Years ago i had a friend who owned a plumbing company. He had a bunch of t-shirts made up for his staff that said " your s**t puts food on our table".
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Nice to hear someone else say they have done this, now maybe people won’t think I am just making this sh/crap up… (pun intended)… 
I guess it is an age thing, cause my parents house was built in 72/73 and was on septic until the city added sewer systems 30ish years ago, we flushed normally, but I also remember as a kid being out there a few time digging it up to unclog something, I remember spending one Christmas morning digging it up from it overflowing… Wasn’t the present I wanted, but it was time spent with my dad… Nothing like father son bonding over-… lol
Now back to cars, I had a friend who drove a septic truck for a while, if you could stomach it, it paid really good… $$$
My Dad built our childhood home with hand tools. Dug and built the septic tank from block and used ceramic tiles for the leach field. I was the helper when the inlet got plugged once. Never minded working on my own since then 
That home was built in the 50s and sold with that same working septic that passed inspection in '97. There was one time when I was 17 that it failed. Turned out one of the tiles leading to the leach field had collapsed and plugged up the outlet. It was a mystery until I recalled driving my car over that area of the back yard 
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My grandparent’s home was built in the 1920s on 17-acres and house did not have either a septic tank or cesspool. The Black and Gray water flowed down a pipe that ran down the hill and into a creek that flowed through the property. The house also had an Artesian Well with a pipe dug about 6-feet down to keep the well from over filling and overflowing the top. The pipe also ran down to the same creek.
The heat back then was from a coal fired furnace, each year a coal truck delivery 5-tons of coal down a chute into the basement. The furnace had a big hot air vent in the living room for the heat to rise and the second floor had registers in the floor to allow the heat to rise to the second story…
As I grew up in the '50s, this setup was much the same as all the neighbors. We all placed the “soiled” toilet paper in a special trashcan that made it to the burn barrels. You could tell the homes that had teenage girls back then because the “empty” hair spray cans were also put into the burn barrels and heat caused the cans to rupture and the propane in the cans to explode sending the cans high in the air…
It was the late '60s before the county put in water, sewer, and gas line in that area of the county.
I was waiting to hear about the used TP being blown into the air… 
My grandparents house in Black Mountain NC area, well was drilled over 150’ deep…
Was on septic and TP was flushed, but the slop was so steep, nothing was going to clog up once it hit the front yard… lol
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The house we had as a kid had a coal bin but the furnace had been converted to gas before my time. The coal bin was where paint and tools were kept. Still had the chute door for the coal. Thought everybody had one.
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My grandmother in Nashville still had (at the time) a coil barn that they would dump coil in, he then wheelbarrowed it to the house and carried it to the stove heater… Still pushed mowed the acre yard when she up until the family tricked her and took it from her at age 87, also had to take the ladder cause she climbed up on the roof with a 1/2 full bucket of tar to patch the roof… Made it just over a 100 years and her mind was still sharp as a tac and mobile, Mom did not get those traits I guess, she is 100% the opposite at age 87 now… ugg
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I’m glad George isn’t starting anymore automotive threads, this is so much better…
Yeah it was my job to burn the trash once a week. I liked lighting fires.
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It’s late. No onevis watching anyway.
They were melting, we just didn’t hear or read about it until more recently. Here’s a graphic from a recent NOAA report. Note that the surface area of arctic ice has been decreasing on average since 1984. NOAA would not have been measuring it if it wasn’t decreasing long before that too.
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Yeah when the glaciers that covered Minnesota finally melted leaving a lot of lakes, it just wasn’t covered much in the newspapers either.
Something must be wrong with my PC. I keep trying to find Cartalk but find this stuff instead.
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It takes a very long time to melt all that ice. There are 690,000 cubic miles of ice in the Greenland ice sheet alone. Maybe you are underestimating the volume of ice. The Antarctic Ice Sheet has 6,400,00 cubic miles of ice. This doesn’t include iArctic ice or other continental ice. Some ice returns during winter, though not enough to cover the loss.
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Are there a lot of lakes in Minnesota? Huh, maybe that should be on your license plates?
Too bad you don’t have a basketball team to name after all those lakes. 
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I don’t follow sports so not sure if we have a team or not. Whoever designed the plates 70 years ago, either didn’t know or thought 10,000 lakes sounded better than 13,000. Maybe didn’t want to offend wisconsin or South Dakota with maybe their 20 lakes. Or 13 is unlucky. Actuall lived in three places with the 13 address and could have been better. Our rental even had a horse shoe upside down in the garage. I finally turned it around in desperation. I’m not superstitious but why take a chance? My grandmother would not allow a cat on her lap either but then found out why. I remember my mother turning the car around when a black cat walked across the road. Thought it was silly but why take a chance.
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Well you don’t but Los Angeles has a basketball team named the Lakers that came from MN.
As a kid I remember seeing a 10,000 Lakes license plate hanging in grandpa’s garage. Mom grew up in White Bear Lake, and after her first 19 miserable winters moved to sunny CA and never looked back.
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