Curt

rev_b...@yahoo wrote:

> Recently a woman came into the shop that I work at complaining about a
> tattoo she had received elsewhere. Her complaint was that all around
> her tattoo (that is on the inside of her left calf) there was an
> orangeish stain.
[...]
> Personally I have the theory that she has put some form of self tanning
> product on her tattoo( knowingly or otherwise) and that has caused the
> staining. It looks like the same type colour as a self tanning product.It
> seems to me that she would have had to put something on her tattoo in
> order to cause this <snip> her hand was fairly stained and so was the
> opposing calf. Almost as if she had put something on her tattoo and then
> went to sleep (causing her calves to touch and thus spread to the other).
>
> It has been a month now sense she came in and has called today
> complaining that the stain was still there. That even further makes me
> think that she is putting something on there to cause this.
[...]

The self tanning product sounds like a reasonable guess to me.

> Anyone got any ideas?

I've got an idea. The woman is one of twenty percent of adults, or
about 40 million Americans, experiencing some form of mental disorder
each and every year according to the The National Alliance on Mental
Illness.

> I know it's hard to say much without actually seeing the tattoo but is
> there any insight that I don't have?

In need of mental health services or, as you mentioned, "she may have
been just coming up with things to just to
bad mouth the guy."

> Anyone experience anything similar?

I'm certain I mentioned this previously in a Usenet post. Working as a
clerk at a GNC in the mall, an individual entered the store and asked
for the very best thing we have. That particular GNC sold a variety of
products - vitamins, energy bars, massagers, weights, clothing,
supplements to help with weight gain, weight loss, healthier nails,
hair, etc. So when I heard the person's request I asked for some
specifics. What was their goal or what need did they want met. The
person simply repeated, something like, "I want the best thing you
have." After going back and forth with my asking for clarification and
their repeating their request for the best, I reached out to the shelf
in front of me and handed whatever product it was to the shopper. They
purchased it and left the store.

I've repeated that story to other people and the one person said that
perhaps the customer just didn't know what they wanted but that
whoever it was for might have told them that they shop at GNC. The
customer may not have been out of touch with reality at all, but
rather just unsure of what to purchase. I find that a stretch, but
then I aslo find your visitor a bit of a stretch as well.

How about this? The woman's friend, significant other, or family
member - someone with access to the woman when she's sleeping - is
upset that they got a tattoo. While the woman, who is a rather hard
sleeper, rests, the disgruntled friend is applying the "organge stain"
to the woman's tattooed area and hand in order to drive her bonkers or
make her regret getting the tattoo.

What? It could happen.

Punk'd: Tattoo!

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Curt