I was in the gym the other day trying desperately to keep my heart from attacking me when I took note of a Tattooed Lady sweating next to me.
Tattooed Ladies used to appear in carnival side shows but that is a thing of the past. They are not uncommon enough to be special enough to have anyone pay money to the Barnums of today to see them. Sad to say, they are everywhere.
I have developed a real curiosity as this phenomenon has grown in recent years. This time I got the courage up to ask, Why?
I approached the tattooed one. She was about 25 years old and quite attractive. Here is what she was displaying on her body for all to see…
- She had her left arm entirely covered with those wild designs that have become so common. It appeared to me that there was no space for more tattooing from her shoulder down to her wrist.
- On the top of her right shoulder was a big bird of some kind with lots of feathers.
- Her right foot and ankle had also been decorated but I could not make out what that piece of “artwork” was. There was just a lot of it down there.
I told her I was curious and was dying to ask her a question about her tattoos. She immediately stiffened up and I thought I was going to have to duck any moment when I blurted out that I had been sent on a fact finding mission by Angelina Jolie. That did it. She smiled and said, “I’ll be glad to discuss my artwork with any friend of Angie”.
I got right to my question. I asked her what were the reasons she had gotten her many tattoos. In rapid succession she gave me three…
- She thought it was Cool (I knew that she meant “Kool”).
- She had accumulated a lot of money by working very hard for many years and she had decided that she wanted to do something meaningful with every last penny. She said, “What else was there but tattooing?” I nodded my head as if I fully saw the wisdom of this investment.
- Lastly she told me that her absolutely favorite celebrity (whose name she said escaped her at the moment) had a lot of tattoos and she was trying her best to emulate her.
Speaking for myself I think any one of these reasons sounds perfectly logical and, in many ways, downright admirable. What do you think?
Would I kid u?
PS: Okay I admit I made up all of this Foolishness…Or Is It? except the size, quantity and description of her tattoos … Or did I?
