{"sf1_id":425244,"sf2_id":"rn69DB6m","title":"A matter of hygeen","author":"Zelda Zebra","words":845,"posted_at":"2012-09-02T00:13:00.000Z","tags":["Horse","Jeanette","Patty","Skunk","Transformation","Zebra","zelda","zont"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/425244-a-matter-of-hygeen","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn69DB6m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/84/be/84be865e-0ce3-4677-9d21-453708d8576d","description":"This is a short involving Jeanette Zelda and Patty","content":"A Strange Little Room\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Patty, Zelda where is the toilet paper?\"\u0026nbsp; Jeanette thought it strange that as modern as this home looked she could not find the toilet paper, and she was a bit embarrassed that she had to ask.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Patty stuck her head in to ask \"Why do you need paper for the toilet?\u0026nbsp; Is it broken?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Not for the toilet I need to wipe,\" answered Jeanette.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Patty now confused asked, \"Wipe what? Did you miss the toilet?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Never mind.\"\u0026nbsp; Jeanette was now at a loss neither she nor Bill had failed to wipe since diapers.\u0026nbsp; That qualified it as a long standing habit she was not interested in braking now.\u0026nbsp; She had to find a substitute.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; When she thought about it Patty's confusion made some since horses never wiped.\u0026nbsp; Their whole thing kind of turned its self inside out when they pooped.\u0026nbsp; Zelda was not likely to be any different.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; For now she would use a wash rag and clean it out.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; After lunch Jeanette caught Zelda alone on the bench.\u0026nbsp; \"Zelda I don't know how to approach this but....\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Than just come out and say it.\"\u0026nbsp; Zelda did not turn her head but cocked one ear in Jeanette's direction.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"All right there is no paper in the bath room.\u0026nbsp; How am I supposed to wipe?\"\u0026nbsp; There she had said it.\u0026nbsp; Zelda should have some discretion and quietly tell Jeanette where to find some paper.\u0026nbsp; Certainly some came with this wagon/house.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Wipe what?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Jeanette's mouth fell open.\u0026nbsp; \"You must have found some roles of paper when you got this home.\u0026nbsp; What did you do with them?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Zelda gave Jeanette a blank stare for a moment, \"We found some flimsy scrolls in the bath room.\u0026nbsp; They were far too fragile to write on.\u0026nbsp; Patty soaked some of them in oil and used them to start fires until we learned how to make the stove get hot.\u0026nbsp; You never have to light it.\u0026nbsp; That makes it so easy in the morning.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Zelda the paper?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"Oh yes we gave the rest of it to a wizard that used it as a spell component.\u0026nbsp; Why do you ask?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"If you have no toilet paper how am I supposed to wipe after I use the toilet?\"\u0026nbsp; Jeanette could feel the heat rising in her ears.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Zelda could smell over ripe bananas in an outhouse and finally caught on to what Jeanette wanted. \"Oh I understand.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"_Finally_\" though Jeanette.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \"So don't you use your left hand for that?\"\u0026nbsp; Zelda was still a little puzzled, but she had not been a human for a very long time things could have changed.\u0026nbsp; One of the convenient things about this body was she never had to wipe, and had not thought about it in very long time.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Jeanette's mouth fell open again.\u0026nbsp; She didn't know what to say.\u0026nbsp; This would be hard to get used to.\u0026nbsp; She excused herself determined to check every part of the home.\u0026nbsp; There just had to be some toilet paper somewhere.\u0026nbsp; After a through search of the house she found some Kleenex boxes.\u0026nbsp; This would help but she had to find a locally available substitute.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Since neither Patty nor Zelda particularly liked to cook, meals tended to be at whatever inn was handy at the end of the day.\u0026nbsp; It was her fifth evening on Zont that Jeanette needed to use a bath room while the three of them were eating dinner at an inn. \u0026nbsp;When Jeanette returned to the table she pushed her plate aside saying \"I have lost my appetite.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\"What's the matter are you alright?\"\u0026nbsp; Patty asked between bites, as she noticed a faint unidentifiable but unpleasant odor.\n\n\"I am sure it is safe but...\" Started Jeanette.\n\n\"But what...\" Zelda rarely ate very much but she liked to chew on something and enjoyed things with a lot of taste or texture.\u0026nbsp; \"This is some of the best food we have had for weeks.\"\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"I don't want to spoil your meal.\"\n\nPatty stopped chewing with her mouth full, and with remarkable clarity asked.\u0026nbsp; \"What is the matter?\"\n\n\"They have no plumbing.\u0026nbsp; There I have said it.\u0026nbsp; Are you happy now?\" Jeanette's said with more of a hiss than whisper.\n\n\"Is that all?\u0026nbsp; Most of these smaller towns will not have plumbing.\u0026nbsp; So they use a bucket what does that have to do with dinner?\"\u0026nbsp; Zelda looked confused and Patty finished chewing and swallowed.\n\n\"After they wipe with their left hand how do they wash,\" Asked a clearly irritated Jeanette now smelling of burning tar.\n\n\"In the kitchen with water from a bucket,\" Patty answered the question rather matter-of-factually.\u0026nbsp; The holes in this skunks knowledge were a constant surprise, but she came from a different world.\u0026nbsp;\n\nZelda just shook her head and said \"Your world must have changed a lot since I left it.\"\n\n\"Yes it has.\" Said Jeanette, then sliding her plate back in front of her \"It hasn't killed me yet and I am hungry.\"\n\n  \n  \n\n"}