Scribbles On The Wall

The scribbles on public restroom walls....oh my

I used to travel about 65% with my job so I had to visit a lot of public restrooms.  It's so funny to go into a public restroom in today's world.  First, you must make sure the last person flushed the toilet, when in fact, many people don't flush the mess.  I guess they want to make a statement and show everyone they have wonderful feces and a brilliant color of pee pee.  But it's my guess they don't flush at home, so why do it in a public restroom....which makes them a nasty, evil, repulsive and loathsome villain.

After the flushing of America's most worthless villain crap, I look for the toilet seat covers.  Some restrooms have these but, a lot don't.  Especially those highly used gas station restrooms.  They probably don't have toilet covers because the high usage of covers would clog their pipes.  No covers means lots of toilet paper for wiping to make sure its dry and then for draping the toilet seat.  I could really care if my usage of lots of toilet paper is going to clog their pipes because I ain't going to sit on that seat without it....and my short legs aren't going to stand up long enough for me to squat and do my thingy.  I take out my "Sanitary Wipe" and run it around the toilet seat, then I drape it and at last I feel I can sit upon my throne for the long awaited emptying of my long accumulated body fluids or solids.

After noticing that the evil villain left an used female sanitary item half hanging out of the disposal box, I begin to look around the painted walls.  What a display of graffiti.....so much so, it looks like the New York subway walls.  There are single words, names, poems, phone numbers, and invitations to participate in some sex acts of which the details would make a local prostitute blush.  Some of these are written with what looks like permanent black magic marker while others have been scratched with some sharp object.  Why didn't anyone hear this person scratching away as it had to take them quite some time to scratch the description of their most hated enemy's desire to have sex with anyone, along with the person's phone number.  I fail to understand why a woman would leave another woman's phone number in a women's restroom....but whatever turns them on I guess.  It seems a woman's desperate plea for a male partner will be lost among the women.

I can see someone has attempted to cover some of the most rotten of the stuff with paint, but only painted one coat so it still shines through the paint. Oh lookie, there's one they forgot to paint over. It shows a detailed picture of a man's privates using an urinal....quite descriptive if you ask me. It seems to me, I'm going to be here a while, reading all of this "fine" graffiti.....this is pop culture!!!

The most widely used phrase is a phrase which can be recognized with two letters....F and U......but it's always spelled out in glorious detail.  There seems to always be a couple of widely used poems.  1. "Here I sit broken hearted,  I came to sh*t but only farted"; and 2.  "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie."   Another classic I've seen is "I had sex in this stall".  Yet another "This toilet paper is like John Wayne....tough as nails and don't take sh*t off nobody".  But the best I've seen was
"A Woman's Rule Of Thumb - if it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it".

There seems to be violence in some of the graffiti.  Some say that if you show up at a certain time the next day, the crap will be beaten from you or that you will be raped and sodomized.  Related to this are the statements which appear to be written by racial rednecks.  Hatred for certain ethnic groups appears to be a widely used subject.

I have to ask myself what type of person would want to write or draw graffiti on a public restroom wall.  It has to be a person who wants to be able to communicate publicly but has no other way to do this.  Or, maybe some got creative thoughts while doing their thing and had to write it down.  Graffiti is probably going to be with us a long time.  I just hope that the owners of public restrooms don't take drastic measures to curb those brilliant writers and artists that will harm the rest of us.  I'm just afraid that one of these days a public restroom will mean a toilet seat out in the middle of the public room, with no doors and even no walls.  If that would ever happen ,it would make it really hard for me to let go of my accumulated body fluids/solids.....I might have to find a wall somewhere in that facility and write my own graffiti protesting!

Old Stuff

The Greenview West Grocery Store was operated by West Food Stores which had a small chain of stores.  I copied this picture from some Petersburg pictures.

Gas Station Operated by Irving Zuhlke, 1930's,

6th and Sheridan, Petersburg

Bob Krell Thermometer

Recipe

A long time ago someone I worked with gave me a recipe for the salad dressing they used at The Mill in Springfield.  I remember going to The Mill and having a salad as a kid, but I was too young and can't remember the actual taste of the dressing.  I've made this dressing several times and like it, but don't know if it's similar or not. 

The Mill Salad Dressing

1/4 cup yellow mustard

1/4 cup oil

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup vinegar

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 teaspoon salt

2 cloves garlic

add paprika and black pepper if desired.

Put all ingredients in a jar and shake until mixed.

Note:  If this isn't the right recipe or if you have another which is better, could you send it to me....carlaslittlemoms@yahoo.com

Thought For The Day

All things are difficult

before they are easy.

--Thomas Fuller

Life is never very easy.  And, as my quoted thought author says, "all things are difficult before they are easy".  How true.

I say that we all should take a day or two and just think about how well off we are.  If we are alive, we are in great shape....because the alternative is sure not the way for the moment.  Sure, we may have afflictions that hinder us, but there are ways most of us can cope with medical problems or other life problems, be it financial or otherwise.

Never let it be said that life is so worthless, it's not worth living.  That's just an impossible statement .... you just need someone to show you the way to live life without despair.

No one ever said living life would be easy....no one ever made that promise to any one of us.  We have to accept what was handed to us and accept the things we cannot change.  If something happens to you and you get a second chance, grab it with both hands and hang on for dear life.  And grab the hand of your best friend, and take them with you on your life's second chance journey.  Remember that many people will walk in and out of your life during your lifetime, but only true friends leave footprints in your life.

Take that moment to reflect on the best things in your life.....enjoy life while you can....it won't last forever doncha know.

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