Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
Dysfunction Junkies
Ink Stories: What Our Tattoos Reveal About Who We Really Are
Tattoos and piercings – are they merely decorative choices or deeper expressions of our psychological journeys? Kerry and Chrissy approach this topic from completely different perspectives: Kerry proudly sports six tattoos while Chrissy remains unmarked by choice. Their conversation reveals fascinating insights about why people permanently modify their bodies and what these choices might reflect about our inner worlds.
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, chrissy and Kerry.
Speaker 2:Hello Junkies. I'm Kerry and I'm Chrissy. How's everyone doing today, chrissy? How are you guys?
Speaker 3:doing. I hope everybody's doing great I don't know though, but hopefully.
Speaker 2:Well, today's subject is something that Chrissy and I are very different about.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I have lots, she has none, none.
Speaker 3:I have not participated.
Speaker 1:You did a little the piercing.
Speaker 2:Yes, I have lots of the one thing, she has none of the other, and I have lots of the other, and you have one set. One set, yeah, what are we talking about? Tattoos?
Speaker 3:and piercings.
Speaker 2:So in our little dysfunction junkie brains here, you know, we always think about everything. And how is it dysfunctional, is it not? Is this a byproduct of the dysfunctions that we, you know, grew up with? That made us this way? So this one, chrissy, that would be a good one. And being that I love my tattoos and want, want more, and I actually find the order I get the more I want. And I'm not quite sure what farm boy Jim thinks about it. I think sometimes, you know, he just sees dollar signs like how much money is this crossing?
Speaker 3:but it is. I never, because I'd never gotten one or even inquired about one, I didn't realize. But it's, it's almost like a designer bag. Oh yeah, there's an investment in having this done. Yes, and I do appreciate the artistry and the craft of skin art, yeah, and that saying you get what you pay for.
Speaker 2:You get what you pay for. So if you really want something good, you got to research your artists and hey, you, they have a job. This is a. This is, this is talent that you're paying for. So right, and it's on you forever.
Speaker 3:So you want to look good yeah, just because I choose not to have these, uh doesn't mean that I want to downplay or dismiss the industry of it or the skill and artistry that goes into it. Right, and the people who choose to have skin art applied, their research, that they do put in it and they are very personal thing, yeah, choices they make, yeah, and what they choose to have put on and they do. If you ask, I'm sure anyone who you see who has I hope I'm trying to say it correctly.
Speaker 3:Of course, tattoos is what we always would say, but I do believe skin art is what we're looking at, trying to talk about, but if you mention that to someone who has this, they have usually a very interesting story that explains why the choice was made Right and why they feel so strongly about what they're trying to tell you about themselves.
Speaker 2:So I got my first tattoo when I was 29. You know, at that point it was all hip and cool for girls to get them in their lower back, aka tramp stamp area, but of course the tramp stamp name came afterwards. But you know, it took me a long time to figure out. I knew what I kind of wanted and I knew what I wanted to represent, but then I didn't get my next one until just a few years ago, or well, let's see. Yeah, I guess just over two years ago. Yeah, so you had your first one was at 29. And then the other five came within the last two years.
Speaker 3:Wow, what was the just life happening that you just or just didn't feel strongly about?
Speaker 2:I knew what I had in my mind, things that I wanted, but I really hadn't committed to it yet. And and then also, money is a money thing when I probably would have done it maybe about 10 or 12 years ago, but that was a time where you know, maybe that money would have done it maybe about 10 or 12 years ago, but that was a time where you know, maybe money would have been better spent on, you know, electricity and water and food.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, because again life happens right, I get you.
Speaker 2:Past, you know, two years. I've gotten the other five, but they were things that I would, you know, kind of thinking about or wanting and stuff, and I'm glad I've waited and was patient with them. And then I found this fabulous artist I'm going to give a shout out to Kingdom Tattoos in Columbiana, ohio, so that's where I've gotten my most recent ones, and so yeah, Well, it's good to have someone who you can trust and they know you, yes, and you sort of develop a relationship. Yes, oh, 100%.
