The Cow Dance
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I was sitting here staring at my word processor while working on a Western when I remembered two old complaints about western tv shows and movies. One, no one had to reload. A guy could fire 50 shots and never reload. Two, no one had to unload. You'd see the inside of a cabin or ranch house and there wouldn't be a bathroom. They'd show a long view of the place and you'd see a barn and, maybe, a bunk house but no bathroom.
As a kid, I thought people in the old days didn't have to go. I couldn't picture them going off to the other side of the field and doing their business. I thought people didn't start going until they started using flush toilets and did it so as not to waste the toilet. I didn't, and still don't, know why they would put a toilet in the same room as the bathtub; didn't know, and still don't know, why anyone would want the toilet inside the house instead of the back of the yard?
You go to the bathroom, do what you need to do, wipe and flush. Everyone in the house knows what you just did. When you open the door and come out, everyone wrinkles their noses. Going to the bathroom is a private thing and yet we set it up so that going to the bathroom ends in a public announcement. What genius came up with this idea? It certainly wasn't my Grandpap.
The Cow Dance