Tattoo Tale Part 2

I felt inspired by RGB's tattoo rant and wanted to add a #3 to her tattoo stories. Ok, well it's my tattoo story so... whatever. You get the idea.

I am also not completely anti-tattoo. I can live with them, though I do not intend to ever get one myself. If I want to immortalize something that means something to me, I won't use needles and ink to do so. Some girls may find a large tattoo covering a back or arm to be damn sexy... but those girls typically ride on the backs of motorcycles or wear all black with piercings sticking out of every orifice. (Moment to say eww to that, as well. Gross.) I have yet to meet a girl who finds a guy whose entire body is covered in tattoos a turn on unless they themselves are painted from head to toe.

Here is my tale of tattoo woe. I dated a guy who was altogether a great man and date. Lot of fun, easy to talk to, easy on the eyes...to this day I still think he's stellar. But his tattoo threw me for a loop.

Guys: if you get a tattoo that only remotely looks like you wanted it to, chances are that we women will have no idea what it was supposed to be. Of COURSE I wondered what in the world you had on your arm. Then when I guessed it was a mongoose, of COURSE I was extremely confused as to why in the world you would put a mongoose on your arm. I deduced that it was an educated guess because you had a snake on the other shoulder. Being that you're one of those guys who has multiple tattoos with no corresponding theme, I logically assumed you wanted one to be chasing the other. (Lame thought - perhaps. But not as lame as putting a tattoo that looks like a mongoose on your arm.)

The poor guy looked horrifed when asked me what I thought it was. My response was far from what he wanted to hear. What I had taken for a mongoose was apparently a panther.

Do not get offended if your panther looks nothing like a panther, but rather a mongoose. I didn't take the ink to your arm, the crazy man (or lady) with the tattoos covering him (or her) from head to toe did.