Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Body art on the wane? We can only hope!


The best way to kill a customer's appetite is to have the server or the waiter present themselves with an unusual piercing - the eyebrow is bad enough, but the two things we really can't stomach are the tongue stud and the nose ring on the barrista that looks like it belongs on a bull. The latter is, simply put, disgusting, while the former is distractingly awkward and painful-looking. And now here's proof that it's a bad idea. Maybe it's just us, but we think (thankfully!) that the piercings fad seems to be fading. Now if we could only say the same thing about tattoos . We read somewhere that 25 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 have tattoos. Permanent ones. Twenty FIVE percent! We also saw that New Yorker cartoon showing the subtext of every tattoo, to wit: "Ask me about my parents' divorce." Does anything scream, "Take me seriously! Hire me!" less than a tattoo?

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