"Tattoos..."

Just got in from Abilene so I’m a bit tired and in not a tremendously rambling kinda mood. But I need to get something off my chest….

After speaking with a certain someone (who will again remain anonymous) something occurred to me. Yeah, my mind is twister, deranged, and demented….so it doesn’t take much to get me to thinking weird thoughts.

I’ve noticed a very popular trend, as of late, of people who get tattoos that are written in Chinese or Japanese or some foreign language. They have these symbols you see, and the tattoo artist tells you that the symbol he’s giving you means something like, “Strength” or “love” or “honor” or something like that.

Now, have you ever taken Chinese? How do you know the symbol stands for strength? This certain unmentioned person sent me a pic of a Chinese symbol and said it meant something to that effect (sorry…can’t remember exactly what it meant).

Now, being the sick twisted person I am, if I were a tattoo artist, I would be putting said symbol on you and telling you it means “strength” when in all actuality, the symbol might mean something like, “I’m gay” or “I’m mentally challenged (to stay politically correct here…I’m sure you can see I’m worried about being politically correct)”.

You would never know! There are thousands of people walking the streets of these United States with a Chinese symbol permanently inked upon their bodies. Proudly displaying their symbol thinking it means strength.

I’m sure the guy at your dry cleaners (oops…that wasn’t politically correct at all was it?) gets a big kick out of your tattoo when you show up and HE actually knows Chinese. I see them chuckle to themselves all the time.

So, if you’re going to get a tattoo….especially if you’re going to get one in a different language, my advice to you would be to do some research first. Don’t take your tattoo artist’s word for it.

You never know, he could be a prankster like me!

Until then, I’ll just assume your Tattoo means, “I eat dog dung” or something like that. It very well could.