But what does he really think about her?

There should be a law that doesn't allow anybody to alter or coverup a tattoo that they got of someone they're in love with. It should remain as is after things go sour so that people can get the hint that that's the last kind of tattoo anybody should ever get ever.

Plus do they ever last? Have you ever heard of anybody saying, "Yeah I got this in 1983 after we were going steady for a year"? It's like telling a woman that you love her. Once you do, the countdown to the end is on.

Wow, you feel pretty strongly about that. Do you have a woman's name tattooed on you?

No, but I realized by the time I finished typing I probably was coming across like that. I don't even have any tattoos at all.

It was just that I was thinking about this very subject yesterday. I had heard that that poor 14yo that they found in the trunk of that car that that rapper guy had murdered, she had his name tattooed on herself. He had her name also, if I heard correctly. Regardless, I was thinking about how getting those kind of tattoos never turns out good.

Then I was remembering an ex of mine from the '90s who started getting them after we broke up, and how she turned out like I warned her, but worse. She's covered in them, and it just never gets cute as they age. They didn't even look good to begin with. I don't know if she got his name tattooed on herself, but she had followed her bf a few years ago to Florida, even though the relationship was over, and that revival didn't last long. She followed him like she was 14, but she was well into middle aged.

Thing is, she was a Goth type, and was very pale, but in a smooth milky way, not like overly palid and sickly looking. So I implored her not to get any tattoos, because her skin was like one big giant tattoo, her skin was like art. Basically, originally she was olive skin, but between being Goth and being a bit on the plus side, she had stopped going to the beach or in the sun in general ages before. So her skin went pale but it wasn't blotchy or you couldn't see veins and stuff like that, it was just creamy smooth, one even tone throughout her body.

Meanwhile in Florida, she did manage to catch a tan, and it just makes the tattoos look even more like they're on leather parchment. I don't want to be cruel and mocking, but it's just not attractive at all. And it's not like she can cover them, unless she wants to wear a long sleeve turtleneck.

One last thing (yeah this was long), in grammar school we had read a short story about somebody who got a tattoo that said "Flo," and after that relationship ended, the guy got it redone to say "Florida." So I go that far back on the subject, hahaha

Lol,I like the "Florida" cover up! I live in Florida. Ironically, my wife has nice beautiful white skin too, and stays out of the sun most of the time. She only has one tattoo. I have seven. I have one cover-up. I have never had someones name, or even any words, tattooed on me. I've always thought it was stupid to get names or words. But pictures are cool. I probably won't get any more, because I'm older now, anyone are starting to fade. I think good, tasteful black line art, or colors look good on a person, if they're well placed. No neck or face tats. It either will accent your beauty or detract from it. But,hey, everyone is different. Thats just my take on it.

Yeah, I shouldn't be one to criticize, I'm not particularly the most normal looking individual there is.

Way back I had considered getting maybe one on the shoulder, like Celtic lines I had seen some postcards in a bookstore, something like that. But that was around the time that tattoo started becoming a fad, and then I realized that Celtic lines were a pretty big fad and those circles, so that was that...

I would have never gotten around to it anyways. You never know, you get falsely accused of something, and there's an APB out for you and saying look for the guy with the wolf skull on the shoulder, and that would end up curtailing a lot of social activities that might bare said shoulder. Not that I was that engaged in such social activities, but you never know.

Yeah, I grew up in the partying crowd, so I knew a lot of people that did tattooing. You were wise not to get any.

For her first tattoo, she wanted it on - get this - the back of her hand. Need I say that is the last place anyone should get a tattoo, let alone their first one? But she already had booked an appointment with someone on the Lower East Side when her and her friend were passing by a shop and that's it, she walks in and makes an appointment for the next week.

So I told her you just don't do it with some random find on the street. I asked a couple people I know that did have them (not that I knew that many, but I knew a couple), and two that had never met recommended the same guy out in Long Island.

So I try giving his number to my ex, but she refused and went with the aforementioned appointment. Well not only was that her first tattoo, it ended up being her first redo because it came out horrible. It was supposed to be a broken heart with the music note coming out of it, and it looked like a lumpy heart with a golf club whacking it.

Lol, thats too funny! I never wanted any tattoos on my arms down past my sleeves. And I never did, but... My buddy is doing tattoos with me one night and says, give me your wrist. And before I realized what he was doing, he gave me a small tester line on the bottom of my wrist. Luckily it was small, and you can only see it if I turn my hand over, but I was pretty mad. For a few seconds. Then I proceeded to tattoo a biohazzard symbol on his head. 🤣 He didnt always make the best choices. But neither did I back then...😆

When she started talking about this tattoo thing and we were still going out, I used to tease her about doing a certain act that is considered forbidden or at least scary by many. I would say, Come on, let's do it, then you can get a tattoo going across saying "Modda was here" (well, my real name).

I mean, what's wrong with a little compromise?

I've seen tats like that. Those poor girls. That's what cover ups are for!