back-to-school special on tattoos
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2011.09.06
I passed a shop advertising "sizzling back-to-school deals!" It was a tattoo shop.
I guess it makes sense, in a way. If you can get the customers while they're still flush with cash from their summer jobs, their parents hand-outs, and their student loans .. why wouldn't you?
Speaking of back-to-school, today is the first day of school in Ontario and as it happens I was returning a rental car during what has to be one of the most congested days of the year. It's one day that sees all of the parents changing their routines, all of the school buses returning, and the re-introduction of crossing guards. It took me forty-five minutes to drive about seven kilometers.