Your brilliant and loving personality kinda helps you Patticakes.
Love you, too, Evan!
Love you, too, Evan!
I have a hodgepodge collection of meaningless tattoos, mostly bad, mostly from my biker days. I do have a tat of a chick with a smoke hangin' off her lip - that was done in lieu of a birthday candle to celebrate my one year sober some thirty years ago.
I tattooed a great many folks for years, traded lots of ink for cash and guns, and always told my kids "a fool and his money...etc, etc.
My oldest never got a tat, he was nearly 25 when he died. My youngest has a sleeve of really good art from Germany. My wife has a sleeve of really good art from LA and Vegas.
Son and wife's tats are Japanese-themed, though they didn't consult each other about them at all. Oldest boy was big fan of all things Japanese and dreamed of going there.
I tattooed a great many folks for years, traded lots of ink for cash and guns, and always told my kids "a fool and his money...etc, etc.
My oldest never got a tat, he was nearly 25 when he died. My youngest has a sleeve of really good art from Germany. My wife has a sleeve of really good art from LA and Vegas.
Son and wife's tats are Japanese-themed, though they didn't consult each other about them at all. Oldest boy was big fan of all things Japanese and dreamed of going there.
I have a small Land Rover emblem on my left arm. I'm a gearhead and have owned and worked on Land Rovers for 25 years. I'm thinking about a Fiat tattoo that I designed. My wife and I have Fiat 500s that we've owned for 10 years and really enjoy driving them. I've kicked around the idea of a Pink Floyd sleeve made up of the album covers but, doubt I'll do it.
I believe it says more about you than it does them.
You've got your opinion, I've got mine.
Dude - I look like I've been in prison. I understand if I'm not the first choice for customer service or PR for the company. That's a result of my poor choices, I get it.
Are we supposed to accept and embrace every weird decision an individual makes?
For some reason i don't get emails from this site so I have to actively check back with a thread to reply. So...
Found the guy with the inflated self worth...... That was too easy.
Just food for thought. I frankly don't care if you get a tattoo or not. But if you do, you dang well better realize that people will prejudge you. If you're male, they'll think you're depressed or unstable and putting up a front, if you're female they will know that you're a practice girl, i.e. "Wanna quick splat? Find that tat." New recruits figure this out quickly.
I don't really have anything else to add to the subject, but my experiences with hundreds of people have shown this to be true. If something changes, I'll adjust my thinking and promotion process. Until then, you made your bed. Now sleep in it.
In my current line of work I'm around all types. From 18 year olds to people in their 50s. Generally the 50s are regretful of the opportunities they've missed from their youthful exuberance culminating in visible ink.
Found the guy with the inflated self worth...... That was too easy.
Of course you do, Jake. And both are based on what you see in your day to day life. I deal with literally hundreds of people daily. How big is your pool?
Just food for thought. I frankly don't care if you get a tattoo or not. But if you do, you dang well better realize that people will prejudge you. If you're male, they'll think you're depressed or unstable and putting up a front, if you're female they will know that you're a practice girl, i.e. "Wanna quick splat? Find that tat." New recruits figure this out quickly.
I don't really have anything else to add to the subject, but my experiences with hundreds of people have shown this to be true. If something changes, I'll adjust my thinking and promotion process. Until then, you made your bed. Now sleep in it.
A few years ago my grand daughter asked me what my tat was I had on my right shoulder and because she was only eleven years old at the time I wasn't sure if she would understand so I told her it was when I was in an Air Force Special Operations unit and that our job was to fly around in airplanes and find the enemy and call in strikes on them, she asked if we killed people and I replied yes, we did but I also explained that if we didn't kill these people they would want to kill us and our freedoms and our way of life, so after a few seconds to process this she got a smile on her face and the only thing she said was "cool" the next day I heard her telling her older brother about it........... I think she got my meaning and understood, she never asked me again about it.I can remember as a young boy, asking my father why he had a tattoo. His simple reply was, "because I was in the navy." I asked him what that had to do with it. He said, "because if you didn't get one, they'd throw you overboard and make you swim home."
I know he was just kidding (sorta) but he did go on to tell me that every tattoo has a story. I asked him his story. His tat was a dove with an olive branch in it's mouth, which was a symbol of peace. It was 1957 when he was in the navy, Korea was still fresh on everybody's mind, and Vietnam was just over the horizon.
