When Alison got the tattoo on her right buttock she was terrified her parents would find out. The tattoo was of a snarling snake crawling in and out of a skull. It was to let her ex-boyfriend know what she thought about him. How he would find out is anyone’s guess.
Alison’s parents had absolutely forbidden her to get a tattoo – “You can get a tattoo when you turn eighteen, but at present being only fourteen is too young to know what you want permanently on your arms.” But fourteen year old Alison took things into her own hands and got her buttock tattooed where no one could see – well not her parents anyway.
It was quite fun for a week at school, sharing with her friends and giving friends a peek. Rather quickly the admiration wore off.
When she turned eighteen Alison paid the earth to get the tattoo removed.
Weave a Web 
I have a tattoo just like that, but it’s on my left buttock.
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That’s a bit of a bummer.
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That’s a good way of putting it.
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I think she made a good decision the second time around.
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Butt… butt…
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Bruce it’s not hard to make me feel stupid because I’m pretty much there…but I had to look up “paid the earth”…I’m always learning at your site.
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Bloomin heck Max. I had to look up what a Hail Mary in football was! Every country has its own idioms. I think USA says “In the bonnies”. Australia says “Beyond the black stump”, and New Zealand says “In the whop-whops”.
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Oh “in the boondocks”…. there was a song called that also.
I like whop-whops!
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Yes – I know the song!
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We (Aussies) also say “Back of Bourke” or “In Woop-Woop”. The latter is somewhat akin to what the Kiwis say, but different. 🙂
Now I have to find out about the Hail Mary.
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I’ve never heard “Back of Bourke”. What does your lovely niece say in Canada?
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I will have to ask her, BA.
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Here you go, through the magic of the internet. (It’s 7.20 Saturday evening at her home.)
In the boonies.
In the sticks.
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Also: Hicksville
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I’ve heard in the sticks, and also Hicksville. In fact I think both are sometimes used in NZ.
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Ah! The rebellion of the young mind is like a raging tempest that just would not stop. Perhaps her new boyfriend did not appreciate the corporal sketch?
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I was thinking how appropriate a snake was on the buttock for her: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child” – King Lear.
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I would leave the contemplations on appropriateness of the snake on her buttock to psychoanalysts and endocrinologists. As regards the thanklessness of the offspring, a prominent school of thought opines that the children do not owe a dime to their parents, and caring for children is repayment of the debt that we owe to our parents for having taken our care. I realise it is a rather fatalistic approach to the conundrum of enforcing discipline in children and thus keeping them out of the harm’s way, for although they may have the information, they lack wisdom that only time can teach.
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Well – I suspect that your analysis is true. I taught for 30* years and in the long run they make up their own minds whether Wordsworth is worth reading or not.
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Ain’t this the truth. Tatoo in haste, regret in pain. My son got his first at 16, still has it, along with some others but all hidden under a normal short sleeve shirt.
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I have the tiniest tattoo on my hand from when I cut myself while cleaning the log burner in Quebec!!!
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Hmm. Maybe I’ll get a tattoo someday, but definitely not yet. 43 is way too young to know what one wants on one’s right buttock.
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Ha! You could experiment with some of those temporary tats.
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