take a load off

i shocked the talk radio world about a decade ago…

…it was right when texas had made it illegal for minors (under eighteen) to get tattoos. the host disagreed, saying it was “taking their rights away” – i surprised him by agreeing with the new law, saying teenagers tend to make stupid mistakes and it would be better to wait till they were older to make decisions about PERMANENTLY altering their appearance.

we had to agree to disagree – although he (off the air) agreed i had a valid point.

case in point was yesterday – pretty little girl with a pretty little tattoo of a dove, coupled with some led zeppelin lyrics, which would have been fine if she’d only done the first three lines she had…

when love is pain
it can devour you,
if you are never alone

it was in a nice, pretty, feminine script, and even had the word “love” done in contrasting red AND in her mom’s own handwriting. where she erred was adding the last line of the couplet…

i would share your load

given the fact it was located just above her ass, this became quite the running joke in her peer group…and understandably so. i have friends i can’t even talk about doing laundry with ’cause whenever you say the word “load” they snicker and echo back “hehehe…you said ‘load’, dude…” and these are people in their thirties – she missing a decade off that number, so you have to figure a few of her friends are still teenagers; it can only go downhill from there. now it’s covered up by a much larger floral tattoo, looks pretty, and is, as i referred to it, “forever unloaded”.

and there we are. so remember kids, THINK before you INK!