Beware Supermarket and The Crazy Ghost

For some reason I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who’ve gotten chinese symbols tattooed on them somewhere, having no idea how to read chinese, and ended up with something that says, for example, “Supermarket“. It happens a lot, and I’m sure as the current generation ages we’ll see even more.

The fark thread has the following funny story:

My x-gf one night got the urge for more ink and tracked down her former-crackhead buddy with ham-hands who had just gotten a tatoo gun. She wanted something Chinese. And she wanted it NOW, as with everything. (In some ways that trait made her fun as a gf for a while, but that kinda thing is bad in the long term. Am I off track now?)

Anyway, they picked some flash pieces for “wild” and “spirit.” She thought she had “wild spirit” tatooed on her forearm in big red letters — though the color was pretty blotchy thanks to Mr. Hamhands.

For a while I teased her that, as far as either of us knew, it said “duck sauce.”

A couple months later, some old Chinese woman came up to her pointing at the ink and saying, “Oh, bad, very bad. Do you know what this says?”

“Yes,” said the x-gf, “it says ‘wild spirit.’”

“Oh, no, no. It say ‘CRAZY GHOST.’ Very bad.”

posted on December, 12 2007 at 12:12 pm and filed under tattoos. .