the NEXT day
this GUY walks in front of us
HE'S interesting
KINDA ambiguous
AND
SHIRTLESS
muscled
TATTOO
shirt
WHY
my mother asks
do people
GET
tattoos
I'm LIKE
I MEAN
THAT varies by person
it HURTS
it's EXPENSIVE
& it's difficult to REMOVE
I'm LIKE
well people have KIDS
THAT HURTS
it's EXPENSIVE
and KIDS are
ALSO
difficult to REMOVE
I'm LIKE
& the hurt is relative
people I've known with tattoos
a GOOD percentage
ENJOYED
the tattoo experience
& a statistically
RELEVANT
number
we're KINDA addicted to it
SOME
to the point where
it wasn't EVEN
THAT
important
WHAT
they just WANTED ANOTHER tattoo
BUT
it's an age thing
almost everyone below a certain age
has tattoos
she said
WELL, no, it maybe SEEMS that way to you
BUT
LOTS of people DON'T have tattoos
BUT
it USED to be
ONLY a
CERTAIN type
of person
got tattoos
when I was at starbucks they had rules
you couldn't have visible tattoos
no facial piercings
except two ear
BECAUSE it SCARED the YUPPIES
but even then that was spottily enforced
the number of people who
WANTED to be
a CERTAIN kind of person
INCREASED
& RELAXED into a BROADER group
AND THEN
there was a reality TV show, at least one
LA INK
SO
THEN
it was a TREND
it's pretty mainstreamed
WHY
were you SO aggressive
with the TECH yesterday
