Comments on: Bluesfest Day Five: Porta Potty Mishap

By: fred

fred — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:02:36 +0000

You’re kidding, right? You don’t really believe the person who closed the lid was the idiot. Closing the lid is policy at most festivals I’ve been to. Burning Man for example. Having a penlight or a lighter with you at night is a good idea too. Women hovering over toilet seats is likely the greatest cause of pee on toilet seats. You did clean up the mess, right?

By: knitnut.net » Anniversaries, outhouses and bunny rabbits

knitnut.net » Anniversaries, outhouses and bunny rabbits — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:04:35 +0000

[...] on outhouses, by the way. My expertise predates – by a long shot – my 2007 Bluesfest porta-potty [...]

By: cinnamon gurl

cinnamon gurl — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:59:51 +0000

I don’t think those handwashing stations ever have water in them. I think they just put them out to tease us.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:46:43 +0000

AAAGH! (Runs screaming from the room.)

My husband got me a teeny Swiss army knife key chain that has a teeny tiny RED flashlight on it! So you can find the door lock in the dark without ruining your night vision. Since it is attached to my house key, it goes everywhere with me (except on a plane now, of course.) It couldn’t have cost that much – maybe you can get them at the MEC (that’s where he gets a LOT of stuff).

PS Update on Rockwell!

By: Em

Em — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:17:37 +0000

it wasn’t me!
that seriously sucks though. At least you tried.
I once peed myself at a concert because I had been AVOIDING using the portapotties too long. Thankfully it was near the end of the show, and it had rained, so I just told everyone I sat in a puddle. URG.

By: Zoom!

Zoom! — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:29:38 +0000

Robin, that makes it all worthwhile.

David and Malva: I can see it making sense in an outhouse to put the lid down, but not in a Porta Potty at a festival where there is no downtime between users. (But you’ve opened my eyes to the possibility that maybe the user before me was just trying to be polite, rather than playing a dirty trick as I had previously thought…)

Gillian: Yes, good idea on the hand sanitizer. But if they would provide dispensers, it would eliminate the need for them to bring water in AND everybody’s hands would be clean, not just mine. That would be nice. A glow in the dark lid would be a suitable compromise between the well-mannered outhouse-users and the night-blind festival squatters.

By: Malva

Malva — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:54:39 +0000

It was probably someone used to outhouses. It’s good manner to close the lid in an outhouse, as explained by David Scrimshaw.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:11:48 +0000

So porta-potty seats and lids need to glow-in-the-dark. And you want to carry your own hand sanitizer.

By: David Scrimshaw

David Scrimshaw — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:16:24 +0000

Sorry about putting the lid down. I thought that doing so reduces odours and the spread of foecal-born disease by flies.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:54:17 +0000

Don’t ever think we don’t appreciate what you go through to bring us these daily Bluesfest reports!