My previous car was a Suzuki Esteem. It was awesome on fuel efficiency and very comfortable. When some moron rear-ended me while I was sitting at a stop light it was totaled; not much metal in it.
By the standards of modern Western society anyone who was subjected to what you describe was horribly abused and has every right to complain - and possibly take legal action.
No thanks; toilet paper and widespread indoor plumbing have only been around for a little more than a century. And if you ended up in some time periods you'd be hanged or burned as a witch.