MILLER: The band America needs, but doesn't deserve right now
23.05.12
Much to my mother’s dismay , I have a couple of tattoos on my body.
It’s not the ones that are hidden from the public’s eye that drive her up the wall. It’s the giant koi fish , lotus flower and the “ Om Mani Padme Hum ” Buddhist mantra that sits openly on my right arm for the entire world to see that had her growing gray hairs at a faster-than-normal rate.
And while she wasn’t too upset with me after about an hour or so, she handled it much better than my grandmother.
After not talking to me for a week, my grandmother’s first words to me involved something along the lines of a bar of soap and scrubbing my arm until the ink came off.
It’s a hollow victory, but it’s fair to say I won because my tattoo is still there.
Don’t worry; we’re on the best of terms now.
In our society today, the taboo of tattoos is slowly disappearing. Once seen as a rebellious move, getting ink done can now be seen as a rite of passage.
Source: Odessa American