Another thing I learned during my stay at my medical study: a lot of people have tattoos; most of them are bad.

One man has a tattoo of a cartoon rooster - eyes bugging out, tongue hanging out of its beak, as if it had just noticed an anvil about to drop on itself in an Acme cartoon - thinking about a cooked chicken, which is in a thought-bubble, also drawn in a cartoon style. Then, there is an incredibly lifelife (in contrast) human penis, coming out of the chicken, and shooting semen everywhere.

Yeah. Yeah! That is imprinted into his skin. FOREVER. It's not small or in hidden place, either.

I was of course obligated to ask him about it, not only because of my own curiosity but also because I told pretty much every person I saw about it. They wanted the explanation as much as I did. This seems like the type of tattoo one gets when they are in the midst of heavy drug use, I thought. And not the kiddie stuff, either.

This man is 27, and friendly, outgoing, and not insane, as far as I could tell. I knew his answer before I even asked the question: He got the tattoo when he was young, stupid, and now that he's older and has a kid he regrets it.

"Well the cooked chicken represents addiction," he said, pointing. "And then I'm supposed to be this rooster," pointing to the one that is spurting semen.

But he regrets it, right?

"I'm gonna touch up the colors on this one. And I wanna get the female version on this side, a chicken fuckin' herself with a fried chicken leg."




When he said "fuckin' herself with a fried chicken leg, he made a little motion with his pointer and middle finger, rubbing them together like a cricket.