It's funny...dad got his at Painless Ned's tattoo parlor in San Diego, just before they shipped off to the Philippines. Years later, when I put on a gun and badge, I stopped a man about speeding, running a stop sign, whatever, and I noticed he had the exacr same tat as my father.
After I asked him for his license and insurance, and explained to him why I pulled him over, I kinda gestured to his ink and said, "Painless Ned's, San Diego?" His jaw dropped, and he said, "how in the hell did you know that?"
I told him about my father having the same one. The man said that a bunch of them were lined up to get their ink before shipping out. We talked for a good long while. He and dad were probably there at the same time and more than likely, on the same vessel together, but he didn't recognize dad's name when I told him.
I grew up thinking that the only people that had tattoos were pirates, servicemen and convicts. Nowadays, it's harder to find somebody without ink than someone with. From professional athletes to post menopausal women, seems like they're everywhere.
Personally, I was never passionate about anything to have it permanently affixed to my body. I did think about getting my name (Evan) across my knuckles like Ozzy, but nah. I always tell people my mother named me that because all the other 4 letter words were taken.
If they have personal meaning, I can appreciate it better than just some skulls and dragons and crap like most folks get.
I met a girl once who had a heart with a pink ribbon around it. It was for her grandpa who died of a heart attack and her grandma who died of breast cancer.. That's cool.
I also met this dipshit who had the University of Oklahoma's OU logo on his arm. I asked if he was an OU alumni. He said no, never even set foot upon the campus. He just thought they had a good football team.
So what's your tats story?
My tattoo’s were done in 1975 Hong Kong, USN. One on my butt cherk, a round USDA government inspected meat. Grade A. I have 6 more. One is on arm, harley. One on hand between thumb and forefinger. Crossed anchors.
Regrets? Just the first wife’s name. Not visible. Otherwise I have had no reason for regret.
12 years military, retired USPS. 100% service disabled. No problems with tats in those jobs. No missed opportunities. Never made any decisions based on them. Because of menial jobs to some, maybe, but no regrets there either. Retired and happy.
Regrets? Just the first wife’s name. Not visible. Otherwise I have had no reason for regret.
12 years military, retired USPS. 100% service disabled. No problems with tats in those jobs. No missed opportunities. Never made any decisions based on them. Because of menial jobs to some, maybe, but no regrets there either. Retired and happy.
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When I got my first tattoos on my arms, I wore a collared button down so the artist knew where to stop when my arms were outstretched. Some of mine have meaning, some of them I just really like.
If nothing else, having visible tattoos help filter out the people that worry about what other people think of their appearance. Life is too short to be around that mentality. I have found when I had a mohawk working retail and hospitality that it was far more often a conversation starter than an untoward look and avoidance. I think the way we carry ourselves has far more impact on how we are perceived than a few tattoos. Heck I hauled cattle from almost every large livestock auction in the state wearing Chucks, with a 12" high mohawk and visible tattoos and got along with everyone I came across.
Obviously, I prefer to be around people that buck the status quo because theyre more interesting. We all have worthwhile careers in a variety of industries. Most of us have kids and if we do, they are well behaved and polite. I also truly believe people should be able to run their own businesses and lives however they see fit. No one owes me anything other than to not go out of their way to be an unprovoked ******* toward me or my family. If they are provoked, then that is my bad and I will handle accordingly, haha.
If nothing else, having visible tattoos help filter out the people that worry about what other people think of their appearance. Life is too short to be around that mentality. I have found when I had a mohawk working retail and hospitality that it was far more often a conversation starter than an untoward look and avoidance. I think the way we carry ourselves has far more impact on how we are perceived than a few tattoos. Heck I hauled cattle from almost every large livestock auction in the state wearing Chucks, with a 12" high mohawk and visible tattoos and got along with everyone I came across.
Obviously, I prefer to be around people that buck the status quo because theyre more interesting. We all have worthwhile careers in a variety of industries. Most of us have kids and if we do, they are well behaved and polite. I also truly believe people should be able to run their own businesses and lives however they see fit. No one owes me anything other than to not go out of their way to be an unprovoked ******* toward me or my family. If they are provoked, then that is my bad and I will handle accordingly, haha.
