In the past few weeks of endless, laborious, detailed cleaning (house is now on the market!) I have discovered that the 8 year old is way into graffiti. He has always commented on it and admired it as we drive along the freeway in Detroit; apparently he has been practicing it at home. I found it on the underside of the top bunk (written for his brother to see): "I smell like poo." "I wear titey witeys." Some sort of unidentifiable words are written in silver Sharpie on the outside of the house. More silver Sharpie all over his skateboard: "Goofy" (his preferred method of riding the skateboard), "Caroline" (the much older girl he has a crush on), and "Wow" (his sarcastic response to just about everything.) Found some drawings on the ceiling of the car (not sure if those will ever come out), under the kitchen table, and on cereal boxes. I actually caught him with a can of spray paint in the garage the other day... he was going to paint a piece of cardboard leaning right next to the car. Hoping he ends up like Banksy and not in juvi.
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Yikes, that could end up being all sorts of trouble. Of course, in MD and DC there is a famous tagger...Disco Dan. You ride the subway and he is everywhere. He even has a web site now, so maybe it's time for some art classes to channel it on paper and off of your house.
That's funny, though, of course, it wasn't my car that almost got vandalized. He would totally fit in in many Chicago neighborhoods, though. I know of several garages he could practice on--as long as he can run very, very fast if necessary.
ha ha! This is classic. I love that you documented this; one day he is going to read this and be so happy that you wrote it down.
Is he really into art/drawing?
It's not very often that I read a blog post where I don't know whether my reaction is "HAHAHAHA" or "Oh. My. Gosh." This is so amusing and freak-town at the same time. Good luck, my friend!
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