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Subject:Re: Porta Potti Tumbler
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:50:01 -0600

mature thread .............. what a misstatement. Try immature.

Stan
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:29:12 -0800 Melissa Mourkas <westywoman@MAC.COM>
writes:
> Not to drag out a mature thread but...
>
> ...someone wrote not to put anything in the van that you don't want
> in the
> front seat with you, and others wrote that their porta-potti
> survived a
> crash that the van didn't.  In that vein, I offer this advice based
> upon
> experience:  I, too, place my porta-potti behind the passenger seat,
> makes a
> good footrest...BUT, when the van is in motion, the potti is secured
> by
> bungie cords.  Why, you ask?  Well, a porta-potti with a full upper
> chamber
> and an empty lower chamber is top-heavy, and will tumble around the
> cabin as
> you take a sharp turn.
>
> So, unless you want to outfit the potti with reinforced sidewalls
> to
> eliminate the lean in the turns, I suggest a restraint of some
> kind.
>
> Melissa
> --
> Melissa Mourkas
> 81 Westy Basic Camper 'Hilde'
>

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