Tattoos. Where do you stand on them?

I'm not too big on tattoos, just because I don't like needles. But while I wouldn't totally hate someone for getting a tat, it kind of turns me off. I would never get one myself but like most people feel, if the tattoo is done nicely then I don't care. Just not into the whole "hay guyz im getting a tatoo im cool!" talk that a lot of my drunk friends spew from time to time.

Both my parents have tats from when they were teenagers. My mom has more than my dad, a lot which she got throughout my life, but they're nice...colorful and simple. She got two new tats since this past May because she was jealous over my cousin's new lotus flower tattoo done in red ink. So my mom got a koi in red ink and this tat a few weeks ago which I think is really cool:



She's going to get "Hamayo" tattooed in hiragana down the side just to the right, it's my grandma's middle name. I think it's sweet. Usually I just get irritated when she goes out an does this stuff (she's got an eyebrow and nose piercing along with all the tats...). But she likes the stuff so *shrug*

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh my mom is crazy >.<

She lives for this kind of stuff. She can be all business when she needs to, though (to the point of making her coworkers burst out in tears...). And the more and more she watchess Miami Ink, the more she wants yet another tattoo. Aside from the fact that I look younger than her, if you saw us, you'd think she was my rebellious teenage daughter and I was the conservative mother.

How ya doing, buddy?