A keen young man has given his dad a tattoo after a few beers and it’s so bad it’s made the news.
Instead of commemorating Collingwood’s cliff-hanger victory of 2023, the eager tattooing beaver inked 2020. Remember folks, don’t drink and tattoo.
Anyway, it’s brought me back to a few bad tattoo stories.
A friend’s grandmother grew up in the Glasgow slums and got her boyfriend’s name tattooed on her harm at, wait for it … aged nine.
Her parents quickly had it covered up with another tattoo of a basket of flowers when not surprisingly the relationship didn’t last. By the time of her later life it just looked like a bruise. Great story though.
Another friend’s brother got his hotel room number tattooed on his arm as part of a particularly enthusiastic boy’s trip to Bali. He was having trouble remembering and thought this the obvious solution. As you do.
And finally, a mate who played high level football got his club’s mascot tattooed onto his ankle during a week of celebrations after winning the grand final as part of a club-wide promise for all the players to do the same.
At a wind-down lunch on the weekend after, he discovered he was the only one to go through with it. He hates tattoos.
What’s your bad tattoo story?
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