What's Eating Gilbert Grout? or The last thing you read on a bathroom wall.

Our cleaning service does not come in every day and we aim to keep this place clean. Your aim will help, too. No. 1, Lift seat. No. 2, Lower seat.

Northeastern U: Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.

Mpls airport: Tap 3 times on the floor if you want me.

K… has a nice ass and huge tits.

and in different handwriting below that

Which she keeps in a box by her bed.

and in a local bar here

Believe in God but row away from the rocks.

The last good bathroom graffitti I can remember, I saw on the wall of a stall in the womens room at Louie’s Bookstore Cafe, a now-defunct artsy restaurant in Baltimore City:

“Jazz is jazz and blues is blues, but every 28 days, it’s Ragtime for me!”

I haven’t been in many bathrooms where people write on the walls for a while, but this is a hoary old fave:

*HERE I SIT
ALL BROKEN HEARTED
TRIED TO SHIT
BUT ONLY FARTED

Count you blessings it wasnt the other way round*

The best for me was

No matter how good looking she is, some other guy is tired of putting up with her shit.

My favorite has been on the wall of the P&H Cafe here in Memphis for as long as I’ve been going there (which is a long time).

Someone wrote:

Give your gifts freely to the
world, expecting nothing in
return. Someday the world
will surprise you.

To which some slightly more pragmatic soul has added:

And fuck your mom.

God invented marijuana to keep the white man in power.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy…

My favorite quote was in one of the residence halls at Widener University. On the wall:

Anyone can piss on the floor, but it takes a real man to shit on the ceiling.

on the ceiling:
*
“haha, made you look!”*