The Path

This was told to me by Clara Agan. I have mentioned her before.
I do have a correction, though. She is the young age of 95!

In the old days, everyone had a privy. You know outhouse, little house, s---house. Whatever your family might call it. Then came running water! Some families could afford indoor plumbing, many could not.
When visiting someone, the polite way to ask where the bathroom was; "do you have a bath or a path?".

We didn't get a "bath" for a long while. One of the favorite things the boys did at Halloween, was to run around, tipping the outhouses over. One time they did this and someone was inside. We laughed and laughed!

Clara's first phone was a hand crank model.
She told me that you had to call the exchange. Then, she would place the call for you. Every house has a special ring. She couldn't remember hers, but you could bet, that everyone on that line picked up the receiver and listened in!