[Crowbob]

Getting tatted is like riding a motorcycle. For most people these are matters of risk management.

It will be interesting to watch the epidemiology of hepatitis, skin and lymph cancers. I cringe when I see heavily tatted skin. This cannot be good.

At this point, most of us are reading what the person's skin says into what we surmise the person underneath it is. Hopefully people's tats tell their stories. I'm presuming they do.

As such, to me tats are a statement or several statements that I have to deal with even before I know anything else about the person. Like green hair. What are you telling me and why are you telling me this?

'Oh, can I have salsa instead of ketchup?' is more likely a question I'd have for a tatted person than 'So, how are you financing this surgical center?' Small-minded ornery old coot thinking getting in the way again.

So kill me now for I have sinned.