Tattoos

'When I was a girl' you only saw tattoos on sailors and women who were not ladies.  I know that was a long time ago but that is how it was.  Nowadays, everyone one seems to support one tattoo or more.  Some tatts are beautiful.  I saw one that was a circle of tiny blue elephants each holding the other tail in their trunk.  The young lady had it around her belly button.  It was a modest tatt and easily covered up.  The other was a wrist band of beautiful butterflies.  This tatt was a work of art and I must admit I was jealous.  My idea of a perfect tatt would be a kitten curled half way around my belly button.  Of course it would be impossible now as the tattooist would have to use bulldog clips to get a flat enough surface to ink.  Plus the kitten would have to be a litter of kittens and even then it would be too little to go around my stretched old belly button.

I am still too old-fashioned to like the sight of huge tatts on the bride's arms, boobs or back.  However, I support a person's right to decorate their body in any way shape or form that they like.  I used to like to go to parties when one or more young sailors revealed their naughty tatts on areas not usually seen except by themselves or by their lady loves.  I am still mad that one of my friends always seemed to reach that drunken state after I left the party.  I have known him for about forty years and have yet to see the mysterious cartoon. 

I expect in the future that tattoos will go out of fashion and virgin skin will be the in thing.  Tatts will be old fashioned and the wearers classified as old inked farts.  The other thing is that as people age so does their skin.  It stretches and wrinkles and in time a perfectly nice tatt assumes a rather odd appearance.  The butterfly on the breast may fly halfway down to the waist.  The flower tatts may lose their petals and sag so it appears they need watering.

I have a hint for those in love.  Do NOT get your love's name tattooed on your body.  Tatts last forever and loves may not.  Also if the child of your loins wants a tattoo make them wear the same top twenty-four hours a day for a month and then ask them if they still want the tatt.  If they do, then they are committed and should be allowed to adorn their body with what-so-ever they want.

To tatt or not to tatt that is the question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!