Whilst out to dinner in Henley earlier this week, I popped into the restaurant’s loo before heading home for the evening. It was a small one with a standard toilet – no stand-up urinal as the bathroom was for one person at a time.
A sticker on the top of the toilet caught my eye:
It’s important to notice in this less-than-ideal photo (advising against the discarding of large items in the toilet) that the sticker is placed on top of the water tank, behind the seat – and to see/read it, one must be facing the toilet itself.
Again, apologies for the poor quality photo, but if you look closely, you can see that someone has drawn a silly face on the right side of the sticker. Why?! Has this ‘artist’ no better canvas than a warning sticker on the back of a toilet in a restaurant basement?! The ‘artist’ had to lean over the toilet bowl to draw the picture. Why, oh, why would someone ever feel inclined to do that?
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Perhaps they’d just had their head dunked by a generous friend and were thinking that heads should be added to the prohibited items for discard?? Weird…
@ Kim
That is actually a really great interpretation! It all makes sense now. I would however, have to consider that friend as a “friend” and not a real friend.
@ Liam
I also found this quote which might shed some light:
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau
Don’t try to hold the artist back!
@ Kim:
Can you say swirley?!? Ha-ha. Great take on the artwork. I wonder what their dinner conversation was if it ended up with one of the diners getting a head bath in the toilet!
@ Conall:
I really doubt whether those who consider public toilets as their canvas of choice would ever read HD Thoreu …
@ Liam
Perhaps not the “canvas of choice”, but the “canvas of necessity”? If you can pardon the pun.
@ Conall:
Addressing your point to Kim, are you suggesting that ‘friend’ in this particular instance is really more of an adversary?
Perhaps a frenemy in the words of a previous post.
I have etched some drawings in public bathrooms before. But this, this is really a work of art. I like the interpretation above. I would say that it is smooth like butter on a roll.