QOTD #00089: “Tell us why you got your tattoo and what it signifies to you!”

“Real simple story: When I was in high school, my best friend and I went to get tattoos. I got my name and she got her name. At that time we were probably just in love with ourselves and wanted people- wanted the world to know who we were. Fast forward to now, I still want the world to know who I am. But it's more so if I get older and, you know, lose my memory, I can look down and see my name and be like, "Oh, yeah, that's me." Or if I get lost or something and someone finds me, when they contact the police or whatever, they'll be like, "Hey, I see a name on her leg. Maybe this is who you're looking for."”

“I could tell you why I got my tattoo, but I don't actually have one. So, I never got one. I never had any plans on getting one. I grew up with my granddad, and he has tattoos on his arms and all up and down his arms, and just he regrets them big time. So, I've always had that in the back of my head. Um, I've never really had an interest in them. I mean, good luck to the people who want them. I have no problems with that, but they're not for me.”

“So, I don't have a tattoo right now. I do really wanna get one. I think they're fun. If I got one, it would probably be something really small, maybe like a little butterfly. Sounds very basic, but sounds cute, I guess. Um... I think the reason that's keeping me from getting a tattoo is that I'm afraid I'm gonna get it, and then a week later I'm gonna be like, "I hate it. Get it off my skin." I just can totally see that happening. I'm a very impulsive person, so I am afraid that I'll make an impulsive tattoo decision and immediately hate it.”

“So I don't have any tattoos yet, but what I do want to get is I think on my shoulder or something - I've envisioned this since, like, high school - I kind of wanna get my name in a code I used to write on my homework with to chew out my teachers. I made a whole language symbol code where I would just write, "I wanna set your stupid greasy hair on fire," and stuff like that on my homework that I turned in because I guess that's how I let out my [teenings?]. I don't know. But I think- I think having just some sort of written form being like, "Yeah, I did that on myself," would be really fun. That or a full-body dragon tattoo that kind of winds around down my leg and then all the way up over my shoulder and, you know.”

“I have never got a tattoo, but if I was to get a tattoo, man, you already know what the tattoo would be of. You'll see right here: the Steelers, man, every day for life. You already know what it is. Um, it signifies to me football, man, everything. And yeah, they- when you're having a bad day, man, just turn on a football game, help you get through the day. So yeah, if I got anything, that's what it would be. Get that done, baby. Steelers.”

“"Tell us why you got your tattoo and what it signifies to you." So, I actually have a tattoo of my mum on me who means a lot to me. She- she brought me into this world, and there's no one better in the world, so I got a tattoo of her face, as you can see. Yeah, especially, I love the way it brings out her eyes and her smile. It's just beautiful. So, that's my tattoo.”

“I can't really show it right now, but I had "one way rich" on my arm going across, for real. Can't really see it, but basically it just means just one way rich, and that's through hard work. So, wherever you put it at, just work hard. That's your one way rich. Just work hard. It's only- it's only one way rich.”

“Of course, I have no tattoos, but if I was- if I were to get one, I would probably get like a Bible scripture with like an Asian or Japanese-language handwriting because I find it as - it really looks- it looks cool, and if I were to ever get a tattoo, I would probably get something within those lines.”

“I got this tattoo right here - my first and my only one - because I wanted to tell people to read between the lines, but I want 'em to know that I mean it with love.”

“So I have a few different tattoos, and they all mean something different. Most of all, they have- I have like geeky tattoos everywhere, so these are all, like, geek stuff. Pow. That's what that means. But I guess my most meaningful tattoo's probably this... piiiiiiizza tattoo that you can kind of see, um. Uh, it's like a digital, digitized pizza slice. And it's actually meaningful because I used to live in New York City, and when I came in to New York City from the Holland Tunnel, there's this - there was, I don't know if it's still there - but there was this building, and it had this giant paint, like, spray-painted beautiful mural of a digitized slice of pizza. And so I got that pizza when I had moved from New York City just because I wanted to commemorate my time living there.”

“I got my tattoo because I have always loved tattoos. I like tattoos. I like everything about tattoos. My tattoo is a love-shaped one, it's a shape that I love, like, love is a beautiful thing. I got it when I was dating my ex-boyfriend 'cuz he loved me and I loved him so much.”

“Uh, yeah. Okay, so this one! "Living is easy with eyes closed." I got this because of the show Lost. There's a character on there named Charlie and he has the same tattoo. So that was my first tattoo. I'm getting like Charlie. Uh, about two years later, somebody looks at it. And they were like, Oh, yeah: Strawberry Fields, The Beatles. I had to look it up. I had no idea. I put a Beatles lyric on me. What do I do?”