Well Rip, a hot welding rod would fix it right now you know, but it'll leave a mark... That's my only existing tattoo. Self inflicted.
Good morning you guys! No contractors at our house today and that means a day off to go to the movies and buy groceries and generally get the hell out of Dodge for a few hours.
Friday, I want to go out to the Rifle Club, pay my $200, and shoot my new Marlin. Hopefully it won't tattoo me.
I have owned 7 motorcycles but I've never owned one tattoo. It's a family thing. My dad and my uncles traveled all over the world in the military and they never got tattoos either.
They all went to Catholic school (as did Grandpa and Grandma) and I suspect that it was highly discouraged.
I don't remember anybody on Mom's side having tattoos either as they were all staunch Baptists. They would never have allowed my grandma or my mom to marry some carouser with a tattoo!
I think on one side it was prideful adornment, and on the other side it was sacrilegious desecration.
This is the religious Catch-22 under which I was born.
Now, I was born at the banks of the Ohio River, but I never got dunked in it or even stuck a toe in it that I can recall.
See, by that point in its confluence it had been joined by a large portion of meat packing and beer brewing enterprise, or the remains thereof--also whatever came off of the boats going back and forth daily, as this was not only the Ohio River but the southern end of the Erie Canal.
When I learned to swim it was in a trailer park swimming pool, out in the Arizona desert, where I could suck up the radiation and hear those screaming blowtorch jockeys coming off the Runway day and night.
Those planes never bothered me, and in fact they were a great joy and excitement in my life.
l'm not that far from the airport now, and I hear the National Guard from time to time. They get to fly straight up in order to avoid going over the town so they really lay into it when they hit the sky.
I still love it. I really do. Flying and watching planes fly--hearing them fly and just
knowing that they fly.
But I am, to this day, very shy about radiation. It's cumulative you know & I'm pretty sure I've already had too much as a child.
You fellows all have a nice day and avoid unnecessary radiation when you can.