Be the only one without a tattoo

I’m probably going to do exactly the opposite of this.

But it won’t be small and meaningless.

When I was a kid in rural Indiana, the only people that had tattoos were ex-convicts or ex-Navy. At some point when I was in college, everyone in the world decided to get one, to be unique. Now I think I’m the unique one, because I don’t have any. And the only other people I know who don’t have any are Mennonites and Amish.

And they’re often meaningless and poorly placed. I was particularly struck by a coworker not being able to tell me what her kanji tattoos said. Another recently got a teddy bear on her thigh, which seems unlikely to hold any deep significance.

Generally the only type I seem to like is the full sleeve variety in that it’s like a careful geometric design that fills a space completely. I very much dislike the tendency to have numerous small, disjointed icons all over, which seems to be so popular among everyone I meet…

So, I reckon I’ll abstain from acquiring a tattoo altogether to break the cliche.