Indoor Plumbing.Indoor Pluming is great. Think about it: it is 3:47 in the morning. You're in the middle of a great dream, something involving Brad Pitt and Chocolate, and suddenly your eyes open and you realize that the tingling you're feeling has nothing to do with the chocolate OR Brad Pitt- it is that Big Gulp you had before bed deciding to make its second appearance. You sleepily stumble out of bed, put your slippers on and bump down the hall into the bathroom. Effortlessly, you take care of your business, and effortlessly flush the toilet. You effortlessly wash your hands, and return to your warm bed without ever having to give this act of normalcy a second thought. You didn't have to treck outside through the snow to take care of your business in the dark, without any light more than the moon.
Let us consider another scenario: you find that your darling little 3 year old has discovered your makeup, or the muddy ground in the backyard, or the halloween candy, and she is a mess. After you roll your eyes and take a quick snapshot to document your cute little one, you pick her up, run a bath, and start scrubbing. This task that once would have required pumping water from the outside water pump and then boiling it, can now be accomplished with a simple flick of the wrist!
Here's still one more situation to think about: Sunday evening, you're cooking a great meal of pot roast, split pea soup, a salad, and mashed potatoes, and corn on the cob. Through the course of creating your domestic feat, you boil two pots of water, run the water to wash your salad/hands, fill up pitchers with water from the fridge and ice from the freezer, and you do all this without having to walk down the street to the community water well, as you would have had to do before the marvelous invention of INDOOR PLUMBING.
The Bubonic Plague spread so easily in 1340s England due largly to midevil England's hygene habits. Think about that. I'm just saying.
Think about this next time you utilize your toilet or shower- think about how easy it has made your life... Because of the great difference it has made in the modern world, I am grateful for Indoor Plumbing today. Thank you Thomas Maddock and William Leigh!
Let us consider another scenario: you find that your darling little 3 year old has discovered your makeup, or the muddy ground in the backyard, or the halloween candy, and she is a mess. After you roll your eyes and take a quick snapshot to document your cute little one, you pick her up, run a bath, and start scrubbing. This task that once would have required pumping water from the outside water pump and then boiling it, can now be accomplished with a simple flick of the wrist!
Here's still one more situation to think about: Sunday evening, you're cooking a great meal of pot roast, split pea soup, a salad, and mashed potatoes, and corn on the cob. Through the course of creating your domestic feat, you boil two pots of water, run the water to wash your salad/hands, fill up pitchers with water from the fridge and ice from the freezer, and you do all this without having to walk down the street to the community water well, as you would have had to do before the marvelous invention of INDOOR PLUMBING.
The Bubonic Plague spread so easily in 1340s England due largly to midevil England's hygene habits. Think about that. I'm just saying.
Think about this next time you utilize your toilet or shower- think about how easy it has made your life... Because of the great difference it has made in the modern world, I am grateful for Indoor Plumbing today. Thank you Thomas Maddock and William Leigh!
2 comments:
Oh yes...I too am grateful for indoor plumbing...no splinters!
Cool. I'm grateful for pepsi. Thanks pepsi cola!
~Jared
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