Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Old urinals...

Today while I was walking around Christiansted St. Croix, I took a tour with the wife of an old Dutch fort that is at the entrance to the harbor. Basically, they put this thing here mostly to defend from pirates and privateers and to keep the local slaves in order. As a matter of fact, once when the British threatened the fort, they just up and surrendered, and decided, "Hey, no need to kill is here, we're all good." OK, maybe the conversation went somewhat different, but you get what I mean.

While touring said fort, we found the latrines. Yes, this is good stuff. The only part left of the latrines is an old urinal they had in a corner somewhere, and it was blocked up, so I couldn't see if it still worked. Damn it all. And I came all this way, and was prohibited from pissing down an old urinal in an old fort. Well, you can't win them all. The urinal itself looks sort of like a "modern" urinal, in that it has a sort of catch basin, and a hole for your fluids to drain down in. Damn clever Dutchmen and all. Although, I'm sure that this is and or was, standard normal operating procedure for places such as this back in the 1700's. Now, one wonders, did they have urinal mints?

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