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Message: <blockquote data-quote="beardking" data-source="post: 3739583" data-attributes="member: 31421">And I can say that goes the other way just as well. Just because you are a business owner doesn't mean you have automatically earned the respect that a lot of them seem to think they deserve. Show me that you can look past someone's outward features/appearance and focus on their skills and you'll be a lot more likely to earn my respect. And honestly, if you (the general "you", not you in particular [USER=8854]@RickN[/USER] ) are the kind of person that will only look at a person's surface and decide against hiring them, then I'm glad because I sure as h8ll don't want to work for someone like that. It's just kind of a quick filter in reality. As for the original question of what's the story of my tattoos, that varies.I have a a pair of lions on the side of my left calf because I'm a Leo and at 21 I wasn't overly imaginative. I have a tribal sun on the back of my right calf because I drew it up one time and really liked it and kept it with me for about 10 years and finally decided to get it tattooed on me. My best friend and I  designed up a couple of very similar tattoos that we got after we had best friends for 20+ years. Mine is a battle axe with Norse runes around it, and his is a sword with the same runes. I have a half angel / half devil stick figure  on my right shin because I'm only half evil <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😊" title="😊" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png" />.  (eventually plan on getting 333 tattooed before it) I have a barbarian dwarf standing on top of a pile of dead bodies on my left shin/inner calf because I used to play D&D a lot as a kid and that was always my character and I thought it was a bad a8s design. I have a small, yellow skull on my left bicep that is an almost exact copy of a temporary tattoo that my then girlfriend gave me on one of our first dates that I've carried around with me ever since (we've been married 20 years as of last September, and together for 27).I have a family crest on my right forearm with a clover, a feather, a purple tulip and a boxer on either side of it. Growing up, my grandpa (who passed away over 20+years ago) would always say that our family was Irish, Indian, Dutch and dog. The clover and feather are for the Irish and Indian. The purple tulip is for my mother who passed away on my birthday this past year because one of her favorite flowers (and mine) were tulips and her favorite color was purple. The boxers are because they are my favorite breed of dogs. Obviously this one is a memorial tattoo for my grandpa and mother. The somewhat ironic thing is that it was originally going to be just one for my grandpa, but I verified that I was remembering what he would always say with my mom the weekend before she passed because I was planning on getting it the next weekend. And the last tattoo that I have (for now) is a red heart on my left ring finger. For our 20th anniversary my wife and I got matching tattoos because we figured that if we had made it through 20+ years together with all of the sh8t we had put each other through, it's a pretty safe bet that we are in it for the long haul. Sorry for the wall of text, but the OP did ask what the story was. Some of them are significant. Some are less so. All of them mean just as much to me and if someone wants to think negatively of me because I have them, then that's perfectly fine with me because they aren't the kind of person I want to associate with anyway.</blockquote>

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