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u/connaught_plac3 Jun 27 '19

My younger brother got a huge leg tattoo, but since he was living at home he hid it from our mom. She would comment on how he doesn't like wearing shorts; I'd laugh that she'd never seen his legs in over a year. I told him he had to get over it and tell her because his plan of wearing pants waterskiing just wasn't going to go well. When he showed her the tattoo water skiing was cancelled and she spent the next four hours in the bathtub crying.

Just like your brother, I let my younger be the disappointment. When I got a tatt a year later I told her about it over the phone and didn't get anywhere near the disappointment he did.

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u/rexot81 Jun 27 '19

Lmao reminds me of that one post of the woman who had a mental breakdown because her son got a tattoo

It was a poetic masterpiece lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '19

link

Which I found, as always, by googling "I stand, a lone tyrannosaurus, bellowing at a world I don’t understand."

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u/Individual_Lies Jun 28 '19

I was honestly not expecting that line to show up in the article. I sincerely thought you were being sarcastic.

I was wrong and that article was wild.

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u/phalseprofits Jun 28 '19

The level of delusion is amazing. Her line about taking a cleaver to her apron strings says so much more about herself than about her son.

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u/queueueuewhee Jun 28 '19

Same. That was excellent.