My 18-year-old son, Alexander, came home from college over the weekend to get his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. It was a wonderful visit until he blurted out that he wanted to take his love for Led Zeppelin to another level and get a tattoo of the bands symbols on his calf. He wants it to look something like this tweet below (no, that's not my son's account -- it's a different Alexander).
A little background. I had a tattoo. I got it when I was a freshman in college. It was a rose on my ankle and it was stupid. I paid a lot of money to have it removed. So, I'm just trying to make sure he *really, really* wants this cuz it's expensive to put on, and expensive to take off.
Plus, my husband and I agreed to let him get his ears pierced (we paid for it too) as long as tats weren't on the agenda as well. He *promised* us it was just the ears and nothing else. So when he said he wants a Led Zep tat, we were like, wait a minute...
Of course, he's an adult(ish) and he can do as he pleases. But that didn't stop me from trying to get Salt and our listeners on my side.
Take a listen below to how everything played out both at my house with Alexander and on the air with Salt and a listener who has some advice for my son.