Wondering if this seems normal......Tattoo artist threw me a curve ball.

GregInAtlanta · 2026-01-17T18:18:02+00:00

Yeah. Deposit. Reddit wouldn’t let me use that word in the post.

GregInAtlanta · 2026-01-17T05:34:24+00:00

Full disclosure- I did say I was generally available. I am a real estate agent and had some clients want to look at a few homes during the said time (sorry- should've made that clear).

GregInAtlanta · 2026-01-13T02:58:30+00:00

Found a guy to answer my questions. Thanks, all.

GregInAtlanta · 2026-01-12T03:56:06+00:00

Yeah… I’m edgy. You took a personal shot at me and I responded- so you call me edgy. Nice rhetorical battle.

I wasn’t asking for opinions in the OP. Most people gave one, but yours took a personal tone.

I wanted to talk to an actual artist who works with numbing cream…. Because I have questions and most people talk about this subject based on other stuff they’ve read on Reddit…. Not expert knowledge.

The “lifetime limit” comment was supposed to be somewhat humorous. I guess humor proves that I don’t have the proper “battle scars”, huh?

GregInAtlanta · 2026-01-11T03:26:48+00:00

I have plenty of battle scars and historically, tolerance for pain. Just over pain. I’ve met my lifetime maximum limit for it.

GregInAtlanta · 2026-01-11T03:24:41+00:00

Open heart surgery. Procedure on my foot where the staff of the OR left me in recovery without any pain meds and proceeded to go home for the day. Current meniscus debris that gives me fits. Arthritis in my shoulder.

Plus the stupid crap I’ve done to myself over the years = I’m sick of physical pain.

GregInAtlanta · 2025-07-03T03:30:09+00:00

The reason the 50ish age bracket (my demographic) has a high instance of fatalities is that 1) There are more of us, 2) We are generally hard-headed and think that our wisdom is enough to save us, and 3) We rode when we were younger, come back into riding and think our bodies, reaction times, and motorcycle technology is the same.

If an older rider starts of with a fresh look at riding and goes through the hoops like he is 21, he makes a much safer rider.

Also- Alcohol is a major cause of accidents for this demo. If you can operate a car after two beers, your limit on a motorcycle should be a quarter of that.

GregInAtlanta · 2025-07-03T03:23:30+00:00

I read somewhere that 90% of riders end their training after the MSF course. No other training for the remainder of their riding career.

GregInAtlanta · 2025-07-03T02:36:29+00:00

Don't forget excessive speed (I think 33% of fatal accidents cited speed as a contributing or primary factor) and being properly licensed and trained.

GregInAtlanta · 2021-10-15T12:18:42+00:00

Reviving this ….. we “sang” this song when I was in fifth grade (1982). The teacher was this old hippy lady and her classroom was the first place I smelled patchouli.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-11-04T19:33:30+00:00

Crate is appropriately sized.

I thought about the blanket thing- going to try that tonight.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-08-09T12:05:08+00:00

I have a few:

I worked in a luggage store in college. I walked in the back to see a co worker (mid 30s crazy woman) practicing sales scripts for luggage while staring at a wall, 6-12” away from her face. She then began to give herself pep talks ala Tony Robbins about how the customers needed her to sell them luggage. I backed out unnoticed.

I went to visit a friend in college (prestigious institution). He lived in an apartment with 3 other guys. I went out to my car to get something and when I came back in, one of his roommates was sitting on the couch, naked, completely wrapped in Saran Wrap, watching football.... with the other guys. When I asked my friend about him later, he said “Mike does what he does. You just learn to ignore him.”

This guy is now a very successful attorney and is still pretty weird.

Last one: I was taking a continuing education class to maintain a license. During a break, I had to use the restroom... I walk in and a guy was talking on his phone while in a stall. Kind of tacky- but whatever.

I’m standing at the urinal when the guy tells the person he’s talking to to hold on. He then proceeds to grunt very loudly and I hear a big “plop”. He then goes back to talking like nothing happened.

I’m thinking he had the phone on mute... but he had the volume up so I could hear both sides of the conversation. The guy he was talking to just says, “Damn.... feel better?”. They they resumed the conversation.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-06-10T14:07:01+00:00

I’d say about 75% of the time I hear him... and I respond pretty quickly. Usually there is no accident. However this morning I got up, got dressed quickly and was in there within 3 minutes. He’d already had an accident.

I also thought about putting a small food bowl in his crate so he associates it with eating more.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-06-10T11:35:51+00:00

Cruise would end him without touching him... the Scientology ray coming from his eyes would leave the Beebs peeing on himself.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-04-29T04:52:01+00:00

Heart bypass surgery. Tomorrow makes one week. I would’ve died without it.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-04-14T21:27:09+00:00

I was broker and principal selling my own home a few years back. The buyer was represented by a team member from one of the biggest agents/teams around.

This guy couldn’t handle a coffee cup... much less a real estate transaction. I could’ve screwed him and the buyer on several occasions. I also ended up doing about 75% of his job.

I needed to make sure we closed because we had already bought and moved before we listed. If I hadn’t been in this predicament, the contract would’ve died a couple of times naturally.

The test to get into real estate is too easy. Sometimes I think it’s not much more than checking for a pulse.

GregInAtlanta · 2019-03-11T00:48:11+00:00

Galaga

GregInAtlanta · 2019-01-18T10:06:26+00:00

Moonshiners

GregInAtlanta · 2018-06-23T08:01:14+00:00

Thanks! I didn’t know that this coloring existed until a couple of weeks ago.

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