Speaker 3:It's important, I believe. Yeah, Again, I'm only saying this as a I don't even know third-hand person or whatever, not a participant, because I don't, I'm sure just with anything, because, like I said, my understanding of this is they are very personal.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:They do tell a story about the person who wears them. Kind of want the person who's applying them for you to sort of know what you're feeling.
Speaker 2:In addition to giving a shout out to the shop, that this tattoo artist I do want to say his name, so it's Alex, and he goes by Ramen Kid Tattoos on Instagram, so you can check out some of his work. But no, he has done some amazing things of putting my vision to work and exactly what I wanted. So I have to do give a shout out to Alex for that, because he's amazing.
Speaker 3:So go, alex, yeah, go.
Speaker 2:Alex and we talked a lot about the podcast whenever he was, you know, because it was like I don't know. My last one was like three and a half four hours tattoo. Oh wow, yeah, so you know it's a time commitment as well as everything else.
Speaker 3:Everything commitment, yes, financial and your time Wow. Yeah, just to say we you know, friends from high school, yeah, and then friends, sort of always friends, yes, but we've been separated and come back together as people do and then so we were friends in our 20s and we've always tried to keep in touch. When I found out that you had done this, I have to say I really, I guess well, a little bit, because you are very strong in your faith.
Speaker 3:Yes, and you know, you were generally making way better decisions than I was when we were still in our teen years.
Speaker 1:So are you saying tattoos are bad?
Speaker 2:That's what I was laughing about. No, but I know what I know.
Speaker 3:But it is a decision. I would consider that I would have just thought somebody Well, I'm not going to come off good at all. Yeah, okay, fine, yeah, it's probably somebody like me who is probably, you know, numbing themselves a little bit more than they should have, or hanging around with people I shouldn't have hung around with.
Speaker 2:The wild child. A bit of a wild child.
Speaker 3:Wanting to do stuff that would create a shock factor or say, hey, look at me, I want attention, right, and you were sort of always quiet and reserved and just like you know, Did everything right, followed the rules.
Speaker 2:You followed the rules. Yes.
Speaker 3:And you know you were not an attention seeker, you didn't need to do that. Right. You relied on your intelligence, your education and you know your ability to demand attention. In that way, I get you.
Speaker 2:I totally I get what you're trying to articulate. I 100% I'm going to help.
Speaker 1:Oh, go ahead. Help Nick. Basically, just, you would have thought that you would have been more like the type to get attached to me Stereotypically, then Carrie would have.
Speaker 3:Well, if you were going to say, out of these two people, knowing what you know about them, maybe even in this time frame yes, like I'm not even saying, over this entire span of our 53 years.
Speaker 2:If you looked at our high school yearbook and you had to pick tattoo or no tattoo, I would have I 100%. People would have put me in the no tattoo area and you probably would have been in the tattoo area. I get that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1:That's what you needed to say, I guess, before you keep digging yourself.
Speaker 3:Whatever Look, I always put a flipping stamp on this whole thing. Carrie good, Chrissy bad.
Speaker 2:But if you remember, we dabbled just a little bit about this when we were talking about the ear piercing.
Speaker 3:Well, that shocked me because I had no idea and I guess I probably saw that you had an earring up in that cartilage part of your ear.
Speaker 2:Or two earrings on the lobe. Yeah, I mean I guess, but right, I didn't, but that was yeah. So that was the little rebel. I guess I guess, but right, I didn't, but that was yeah. So that that was the the little rebel.
Speaker 3:I guess you can say in me well, the fact that you did it yourself right, and I don't know that you ever even told me that I don't think you did. I would have remembered that because well, yeah, because I can't imagine I might not, I might have.
Speaker 2:I could see me not saying how I did it, because I didn't talk about things.
