what a scary tattoo you have...

i forgot one last thing about my gym escapade. NO TATTOOS ALLOWED. a few times tomomi asked me if i had a tattoo. i dont so i was like no... but then i asked why it mattered and she told me there is a rule. you cannot have a tattoo and be a member of the gym becuase you might scare someone. WHAT? id like to see that rule be applied in the US. not a chance.

so then this morning i further questioned tomomi on this subject and she told me that she used to work at a gym and they had a lot of foreigners and someone was scared so they comeplained. saying "this is japan? it doesnt feel like it" and so the best way to eliminate the foreigners was to say no tattoo no service. (in japans defense, apparently its common for foreigners to pick up and leave without paying things casue they wont be traced once back in their country and places will be out some money)

but to add too it, if your tattoo is of mickey mouse or something nice, its ok to have it. but a dragon or something scary is out.

but still....i was amazed at this rule. it made me also realize what a multicultural place the US really is. heck im sure we have gyms where english isnt spoken. i know some people dont like this, but we have so many discrimination laws and so on, so that it would be nearly impossible to make a rule like the no tattoos law.


apparantly black suglasses are also a sign of "that type of person" as well.


but i must wonder, what if some people are afraid of cats. would a cat tattoo be scary or cute? clowns?