Thanks to Charis for sharing this delightful story with me…and giving the photo of the sign!
If the walls could talk…
For C.C.
Apparently, some walls can talk.
In the case of the home in small town
Ontario, during minor bathroom renos
which included peeling back sullied
wallpaper and old panelling
a hand-written message in thick
black marker on a white sticker
was discovered:
Water Shortage!
Please do not flush the toilet
until the contents have reached
5 on the 1-to-10
Grossness Index
One cannot help but contemplate
the genesis of a Grossness Index
upon reading the term, and follow
with creating a 1-to-10 scale based
on one’s own toilet experiences,
if one can stomach it. But(t) the walls,
oh, the walls know the index, and
all manners of grossness-goings-on
in the intimate space of the bathroom.
Though the timing of when this
critical command was posted
is unclear, what has the excavator’s
knickers in a tight knot is
hypothesizing this so-called
Grossness Index in a visual context:
what, exactly, fulfills a flush-worthy ‘5’?
Happy March Break!!
VANESSA SHIELDS 