to the biffy,
You had to walk a half-mile down the creek.
Now, I told you that so I could tell you this: New York City, now that the city has solved all its other problems, is building a bunch more public potties.
Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday a plan to build 46 new restrooms and renovate 36 existing ones located in city parks, adding to the city’s roughly 1,000 such facilities over the next five years.
The…
