Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CINCINNATI, June 8 (UPI) -- A new outhouse built by a Cincinnati non-profit group is simply too fancy for Elbert "Lew" Preston, the Ohio farmer says. The 79-year-old retired tobacco farmer said the outhouse built by People Working Cooperatively is a far cry from the simple wooden structure he once had sitting above a hole in the ground, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Sunday. Advertisement "It's too nice and complicated to be an outhouse," Preston said of the concrete and treated lumber outhouse. "I call it a privy." The senior citizen said his old outhouse not only survived decades of usage, but even being uprooted by a tornado in 1997. Yet a visit by board of health officials resulted in the outhouse being condemned and that's when People Working Cooperatively offered to build a new structure for Preston. While the farmer apparently misses his dilapidated outhouse, he's relieved he can still relieve himself outside. "When you're in a house, sounds carry," Preston told the Enquirer. "Everybody knows your business."
