I do not know why people permanently deface their bodies with tattoos. A great many look like freaks. Can you imagine what their tattoos will look like when it's old, saggy and wrinkly?
One time I got a hospital admission who was an old sailor. He had a tattoo on his arm so obscene the nurses covered it with bandaids but he kept peeling them off.
On admission he was severely anemic, white as a sheet and needed a at least couple of units of blood. But he refused to sign a consent form because "that might be a Black's blood." I finally said Look, if you don't get some transfusions you are going to die. So he signed the paper, still complaining about blood might be from that other race. So I called the hospital kitchen and ordered his diet with a slice of watermelon with every meal.
