• Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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    22 小时前

    My grandpa’s open air basement toilet had a brick on the lid to keep rats from getting in. The rare times I had to use it I was always so scared of a rat showing up and half the time I couldn’t even go because of it

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      3 小时前

      To keep rats from entering the house via sewer lines or to keep rats from climbing in the toilet and drowning? I really need to know more about this open air basement

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        Keep them from entering the house from the sewer. That’s what I was always told at any rate; the house and town were old enough it seems plausible. The house’s driveway side door opened to the kitchen and on the right was a wood staircase. Right near the base of the staircase barely out of direct sight when entering the side door is where the toilet was just hanging out near a support beam not even against a wall. There wasn’t a sink down there you had to go back up the stairs to the kitchen to wash your hands.