Speaker 3:Well, no, you didn't, and I just thought it was normal, because that's what I do. She's got several earrings in her ear. Normal Not for me, but for her.
Speaker 2:And the age we were at, that was common for girls to start getting double piercings.
Speaker 3:Oh sure yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah no, I 100, I I get what you're trying to say I don't think that I could even put if I wanted, because I I absolutely do not have the the guts to put it in the cartilage. Yeah, but on your lobe because of when I got my ear, my ears pierced for For your first Holy Communion, yeah, what was that all about?
Speaker 2:Nothing says I love Jesus more than two holes in your ear Right.
Speaker 1:I am committed to this, that wasn't like a stigmata thing. All right, then I'm going to go to hell for saying that.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, you're going to make me laugh so hard. I'm going to choke.
Speaker 3:They basically dead-centered them flipping when they shotgun me with that gun.
Speaker 3:Oh, I see you know, and I think that if you're interested in having multiple holes to wear multiple earrings, like in your lobe, I think they strategically probably place the placement better. Yeah, but mine is dead-center. Yeah, but mine is dead center. Yeah, I'm probably talking about and I think I just remember sometimes people being a little horrified and probably traumatized by people who may be had some piercings gone wrong where it was not centered or was off, and then, like it, cut the lobe.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I will say my third one on the, because my, I have two in the lobe and then one year I have three in the lobe and that third one. We are starting to run out of real estate there. So it does get kind of close to the edge, but it didn't never broke through like it never cut it, but it is close to the edge because, yeah, they, if you would have known you wanted to do this from the beginning, you would have started at a different spot then yeah, and I'm guessing that people who do help people with getting piercings they're way more involved.
Speaker 2:To understand what you'll want, yeah, back when I did it, which would have been 1980 at the piercing, it At the Piercing Pagoda, it was. It was at the Piercing.
Speaker 3:Pagoda. They were just there to blow that damn gun at you and smack a earring in there and give you your little. Whatever the hell. The solution was that they sent you off with that. You had to get your Q-tip and run it around with that to make sure nothing got infected.
Speaker 2:And then you went and got your orange julius on the way home make you feel better. And hot sam, and hot sam. I haven't heard that word, hot sam, in a while. Let now it's yeah, no before. Yeah, you're right, it was hot sam oh, that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the good old prince of place yeah, and the other thing that always horrified me was people who would wear really heavy earrings, which they did when we were— it was sort of the big gaudy earrings were the thing yeah and your lobe just drugged down. And then it's just like oh my God, your ear's going to be all messed up Now. Those people who wear— the gauge, what are they called?
Speaker 3:Gauging, gauging, gauging, wow, yeah, what do they call? Gauging, gauging, gauging, wow, yeah, that just I don't. I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't want to. I'm just sorry, it's me, it's me. Why did you put that large hole in your ear?
Speaker 2:I will have to say, as much as I'm into piercings and tattoos and stuff like that, the gauging I do personally struggle with that one. I don't mind when they're little, but when they get to be where you can put the Diet Coke can through the earlobe, that's when I'm like maybe you went a step too far, but I have. But hey, you do, you I'm. You know it may not be what I want to do, but if they want to do, but that one is a little harder for me to wrap my brain around, makes you look like not real.
Speaker 3:The only thing is when I this is such a weird connection or comparison, but leave it up to me to do it when I see something like that and I can see through your ear to the wall behind you and read the everything going on behind you. I think of that movie. Death Becomes Her, with Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep. Oh, good reference. Yeah, I'm missing it. I believe Meryl Streep blows a hole right through Goldie Hawn's abdomen and you can see the hurt. Oh, because they're not living anymore.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's right. Yes.
Speaker 3:And she's like.
Speaker 2:I've got a hole in my stomach.
Speaker 3:And it's like I always see that and I think about you've got a hole in your ear and it's very large. Yeah, what is happening?
