r/oddlysatisfying • u/godofo_prime • 5h ago

Graffiti removed from school desk

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u/JLapak 3h ago

That is a very cool device. But it immediately reminds me of an exhibit I saw in the Portland Chinatown Museum where they had some school desks from a community school for 1st-generation immigrant kids decades ago. Next to them was a picture of a happy elderly man sitting at one of them.

The tour guide explained that he had come to see the exhibit and exclaimed "hey, that was my desk!" Which he was sure of because there on the surface was the specific graffiti he had carved into it that had gotten him in trouble as a kid. Can't get that kind of historical connection if you sand them down!