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The Difficulty of Being a Night Soil Man
Back in the day, there was a job night soil man, which is where people came to privy's to clean them out when they got too disgusting. "I often think of this as sort of the inverse and more disgusting form of chimney sweeps," he says. The world would be a much better place if we all imagined that one day we might have to be our own poopsmith, you know?