A patient listener for graffiti

My advice of the week, it's this: Don't ever try to paint a wall with a team of sociologists. Unless you have a spare weekend with nothing else to do and you're willing to spend these hours finding out how many opinions about a simple matter can possibly exist. t wasn't even the complete wall we wanted to paint but I guess in the end that's what turned out to be the main problem because it meant we had to mange to paint a straight line. By the way, the room concerned was the men's toilet in the institute of my university where some guys obviously had a deep desire for attention and the wall was a patient listener for their graffiti. And because students of Social Science are so amazingly social we decided to paint the wall so its original white colour would shine brightly again for all male toilet visitors. Or maybe we decided to do it because the housekeeper said we'd never be allowed another party if we didn't clean it up.. anyway, hours and biscuits later we had finally finished discussing the matter of how to draw a straight line and used the simple but -as i mentioned: very thought-through- method of holding a stick of wood to the wall and leading the paint brush underneath it. The cleaning of the aftermath was only a matter of 5 minutes, give or take a few hours.. Basically what we would have needed was one of those brilliantly useless paint brush cleaners which can be found on seen-on-tv-products.net..
Oh and by the way, surely it's not our fault that the "white" paint which strangely wouldn't get lighter after drying turned out to be dark grey after all?