Oh man - there was this guy I used to work with - real easy-going, pushover type, super friendly and a little dumb, and then we hired this other dude, a real con man who had been in and out of prison a few times, and they became best buddies. The con man was just taking advantage of the nice guy all the time - he'd borrow money and then instead of paying him back he'd give him tattoos.
2 things you need to understand - first, tatoos did
not look right at all on this guy!! He was like a real happy, chubby, soft pasty looking guy - I mean think Patton Oswalt for example:
http://lacomedywriter.com/wp-content...ton_oswalt.jpg
And also, the con man was an absolutely TERRIBLE tatttoo artist!! Lame-ass, lopsided failed prison tattoos that looked like some kid did them in a moving car on a bumpy road. Pretty soon the con man had talked the guy into letting him move in with him, and must have been borrowing large sums of money, because every time he'd come in to work the poor guy would lift up his shirt or roll back a sleeve and show us new tattoos - after a while he had full sleeves - and then one day he came in with a teardrop tattooed under one eye!! I shit you not! I asked him if he knew what that meant, and he stood there looking dopey for a while and said "That I'm sad?"
He had no clue it's a prison thing and it means you've killed somebody!
We tried time and time again to get through to him - that this guy was just using him and marking him for life and that he was going to regret it, but he wouldn't listen. I wonder what he looks like now?