The initials “SMP,” written in chalk around a vandalized school bench, do not stand for “stupid moronic persons,” as you implied in your March 22 Sirens column. They stand for “smoke more pot.” This is common teenage code, much like “420.” I’m sure I speak for the entire community when I say that if only the vandals had taken their own advice and smoked more pot, then surely they would have sat down and enjoyed that bench instead of damaging it and defacing it so selfishly and soberly.
Eric Zicklin