Graffiti usually has a negative connotation. Most graffiti is racial or sexual in nature and people accept it that way. The anonymity brings out the worst in people and usually the statements carved or drawn into building, cars, or bathroom stalls contain the most foul language and subject matter that many have seen.
So when I went to use the bathroom in a movie theater after seeing the International with Clive Owen, I was surprised to see this written in the stall:
For those of you who can’t read it, it says “Race to Witch Mountain was cool!”
And that’s it. There was no ethnic slur or a crudely drawn picture of genitalia that followed. I think this is how it went down-
12 year old Timmy just took a brand new sharpie from school and heard that graffiti was the cool new thing to do. He heads off to the local theater and sees “Race to Witch Mountain” because he is too nervous to graffiti just yet. Upon exiting, his head full of aliens, explosions, and The Rock, he heads off to the bathroom. Once safely inside the stall, he sits down and is suddenly struck with the knowledge that he has no idea what people normally graffiti onto walls. Digging around in his little kid mind, he pulls out a review of the most recent movie he has seen.
Case solved.
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