We have a small vintage chalkboard hanging up in our downstairs bathroom.
I like to think of it as my own personal brainwashing device. That whatever I may write onto it will be soaked up by the spongey brains of my children as they sit and contemplate life on the commode. I have been known to write things like:
flush!
all employees must wash their hands before returning to work. -the management
beat the day
obama for your momma
be kind
listen to your mother
etc
However…what seems to be happening instead is that it has become a springboard for whoever happens to visit. A springboard into the funny sarcastic little wading pool that is my friends and family.
“All employees must wash their hands before returning to work (signed -the management)” becomes this:
The communist party? Hardly. Okay, well maybe. I guess we are pretty commie around here. I love how Doug and Drew were both with it enough to turn their was into WAZ. But Nate was a little short on the how to insert cool Zs into your words stick. Take note of the scratchy I heart U scribbled by Anna. This is an old board. Maybe a year old, or more. My friend Christine snapped this while at my house.
Our current brainwashing board looks like this:
It started out as a sign in board. But no one was signing in, so one morning after having watched a documentary about “herd mentality” I wrote this: “Don’t follow the crowd. Always do what you know is right.”
Apparently that would be blue agave tequila.
“Guys?” is a Southpark reference/inside joke.
I do not know whose birthday it was. Or why they chose to use numeral signs to make a heart instead of just drawing a freaking heart. Oh wait, maybe thats a clue. It was probably one of the 12 year old girls I drove to school the last week of school with Drew.
And, look up tenesmus at your own risk.
by Tara Whitney
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