Friday  Oct 21, 2005

Justin Pelegano's Tattoo Stories.... "Two Sisters"

Two Sisters…

…two entirely different reasons for getting tattooed. And they did it together. Um…yay?

I met Holly outside of Bar Nine here in NYC. One good thing about the bar ban on smoking – you get to bond with folks puffing away on the sidewalk. Liquid courage flowing, I walked right up to her and asked about the dolphin tat on the small of her back. Lucky for me she didn’t seem weirded out that I was looking in the first place. Bonus #2: She busted out laughing and came straight out with this. I paraphrase…

Holly and her older sister were living it up in the Caribbean with some mutual friends. Now, ever since Holly’s sis took a nasty spill from a horse she’d wanted to tattoo, well, a horse…on her back…which just so happens to be exactly where she was injured in the fall. And boom – here she was years later, on a sun-filled island vacation, determined to finally go through with it. (Personally, I can’t even guess as to why. Caribbean getaways and horseback riding fall well outside my life experience.) The catch was, she refused to get inked alone. Enter Holly. Apparently she was begged into it. Or was it rushed into it? Maybe pressured?

See, I asked if her sister was pleased with the horse tat. And the answer was, yes indeed. But as for Holly…let’s just say Holly seems less thrilled with the outcome. Probably because she picked her own tattoo rather randomly. I quote…

“I’m not a tattoo person. I just went along with it so my sister would shut-up about it and get hers. Do you have any tattoos you regret? I hate mine. Who gets a dolphin with the word ‘strength’ around it? That’s so retarded.”

Ah yes, sibling love. At least you can laugh about it, Holly.

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