Submitted by maraudingnomad t3_127v3tz in tifu
Before you read my story, apparently there is an April Fools Bot that pretty much deletes every comment. So I partially fucked up by posting today, not realising what day it is...
So my dad sends me a pencil drawing asking what do I think. Looked like a tattoo to be, and not a very good one at that. Also my sister got a tattoo recently, so I guessed my dad was also thinking of one. For some reason she chose to get it from our neighbor who is a scratcher at best, but her was a very simple desing. The pencil drawing was of an animal, but tje eyes were wrong, the nose and mouth were slightly in the wrong place and the nose also looked like a piggs snout. Not wanting to be overly negative but sort of expecting where this was going I wrote that if the picture is to be a tattoo, it's a 4/10 at best (being generous). I hoped either dlthe design could be altered, or better yet I could persuade my dad to go get it from a real tattoo artist. I myself have a sleeve and a piece ony leg and I'd never get a tattoo from our neighbor unless it were VERY simple. A realistic drawing of an animal, never.
What came next surprised me. Right after me saying it is a 4/10, my dad sends me a picture where he already has the tattoo 80% done, amd looking worse than on the sketch. Well, the damage is done, so I switch to being neutral about it and changing the subject to more general stuff, so we are cool, but I can't take back my initial reaction. I wish even my sister would have asked my opinion before they went to our neighbor. Their body, their decision and I have a lifetime of ignoring and avoiding the subject in front of me, because I can't tell them what I honestly think, it'd hurt their feelings
TL;DR I told my dad the sketch of a tattoo isn't very good when he already had it almost done...
Edit: please don't ask for pictures, I will not post them online. For one thing I hate the thought of people making fun of my dad online and also I value his privacy and anonymity. Just google 'scratcher animal tattoo' amd you won't be very off.
Edit2: sorry to all whose comments are being deleted. Based on the short bits I saw in the notifications all seemed perfectly fine comments. The bots are going crazy I guess. Can I do something to turn it it off? I wrote to the moderators, hopefully I don't get banned out of spite...
Edit3: I guess some kimd of April Fools bot rolled out as soon as it was the 1st of April "somewhere" on earth?