There is no modesty in being a patient who undergoes surgery. You are exposed, naked; there are no secrets about the things normally concealed under your garments, not to mention the anesthesiologists who, under the guise of making you more relaxed, administer medication that will lessen your inhibitions...
Let this serve as my warning to those who wish to tattoo themselves...
A respectable gentleman once appeared on my OR table to have a benign tumor removed. After receiving the aforementioned anesthesia "cocktail," he lay on the table with his hospital gown askew (well, really, are hospital gowns ever really NOT askew?) exposing his medial calf where a good-sized tattoo had been emblazoned. It was simply a chicken with a noose around it's neck.
As my mind raced through all of the racy implications this tattoo could represent, the term "choking the chicken" came into my head...and I figured I was entitled to the explanation for such a unique piece of body art. The actual explanation exceeded all expectations, and I must thoroughly commend the patient on his sense of humor and cleverness that far exceeded my wildest imagination...
He stated that he had gotten the tattoo in college, not on a bet, not under any duress or even in an altered state of mind...but he simply had gotten it so that he could say, "I've got a cock hanging below my knees"
Indeed.
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Haha, thats ingenious! I'm tempted, but I think that would be completely wrong, what being a woman and all hehe.
Nice blog though :)
im only here to respond to a comment you left on another blog about nine stories....
to jar72
dead Easter Chick in Basket after 3 days, seems to me to be related to Christ. Three days, resurrection, was in a basket when the 3 wise men came. in addition franklin was cut with the razors in his own wastebasket, "all the way to the bone."
Franklin also gives her the chicken sandwich which she keeps. if we keep with the chick as Christ, then the chicken sandwich is sorta like communion.
Is Saligner saying that Franklin is pure? more pure than other boys, since he is not fighting in a mindless war, nor does he want to go to college to be a mindless robot cog in a capitalist system? Who knows?
Its also pretty common knowledge for people to think that Franklin and his friend Eric were/are gay, but you probably knew that already. Its not like i have such great understanding of the story though. i just love reading it.
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