Lol the random toilet

those random toilets are real and absolutely wild to see if you're not from the midwest

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
- this is me but spiders
- 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
Maybe those basements are tornado shelters. Than you need a toilet at some point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_toilet

My grandma had one in the basement along with a "shower" which was just a spray nozzle and a curtain ring above the floor drain.
- I have that! But mine is fancy because it has a poorly laid concrete "basin" around it.
That's an interesting piece of rust belt Americana, there.
https://youtu.be/nXUmUyKk0Uw

I've had a Busch in this exact basement.

Farmer water.

I once went to a cousin's house in the midwest, and we went to find something in the basement. Fam, it was like the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: stacks and stacks of Stuff as far as the eye could see... To their credit, it was all in bins and shelves with aisle space and fairly well organized...

Great uncle had the toilet but also an overhead shower directly above a drain. Right next to the toilet, of course. The floor wasn't even angled to the drain. He used a mop to push the water to the drain.