From the ArcaMax Publishing, Weird News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/weirdnews/s-360004-455252
CINCINNATI (UPI) -- A new outhouse built by a Cincinnati non-profit
group is simply too fancy for Elbert "Lew" Preston, the Ohio farmer
says.
The 79-year-old retired tobacco farmer said the concrete and treated
lumber outhouse built by People Working Cooperatively is a far cry
from the simple wooden structure he once had sitting above a hole in
the ground, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
"It's too nice and complicated to be an outhouse," Preston said. "I
call it a privy."
The senior citizen said his old outhouse not only survived decades of
usage, but even remained in service after being uprooted by a tornado
in 1997.
A visit by board of health officials resulted in the outhouse being
condemned. That's when People Working Cooperatively offered to build a
new structure for Preston.
He says he misses his dilapidated outhouse but he's relieved he can
still relieve himself outside.
"When you're in a house, sounds carry," Preston told the Enquirer.
"Everybody knows your business."