If you are ever in need of a quick date, I know of a great place to get a girl’s phone number. It’s in the bathroom stall of just about every public men’s restroom, along with a slew of other stupid, raunchy, bigoted, and otherwise pointless comments written on the walls.
The reasons behind why men feel the urge to write these messages are beyond me. I guess when I was young and childish I thought it was funny to write something anonymously on the wall of a bathroom, but then I grew up and realized that it was just a waste of ink, nobody cares about the things you write there, and if they do, well, they must also be rather immature.
So why am I talking about this in a college newspaper? We’re all well-behaved students, attending our classes to gain a higher education. No one here is that unintelligent to do such a thing.
Wrong. This plague of minor, thoughtless, graffiti is alive and well here in our restrooms.
The thing I always wonder about is, “does this happen in the women’s restrooms also?” Do they have names of boys with phone numbers and a little note that says, “for a good time call…”, or what about crude pictures of their own anatomy, hastily drawn so as to come out looking like, well I’m not going to go that far, but you get the idea.
Whether the women’s bathrooms are victim as well or not, this kind of behavior is just uncalled for. Did any of these kids ever get punished as a child for writing on the walls of their house? Or is that the exact childhood trauma that has pushed them to continue in a public bathroom so as to remain anonymous? Either way, grow up. You only are making the rest of us men look like brutish Neanderthals, painting on the walls of our caves. And come to think of it, I bet that comparison is an insult to our primal ancestors.
I’m sure that it is an insult to people who are actually graffiti artists. The term graffiti has been slapped on anyone who throws up some writing or picture on a wall, whether it is beautiful or chicken scratch.
I may not be a graffiti artist myself, but I know a few out there, and I would put money on them despising those imbeciles, who tag up bathrooms or other surfaces with backward thinking slogans, for the bad name they have put on their hard work and passion. These artists have worked hard to pull themselves out of the pit of delinquents and have finally been able to get some respect for the talent and imagination they have. And you dumb kids just keep screwing it up for them.
So, if not just for the immaturity, but also the disrespect to real artists, please, stop writing on our walls. Get a sketch book, and maybe you might go somewhere with your ideas, or at least just get those urges out somewhere that does not have to be seen by the rest of us.