I know a lot of people don't think about their future when they make decisions during their young and stupid days. There are definitely a hand full of situations in the past that I can look back and say "What the hell was I thinking!!", but most of those only came back to haunt me the next day, week or month. Tattoos are one thing that I never ventured into because I knew once I got it, I would be stuck with it forever.
The problem is people forget that just because it may look "cute" at 22 it probably is not going to be so attractive when you're 60? Sure that barbed wire arm band might be bad ass right now, but unfortunately there are not many old dudes with pythons that can pull that off. I would love to know what the retired granny's are going to say to their grand kids when they catch a glimpse of the ol' lower back "Tramp Stamp" tattoo.
When we were kids it made sense when grandpa would explain how Navy guys were on ships for months at a time, and decided to get anchor tattoos to fit in with the other sailors. How would one explain to Little Johnny about why you got a Dale Earnhardt tattoo? Because you were a "hardcore fan"??? Give me a break.
Take this rather large back tattoo for example. What would prompt a women to get such a thing? If you don't know what 1 Corinthians 13 is it's a biblical passage said at thousands of weddings a year that talks about the meaning of love. Lovely passage, but I'm just not sure about getting it tattooed on your lower back. Think for a second about when someone would actually be able to read this.... I can't speak for all the men out there, but that REALLY doesn't seem like the best time to be reading bible passages if you ask me.
Since we've moved to the Daytona Beach, I have found a number of people here to be a quite a bit less sophisticated than what we ran into in Sarasota (Nothing says classy like a Strip Club called "Biggins"). I can't remember seeing a tattoo parlor let alone 2 dozen of them within a 3 mile radius like we have here. If I had to put a number on it I would say 70% of people between age of 18-35 have some sort of tattoo or exotic piercing. There is "ink" everywhere you look. Heck, we even have a minister in our child birthing class with a huge cross tattooed on his leg. You know you are in the tattoo capital of the world when even the clergy are sporting tats.
I don't dislike people for having them and I do live with the belief that people should be able to do to their bodies what they want. I do wonder though what our society is going to look like when all these young tattoo clad people become old. Even though the granny at the top of the page is rather extreme, I think a number of people are going to look pretty silly.
Here is a You Tube clip on tattoos from a daily Czabecast that Steve Czaban did a couple days ago. He nails it and if you aren't familiar with him, you are missing the best sports talk host in America today.
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