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unless you're a pirate or fought in iwo jima or something, you're going to look like a moron at 63-years old with tons of tatoos.

people pity the elderly and help them navigate safely. i'm all for this, since left to run free they'd be hit by cars more often than deer and we'd need more road crews to scoop grizzly-granny remains up and i much prefer they die in nursing homes than in public all the time. however, you think anyone's going to carry your groceries or hold the door for you if you've got a giant sleeve tatooed down your arm? fuck no, especially if it';s got lame asian symbols or a tribal band. nobody feels sorry for white-haired-little old ladies that have nasty, withered, inked-up, white-trashy arms and even compression stockings can't hide them.

the difference between someone who's gotten away with doing a few shady things and the person who gets caught for less is often pretty simple. if you're going to do something wrong--don't look like it. boarding school taught me few things, but i learned one universal truth---you can get away with almost anything if you're wearing a tie. the funniest shit is straitedge kids who dress like fucking street-urchins-of course you're going to get hassled by cops, profiling exists because it works. i've got a volvo wagon with the "r" engine and done some horrendously illegal things while driving it yet cops wouldn't notice the thing if it was doing 120 while on fire. tatoos are for dumbasses, nobody respect them on adults unless it's something military-related.

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Veritas

Only exception I might make is in the case of Surgical scars. I have several on my legs and I often thought of incorporating them into some sort of TATOO-Scar Tissue malange....but something intelligent, like A tatoo of a map of North America with the scar on my thigh as the Mississippi River, or perhaps a TAT of a DNA Double Helix incorporating a scar....