A comment about 'Comments'

Since my early adult years, going to any fancy restaurant or hotel or spa or any other service based institution, I was always the one presented with the pen and the infamous comment card to pen down my thoughts about my experience and provide some much wanted praise and much unappreciated critique. And I always gladly obliged. I have plenty to say and a lot of opinions and I love to write you see! But I am surprised as to how they figured this out every single time!

Anyways, after years of experience filling out comment cards in a multitude of different places and countries, I was plesantly surprised by the approach taken by a quaint and a small restaurant in Victoria, BC to gather comments from customers. As I stood from my dinner table and walked into the restroom of Ca Va Bistro Moderne, I was greeted by this:

A chalk board comment box on the wall of the restroom with a chalk hanging from it, teasing all those toilet poets and writers to start srcibbling all over the wall. The wall facing the WC served as a great distraction taking my mind away while I was engaged with the mundane task of relieving myself.

While sitting down in toilet seats in movie theaters, university, subway systems, I have often been bemused at all the writings and thoughts people shower in, in those 10-15 private mintues of their lives and pondered about what must have encouraged them to do so. And then here I found myself precariously sitting at the edge wondering if I should indulge or restrain.

After umming - ahhing for a mintue or so, I found myself walking to the chack board and writing a conservative two word comment.

Looks, like I can finally say that I have scribbled a note in the safe confines of a toilet!