laura_seabrook | Graffiti fun

Don't read the following if swear words upset you.

This morning I was walking Pegasus and Bobby and noticed some graffiti on shop walls but mostly one the road. At first it read (in white) "WSC" sometimes with a stylised "Kerf" underneath. I came across several of those. Then I read in black in a different hand on the pavement "We Suck Cock". 'Uh, Ok' I thought and walked on. The next white "WSC" had underneath it, also in white but a different style "We Smoke Cones".

I could just imagine the sort of "graffiti battle" that had gone on. The first person had written "WSC" and felt proud about it. The second person had written in black and of course if you saw that you'd think all the WSC mean such, so when the first person saw this, they hastily added the addenda to clarify!

Don't know why, but I found that really funny. I can imagine all sports of "graffiti wars" where the punters try and alter existing marks and try and correct the corrections. May the next step is the second person coming back and altering the explanation so that it reads "We Smoke Cones and suck cock". Yeah, I know the humour is very sexist, but in the main it's teenage males that do this sort of stuff. I came across some a few years back in the process of doing some, and told them to get their spelling right.

For about four years there was a wonderful colour graffito wall at the local shops full with stuff that'd been commissioned by the previous leasee of the chip shop. It didn't get touched for almost three years. The youth around here get really bored I think, else why would they have burnt down a rubbish bin and destroyed a telephone box last year (yeah, I live in a red neck zone)? I had a chat last year with the woman who was running a massage clinic in the tiny shop between the beauticians and the chip shop (it's now a portable accountants) and she wanted to reach those kids and develop their creativity, but her shop didn't last.