Nintendo Controller Tattoo

Entry posted by Mezrabad July 12, 2008

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True story of something that happened to me at the supermarket today!

My six year-old daughter and I were at the local supermarket today and I noticed a twenty-something female. Cute either in spite of, or because of, her tattoos and peircings. We had to pass in front of her and I nodded and mumbled a civilized "please excuse us" (as we were briefly blocking her view of whatever it was she was shopping for) and continued on. Suddenly I heard her say "Hey! I LOVE your shirt!"

I was wearing a 1up Mushroom shirt.

She said she loved her Nintendo, and said she even had a tattoo on her lower back of a Nintendo controller. She then turned around, lifted her shirt and showed me her tattoo. Indeed, there it was, D-pad, select start, and the A-B buttons right there on her lower, lower back (or upper back-side?). I said "hey, that's really cool! (So's the tatoo!) In fact, I was just playing Super Mario Bros. today!" she said, "Cool" and I said, "Well, thanks and take care!" and my daughter and I proceeded to find tortillos.

I'd hate to even venture a guess at how long it's been since a random cute chick flashed me her lower back tatoo. As a married-with-children kind-of guy, I'm afraid it just wouldn't have been appropriate for me to invite her over to play NES with my new PowerPak, but I had hoped to run into her again at check-out, just to tell her she totally made my day.

Anyway, for some reason, I find myself wanting to buy more 1up Mushroom T-Shirts.

My wife didn't seem to enjoy the story as much as I did the actual experience. After hearing it, she just smiled and shook her head saying "Michael, you are a simple, simple man." (Meaning, all it takes to cheer me up is a little bit of positive attention from a random cute girl, which is absolutely true.)

Okay, Space Battle later this weekend...

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