Like the pic? It comes from this compilation of misspelled tattoos.
I don't have any body art, but I went through a phase during one college summer when I desperately wanted one. I went through a vast array of Northern California tattoo shops looking for not only the lowest price, but also the lowest fear quotient.
Amid my travels, I entered one San Francisco tattoo shop with a wall covered in popular Asian symbol tattoos. You know, things that mean "love," "beauty," "energy." Except this place had a disclaimer next to the symbols, noting: "Not responsible for symbol translations."
Hahaha.
Something else that makes me skeptical of the whole tattoo thing is the summer I spent working at the snack shack at a California lake. All day I'd see swimmers with massive body regions covered in things like Looney Tunes tattoos. Things that must have seemed like good ideas before the natural progression of time made them interrupted by body hair. And cellulite.
However, I'm still fully prepared to get a tramp stamp if the newspaper industry folds and I have to resort to stripping.
Read my co-worker Sandra's account of getting a tattoo in Japan here.
