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?
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.