[Eric in the Ozarks]

I was an Army Brat in 1950s Japan. It was a time when most Japanese homes had a storage tank for human wastes and every six months or so, there would be a honey bucket campaign. We lived off base and the first indication that the three wheeled vacuum truck was coming was the arrival of 50 or 60 "empty" buckets, stacked up in a vacant lot.
Let's say these were well used buckets; the whole family knew they'd arrived within a few hours.
After they were all filled, a team of men would stack them on a flatbed semi for the trip to the countryside. Yokohama traffic always gave these trucks wide berth.

[Veto!]

Great story!