Speaker 2:I have the nose piercing thing. Here's my hang up on the nose piercing thing. I can't stand, if you like, I would just be constantly thinking I had a booger up there and I would be constantly like you know, I think it would. I don't know Like I would. I think it's cute when people have the stud in their nose, but to personally have one, I think I'd be constantly picking at it because I would think that there was like oh, do I have a? I'd be like constantly. I think I'd be obsessed with thinking like, do I have a booger hanging out of my nose, right? So yeah, I don't think I could do that one.
Speaker 3:Why do the stick thing, the stud, like a little, just a yeah it's just a little stud. Well, no, nothing that went through your nose, but just a little sticker.
Speaker 2:Oh, like a little that, looked like a little rhinestone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no see that would be cute, I mean can stick like little rhinestones all over their face.
Speaker 2:for Well, now people have those stickers when they have pimples and they got. They walk around with little stars on their head and on their face. Is that to cover up pimples?
Speaker 3:I thought they were just being decorative.
Speaker 2:No, it's a pimple treatment thing, so like if they're having a pimple it's got like some kind of like pimple alcohol thing or whatever. What happened to Seabreeze and it's got sea breeze on the stridex, so that way, if it, if it looks bad, then they're not looking at the pimple.
Speaker 1:They're just looking at the cute star you're bringing attention. It'll really be like the commercials used to say you've got the north star on your nose is that for clear what was?
Speaker 2:that pimple cream or something yeah, yeah, yeah I remember that now you say that. But you know what again, if it was just the, if it was just like a sticker or a little stick on I, I would. I'd be. It would be off within five minutes because I don't like wearing. I don't like wearing makeup, I don't like creams and stuff. I would be itching at my face, so it would be off.
Speaker 3:So I, it would be no point in me even well, I think I brought this up before about the in the nose. Yeah, I have a teenage daughter who is interested and I had to say no to this and I have no ability to stop her once she is able to make those type of decisions.
Speaker 3:But just physically, I look at the nose as your filtration system and when you tamper with that it's like taking your furnace and punching a hole in it In the filter, and then expecting it to work to its full capacity. I mean, come on, it's not going to. It's like sticking a hole in your carburetor If there were carburetors on cars. I don't think there are anymore. I'm really dating myself.
Speaker 3:You wouldn't go out and stab your muffler or something and think you know, oh, it's cool to sound that way, and so I really just don't get the. The nose thing, no, or really anywhere else. To pierce yourself is terrifying to me. People find very creative places to do that yes, we do oh, oh, my god, don't make me cry. Oh God, no, we're not going there. It's not on my notes, I'm not talking about it, okay.
Speaker 2:Unless you want to, no, I'm just saying yeah, so.
Speaker 1:Do I need to leave the room?
Speaker 3:I don't know. Okay, maybe we should talk about tattoos again Tattoos.
Speaker 2:Skin art.
Speaker 3:Skin art Skin art.
Speaker 2:Chrissy brought up a good point in her show notes about like why do we like this? Why would we put ourselves through this pain or something? So I'm trying to find it on this About forces them to feel and I really think there is something true about that.
Speaker 3:Well, again. I don't want to generalize for everybody, but I wonder sometimes with some people who have you know in my life have come across with getting skin art done.
Speaker 3:I wonder if because I think that they're trying to remember, maybe, things they've accomplished and they represent that by right the art itself right, uh, you know whether it's sobriety right or, uh, overcoming maybe abuse or getting yourself out of a situation you knew was not good for you, and you're celebrating your ability to recognize that and and choose a better path for yourself. Yeah, and just say enough is enough. I'm not going to do this because it's a negative experience. Yeah, but I feel like people I've known and not everybody that really seems to go into this and they look forward to the next one. And I know you say you think about it.
Speaker 2:I do, in fact. I was just recently at a corn roast fundraiser and one of the raffle basket prizes was tattoo money. Off a tattoo. Oh my God, I had so many tickets in that thing. I was like, yes, I didn't win, but I got. So I got so super excited about that. I was like, oh my gosh, I can get it. And my husband's like, oh my God, he's like, really, really, you want another one.
