This Is How You Take A Poo In New Mexico
- Filed under: out and about, photography
- Date: Apr 10,2008
Oh the joys of laziness.
I have so much to do and not a single ounce of willpower to even get started on anything.
I still have to upload the pictures from the trip, and the problem with that is that I have so many of them, but since it was New Mexico, a lot of the scenery is the same. PLUS, I don’t know where to begin with it. Should I start at Day 1-ish and post the pictures as they were taken? Or should I do them based on what we were doing at the time, blah blah blah.
Most of them are slowly being uploaded to flickr, so if you want a sneak peak, go there. But don’t go look until like Saturday or something so I can have time to add more. I’m off tomorrow so I should get a fair bit of stuff done.
ANYWAY. Here is something interesting from the trip. We stopped at a “rest area” to let the girls use the potty. They have this thing where they aren’t very keen on taking a cacapoo anywhere other than our backyard. I swear they can hold it for days if need be - unless I leave them alone in my living room for more than 2 minutes… they will happily use my carpet then.
Well, at the rest stop there was a brick wall (as you can see above) that said HER/HIS on it. After you went through a little maze you found yourself at a specially designed toilet. Actually, calling it a toilet is way too classy. It’s more like a poo depository.
Naturally, any idea of me even attempting to use it was out of the question. I was already annoyed about my lack of 4-5 star hotels along the way… was I really expected to use some tin bucket to pee in?
As I began to exit my side of the Tin Can Pooper area, I heard laughter and sounds of utter disgust. I thought it was maybe because the girls had used the bathroom outside and my husband was doing the typical bag covered hand poo collecting that us dog lovers are forced to do.
Boy was I ever wrong.
You see, the HIM side of the Pooper was missing the tin can. All they had was some hole in the ground. And a pile of stinky mess which someone had attempted to deposit into said hole, and missed.
It was SO disgusting.
But I guess whoever it was really had to go.
I on the other hand would have done my best to channel my dogs willpower and held onto my “stink stink” until I reached the nearest town with a McDonald’s or Burger King so I could use a REAL restroom. I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of urgency would leave me to squat over THAT open hole.
But that’s just me.
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21 Responses for "This Is How You Take A Poo In New Mexico"
Hahaha. Someone MISSED??!! Nasty. I’m with you… I can wait for a REAL bathroom!!!
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What a great “bathroom”! LOL I could also never imagine to use something like that, I would not even know the “how to”. I am excited to hear more about the trip
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What a great post! Very descriptive and very funny! I would’ve gone and found a bush before squatting over that hole!
That post went really well with my dinner.
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Eeeeeuuuuuuww! That’s yucky! I am glad I use a nice, clean litter box filled with fancy crystals to do my business.
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Ew to the ICKiest power of GROSS!
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LOL That is just so gross. I’m like you I believe I would wait too.
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@ Ana - I’ll try to update more on the trip tomorrow… no promises though.
@ Lynne - And there were a lot of bushes around. In a moment of absolute desperation, I would have chosen that over the funky never ending hole.
@ Peri - You know, I do what I can. I wonder what I can serve up for you with dessert…
@ Daisy - I think I would prefer your litter box over that hole too.
@ Angelika - Girrrrrl, you have no idea.
@ Carol - After seeing it, I held it for hours and hours until I got to the “inn”. Sadly, that wasn’t much better.
Eeeeuck! I had to go in a hole in the ground once many, many years ago in France. When you’ve been travelling in a car 24/7 there comes a time when you just have to :O( I would have drawn the line at a stinky one though!
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Ohh! I heard about the holes in the floor and for some strange reason I want to try to use them! Does that make me weird? lol.
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That is seriously foul!
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Are you sure you were in New Mexico? Looks as though you were in some towns here in the Philippines. Big similarity.
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Yeah…that is luxury compared to the “room” in China my mom and I had to use. It was an open room very similar to the one you show above - no ceiling. And one big room. No mens/womens. One room. We had to PAY for the privilege of using it. There were no stalls. Just holes placed around the outer edges of the walls. Yeah…not so much fun.
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Girl, I’m from the St Louis area (Texas I love though) and eggs are over easy, over medium, over hard (hard boiled), maybe there’s sunny side up or so I’ve heard.
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Anything that looks as though it has no roof does not fit my definition of a rest stop! Lucky for me I must have four bladders, because I never have to stop at rest stops. It makes you wonder about New Mexico health codes.
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ew ew ew ew…thx for the graphic pix of a missed poo!
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OMG! I cannot believe that. That is the worst. I would rather go outside in the woods than try to aim for that. I thought the Japanese Eastern toilets were primitive (not much more than a hole in the ground), but I’ll tell you they were definitely high class compared to that!
I don’t know if that hole is worth the squat, but I guess if you have to go you have to go. I’m so grateful for indoor plumbing.
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OMG! It made me gag!!! LOL! I can not look at it again.
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Is it wrong if I say that’s awesome? haha I would not have used that poo bucket either! Not only is that gross..but think of the germs and diseases around that!
How do they clean that?
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