On 21/12/2010 3:38 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:

>
> That's the reason my Dad taught me to oppose tattoos. They are used for
> prisoner identication. I didn't even think about that until high
> school. What if I never end up a criminal? At the time I must have
> thought he meant that having a tattoo identified a person as a criminal.
> That concept didn't wrok well with the WWII veterans in the neighborhood.
>
> Some folks don't like tattoos. It's a common feeling in many groups.
> Thus to get a tattoo is to knowingly have problems with that set of
> people. Other folks don't care about tattoos. It too is a common
> feeling in many groups. Thus to get a tattoo is to knowingly put a
> limit on yourself. Maybe that's why I've never bothered to get one so
> far.

I was never one for succumbing to peer pressure. I was treated with
suspicion by the fad following lemmings who had to have the longest
hair, the widest bell bottoms, the idiotic disco boots. I always tended
to dress conservatively and kept my hair fairly short. You's be amazed
at what you can get away with. A lot of my friends ended up in jail but
I never got hassled because I looked so straight laced.