Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 18, 2009
Transcript:
Holly: If GRAMMA got a tattoo, why can't I have one? Gramma Evie: Because I'm OLD and you're NOT. Holly: How is THAT a reason?? Gramma Evie: Life has its BENCHMARKS. At 18 you're emancipated...at 21 you can drink...at 30 you enter middle age...at 60 you get to do whatever you want! Holly: That's - Val: "At 30 you're MIDDLE-AGED"??
I don’t like the idea of the needles, infection risk, itching etc. either, or the idea that it’s with you FOREVER unless you go through a painful (and expensive) removal process. That being said, if I ever DID get a tattoo, it would be on the bottom of my foot and say “If found drop in nearest mailbox”