Speaker 3:And I'm like, especially if I get a hundred dollar off of it, yeah Well yeah, but I just feel like there's a point where, because I think somebody, maybe because I asked, I think I just asked many questions, one of which was but it's, it's obviously uncomfortable and there's pain involved because of how they're applying the art to your skin that.
Speaker 3:why would you do it again and again and again? And it almost seems like some of the answers I've gotten have been that it's almost like a physical type therapeutic session. Yes, 100%. Maybe it helps redirect your thoughts or your brain, or maybe it helps you, it's somehow relaxing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in fact in my show notes I put that, especially this last tattoo that was so big and took so much time and it was my. Most of my tattoos are black and white, but this one actually is color, so that was a little bit of an experience I hadn't experienced before but it is. I said at the time I'm like I know this sounds totally dysfunctional, I said, but it is oddly soothing. And I was trying, I thought about it a lot as I was laying there because it was oddly soothing and for the most part I mean I can't even say it hurt, it really didn't hurt. There was a couple times it was uncomfortable, but I can can't. For me I can't use the word hurt.
Speaker 2:And so when you made that comment about does it make them feel, it really made me think that for me that could be very true, because one I do find it very therapeutic, one because of what I'm getting done and everything has meaning. You know like we talked about a few episodes that I'm happy that I have on my wrist because of my mom. So that has meaning to it. Of course that was very small, it was done in like 10 minutes, you know. So the feel it did make me feel because I'm so used to especially being a child of trauma and a child of abuse that you learn how to when you grow up. Like that, you learn how to compartmentalize your feelings so that you don't feel to get through the trauma and the abuse of whatever it is you're going through Feeling.
Speaker 2:Going through that getting that tattoo kind of, was like you are feeling, and sometimes feelings can be hard to feel, but in that moment you are feeling. So I think there was some truth to that and I never really gave that much thought until I got my last tattoo and I was laying there thinking like this is oddly soothing, this actually feels good. And why does this? This shouldn't feel good. Like in all my, they're putting a million little needle things into your skin. This should not feel good, but it did. And then when I read your notes, I was like yeah, I think there's something to that, so it's completely dysfunctional. I get that and maybe that's not anybody else's feeling, but it was mine.
Speaker 3:So I wonder if it's because you couldn't control the pain you experienced being a child of abuse. Yes, this is almost like your ability control pain.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yeah, I know it's so dysfunctional. I completely get it. Yeah, so one of my tattoos that I have, it's the tiniest little tattoo and most like the general people wouldn't even know I have it. It's a tiny little semicolon that's inside my pinky and it's pink in color just because I didn't want it to be something big. But that's symbolic to me because a lot of people know a semicolon tattoo can mean you've gotten through something. A lot of people it can symbolize that you know, maybe you are suicidal or have mental illness. You know, for me it's my sign of the abuse that I've overcome. A semicolon yeah, I have never heard this. Yeah, it has to do with like a semi. This is where you are. The literature major.
Speaker 2:You would probably better to be able to not not subscribe.
Speaker 3:Describe what a semi-colon of run on sentences. Come on, lots of semi-colons in common Improper punctuation. Yeah, I gotcha.
Speaker 2:Google it, Nick. What a semi-colon? Because it has to do with a semi-colon in a sentence. Is a is a break or a disruption or a transition in a sentence?
Speaker 1:The semicolon tattoo symbolizes hope, resilience and solidarity for those who had experienced mental health challenges, particularly depression, anxiety, self-harm and, as you said, just as you said, suicidal.
