Engraved bricks along the Erie, Pa., waterfront have turned out to be a bit too permanent for some jilted lovers who discovered their relationships weren’t exactly carved in stone.
The bricks, sold to raise money for community projects, are carved with the names and messages of purchasers.
A handful of people who bought them have sought to remove or alter the messages, usually because the relationship commemorated on the brick has turned sour.
The requests have been tactfully denied, though marketing director Becca Martin does have sympathy for those hoping to wipe the slate clean.
“It really doesn’t surprise me because it’s natural to want to erase pain,” she said. “It’s hard enough to know you made a mistake, but to know others are looking at that mistake, and that as you grow old and creaky it will be there forever, can be difficult to take.”
