[JudyinCanada]

Thanks.

I say if you've got tatoos on your arms and legs and can't get a job, you'll just have to wear pants and long-sleeved shirts all the time, whether you like it or not.

If you've been silly enough to put them on your face, you can try to earn a living by speaking at schools, telling everyone to NOT make the same stupid mistakes you did, because now you cannot get a job! (They should try Walmart, though, I have seen some scary-looking people working there!)

My daughter was wise. When she was about 16 and the tattoo rage started in the high schools, she was considering one of those thorny-looking things around the ankle. I was having a minor fit, of course, and suggested that she get the kind that stays on for a week or so. She did, hated it in about 2 days, scoured it off, and that was the end of that. Phew...

[Protagoras]

I told my children when they were that age that if they ever felt they wanted to kill me all they had to do was get a tatoo and I would commit suicide because my entire effort at raising them had been a failure.

They thought it was a tad over the top,,,,, but they never got one. :^}