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Old 06-02-2015, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Kansas
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Last night my wife told me that our daughter's (my step daughter) step mother told her she would foot the bill for her to have a tattoo on her 18th birthday.

Small amount of background: We live in a different state and their relationship is over the Internet because she sees them all of once or twice a year. Her dad is almost not even in the relationship picture.

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Old 06-02-2015, 11:10 AM
 
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This sounds like one of those fun "you're not the boss of me"/"not in THIS house young lady" conversations that happen around this age. Good luck.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:10 AM
 
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Hopefully it will be a discrete one. Maybe show her some google images of older women with visible tattoos that have not withstood the test of time gracefully. After that unfortunately the rest is up to her.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:12 AM
 
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Not a fan of them, but there isn't much you can do to stop her if she wants one.

Or maybe there is; offer her twice as much not to get it done!
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:16 AM
 
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There is a serious generational divide on this.

EVERY SINGLE person in my office under 30 has a tattoo. Even the ones you would never guess that they would be the tattoo "type". This is a professional financial services office too. Now, you can't see them when they are dressed professionally, but they all have them.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Kansas
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There is a serious generational divide on this.

EVERY SINGLE person in my office under 30 has a tattoo. Even the ones you would never guess that they would be the tattoo "type". This is a professional financial services office too. Now, you can't see them when they are dressed professionally, but they all have them.
Yeah, so I'm in my mid-30's. From whence I came, tattoos were for bikers and prostitutes. Now every damn kid has to have one. It seems like a fad. Unfortunately you can't just take it off like a pair of baggy jeans from the 90's or those even more dreadful skinny jeans.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:22 AM
 
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But really it's not even the tattoo so much as the interference. Who does this lady think she is!?!?!?
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:23 AM
 
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But really it's not even the tattoo so much as the interference. Who does this lady think she is!?!?!?
A step-parent, like you?

Was she trying to make you mad?
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:28 AM
 
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Hell why don't we also buy her a carton of smokes and drop her off at the Armed forces recruiting office and adult novelty stores?!?! She's 18. Let's just make sure she gets the full experience right away.

Note: She will be 18 in November halfway through her senior year in high school.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:33 AM
 
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A step-parent, like you?

Was she trying to make you mad?
Yeah I'm her step parent but unlike her biodad I've actually been there the great majority of her life.

And I doubt this loon was trying to make mad. But she is clearly on my wife's $4!t list right now if she hasn't ever been before. The intention was likely to both upset my wife and work her way into being the cool mom our daughter wishes she had.
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