Aug 7
POTTY WRITING
Have you ever wondered about the urge some people have to deface toilet doors? Most public toilets I have been in, be it offices, malls, schools or stadiums all have the strangest messages and writings on their doors. Why do people suddenly become creative and expressive in the loo?
Is it because they know they can do so without being caught? Or is it because they think such thoughts can only be expressed in a toilet?
Some might say it is because people get ‘creative’ when they are in the toilet but how come you only find this creativity expressed in public toilets? Are people not creative when they are in their homes or other people’s homes?
To be honest though, some of these toilet artists, poets and advertisers have cracked me up a few times.
Came across one hilarious line recently:
Some come here to sit and wonder; I came here to shit like thunder
Who writes such thoughts? Some thoughts, even when they cross one’s mind should never be ‘documented’.
Some job seekers think the toilet is the best place to submit their resume. They go like:
My name is Adamu Opeyemi Okoro, I am a graduate of XYZ University. I have been looking for a job for a loooooooooooooong time. Please help me. Call me on 08000000000.
This approach might have worked for someone in the past, although I doubt it, but I know companies and head hunters look in other places for prospects.
Some messages advertise the sexual prowess and endowments of their creators.
One guy [I am assuming it was a guy] actually wrote something like this:
If you want sweet loving and fancy a shag from someone who has the right tool and skill, please call this number 0800000000.
Can you imagine?
Some even go to the extent of doing a bit of social crusading; I have seen messages on the perils of HIV, some others warning people about the health hazards of smoking etc. So, not all of the messages are bad just that I wonder why they have to be on toilet doors! I mean, if you have something to say, start a blog, join facebook, tweet and share your thoughts on myspace or something. Why deface a public property? Why share a platform with people who do not value other people’s property?
Read two messages on a toilet door recently. The first, obviously by a ‘social crusader’ read:
DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE
The second, placed beside the first but much bigger, written by someone whose ‘eyes don doti’, read;
DRINK, THEN DRIVE
How does that help the message of our ‘social crusader’?
The message that really irked me and possibly inspired this post is one I saw right after reading a mail from my client in which he politely told me why he couldn’t approve a proposal my company had been pushing for a while.
It read; TOUGH TIMES NEVER LAST BUT TOUGH PEOPLE DO. Apt yes, but not what I wanted to read at that point in time.
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lol
u never know when u’ll get that “message in season” that u need! lol.
obviously the people that do it are the ones that are doing the #2 and are taking a lot of time with it! LWKM!
LWBM! which ones be ’shit like thunder???
LWKMD
Lol….
love the ” i came here to shit like thunder”
Nicely done.lol
LOL!!!! that’s one angry, funny post! lol!
and yay ur back, uv been missed!
Lol. Y’all should use the bathroom at Tetrazzini on Awolowo Road. Twas the first place I realized that some people didn’t leave the habit in Secondary School o.
One read: I’m a 2x yr-old handsome guy looking for a bla bla bla girl. Please call this number - 08000000000. It’s a dating service.
You remember Archimedes who got his inspiration while he was in the bath (toilet)? Today, we are still studying ‘Archimedes’ principle.
Who knows what may come from a visit to the loo?
How u dey?
very funny.
Another place to have a good laugh is at First Registrar’s bathroom @ Iganmu Lagos( i used only the 2nd floor). it took me quite a few minutes to come out cos i was curios to read thru. i also saw an online application there. very unny
OMG, the creative juice flows out as the stomach contracts. lmao.
“some come here to sit and wonder; I came here to shit like thunder” classic
i think u should try gtb alagomeji i guess getting these on camera an updating them on a site/blog would do. These pple are purely mad
so wait o…does that mean u actually wrote all of these down wen u were in the said loo??
LOL
Lord Is Bond.
The way people have the conviction to say ‘word is bond’ is the same conviction I use in saying LORD is Bond, as in LORD TOPH. These are a few essential reasons why LORD TOPH is the best candidae for the first black James Bond.
” First of all I happen to be black. I don’t wake up every morning focusing on being black.” LORD TOPH exclaims. “I am proud of being black and the man that I am i this skin, but that has nothing to do with James Bond.”
Secondly, James Bond is a navel man and a gentleman. Bond is a man working with and for the British intelligence. Being James Bond has not to do with ones skin color. Its the way a man carries and presents himself. It doesen’t have anything to do with the slang ’swager’ that one may have or bring to the character.
And last but certainly not least. Bond is Bond because of his ability to speak well, dress well, (which has absolutly nothing to do with ‘flossing’) and get the job done descretely, as well as efficiently. Bond is a well rounded, worldly man. He isn’t concerned about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to compete with the next agent. There is no competition.
I look at LORD TOPH up against the others mentioned to be in the running for the First Black James Bond, and i see only one that sticks out as a sore thumb would. Only one man that would represent a man of intelligence, a man of worldly knowledge, and a man that knocks all the ladies off of their heels. That man is, without a doubt, LORD TOPH.