Tattoos

9-20-09

Tonight we went back to the sports bar where the waitresses have the large upper body and the tiny t-shirts. We went there because they have good and cheap food and it's usually pretty entertaining. Tonight the entertainment was the waitress. She actually didn't have on a tiny T-shirt but she was a well endowed blond young woman. We have actually seen this waitress here before. She is the one who got an extremely confused look on her face when we told her we wanted the buffalo chicken grilled not fried. I think she is a few sandwiches short of a good picnic. Tonight I noticed that she also was sporting several tattoos. There was a word on the inside of her wrist written in a foreign language. When I asked her what her tattoos said I don't think I was prepared for the answer. She said that one wrist said "pain" and the other said "pleasure". They were written in Gaelic because her family was from Ireland. I was speechless after that and did not inquire about the fish tail flipping up from under her collar in the neck area for fear that it meant something about whips and chains.

What kind of tattoo do you have? Or do you have one at all? Tattoos say a lot about a person. What was that waitress trying to tell us about herself other than her supposed heritage? Was it a comment on life? or her particular life path? what she wishes your life is like? I really don't want to know the answer. A family member of mine has a tattoo of the bio hazard symbol. I have never asked him but I wonder why he got that particular moniker. If you are going to permanently label yourself with ink it needs to be well thought out and with purpose. I knew a girl in college who got a giant sunshine in her pelvic area. That looked cool when she was twenty but how about after she pops out a couple of kids and that sun looks like it could eat the earth? You have to put some thought into it.

I had a conversation recently with a girl who wanted to get a tattoo to cover up a scar on her leg. I don't know why you would cover up a scar. There are so many stories you could tell about the scar. That's where the bullet when in when I saved a little girl from a hostile stand off...that's where the shark attacked me when I was hanging ten on the waves in Hawaii...that's where I was impaled by a piece of shrapnel from an explosion when I was rescuing a kitten from a burning building...I could go on. Why waste a story like that for a picture of a piece sign or a two toned daisy? I'd rather have the story.

I don't think I ever will get a tattoo. For one thing I think it would hurt too bad. There was once an episode of "Friends" where Phoebe and Rachel get tattoos. Phoebe only gets one little dot because she thinks it is so painful. So she tells everyone that it is the way her dead mother sees her from heaven. I would have a dot. A dot could mean a lot of things. Plus the bonus would be that no one would ever really know if it was a tattoo or a stray pen mark. The joke would be on everyone else. Another reason I wouldn't get a tattoo is that I think we are ever changing people. Something that I think is timeless now would inevitably be so lame in like three years.

What would your tattoo be? Food for thought.

Have a blessed evening and thanks for reading my 26th blog!