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I once went into the loft space of my house, and found that in 1949 the guy pointing the brick chimney stack had written his name on it. How many times in the
by leoedin 2y ago
I once went into the loft space of my house, and found that in 1949 the guy pointing the brick chimney stack had written his name on it.
How many times in the last 75 years has that name been seen? Probably only a handful. That guy is probably dead now, but his name will be on my chimney for decades to come.
Maybe these people had the same instinct? Crawl somewhere deep and rarely seen and leave a mark. They probably also left marks everywhere else, but they're gone now.
- prismatix 2y agoI kind of like the longevity of things like this. We have a centarian home and the basement has some kids' names and ages etched into the concrete from the earliest years of the house. When we were pouring new concrete during a repair, we added our kid's footprints and the date. No one will ever see them unless they tear down the structure, but it's interesting to think someone might find them in a hundred years and feel the same way we did about the basement names.