Comments on: Making an imprint

By: frankie

frankie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:17:31 +0000

Over the years, every time I’ve changed jobs, I write my name or initials with a sharpie somewhere in my desk. Last time we moved, I also wrote our name and the dates we lived in the house on the underside of a drawer. Perhaps someday, someone will wonder about us and ponder.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:54:13 +0000

Well, in 1982 or so, my girlfriend and I spent a lot of time on a ledge outside the Reed College physics building (Portland, OR). One evening, we left a note on one of the aluminum struts that made up the building wall. We don’t know if it’s still there, but we’re still married (coming up to 23 years).

By: GTT

GTT — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:00:31 +0000

My boy-friend spray painted a love message on a wall very near my house. It was HUGE. It also had my name on it. Thankfully, the owners of the house didnt know who I was or IÂ´m sure they would have asked us to pay for the re-paint. As it is, that message was there for over a year!

By: Cassie

Cassie — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:13:29 +0000

I’ve carved my name into the Great Wall of China, along with hundreds of thousands of other people, I’m sure.

By: ErinM

ErinM — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:44:23 +0000

My name (often with my husband’s) is all over the place. There’s a rest stop somewhere between San Diego and Tahoe that has my initial’s in a women’s stall. There’s a tree on the hike down to Crater Lake that has my husband’s initials and mine in a cute little heart. My (madien name) initials are somewhere in my junior high’s gym. But since everyone did that, it would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
I’m sure there are others, but those are the few that stick out in my mind.

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:41:05 +0000

My name is in the pavement outside the house I lived in when I was 8. We had a new driveway poured, and we got to write our names.

I carved my initials and my boyfriend’s into the “smoker’s bench” outside our dormitory in college. I needed a tetnus shot when the swiss army knife I was using closed on my middle finger. still have a scar.

In the same dorm, I climbed up on top of the closet and wrote a note to future residents in magic marker. It’s in a very obscure location. I think I got up there by climbing onto a chair placed on top of the desk, then leaning over and writing on the back corner of the top of the wardrobe.

By: Average Jane

Average Jane — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:55:43 +0000

When we had a new sidewalk poured at our house, I scratched my first initial + my husband’s first initial near our front door before the concrete dried.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:04:43 +0000

I’ve also never been a carver or graffiti artist, however, in high school I had a boyfriend who was. Once, in a fit of (I guess) romanticism, he brought me out to a park filled with prime rocks for spraypainting and proceeded to paint our initials, or some variant of our names, over several of them.

A few years later, the initials remained on at least one rock, though I’m fairly sure it’s gone now, since that was over a decade ago.

By: Meagan

Meagan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:23:46 +0000

When I was ten, my 13 year old cousin and I wrote our names in the doorway of our room in a holiday cabin in New Mexico. I felt so cool . . .

By: bryn

bryn — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:15:22 +0000

I carved my initials into a tree in the mountains of southern Utah. At summer camp, I once wrote my name across the celing with glow-in-the-dark paint. Various gas station restrooms have my initials scribbled across them. The only large one was the camp ceiling, the rest were quite small.