Barrel Full o' Monkeys

At the library I meet lots of different people. There is one fellow that comes in that I really like. He is a tattoo artist.

Yup. He is covered in tattoos. Yet he somehow does not have a creepy factor.

Go figure.

So he came in last week, looked something up on the Internet and then printed off 2 pages.

They were pictures of a barrel full o' monkeys and a close-up of a monkey. The plastic toy kind. Remember them from when you were a kid? But here is the kicker. He said he was printing them off because someone wanted a barrel full 'o monkeys tattoo.


And the tattoo artist guy thought it was a stupid tattoo.

He is covered with seemingly stupid tattoos, but thinks the barrel full o' monkeys is stupid.

That cracked me up.

Now, I am NOT a tattoo advocate but it seemed ironic to me that a man covered with tattoo would judge anothers tattoo. It may have been very sentimental or appropriate to the monkey person.

On the other hand how stupid would you think your tattoo was if the tattoo guy was making fun of it?