My Taste Is Better Than Yours

So… teenage girl goes to tattoo parlor to get three stars tattooed near her left eye as a present from her father. Yes, from her father, for her 18th birthday. I can’t remember what my father gave me for my 18th birthday, but I’m pretty bloody sure it wasn’t a FACE TATTOO. Anyway, teeny ‘falls asleep’ and ends up with 56 stars covering the left side of her face. And now she and her family are seeking damages worth £9,000 to pay for laser surgery to remove the tattoos.

Cute, right?

There is, however, one huge problem with this story. WHO FALLS ASLEEP WHILST GETTING THEIR FACE TATTOOED? Seriously, who? I’ve had a tattoo. Grantedly it wasn’t on my face because I’m not a moron, but still, I’ve been tattooed. And I managed to stay awake even though I was fucking drunk. You don’t have a kip whilst someone is using a gun full of needles to permenantly mark your body OR YOUR FACE. Even if you are a teenager who needs more sleep than most (Teenagers need more sleep blah blah blah).

So apparently the tattoo artist also picked up on this little anomaly, insisting…

“She was awake all the time. I did not hypnotise or dope her, as they say, it was with agreement. No way could I have tattooed so many stars on her face against her will”.

And I’ve gotta say, I kinda believe him.

To sum up, it’s a classic case. Father of a teenage girl offers to buy girl something for birthday. Girl runs off with credit card and buys something horrendously inappropriate. Dad doesn’t like what she buys and insists she takes it back. It happened all the time with my father and I. Although again, it was not A TATTOO ON MY FACE.