Speaker 2:Yes, but where the semicolon comes from is when you relate to what a semicolon does in a sentence. It's a transition in a sentence, so that's why it's representative of that. You know I have that one. And then I have my tattoo. My first tattoo is a wolf, a whale and an eagle all together because that symbolizes all my work with all the animals that I've worked with. You know, I've worked with lions. I've, you know, worked at a major aquarium theme park so there was marine mammals in there. I mean, I've worked with domestic animals, so that kind of just represented me and my connection with animals. And then I got my semi colon tattoo. And then I have Jim's signature, which I always said I would never get a, never get a husband or a boyfriend or a man's name tattooed on me. But then I met Jim and it was totally different, you know, because we have a very different relationship than any of my other relationships and he is part of me. So I got that tattoo. So I think the reason.
Speaker 1:I'm guessing you know, the semicolon is a punctuation mark, is connecting two closely related independent clauses. Yes, so the semicolon is getting you, transitioning you? Yes, it's all about your life. Yes, but this is my guess.
Speaker 2:No, you're, exactly.
Speaker 1:This is what it means the semicolon is like that little bit of a break. You're connecting the before and the after.
Speaker 2:And you're moving on. Yes, that is exactly what the yes, so you found it.
Speaker 3:Let me just let you know, okay, what One thing for me to admire your skin art and try to understand what you were thinking and why you maybe wanted to get it and why this means something to you. Yeah, now I've got to sit here and go back to remembering what grammatical punctuation means. Yes, you do.
Speaker 2:Good Lord, wow, yeah, but see, see, it means, it, all means something. And I have my tattoo, the horse tattoo. That means so much the horse? Tell me the horse tattoo is a compilation of all of my horses, so there's one horse, but it has parts of all the horses that I've had in there.
Speaker 3:And it is beautiful it is. And the one you recently got, yes, the one with your wrist is wonderful. Yeah, because I understand the deep meaning of that for you.
Speaker 2:And then my last tattoo is this my biggest one, and that one has the three barn swallows which we know is Chrissy's favorite word and a butterfly, and the butterfly is pink and yellow because that signifies my sister that helped me take care of my mom. Her favorite color is yellow and mine is pink and butterfly for my mom. And then the three barn swallows are my son and my two grandchildren, so that's wonderful.
Speaker 3:Well, maybe with the pain, the relating of pain maybe this will count for me. Let me think, so what? I enjoy doing to experience some discomfort that I inflict on myself is a roller coaster, eating something really hot, oh, okay. Yes, that totally destroys your mouth, your sinuses. Yes, and it stays with you. Yeah, because if it's really hot enough, yeah, if you are that serious about burning your face off initially and then burning your stomach out, it stays with you for a while and it goes all the way.
Speaker 3:It goes all the way to that discomfort that you maybe experience 12 hours or so later and, on top of that, experiencing that pain while you're watching a really ridiculous thing on TV, like you know. See, it's relatable. That's the kind of pain I enjoy.
Speaker 2:Yours just doesn't leave a lasting impression. Really horribly hot food.
Speaker 1:So you need a Carolina Reaper and a terrible B-movie at the same time. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I would be. Now, see, I like hot food that's flavorful, but I don't want to feel that. I don't want to be able to not taste things anymore. So I think that's why the kind of hot, spicy food that I like is like wasabi, where it burns and you're like, oh my gosh, but then it goes away in like seconds.
Speaker 3:That's a fun one, because you don't know how long it's going to last, and it seems like it lasts longer than it does, and you accidentally breathe in and it goes up into your sinus, the horseradish pain or wasabi, same type of thing. That's wonderful. Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a good rush, but I like it because it doesn't stick with you and it doesn't ruin the flavor.
Speaker 3:It feels like it. Yes, it's oddly.
Speaker 2:But see, doesn't it feel oddly good.
Speaker 3:Well, sure See, that's the same thing as a tattoo. It's a food-related pain.
