Ha! I have a scar on my forehead as a souvenir of my recent skull fracture. While the ER doctor was sewing up the gash, she joked — at least I think she was joking — that I might want to change my hairstyle to something with bangs. Thanks, but I think I’ll leave things the way they are. How I got the scar makes a good story, at least for anyone who isn’t too squeamish.
Yes BB they are great conversation starters. First tell a big entertaining wopper then tell the truth.
“When the legend is greater than the truth, print the legend”
Chicks dig scars…
If I were fifty years younger I would be very unhappy about this scar. Although you’d never know it to look at me now, I used to be good-looking, and back in my youth a scar on my face would have been a major calamity. But now that I’m old and not much to look at, a little pink line on my forehead is not a big deal. It sort of blends in with all the other lines.
I don’t see the scar on bobs forehead
I like the sentiment expressed here. A tattoo is planed, discussed and then installed on one’s body. A scar is ‘come as you are’ and the story of how it is on your skin is a better story. I NO tattoos and have only a couple of scars, my best being where they cut my chest open to install an aortic heart valve back in 2014.
Welcome to the club, zipper-chest boy!
Aortic stenosis is no fun unless you consider the alternative.
Yep, vertical and breathing is my favorite. The alternative would not allow me to read all the cool kids comments on this blog
About 10 years ago I picked up a fridge magnet with the same statement. I got it at Jeff’s Pirates Cove in Guam. Good times indeed.
Yes, they do! And if told with the right flair, it can be quite amusing and memorable.
A catchy name helps with the story telling. On one leg the scar is from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (helping a friend in TX clear brush) and the other leg is from the Boxer (engine) Rebellion.
My nephews both got tattoos and I told them I’d just stick with all my scars from working and being careless not to mention the scars from surgeries even some I did myself with a 9″ grinder, hydraulic press, circular saw, and the worst one on my right eye that had to have 8 stiches and missing iris after a nail went the wrong way. I earned every damn one of them.
I thought about having one of my elbow, tendon reattachment scars “enhanced” with a tattoo, decided it was too expensive and not enough fun. It’s quite visible, as is.
I have so many scars, I can’t remember where I got half of them, but my wife can.
Doing shipyard rigging, then tree service, while at the same time being addicted to G forces, leads to some “gravity storms”. No matter how good you are, Murphy is always around, like air.
Murphy may be the reason for the saying “sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good”. Even though I don’t believe in luck, it still applies.
I credit my squad of special forces, guardian angels. They have been rode hard. I’ve lightened up on them for the last 10 years or so, because I got old. I’m a model 1951.
Shhhhh, not good to speak merphies name
That in itself would make a great tattoo. But for how long?
Serious question. I’ve long considered something kinda classical. Big red heart with a wreath across it saying “MOTHER” with a dagger sticking in it and dripping a little blood. Perhaps work “Death Before Dishonor” into the design somehow.
How long might something like that remain decent looking?
Ha! I have a scar on my forehead as a souvenir of my recent skull fracture. While the ER doctor was sewing up the gash, she joked — at least I think she was joking — that I might want to change my hairstyle to something with bangs. Thanks, but I think I’ll leave things the way they are. How I got the scar makes a good story, at least for anyone who isn’t too squeamish.
Yes BB they are great conversation starters. First tell a big entertaining wopper then tell the truth.
“When the legend is greater than the truth, print the legend”
Chicks dig scars…
If I were fifty years younger I would be very unhappy about this scar. Although you’d never know it to look at me now, I used to be good-looking, and back in my youth a scar on my face would have been a major calamity. But now that I’m old and not much to look at, a little pink line on my forehead is not a big deal. It sort of blends in with all the other lines.
I don’t see the scar on bobs forehead
I like the sentiment expressed here. A tattoo is planed, discussed and then installed on one’s body. A scar is ‘come as you are’ and the story of how it is on your skin is a better story. I NO tattoos and have only a couple of scars, my best being where they cut my chest open to install an aortic heart valve back in 2014.
Welcome to the club, zipper-chest boy!
Aortic stenosis is no fun unless you consider the alternative.
Yep, vertical and breathing is my favorite. The alternative would not allow me to read all the cool kids comments on this blog
About 10 years ago I picked up a fridge magnet with the same statement. I got it at Jeff’s Pirates Cove in Guam. Good times indeed.
Yes, they do! And if told with the right flair, it can be quite amusing and memorable.
A catchy name helps with the story telling. On one leg the scar is from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (helping a friend in TX clear brush) and the other leg is from the Boxer (engine) Rebellion.
My nephews both got tattoos and I told them I’d just stick with all my scars from working and being careless not to mention the scars from surgeries even some I did myself with a 9″ grinder, hydraulic press, circular saw, and the worst one on my right eye that had to have 8 stiches and missing iris after a nail went the wrong way. I earned every damn one of them.
I thought about having one of my elbow, tendon reattachment scars “enhanced” with a tattoo, decided it was too expensive and not enough fun. It’s quite visible, as is.
I have so many scars, I can’t remember where I got half of them, but my wife can.
Doing shipyard rigging, then tree service, while at the same time being addicted to G forces, leads to some “gravity storms”. No matter how good you are, Murphy is always around, like air.
Murphy may be the reason for the saying “sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good”. Even though I don’t believe in luck, it still applies.
I credit my squad of special forces, guardian angels. They have been rode hard. I’ve lightened up on them for the last 10 years or so, because I got old. I’m a model 1951.
Shhhhh, not good to speak merphies name
That in itself would make a great tattoo. But for how long?
Serious question. I’ve long considered something kinda classical. Big red heart with a wreath across it saying “MOTHER” with a dagger sticking in it and dripping a little blood. Perhaps work “Death Before Dishonor” into the design somehow.
How long might something like that remain decent looking?
Speedy Gonzales on my ass if I ever do.