[Jaysun]

Gosh I hate tattoos. Several months ago I stopped at a sandwich shop, and the fellow constructing my sub had these long, gaunt arms, all decorated with dragons and skulls and whatnot. The guy was as friendly as could be, but the sight of those arms just repulsed me and took away my appetite. I sat down at a table to eat my sandwich, and I could hardly swallow it, thinking of those grotesque-looking appendages that put it together. I see tattoos like that and I immediately think of nasty, unbathed uncleanliness. Call it a phobia, I suppose. But it's something I can never seem to get mentally past. I certainly never went back to that sandwich shop.

A lot of us feel that way. The one thing that would bring certain death to us as kids was a tattoo. None of us have them.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"The one thing that would bring certain death to us as kids was a tattoo. None of us have them."

My Dad felt that way about pierced ears. He did not want me to have them until I was an adult, but of course, I had MaryAnne pierce mine, and I pierced hers when we were 16. I hid it from him until I was 17 (took my earrings to school to put them on) and then I left for the Army.

No more piercings and no tattoos, though. :)

Personally? I'd take a tattoo over someone that has a totally pierced face.