5.19.2008

bathroom graffiti

We have all seen it - simple and often obscene sayings written (and sometimes scratched) into the walls of public restrooms. Graffiti can be art, but not in a bathroom; these etches in rest stops across America represents the sad humor of the lowest specimen the human gene pool has to offer. Trust me, it doesn't take a genius to think up phrases like: "for a good time call#..." Sayings like that are even better when the vandal misspells "good."

Although, bathroom graffiti can sometimes be entertaining. I frequently see one piece that has gone through multiple incarnations.
What started as
"DAYVID SH**S HERE"
transformed into
"DAYVID EATS SH**S HERE"
and finally became
"DAYVID'S MOM EATS SH**S HERE"
I know, it's not the greatest showing of human intellect, and I'm pretty sure that the name was supposed to be "David" not "Dayvid." But at least I know one thing: no matter how miserable I feel, at least I'm not Dayvid.

However, there is one piece of bathroom graffiti that perplexes me. In the a stall in the main-floor men's room at my office, there is the following bold statement, written in what looks like a Sharpie:
"I thought Toy Story 2 was okay."

WHAT?!? A Toy Story reference? In the men's room? Either pure delusional rambling or merciless emasculation. Has to be. What could possibly motivate a man to compliment Toy Story 2 in the place that other men go to heed nature's call?

2 comments:

  1. Oh, hysterical. So much better than the stuff in the student restrooms at my school...thinks like "I hate school." Although, I too, am bemused by the various misspellings. What's better are those in Arabic script, which I can't read. They make me curious...

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  2. Anonymous6:03 PM

    the toy story line is from a dimitri martin stand up comedy spcial. "Demitri Martin. Person." look it up

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