[at-l] peeing in public

[Bob C]

Abigail Adams, wife of our second president, was appalled at the French practice of peeing in chamber pots. While living in France, where her husband was assigned to seek help from that country in our Revolutionary War, she wondered in letters home, "Why with so much land available is there no proper privy?"

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> ------------Original Message------------
> From: V Hurst <vjl_47 at yahoo.com>
> To: at-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Fri, Jan-5-2007 4:49 PM
> Subject: [at-l] peeing in public
>
> ME!!! I confess I have!! Its really challenging and fun to figure out 
> how to do it... :) being a girl and all... 
>   hehehe
>   the kink..
>   (reverting to her alter ego!! :)
>    
>    
>    . . . show of hands now: HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR YEARS 
> AND
> HAVE SUREPTITIOUSLY PEED IN PUBLIC PLACES IN FLOWER BEDS AND PARKS ? ? 
> ?
> 
> COME ONE . . . WE KNOW YOU'RE HERE . . .
> 
> IF it weren't for the don't pee in public laws, there'd be prettier 
> flowers
> and greener grass, and fatter peanuts everywhere . . .
> 
> I noticed for the first time in late 2006 a sign at the Springer 
> shelter
> urging hikers to pee in the woods and to defecate in the latrines.
> 
> This isn't new knowledge, it's forgotten knowledge, and a result of the
> Anglo-Saxon aesthetic that prohibits peeing in public places, a rule 
> only in
> North America and some, but not all, European countries 
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