Speaker 3:I'm all for food-related pain sure you know, but you know again. I don't want to like quote Pauly Shore here, but if you've seen the movie Son-in-Law and his buddy's going to get a tattoo, he tries to remind her you know it's permanent. I just don't. Yes, do I make decisions that are going to affect the rest of my life? Yeah, but I feel like I have no other choice. But this, see, this would give me an opportunity to make a choice that I would have to think about and contemplate. Yeah, and to me I need to step away from that and say I'm not going to do that because I'm making a permanent choice. I guess I like making my choices on the fly, like I have. I have no other choice but to make a choice here. But this, to me, means you have to think it out. Yeah, you have to be committed to something and it's not going to be easy to reverse that decision. This is true. You get and flee from Red hot chili peppers we'll stick it you pick it, I stick it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was his line from the movie yes, well, I think my I what I love most is the going back to meme therapy and stuff. I love the meme that says I'm an adult and I need stickers too. That's why I have tattoos.
Speaker 3:Well, and I believe that you are an adult. And if that's my stickers, I like them.
Speaker 2:What was always funny, though, is, you know, my mom, again, I only had the one tattoo, but she hardly ever saw it because it was, you know, the base of my spine, so she hardly ever saw that one. So I think she kind of forgot a lot of times. I had it towards the end here, she saw, like, my foot tattoo with Jim's name and the horse tattoo that's on my thigh. So, and she would it, and I think some of it was her dementia or declining cognitive functions, but I think some of it was her way of poking, just to be like who wrote on your foot? Who wrote on your foot? Who wrote on your leg? And so when she would see it, she would always say that.
Speaker 2:So now, it's always a joke, you know, if I'm walking through the living room and got shorts on, I'm like, hey, somebody wrote on your leg, and it's our way of, you know, kind of remembering mom, you know, and making a joke out of it, right, but yeah, but I think that was also her way of being not happy, and so she would was calling out that she wasn't happy about it. But you know, like what? What is that on your foot? Who wrote on your foot?
Speaker 3:right, because to me that's what that looks like.
Speaker 2:Someone wrote yeah, yeah, no, I can see that absolutely well, I want to see everyone's tattoo pictures, so on our facebook page, please post your tattoos.
Speaker 3:Yes, I also would love to see these.
Speaker 2:And you can share your tattoos and piercings, but please make sure they're appropriate to post. So if you have some tattoos or piercing that are maybe not in a publicly seen part of your body. Don't send those. Probably.
Speaker 3:Not that we wouldn't equally be fascinated looking at them, but we will not post them.
Speaker 2:We will, yeah, so facebook might shut us down if you post some of those right but I do want to, and if you have a story behind why you got, I would love to hear your stories, because I love hearing that, I love going up to people with tattoos and saying oh my god, I love your tattoo. Tell me about it, you know, I just think it's really cool.
Speaker 3:So I do agree. I do appreciate the stories and the meaning that these hold for the people who get them.
Speaker 2:So oh, and one last thing real quick. So when we were talking about like how I was saying it's oddly soothing, I do remember, like this last tattoo For the most part I was laying there very still because, like I said, it was oddly soothing every once in a while he would hit a spot that would cause an a reaction like I would, I would flinch or whatever, and it was totally uncontrolled, like I couldn't stop it from happening. It was just, you know, happened and I was like, oh gosh, I'm really sorry you know that I flinched and he'd be like, no, it's okay, at least that now I know you're really human and that you're normal, because he did say he goes, it's the people that lay there still and don't move at all.
Speaker 3:That you think, okay, that's creepy, probably, I bet you, the people who apply the skin art, probably have some great stories.
Speaker 2:I know we should get Alex to come on the show and talk.
Speaker 3:I'm up for it Totally.
Speaker 2:All righty. Well, please check out our Facebook page and share your stories. Don't forget to check out our new website, dysfunctionjunkiespodcastorg, and it's not too late to still raise funds for Canine Companions and our Junkies Care. We're doing that all through the month of September. I know we didn't touch on it today, but we'll probably touch on it, maybe next week's episode about our day at Canine Companions, so we'll share that in the future. So be sure to tune in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks, everybody, all right, bye-bye, bye.
