Something we all do but nobody seems to talk about much.  Some have porta potties others use buckets or other containers.   What do you or others use and how do you dispose of the contents?  This applies to caravan parks (not everyone wants to go out in the rain or cold at night, also for security reasons.  And of course in free camping/overnight spots as well.

I don't have a porta potti and for No1's I use "Billie Bucket" and my wife uses a suitably shaped "Jilly Jug".  No 2's are confined to caravan parks, service stations, shops/park toilets etc, and in dire circumstances to bush/shovel in suitable locations.
We also carry a "hospital pan" for emergencies where there may be no suitable cover (bushes/trees) outside, haven't had to use it yet, but it is there just in case. 

Disposal;  In caravan parks, those with buckets usually empty them in the morning either into the toilet pans or sometime the laundries have a toilet pan for disposing of nappy contents which are best as they have a tap there.  Those with porta potties normally use a "dump" point provided in the caravan parks as most use chemicals and a lot of caravan parks have septic tanks and the chemicals would kill the bacteria in the tanks that break down the solids.  What do you or your friends do? 

A couple of funny stories to kick this off;  

1.  There was this poor chap at a caravan park whose wife had used a bucket when she had to go, trouble was, when she got up from squatting on it, the bucket stuck to her bottom and as she stood up the bucket fell off and went everywhere in their caravan.  Hubby had to clean up the mess.

2.  Another incident was where this couple pulled up alongside the road as his wife wanted to "pee" using their porti potti which was in the back of there vehicle.  He got it out, opened the doors on the offside and put the porta pottie between the doors for her privacy.  Only trouble was, the road verge was sloped loose gravel and wifey and porta potti took off and landed in a heap at the bottom in a very undignified pose.

3.  A club I was in had this couple and in the morning it was hubby's job to take their "Billie Buckets" over to the toilet to empty them of their overnight No 1's.  We couldn't restrain ourselves from laughing as his bucket was blue, and hers was pink.  Colour coded, now that's what I call organised ! He He.

4.  On a sparsely bushed road in a remote area, we saw a car parked alongside the road facing the opposite direction, a male was looking back down the road and his wife was a few feet from the edge squatting down doing a No1 facing in the same direction, all exposed in our direction.  They didn't hear us coming until the last moment, and looking back in our direction the wife fell over backwards.  I wanted to bip the horn but my wife wouldn't let me.

5.  A female friend of mine was working on a camping tour bus as a cook and the bus stopped in a desert region with just a few small shrubs around.  The bus driver sent the men to the right on the opposite side of the road and the women to the left on the bus side of the road for privacy.  This friend said she had squatted down behind a small bush that gave waist high privacy, however in the middle of her "task" a large high tourist bus pulled up behind the other bus and she looked up to see she had an audience all staring out of the window down at her. Ha Ha.

Vic 

-- Edited by Vic41 on Thursday 18th of June 2009 12:52:13 PM