::A Geek in Korea::

This is what greets you on the door in the restroom at work. The English says, "Your ass is dirty," under which is the Korean onomatopoeia for the sound of vomiting. (something like "Yu-ueak"). On the top right hand corner, there is a curse that means, "Eat shit!"

Why did I share such crude writing? Well, the English is actually a complete sentence, which impressed me in a weird way. It was completely unexpected. It’s the longest correct sentence that I’ve ever read in any bathroom ever. Anyone writing something so crude on the wall of a school isn’t likely to be able to make a complete coherent thought and express it in a grammatically correct manner in English easily. Who could have written this? A dumb student with a penchant for cursing, or a smart student venting his frustration?

I was trying to think of the few students I thought capable of writing such a sentence on their own. The smartest students are actually some of the most polite in this school. I don’t think they would write something as crude as this. If I confronted them, they’d probably deny it, then get curious about it and learn more bad words in the process. That’s unacceptable.

One boy I used to teach last year was my immediate suspect. The boy that I did think did it uses the vomit word written on the door constantly. He also curses a lot in Korean, and would probably be able to figure out what to say in English as well. When his current teacher and I asked him about it, He claimed he didn’t know what we were talking about. It’s not like we have a crime lab to figure this out with, so if he is lying, we’ll just have to catch him in the act some other time, which would be bad, because it’s written on the INSIDE of the door and I’m not watching people do their business in the name of catching some underage graffiti artist.

Another possibility would be that it was copied from some other source by any other level of student. I don’t know who would be do this either. Too  many potential suspects. Eventually someone will get around to cleaning this up, but for now I’ve got the displeasure of looking at this every time I use the facilities.